SAG-AFTRA Members Ratify New Three-Year Contract With Studios
deadline.comActors have officially given the stamp of approval for their latest deal with the studios. SAG-AFTRA, which opened the ratification vote on November 14, has revealed that 78.33% of ballots were in favor of the November 8 tentative agreement with the AMPTP.
That number is much higher than many expected given some of the noise on social media, particularly around A.I. The vote by SAG-AFTRA members on the new contract with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers on Tuesday, officially closes the labor actor that saw the Guild on the strike for 118 days — though many productions have already returned to work as permitted by SAG-AFTRA last month.
The 160,000-strong Guild’s rules required a majority vote of 50% + 1 of ballots to ratify the new deal. In 2020, during the height of the pandemic, the last contract was approved by 74% of voting members.
In 2017, 76% of voting members said, “Yes” to a new three-year contract. The guild also noted that 38.15% of members voted this time around.
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