The re-elected General Secretary of UK actors union Equity has returned to the possibility of strike action if negotiations with UK producer trade body Pact and the streamers collapse.
Speaking at the Equity conference over the weekend, Paul Fleming said the 50,000-strong union is “industrial action ready” as it bids to strike a deal featuring its “most ambitious claims for our TV and film agreements in a generation.”
Negotiations with Pact, which represents hundreds of production companies, have been rumbling on for months and months. Equity’s proposal is comprised of five demands: pay, secondary payments (aka compensation), AI, guidelines around self tapes and an end to special stipulations from the streamers.
“We’re not changing our approach or our demands,” said Fleming at the conference in Derry, Northern Ireland. “The message is simple: we have put in the most ambitious claims for our TV and film agreements in
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