Contract negotiations between SAG-AFTRA and major studios and streaming services have failed as Hollywood actors are poised to go on strike.
sharing that they intend to call a meeting Thursday with their National Board to vote on a strike order. The union's negotiating committee voted unanimously to recommend a strike after contracts expired on July 12 at 11:59 p.m. PT. If the strike order passes, the actors will be joining the screenwriters, who have beenNegotiations between SAG-AFTRA and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers began on June 7 and were extended on June 30.
Drescher also shared that the union is fighting for contract language that would protect actors from"having their identity and talented exploited without consent and pay" in the wake of advances in artificial intelligence.
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