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EXCLUSIVE: After assembly on a Tuesday Zoom name to determine the right way to finish an actor’s strike that may shortly stretch past 100 days, a bunch of Hollywood’s largest stars laid out to SAG-AFTRA leaders a groundbreaking proposal that quantities to the city’s largest earners defraying the prices to AMPTP signatories by eliminating the cap on membership dues, for use to bolster well being advantages and different areas that SAG-AFTRA is making an attempt to shore up.
The provide would take away the $1 million cap on membership dues, In an effort to carry a system residual system, the celebrities have additionally proposed a formulation that may make the bottom names on the decision sheet who most want the cash the primary to be paid. Deadline hears that SAG-AFTRA leaders introduced the provide to its negotiating committee final evening.
Deadline revealed Tuesday {that a} quorum of stars together with George Clooney, Emma Stone, Ben Affleck, Tyler Perry and Scarlett Johansson met with SAG leaders together with Fran Drescher and Duncan Crabtree-Eire.
Deadline spoke with Clooney, who confirmed the plan proposed by the celebrities.
‘Lots of the highest earners need to be a part of the answer,” Clooney instructed Deadline. “We’ve provided to take away the cap on dues which might carry over $50 million to the union yearly. Nicely over $150 million over the following three years. We predict it’s honest for us to pay extra into the Union. We are also suggesting a backside up residual construction. That means the highest of the decision sheet can be the final to gather residuals not the primary. These negotiations can be ongoing however we wished to indicate that we’re all on this collectively and discover methods to assist shut the hole on actors getting paid.”
There can be rather more to debate on this as SAG-AFTRA and AMPTP negotiators blame each other after the studios walked away from the bargaining desk. However many see this as digital signaling that’s not serving to issues when the enterprise is shut down and under the road employees battle to hold on after weathering the WGA strike, and now this one. It appears admirable that this group is keen to kick on this sum of money to maneuver the negotiations to a detailed. Keep tuned.
