Hollywood’s actors union reached a tentative deal with studios Wednesday to end its strike, bringing a close to months of labor strife that ground the entertainment industry to a historic halt.
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00:00 [crowd cheering]
00:02 - It feels, it feels unreal right now.
00:09 I was at home, you know, relaxing
00:13 and I started seeing Twitter kind of going off
00:17 and I was like, not sure if this source is credible,
00:20 not sure if this was.
00:22 Then I saw it in the LA Times
00:24 and then I saw Francis Fisher posted
00:27 and the WGA congratulate us
00:29 and I was like, oh my goodness.
00:31 And my captain's chat started going wild.
00:34 - I was really excited, really happy
00:37 and around five o'clock we were talking
00:40 and somebody was like, there's a deal
00:41 and I was like, oh my God.
00:43 And then we waited until it came in
00:45 and we were like, really, really happy.
00:47 I was just really happy.
00:48 I was like, yes!
00:49 - Around, I guess, 10 to five or so,
00:51 we found out that we had a deal
00:53 and yeah, I was basically done for the night
00:56 and then we found out about that
00:58 and then, you know, the trust that we had put
01:02 into the negotiating committee all came to fruition
01:07 and, you know, it was a great feeling
01:10 to know that we were able to cut a deal.
01:13 - This sends a very clear message
01:15 that unions work, labor movements work.
01:18 It was a hard labor summer turned into a hard labor año
01:22 and now, you know, we can do it.
01:24 Si se puede, like, keep going.
01:27 Unionize if you're not, they work
01:29 because we are the people who make businesses move.
01:33 It's the people on the ground who make businesses move
01:36 and, you know, any other labor movements
01:39 that are going on, we support them.
01:41 - It's been a long process, but I feel really excited
01:44 that we have reached this point
01:46 that today, after 118 days on strike,
01:48 we finally have an agreement.
01:50 It's an agreement that our members can be proud of.
01:52 I'm certainly very proud of it.
01:53 So I think our members, as we were able
01:55 to release more of the details of it,
01:57 we'll look at them and say, you know,
01:59 this is something that was worth being on strike for
02:02 and our union has helped protect our future.
02:05 And really, as someone who's committed
02:08 to being part of the labor movement,
02:09 that's what it's all about.
02:10 AI was one of the more challenging topics
02:12 in this negotiation from the very beginning,
02:14 I think, because it's not a topic
02:16 that everybody necessarily is fully conversant in
02:20 and it also is something that has evolved
02:22 even while we've been in this negotiation process
02:25 the capabilities of generative AI tools
02:28 have expanded dramatically.
02:30 So we have really been focused on making sure
02:32 that the guardrails that we negotiated for
02:35 were future proof or at least future resistant
02:39 so that as we went through,
02:41 not just the term of this contract, but afterwards,
02:43 these guardrails would continue to be effective
02:45 in protecting our members.
02:46 And they are centered around informed consent
02:49 and fair compensation.
02:50 And I feel very confident when our members see
02:53 what we have done with the AI provisions
02:54 that they will feel that they are being well protected
02:57 against the likely developments
03:00 in this part of the industry.