Hollywood's largest union representing actors and other performers has secured a new film and TV contract that will provide modest pay hikes for its approximately 165,000 members.
SAG-AFTRA and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers announced Friday that they have reached an agreement on a new three-year film and TV contract to replace one that expired midnight June 30 and was extended three times, 24 hours each.
The talks mark the first time the union has bargained on a film and TV contract since the Screen Actors Guild merged with its smaller rival union, the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, two years ago. In addition to actors, AFTRA also represented recording artists, disc jockeys, broadcast journalists and dancers.
Proponents of the merger argued that combining the disparate groups into a single entity would give them more clout in negotiations with the studios, which had contentious relations with the Screen Actors Guild in the past. SAG nearly went on strike in 2008.
Terms of the new agreement will be presented to the SAG-AFTRA national board of directors at its July 12 meeting.
The agreement, which is subject to approval by the union's members, brings uniformity to TV contracts, bringing them under a single master contract to replace separate agreements that existed before the two former rival unions combined in 2012.
That had been one of the chief goals of the negotiations, which began May 5 and were expected to wrap in mid-June, following similar deals reached earlier this year by unions representing writers and directors.
However, the talks took longer than anticipated mainly because of complications surrounding creating a single master contract.
SAG-AFTRA President Ken Howard, who was the union's first elected president and a strong proponent of the merger, led the talks. SAG-AFTRA National Executive Director David White was the union's chief negotiator.
In February, White was considered a leading candidate to be director of the NBA Players Assn., but the players union is still conducting its search. In the meantime, White has committed to remain with SAG-AFTRA until the negotiations are finalized.
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