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The
Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP),
which negotiates on behalf of Netflix Inc, Walt Disney Co,
Warner Bros Discovery and others, said SAG-AFTRA "continues to
mischaracterize the negotiations."
SAG-AFTRA called a strike last Thursday after union negotiators
said they were unable to reach an agreement with studios on a
new three-year contract with higher benefits and limits on the
use of their images by artificial intelligence.
"The deal that SAG-AFTRA walked away from on July 12 is worth
more than $1 billion in wage increases, pension and health
contributions and residual increases and includes
first-of-their-kind protections over its three-year term,
including expressly with respect to AI," the AMPTP said in a
statement.
"For SAG-AFTRA to assert that we have not been responsive to the
needs of its membership is disingenuous at best," the AMPTP
added.
Earlier on Monday, SAG-AFTRA, which represents more than 160,000
actors, stunt performers and others, issued a detailed list of
its proposals, and what it said were the studios' responses,
under the title "We're fighting for the survival of our
profession."
Among them, SAG-AFTRA said it asked for an 11% general wage
increase in the first year of the contract to make up for
inflation. The union said the studios countered with an offer of
5%.
"We moved on some things, but from day one they wouldn’t
meaningfully engage on the most critical issues," SAG-AFTRA
said.
The actors have joined members of the Writers Guild of America (WGA),
which went on strike May 2 after failing to reach a deal with
the AMPTP.
(Reporting by Lisa Richwine; editing by Robert Birsel)
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