Hollywood actors and actresses go on strike after failed negotiations with major studios
Euskaraz irakurri: Hollywoodeko aktoreek greba abiatu dute, ekoiztetxe handiekin negoziazioek huts egin ondoren
He Screen Actors Guild of America (SAG-AFTRA) formally went on strike this Thursday, after failed negotiations with Hollywood studios for the signing of a new collective agreement. Thus, the union of interpreters joins the strike that the Writers Union (WGA) has maintained since May, thus undertaking a simultaneous strike for the first time in 63 years that would paralyze the Hollywood industry in its entirety.
“Going on strike is something very serious that can affect thousands and even millions of people throughout the country and around the world. (…) It was with great sadness that we arrived at this crossroads, but we had no other option,” he said. the president of SAG-AFTRA, Fran Drescher.
The decision, previously 98% approved of the members of the union, was officially taken after the meeting of the union’s board of directors held this Thursday.
With this, the SAG-AFTRA urges its members to stop providing all their services in jobs covered by the previous agreement and announces that the pickets will begin from Friday at 09:00 local time in Los Angeles (16:00 GMT ) at the Netflix headquarters.
Yesterday, the union tried to reach a conciliatory agreement with the Alliance of Film and Television Producers (AMPTP). At their meeting they had the presence of federal mediators as an urgent measure to unblock the negotiations. “As unbelievable as it may seem, we could not get what our members deserve. Had we agreed, the situation would only have been worse. This is where we draw our line,” Drescher said.
Among the requests of the interpreters is the increase of the basic remunerationdiminished by inflation and “streaming”, the regulation of image rights regarding artificial intelligence and coverage of the cost of self-recorded auditions.
The Hollywood industry, which was already being affected by the writers’ strike, will now have to face the definitive closure of the productions that had stayed afloat without the writers. If most of the projects affected by the first strike focused more on television, without actors the cinema would immediately feel the blow of their absence, affecting not only the production and filming of films, but also the promotion of already finished projects.
Source: Eitb
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