SAG-AFTRA has joined the Author’s Guild of America in a strike after failing to succeed in a take care of the Alliance of Movement Image and Tv Producers.
It was the primary time each actors and writers unions have been on strike concurrently in over 60 years.
“Incomes a dwelling as knowledgeable performer has turn into more and more tough, with each inflation and the streaming ecosystem undercutting compensation — all of the whereas, company income and government pay at studios proceed to rise,” the group launched in an announcement. “Add to this the unregulated use of synthetic intelligence and the burdens of the industrywide shift to self-tape, the outlook for working actors turns into unsustainable with out transformative change.”
Throughout the strike, members of the union received’t take part in sure actions. Listed below are among the issues members can’t do throughout strike:
All present performing work underneath TV/Theatrical contracts have to be withheld
No principal on-camera work like: performing, singing, dancing, performing stunts, piloting on-camera plane, puppeteering
Principal off-camera work like TV trailers promos and theatrical trailers, voice performing, singing, narration
Background work
Stand-in work
Picture and/or physique doubles
Fittings, wardrobe checks and make-up checks
Rehearsals and digicam checks
Scanning
Interviews and auditions, together with self-tape
Promotion of public providers for work underneath the TV/Theatrical like: Press excursions, private appearances, interviews, conventions, fan expos, festivals, panels, premieres/screenings, award reveals, junkets, podcast appearances, social media, studio showcases
Negotiating or coming into into: An settlement to carry out lined providers sooner or later, a brand new settlement associated to merchandising related to a lined venture, the creation and use of digital replicas, together with via the reuse of prior work
Acting on a trailer for manufacturing or content material associated to a manufacturing
