{"id":1976900,"date":"2023-07-19T00:21:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-19T04:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/actors-walked-away-from-1-billion-in-gains-before-historic-strike-hollywood-studios-say\/"},"modified":"2023-07-19T00:23:16","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T04:23:16","slug":"actors-walked-away-from-1-billion-in-gains-before-historic-strike-hollywood-studios-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/actors-walked-away-from-1-billion-in-gains-before-historic-strike-hollywood-studios-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Actors forfeited $1 billion in profits prior to strike, studios claim."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Factors-walked-away-from-1-billion-in-gains-before-historic-strike-hollywood-studios-say%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1976900&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Major \u200cHollywood Studios\u2064 Accuse Union \u200bActors of Mischaracterizing \u200dNegotiations<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Hollywood\u200b film \u200band <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/netflix-dominates-2021-golden-globe-nominations-full-list-announced\/\" title=\"Netflix Dominates 2021 Golden Globe Nominations: Full List Announced\">television studios<\/a> have \u200d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/actors-walked-away-from-1-billion-in-gains-before-historic-strike-hollywood-studios-say\/\" title=\"Actors forfeited  billion in profits prior to strike, studios claim.\">accused union\u2064 actors \u2064striking<\/a> against the\u2062 industry of\u200d continuing to \u2062&#8221;mischaracterize\u200d the \u2062negotiations&#8221; while \u2063claiming\u200d more than $1 billion \u2063in higher compensation and \u200denhanced\u200c benefits\u200b were \u2063offered to\u200c the performers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>SAG-AFTRA\u200d voted to\u2064 join \u200dan ongoing\u200c Writers \u200bGuild \u2063of \u2064America (WGA) strike after\u200d union negotiators\u200c failed \u2062to \u2062reach \u200ban\u2063 agreement \u2062on \u200ba new \u200cthree-year \u200dcontract last week with\u2064 the\u200d Alliance \u200bof \u2062Motion Picture\u2064 and \u200bTelevision Producers (AMPTP).<\/p>\n<p>The \u2064AMPTP, \u200cwhich \u200drepresents several studios including Netflix, Walt Disney Co., \u200dand\u2063 Warner Bros\u200c Discovery,\u2062 stated, &#8220;The \u2063deal\u200d that \u200dSAG-AFTRA walked \u2062away \u200bfrom \u2063on \u200cJuly\u200d 12 is worth more\u2063 than $1 \u200bbillion in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/union-boss-tells-white-house-to-stay-out-of-fight-as-strike-looms\/\" title=\"Union boss warns White House to stay out of impending strike.\">wage \u200bincreases<\/a>, pension\u2064 and health contributions and residual \u200bincreases\u200c and includes first-of-their-kind protections over \u200bits three-year term, including expressly with respect to AI.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2063 <\/p>\n<p>SAG-AFTRA officials \u2062proposed an 11%\u200d general \u2062wage increase\u200d in the\u2064 first \u200cyear\u200b of the contract to \u200dmake up\u2062 for \u200cinflation,\u200b but \u200cwere \u2062countered with \u200ba 5% \u200coffer\u200c from\u200d the \u200bunion.<\/p>\n<p>During a press \u200dconference \u200blast week, \u2064SAG-AFTRA\u200b President Fran\u200d Drescher \u200cheld nothing \u2064back in\u2063 her response \u2064to the \u200clatest offer from the\u2062 group representing the studios, \u200bcalling \u200bit &#8220;egregious\u200c and disgusting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Actor \u2063George \u2064Clooney reportedly \u2062called\u2062 the \u2063<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-amazon-drivers-walk-out-in-historic-strike-panicked-california-consumers-left-in-lurch\/\" title=\"Amazon drivers in California go on strike, leaving worried consumers without deliveries.\">historic strike<\/a> \u2064&#8221;an inflection \u2062point&#8221; \u2063for\u2062 the \u2063Hollywood\u2063 industry.<\/p>\n<p>Academy\u2064 Award-winning actor\u2063 Matt Damon also weighed\u2064 in\u2062 on \u200dthe \u200cunion\u2064 strike, \u2062stating,\u200b &#8220;Nobody\u200b wants a \u200cwork \u2063stoppage \u2064but \u2062if \u200cour \u2062leadership is \u2064saying\u2063 that\u2063 the\u2063 deal isn&#8217;t \u2062fair \u200bthen we \u2062gotta \u200dhold \u2062strong.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u200c <\/p>\n<p>The historic double \u200bstrike \u200bmarks \u200cthe first \u200dtime actors and writers \u2064have \u200bprotested together \u2062since \u200dthe 1960s.<\/p>\n<p>\u200d <\/p>\n<p><em>Virginia\u200d Kruta contributed to\u200d this report.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Major Hollywood film and TV studios are accused of distorting negotiations with union actors. They claim to have offered over $1 billion in increased compensation and improved benefits, but the actors argue this is a mischaracterization. As a result, SAG-AFTRA has decided to join the ongoing Writers Guild of America strike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":429,"featured_media":1976901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1976900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1976900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1976901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1976900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1976900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1976900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}