Contract Talks Coming Down To The Wire For SAG-AFTRA & The Animation Guild
deadline.comNegotiations are coming down to the wire this week on two major contracts: SAG-AFTRA’s $1 billion-a-year commercials contract expires on Thursday, and on-again-off-again talks resume today for the Animation Guild’s new film and TV contract.SAG-AFTRA, meeting in New York with the advertising industry’s Joint Policy Committee, has been bargaining steadily since Feb.
16, when they issued a joint statement saying that they “look forward to productive bargaining under a jointly agreed upon media blackout already in effect and will have no further comment.”The Animation Guild’s negotiations with the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers, which are also being conducted under a media blackout, have taken a more circuitous route.
The guild’s current contract had originally been set to expire last July 29, but was extended to October 30, and then extended again to allow IATSE to work out a film and TV deal with the AMPTP that narrowly averted the first industry-wide strike in the union’s history.
The Animation Guild, IATSE Local 839, finally got to the bargaining table with the AMPTP on Nov. 29, 2021, but those talks recessed four days later and didn’t resume until Feb.
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