LOS ANGELES, Calif.—The Directors Guild of America (DGA) has reached a tentative agreement on a new three-year collective bargaining agreement with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) that the union says achieves major breakthroughs in addressing key global, economic, creative rights, and safety issues.
“We have concluded a truly historic deal,” said Jon Avnet, chair of the DGA’s Negotiations Committee. “It provides significant improvements for every Director, Assistant Director, Unit Production Manager, Associate Director and Stage Manager in our Guild. In these negotiations we made advances on wages, streaming residuals, safety, creative rights and diversity, as well as securing essential protections for our members on new key issues like artificial intelligence – ensuring DGA members will not be replaced by technological advances. This deal would not have been possible without the unity of the DGA membership, and we are grateful for the strong support of union members across the industry.”
