AFTRA Ratification Statement

We appreciate today’s vote of confidence by actors in the agreement we reached with AFTRA, and hope that it demonstrates to SAG’s Hollywood leadership that there is support for the new economic relationships we have built with writers, directors and actors -- and not much support for a strike, whether de facto or real.

With this AFTRA ratification announcement, our industry has now achieved four major labor agreements within the last five months.  These agreements -- which offer both meaningful economic gains and groundbreaking new media rights for directors, writers and AFTRA members -- are the result of difficult negotiations and many compromises by all sides.  We hope that SAG’s Hollywood leadership will allow SAG members to vote on AMPTP’s final offer – which would give SAG members more than $250 million in additional compensation and important new media rights.