Talks start in December to revise the current contracts, which expire June 30.
The Directors Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers announced Tuesday that they have set a tentative date to enter into contract negotiations for early December 2016. The parties have agreed that they will continue discussions in the interim to further define the issues before determining whether this will be the official start date for negotiations for the 2017 Agreement.
As usual, the DGA and the AMPTP have also agreed that neither organization will comment further to the press regarding negotiations until an announcement has been made.
The current DGA agreements expire June 30, as do SAG-AFTRA’s TV/theatrical agreements. The WGA agreement expires May 1.
As previously reported, SAG-AFTRA announced over the weekend that its TV/Theatrical Wages and Working Conditions (W&W) process — in which the SAG-AFTRA leadership gather member input for upcoming contract negotiations — will commence Oct 25 and conclude on or about Nov. 17.
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