Their offer, confirmed by Clooney’s spokesperson on Thursday, would provide the union an extra $150 million over three years and could help fund improved health benefits.
Clooney also said top stars would only collect residuals once lower-paid actors received theirs.
“A lot of the top earners want to be part of the solution,” Clooney told Hollywood publication Deadline, which first reported the news. “We think it’s fair for us to pay more into the union.”
A SAG-AFTRA spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Just like with tipping or YouTube ads, individual acts of generosity cannot resolve systemic issues but only serve to reinforce the existing system. The only good way to settle the strike is to win.
So please, help keep the strike going, buy a shirt or a mug, every bit helps.
https://www.sagaftra.org/official-sag-aftra-strike-swag-available
It’s easy to be cynical and 150M towards health benefits seems like a good and altruistic offer but shouldn’t the studio be paying health benefits. Is this just a golden strike buster so top Hollywood actors can get back to earning millions while the rest return to crappy conditions.
Imo Clooney et al. are hoping to get all the actors back to work because strike pay isn’t cutting it. Bribing AFTRA isn’t a bad thing at this point as there’s already stories of actors loosing housing, etc.
The studio should be, but that would have to be in the bargaining agreement.
I don’t know of any company that pays for regular health benefits for gig work. I’ve had contract work at a long term site (government contracts) pay for healthcare but never heard it for entertainment.
That would be great for funding health benefits but what about studios using actor’s likenesses via AI and not paying them at all. That is the point that sticks out to me.
mushrooms and other fungi.
Ah, yes, I understand
mushrooms and other fungi.
This is the kind of AI-shenanigans I look forward to.
AI?
Looks like a human mistake to me. Simple copy and paste error.
Yep makes perfect sense.
Booo they edited it out!
so was your comment
Yeah autocorrect thought boo should be boop so here we are.
Now I’m picturing a ghost that boops people on the nose and wails out a spooky “boooooop!” when they do it.
Copy/pasting and every news site has shit to edit out.
My bad for missing that.
All good, it was funny is all, not actually detracting from the read!
Tbh I saw the first comment and couldn’t figure out what it was about.
2 hrs later I got it … 🤣
Are they going to give that $150 million every year? Under a contract with SAG-AFTRA? Otherwise, I hope the response is, “nice offer, but no thanks.”
Yes, get the studios used to stars chipping in. That’s a great idea.
The money is going to AFTRA, not the studios.
