AMPTP Urges SAG and AFTRA to Compromise

As the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) prepare to begin contract talks next week, the AMPTP published an "open letter" to actors, urging them to accept the new economic framework that was created during the WGA and DGA negotiations.

The letter from the AMPTP assures the actors that this framework is mutually beneficial to the many types of members in the industry, especially as new media continues to wedge its way into the industry.

The AMPTP also stated that they are willing to "make the reasonable compromises that are necessary."

The letter closed with a passionate statement from the studios:

"We hope that our negotiations with SAG and AFTRA will bolster this new economic framework, enabling all of us to share equitably in the success of new media and to respond with creativity and swiftness to market changes.

If our industry relies on this new framework, we can all avoid more harmful and unnecessary strikes."

Will the actors and studios reach an agreement before the June 30 deadline? Should the actors begin to strike, we could very well be looking at a delayed fall TV season. If the writers' strike taught us anything, it was that the hard-working people in the entertainment industry will stop at nothing to get their fair share.

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