SAG-AFTRA Chief Duncan Crabtree-Ireland Overseas, Will Be Back For Monday’s AMPTP Talks
deadline.comEverybody who needs to be in the room when SAG-AFTRA and the studios sit down for talks next week will be. Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, the actors union’s national executive director and chief negotiator, will be returning from Turkey this weekend in time for Monday’s resumption of negotiations with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, which will be held at the guild’s offices in Los Angeles.
The two sides hadn’t met since the actors union went on strike on July 14. Crabtree-Ireland has been in Istanbul attending the annual Executive Committee meeting of the International Federation of Actors (FIA), a global federation that represents some 90 organizations and hundreds of thousands of performers in more than 60 countries. RELATED: What’s Next On The Labor Front After WGA’s Tentative Agreement?
Quite A Lot, Actually At the meeting, FIA is expected to declare its support of SAG-AFTRA’s strike, and its affiliated unions are expected to express their refusal to allow AMPTP productions to flee to their jurisdictions to avoid the guild’s strike sanctions.
And even though he’s been out of the country this week, Crabtree-Ireland has remained deeply involved in preparations for the guild’s upcoming contract talks — just as SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher, who chairs the guild’s negotiating committee, had been, either in person or via videoconference, near the end of bargaining in July.
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