WGA Offers Support For SAG-AFTRA As Talks Restart: “Solidarity Forever”
deadline.comSAG-AFTRA is set to sit down with the studios today to restart talks on a deal for the actors. The WGA has offered its support to its on-screen brethren.
The guild has called on the studios to negotiate a “fair” deal that actor members “need and deserve”. The WGA also noted that such a deal shouldn’t be “patterned” on its own deal, but rather focused on the actors’ own needs. “The WGA West and East call upon the AMPTP and its member companies to negotiate the fair deal that members of SAG-AFTRA need and deserve.
SAG-AFTRA has been on strike for more than 70 days as it fights for a contract that allows performers to share in the value of the work they help create.
Rather than engage in the traditional AMPTP tactic of pushing a deal on SAG-AFTRA that is patterned on our own tentative agreement or any other industry deal, a strategy which has already caused considerable delay and suffering, the companies must make a deal that addresses the needs of performers.
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