SAG-AFTRA is still on strike, awaiting negotiations with the AMPTP.
The Big Picture The five-month stand-off between the Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers has come to an end, following successful bargaining after a big-name meeting between the WGA's chief negotiating team, the head of the AMPTP and major studio heads. As previously covered by Deadline, a meeting took place on Wednesday between the WGA and the AMPTP.
Negotiations have continued through the weekend and those talks have been successful, barring any issues with the final contract language. The deal still needs to be ratified, but picketing has been deferred as of Sunday evening. According to Variety, the WGA leadership expects to vote on the final deal on Tuesday. The negotiating committee will vote, followed by WGA East and WGA West, and finally the full 11,000+ members of the WGA. You can read a statement from the WGA below.
What we have won in this contract - most particularly, everything we have gained since May 2nd - is due to the willingness of this membership to exercise its power, to demonstrate its solidarity, to walk side-by-side, to endure the pain and uncertainty of the past 146 days. It is the leverage generated by your strike, in concert with the extraordinary support of our union siblings, that finally brought the companies back to the table to make a deal.
What's Next For the WGA and SAG-AFTRA? The WGA went on strike in May after negotiations reached an impasse over issues as varied as compensation, residual payments for long-running projects, minimum staffing of writers’ rooms, and the role of artificial intelligence in the creation of work, among other notable problems.
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