Before actors and performers hit the picket lines on Friday, Tom Cruise joined a SAG-AFTRA negotiating session last month to support the union’s proposals for more protections against AI and better pay and safeguards for stunt workers.
. The guild accused the studios of “repeated stonewalling and delays,” adding that “they intentionally dragged their feet.”, the union had requested general wage increases as well as a plan for actors to get a share of the revenue from streaming hits.
The “Top Gun: Maverick” actor had also supported SAG-AFTRA’s requests for better pay for stunt coordinators, asking the studios to no longer exclude them from residuals from network reruns and high-budget streaming shows, along with a request for stunt coordinators to receive overtime or rest between work days “to address abusively long hours on set.”As SAG-AFTRA members join writers on picket lines, the fallout will disrupt Hollywood film and TV productions worldwide.
The guild had also proposed that off-camera stunt performers also get residuals. AMPTP rejected this request and presented counteroffers for stunt workers and on AI that the guild said had “failed to address many vital concerns.” On Tuesday, the studios countered what they called an attempt to “deliberately distort” what their responses were at the bargaining table. AMPTP said it had offered “more than $1 billion in wage increases, pension & health contributions and residual increases and includes first-of-their-kind protections over its three-year term, including expressly with respect to AI.”
“For SAG-AFTRA to assert that we have not been responsive to the needs of its membership is disingenuous at best,” AMPTP said in a statement.
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