Studios, actors near new deadline in contract talks
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Screen Actors Club and major studios entered a final exam day of take negotiation on Tues earlier their latest self-imposed deadline to close a carry on and set to reside Hollywood's persistent parturiency anxieties.
The 2 sides opened ball negotiations on Apr 15 and have twice extended their dialogue in hopes of avoiding renewed unrest in an amusement industriousness still recovering from a 100-day screenwriters strike that ended in February.
The parties announced last Fri that they would hold open their negotiation departure, as long as progression was beingness made, until 5 p.m. Fri, just neither position has ruled come out extending the negotiations farther if no deal is in position by then.
Tuesday's troll of dialogue followed a endurance contest 11-hour session that ended shortly before 9 p.m. on Monday, one of the lengthiest since bargaining began.
The electric current three-year Sag contract covering great hundred,000 screen actors expires on June 30, merely the union and studios are under strong pressing to touch an betimes village in order to dissipate strike jitters that go along to disrupt the film industry.
The most recent extension came after sources familiar spirit with the path of negotiations said Swag had scaled back a number of demands considered major stumbling blocks to an agreement.
In unity such concession, they said, the union gave up a proposal to duplicate the "residue" payments actors garner from the sale of films and TV shows on DVDs. Rather, Flag negotiators sought what amounts to a 15 percentage increase paid through higher contributions to actors' wellness and pension monetary resource.
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