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Union Talks Hit Britain: How Equity & Pact’s 2024 Negotiation May Play Out As Strike Action Looms Large
The ink has dried on SAG-AFTRA’s deal with the AMPTP but, in the UK negotiations between union and producer will soon kick off, and the threat of strike action looms large for the first time this g…
Equity is seeking updates to the TV and film deals in the immediate future and this will form the brunt of the negotiations, with demands set to be finalized over the coming months before the union takes its shopping list to Pact, which represents hundreds of UK production outfits. For the past decade, Netflix, Sky, Disney and Apple have approached Equity negotiations in the form of ‘side letters,’ which effectively takes the deal with Pact and adds a small premium for their original commissions. Pact, for what it’s worth, has publicly poured cold water on the notion of a strike, with CEO John McVay last year branding any action “really bad for the most poorly-paid people,” as he sought to draw a line between labor laws in the UK and U.S.
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