The next round of contract wrangling between the guilds and the majors is fast approaching. The Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television & Radio Artists have officially started prepping for their joint feature-primetime contract negotiations.
The performers unions held their first “wages and working conditions” session Tuesday in New York and staged the second sesh Wednesday at SAG’s Los Angeles headquarters.
More than two dozen such meetings to hammer out contract proposals have been scheduled for the next six weeks.
Negotiations with the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers are set to start on Sept. 27 and run through Nov. 15. As usual, AFTRA and SAG members who are active in producing projects are not allowed to attend the W&W committee meetings.
Reps for SAG, AFTRA and the AMPTP had no comment about the meetings.
