After several months of strike which disrupted the cinema industry in the United States, Hollywood actors have ratified an agreement with the studios to put an end to it. SAG-AFTRA, the actors’ union, indicated that 78% of its voting members approved this new multi-year contract.
Hollywood actors have ratified an agreement with the studios, ending a months-long strike that disrupted the film industry, their union announced Tuesday. SAG-AFTRA indicated that 78% of its voting members approved this new multi-year contract. “This is a golden age for SAG-AFTRA and our union has never been stronger,” SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher said in a statement.
The agreement provides in particular for the actors a sum of more than a billion dollars in compensation and benefits as well as protection against the use by studios of artificial intelligence, detailed the union. The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), which represents Netflix, Walt Disney and other studios, welcomed the ratification of this contract.
A 118-day long strike
“With this vote, the industry and its jobs will be able to come back in force,” praises the AMPTP in a press release. The union said 38% of its members voted. The agreement between SAG-AFTRA and Hollywood studios to end a 118-day strike was already reached last month and actors returned to work before it was ratified.