The parties met for a 'full day bargaining session' on Monday, with top Hollywood leaders including Bob Iger and Donna Langley present.
The performers’ union and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers released a joint statement noting that they “met for a full day bargaining session” on Monday, the first time that the parties had been back at the negotiations table since the actors’ strike began in mid-July. The two organizations also announced that negotiations would resume on Wednesday, Oct. 4.
Some of Hollywood’s top leaders — Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos, Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav, Disney CEO Bob Iger, and NBCUniversal Studio Group chairman and chief content officer Donna Langley —with SAG-AFTRA on Monday, after they had helped expedite the Writers Guild of America talks in late September. In a change of pace, the CEOs met with the union on thegroup’s home turf, at the SAG-AFTRA national headquarters on Wilshire Blvd., without any federal mediators present.
The leaders’ presence in the room raised hopes that the renewed SAG-AFTRA negotiations could move quickly from this point on. Monday’s joint statement from both management and labor is also a positive sign, usually signaling at least some measure of cohesion within the negotiations room. Monday’s round of negotiations occurred more than 80 days into the actors’ strike, as SAG-AFTRA and the AMPTP still have many outstanding issues to resolve. Wage increases, a revenue-sharing proposal on streaming titles and regulations for A.I. remain top priorities for the union that have.
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