SAG-AFTRA Negotiations to Continue Thursday – The Hollywood Reporter

Hollywood will remain in suspense on Thursday when the negotiations between SAG-AFTRA and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers are set to continue. The parties were still in negotiations as of Wednesday evening, talking over AI — which has proved to be a sticking point in the denouement of these contract talks — and other topics, said a union-side source. As in previous bargaining dates this week, Hollywood CEOs were not present for the talks, which were led on the management side by AMPTP president Carol Lombardini. “Things are still moving but slow,” said one studio-side source when reached on Wednesday. SAG-AFTRA also wrote in a message to its members following talks on Wednesday, “The Negotiating Committee met today to discuss and finalize our response to the AMPTP AI counter-proposal which we received yesterday. The negotiators then met with AMPTP representatives for more than three hours this afternoon and evening to present and review our revised proposal. We continue to await the AMPTP’s response to our comprehensive counter proposal package which we gave them on Saturday, addressing outstanding issues.” As of Tuesday, a deal seemed to be in sight even as issues remained, including guardrails on entertainment companies’
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