A-List Stars Offer SAG-AFTRA $150 Million To Help End Strike
In an attempt to find a way to resolve the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike, a group of A-list actors led by George Clooney presented a new proposal to the union’s leadership team on Tuesday afternoon.
The proposal called for removing the cap on dues, which would bring more than $50 million to the union annually, or $150 million over three years.
Additionally, the group suggested a bottom-up residual structure, where top earners would be the last to collect residuals. Currently, they are the first.
The Meeting Didn’t Go Well
The group of 15 stars, which also includes Tyler Perry and Scarlett Johansson reportedly had a follow-up meeting last night with SAG-AFTRA’s negotiating committee.
It didn’t go well,” says one of the sources, noting that the committee “didn’t see the validity” of the group’s proposal.
A-list stars including Emma Stone and Ben Affleck are reportedly looking for a path to jumpstart negotiations amid the strike.
Members of the negotiating committee, however, say the proposal pertaining to members’ dues is not directly relevant to the issues that have held up negotiations.
“I’ll reach out to George to talk to him,” says David Jolliffe, a member of the negotiating committee. “We appreciate everybody’s help. Everybody has ideas. But we’ve been doing this for almost a year now.”
Is There Dissention in the Union?
While union leaders are spinning the A-list stars’ proposal as a helpful suggestion, others worry that it shows a divide within the union.
“I think it’s pretty tough for [SAG-AFTRA] to not acknowledge that [the A-listers] witnessed their thinking and their strategy and didn’t come away from it thinking, ‘OK they’ve got this. They’ve they got a plan,’” says one source familiar with the Wednesday call.
For now, at least, it doesn’t look like an end to the SAG-AFTRA strike is in sight.
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