As a federal mediator joins the fray, the performers' union could call a strike as soon as Thursday after its film and television contracts package expires at midnight.
Greg D. Raelson, the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service’s director of Congressional and public affairs, said in a statement on Wednesday that the agency has been monitoring SAG-AFTRA’s talks with studios and streamers “for some time.” Declining to name the mediator assigned to the SAG-AFTRA negotiations, Raelson called the staffer “highly qualified” and “senior,” and added, “FMCS remains prepared and committed to helping both parties constructively resolve their dispute.
Meanwhile, as the potential for around 160,000 SAG-AFTRA members to go out on strike grows, a coalition of entertainment unions pledged their solidarity with the performers’ union in a statement on Wednesday.
Over the course of the spring and summer, Hollywood labor organizations have emphasized that the 2023 cycle of negotiations is far from routine. Instead, SAG-AFTRA and the Writers Guild of America in particular have framed these talks as existential for members who are allegedly finding it harder than ever to make a living in the entertainment business and face potential encroachment on their work from rapid developments in A.I. technology.
During the Writers Guild of America’s ongoing work stoppage, now in its 11th week, fellow entertainment unions publicly expressed an unusual amount of support compared to the most recent prior strikes, with many crew members refusing to cross the writers’ picket lines. Wednesday’s statement seems calculated to convey that this solidarity (which has the concrete effect of
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