A Message From Your Philadelphia Local President

Your solidarity and sacrifice throughout our 118-day strike has resulted in a new tentative agreement with the AMPTP. You now have the chance to vote on this new contract, allowing us to lock in more than $1 billion in new wages and benefit plan funding along with the gains that were most important to you, including a new success-based bonus for those who work in streaming and important protections around the use of AI, guardrails never before included in our contracts.  

It’s essential that we all take the time to get educated about what this agreement has achieved for working performers.

The union has put together a summary of the agreement, and we encourage you to read it here. If you were not able to attend an informational session about the tentative agreement, videos of sessions are available at sagaftra.org/contracts2023, where there are also FAQs, AI resources and voting information.

Your National Board approved this deal by majority vote and your Negotiating Committee was unanimous in their approval. I urge you to vote your conscience on this agreement. I’ve personally done the research, listened to official (and unofficial presentations), and heard advice of industry experts. I will be voting YES. I feel this is the absolute best deal we could have achieved at a time of maximum leverage. I also believe this contract will be helpful in laying an important framework for future contracts.

After you have had a chance to study the information, please visit vote.ivsballot.com/tvtheatrical2023 and VOTE by 5 p.m. PT on Dec. 5, 2023.

I am proud of what we have accomplished with national efforts of solidarity and strength. Now let’s take it across the finish line.

If you still have unanswered questions, you may email tvtheatrical2023@sagaftra.org or call (323) 549-6832.

Wishing you and your family a happy Thanksgiving,

Nikki Izanec

Philadelphia Local President

About SAG-AFTRA

SAG-AFTRA represents approximately 160,000 actors, announcers, broadcast journalists, dancers, DJs, news writers, news editors, program hosts, puppeteers, recording artists, singers, stunt performers, voiceover artists and other entertainment and media professionals. SAG-AFTRA members are the faces and voices that entertain and inform America and the world. A proud affiliate of the AFL-CIO, SAG-AFTRA has national offices in Los Angeles and New York and local offices nationwide representing members working together to secure the strongest protections for entertainment and media artists into the 21st century and beyond. Visit SAG-AFTRA online at SAGAFTRA.org.