<p>Major <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hollywood" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hollywood</a> film and television studios accused union actors striking against the industry of continuing to &#8220;mischaracterize the negotiations&#8221; while claiming more than $1 billion in higher compensation and enhanced benefits were offered to the performers.</p>
<p>SAG-AFTRA voted to join an ongoing Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike after union negotiators failed to reach an agreement on a new three-year contract last week with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP).</p>
<p>&#8220;The deal that SAG-AFTRA walked away from on July 12 is worth more than $1 billion in wage increases, pension and health contributions and residual increases and includes first-of-their-kind protections over its three-year term, including expressly with respect to AI,&#8221; the AMPTP, which represents several studios including Netflix, Walt Disney Co., and Warner Bros Discovery, told <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/hollywood-studios-say-they-offered-actors-1-bln-gains-before-strike-2023-07-18/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Reuters</a> in a statement.</p>
<p>&#8220;For SAG-AFTRA to assert that we have not been responsive to the needs of its membership is disingenuous at best,&#8221; the group added.</p>
<p>The contract reportedly aimed to negotiate higher benefits and limits on using artificial intelligence to recreate actors&#8217; likenesses without their permission or paying them — a major point of contention for many of the 160,000 SAG-AFTRA members.</p>
<p>SAG-AFTRA officials proposed the members, who they say are &#8220;fighting for the survival of our profession,&#8221; receive an 11% general wage increase in the first year of the contract to make up for inflation, but were countered with a 5% offer from the union.</p>
<p>&#8220;We moved on some things, but from day one they wouldn&#8217;t meaningfully engage on the most critical issues,&#8221; SAG-AFTRA said.</p>
<p>During a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/egregious-and-disgusting-screen-actors-guild-pres-unloads-on-latest-offer-from-producers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press conference</a> last week, SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher held nothing back in her response to the latest offer from the group representing the studios, calling it &#8220;egregious and disgusting.&#8221;</p>
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<p>&#8220;A moment when streaming and AI and digital is so prevalent in the industry, it has disemboweled the industry that we once knew,&#8221; Drescher said. &#8220;When I did &#8216;The Nanny&#8217; and everybody was part of the gravy train. Now it&#8217;s a walled-in vacuum. And not only is it unfair to everybody up and down the ladder, but the entity that employs us, it&#8217;s really un-American and it&#8217;s unconscionable.&#8221;</p>
<p>Actor George Clooney <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/jul/18/hollywood-stars-actors-strike-sag-aftra" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> called the historic strike &#8220;an inflection point&#8221; for the Hollywood industry.</p>
<p>&#8220;Actors and writers in large numbers have lost their ability to make a living,&#8221; Clooney said. &#8220;For our industry to survive that has to change. For actors that journey starts now.&#8221;</p>
<p>Academy Award-winning actor Matt Damon also weighed in on the union strike.</p>
<p>&#8220;Nobody wants a work stoppage but if our leadership is saying that the deal isn&#8217;t fair then we gotta hold strong,&#8221; Damon said. &#8220;It&#8217;s the difference between having healthcare and not for a lot of actors, and we gotta do what&#8217;s right by them.&#8221;</p>
<p>The historic double strike marks the first time actors and writers have protested together since the 1960s.</p>
<p><em>Virginia Kruta contributed to this report.</em></p>

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