SAG-AFTRA and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers will meet Friday to resume negotiations.
“Today, we passed a comprehensive counter across the table to the CEOs and while talks for the day have ended, our committee just completed working internally tonight,” the actors’ union wrote in a statement Thursday night. “We are scheduled to meet across the table again tomorrow.”
It comes as a group of high-profile actors and actresses signed an open letter to the union saying they would rather “stay on strike than take a bad deal.”
“We have not come all this way to cave now. We have not gone without work, without pay, and walked picket lines for months just to give up on everything we’ve been fighting for,” the letter read. “We cannot and will not accept a contract that fails to address the vital and existential problems that we all need fixed.”
According to Deadline, Thursday’s meeting focused on SAG-AFTRA’s response to an offer by the union representing the studios and streamers in which the studios and streamers offered a 7% increase in minimum rates.
Issues at the forefront of the actors’ strike include an increase in pay for successful streaming programs, protections against artificial intelligence, and wage increases.
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