Directors Guild Reaches Deal on New Contract With Studios
The Writers Guild clarified that it wouldn’t help to resolve its own strike.
Despite the ongoing writers’ strike and the actors’ decision to proceed with a walkout, the Directors Guild has successfully negotiated a groundbreaking three-year film and television contract with major studios. This momentous agreement has been deemed “historic” by the DGA in an official statement.
“We have concluded a truly historic deal,” said Jon Avnet, chair of the DGA’s negotiations committee. “It provides significant improvements for every director, assistant director, unit production manager, associate director, and stage manager in our guild. In these negotiations, we made advances on wages, streaming residuals, safety, creative rights, and diversity, as well as securing essential protections for our members on new key issues like artificial intelligence — ensuring technological advances will not replace DGA members.” The union represents 19,000 directors and their teams. Talks began a week ago for a contract expiring on June 30th.
Will the deal help the Writers Guild with its case as it did 15 years ago? Though some of the terms agreed to by the DGA could also apply to writers, the WGA clarified that the situation is very different from 2008, when the DGA negotiated a deal that helped resolve the previous writers’ strike that lasted 100 days. “To resolve the strike, the companies must negotiate with the WGA on our full agenda,” announced the WGA in a note to its members last week.
Throughout its 87-year history, the DGA staged a strike only once in 1987. It lasted 5 minutes (or 12 minutes by some accounts).
Source: Los Angeles Times
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The Writers Guild clarified that it wouldn’t help to resolve its own strike.
Despite the ongoing writers’ strike and the actors’ decision to proceed with a walkout, the Directors Guild has successfully negotiated a groundbreaking three-year film and television contract with major studios. This momentous agreement has been deemed “historic” by the DGA in an official statement.
“We have concluded a truly historic deal,” said Jon Avnet, chair of the DGA’s negotiations committee. “It provides significant improvements for every director, assistant director, unit production manager, associate director, and stage manager in our guild. In these negotiations, we made advances on wages, streaming residuals, safety, creative rights, and diversity, as well as securing essential protections for our members on new key issues like artificial intelligence — ensuring technological advances will not replace DGA members.” The union represents 19,000 directors and their teams. Talks began a week ago for a contract expiring on June 30th.
Will the deal help the Writers Guild with its case as it did 15 years ago? Though some of the terms agreed to by the DGA could also apply to writers, the WGA clarified that the situation is very different from 2008, when the DGA negotiated a deal that helped resolve the previous writers’ strike that lasted 100 days. “To resolve the strike, the companies must negotiate with the WGA on our full agenda,” announced the WGA in a note to its members last week.
Throughout its 87-year history, the DGA staged a strike only once in 1987. It lasted 5 minutes (or 12 minutes by some accounts).
Source: Los Angeles Times
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