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In Major Deal, Directors Guild Retroactively Secures Writers’ Streaming Success Bonus

The union informed members on Thursday that it had also improved employer contribution rates to its pension and health plans in the second and third years of its contract.

Nearly seven months after it ratified its latest labor contract with Hollywood studios and streamers, the Directors Guild of America has improved upon some of that deal’s terms — and gained a cornerstone achievement of the 2023 writers’ strike. “With few exceptions, the residual structures are aligned across the Guilds, and the implementation of this new model, which provides additional compensation based upon a viewer metric across the entire season of a show, follows that pattern,” national executive director Russell Hollander informed the union’s members. Entertainment unions frequently analyze other labor organizations’ deals and advocate to gain similar favorable language (what is typically called “pattern bargaining”) and/or achieve a contract of a comparable value with studios and streamers.

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