History was made on Thursday morning when talks between SAG-AFTRA and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers ended Wednesday night without an agreement on a new contract.
Now members of SAG-AFTRA’s negotiating committee have unanimously voted to recommend the guild go on strike, and a formal vote will be put to SAG-AFTRA’s national board Thursday morning.
If the vote passes, as it is expected to unanimously, SAG-AFTRA will order its 160,000 members to go on strike from all television and film productions, joining members of the Writers Guild of America who have been on strike since May 2.