Going First At Bargaining Table Means A Lot, But No Word Yet If It Will Be DGA, WGA or SAG-AFTRA

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Which guild will go first at the bargaining table – the DGA, the WGA or SAG-AFTRA – remains undetermined for the upcoming cycle of film and TV contract talks with the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers.

If history is any judge, who goes first could foreshadow whether there will be a strike – or more than one strike – this year.

In the end, it will be up to each guild, working in consultation with the AMPTP, to decide when, and in what order, they start bargaining.

The DGA has gone first in each of the past three three-year bargaining cycles, even though its contracts expire at the same time as SAG-AFTRA’s – on June 30 – and two months after the WGA’s contract on May 1.