After spending recent weeks blasting AFTRA’s deal, SAG’s turned its ire back on the majors and accused them of playing favorites, Variety reports.
With negligible progress at the bargaining table and a Tuesday contract expiration approaching, Screen Actors Guild leaders are complaining publicly that the most recent offer from the congloms is less favorable than the AFTRA deal.
SAG national executive director Doug Allen told Daily Variety and other news outlets Wednesday that the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers’ current offer to SAG is worth “millions of dollars” less than the deal the majors struck with rival thesp union AFTRA late last month.
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Allen did not elaborate as to where the AMPTP’s offer falls short, but he took issue with the majors’ assertion that SAG is stalling until July 8 — when AFTRA is expected to announce its ratification vote results. SAG has said previously that the AMPTP wasn’t budging on bargaining positions, so it’s the congloms’ fault that negotiations aren’t progressing.
“I question how much urgency there is in a negotiating position that doesn’t use the AFTRA deal as a starting place,” Allen added.
