SAG-AFTRA Resumes Talks With AMPTP: AI & Pension Funding Details Need Work As Parties Seek To Close Deal Before DGA Negotiations

The actors are heading back to the bargaining table with the major Hollywood studios.

After pausing negotiations to make way for the WGA in March, SAG-AFTRA and the AMPTP will resume talks on Monday morning as planned. The two parties are aiming to get a tentative deal done before the DGA steps up to bat on May 11. Both guild and union sources tell Deadline that they’re not far off from a deal, but a few key issues still need to be ironed out.

Among those are AI protections, which we hear executive director Duncan Crabtree-Ireland is being particularly bullish on. More specifically, he is so far not willing to agree to the AMPTP’s requested lengthier contract unless the studios will concede a bit more on artificial intelligence. A labor insider tells us that there’s likely a path, “but it’s not going to be easy.”

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