() — There was no agreement between the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) and the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), according to a tweet published Thursday by the actors’ union, which probably means a strike by the union that brings together some 160,000 actors.
“The SAG-AFTRA national board will vote this Thursday morning on whether to go on strike,” a union statement said early Thursday. The statement said a bargaining committee voted “unanimously to recommend a strike.”
The result of this vote by the SAG-AFTRA National Board on whether to go on strike will be announced at a press conference at 12:00 pm ET, Pamela Greenwalt, director, told on Thursday. of communications and marketing of SAG-AFTRA.
“The SAG-AFTRA television/film/broadcast contracts have expired without a successor agreement,” a statement said. “After more than four weeks of negotiation, the AMPTP, the entity that represents major studios and broadcasters including Amazon, Apple, Disney, NBCUniversal, Netflix, Paramount, Sony and Warner Bros. Discovery, remains unwilling to offer a fair deal on key issues that are essential to SAG-AFTRA members.
and Warner Bros. are units of Warner Bros. Discovery.
If the SAG-AFTRA National Board votes to strike, it will join more than 11,000 members of the Writers Guild of America, who have been on strike against the same studios since early May. That strike had already halted production of most scripted movies and TV shows. There has been no visible progress in ending the writers’ strike since it began.
