A gaggle of A-list actors led by George Clooney offered a proposal to SAG-AFTRA management throughout a Tuesday afternoon Zoom name in an effort to discover a approach to resolve the three-month-long actors strike with the studios. However the proposal is probably going lifeless on arrival.
Sources with information of the scenario say the group of some 15 stars, which incorporates Tyler Perry and Scarlett Johansson, held a follow-up name final night time with SAG-AFTRA’s negotiating committee. “It didn’t go nicely,” says one of many sources, including that the committee “didn’t see the validity” of the group’s proposal.
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After Tuesday’s Zoom, SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher and govt director Duncan Crabtree-Eire met with the union’s negotiating committee to debate the celebs’ proposal, which referred to as for eradicating the cap on dues in a bid to convey greater than $50 million to the union yearly and $150 million over three years. They steered a bottom-up residual construction whereby prime earners could be the final to gather residuals fairly than the primary.
However their pitch discovered no traction, say the sources, leaving the A-listers group feeling dejected. “They don’t perceive why there isn’t only a mediation,” says one of many sources.
SAG-AFTRA is predicted to problem a press release at present on the subject of the stalemate with the A-listers.
As Selection beforehand reported, a number of sources say the group, which additionally embody Emma Stone and Ben Affleck, are feeling discontented throughout the guild ever since talks broke down with the studios. They’re on the lookout for a path to jumpstart negotiations amid the economically devastating strike.
However members of the negotiating committee say the a part of the proposal pertaining to member dues is just not straight related to the problems which have stymied negotiations with the studios. “I’ll attain out to George to speak to him,” says David Jolliffe, a member of the negotiating committee. “We respect all people’s assist. Everyone has concepts. However we’ve been doing this for nearly a yr now.”
Jolliffe and a bunch of different negotiating committee members got here to Amazon on Thursday to thank strike captains for his or her work. The leaders are additionally encouraging SAG-AFTRA members to indicate their help for the strike by picketing.
Jodi Lengthy, president of the Los Angeles native, notes that the studio safety guards are conserving depend of how many individuals come out to picket every single day.
“You need to additionally understand our members are working different jobs, particularly now that it’s gone on so lengthy,” she says.
Frances Fisher, one other negotiating committee member, echoed that message.
“There are people who find themselves working two and three jobs,” Fisher says. “There isn’t a disgrace in not having the ability to present up. But when any person has a pair hours, it could be nice to indicate solidarity, as a result of these strike captains who we’re honoring at present have been out right here each single day.”
Fisher and Lengthy each declined to touch upon Clooney’s proposal.
However others noticed the truth that the A-listers’ failed try to assist restart negotiations with the studios highlights a deeper downside with the imaginative and prescient of the guild’s negotiating committee.
“I believe it’s fairly powerful for [SAG-AFTRA] to not acknowledge that [the A-listers] witnessed their considering and their technique and and didn’t come away from it considering, ‘OK they’ve received this. They’ve they received a plan,’” says one supply acquainted with the Wednesday name.
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