Hollywood actors reached a tentative agreement with major studios to resolve the second of two strikes that rocked the entertainment industry this year as workers demanded higher pay in the streaming TV era, Ednews informs referring to Reuters.
The 118-day work stoppage will end officially just after midnight, the SAG-AFTRA union said in a statement after its negotiating committee voted unanimously to support the deal.
Valued at more than $1 billion, the new three-year contract includes increases in minimum salaries and a new "streaming participation" bonus, the union said.
The deal also provides protections against unauthorized use of images generated by artificial intelligence (AI), an area that had emerged as a major concern from performers who feared being replaced by "digital doubles."
"We have arrived at a contract that will enable SAG-AFTRA members from every category to build sustainable careers," the union said.
The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), which negotiated on behalf of Walt Disney, Netflix and other media companies, said the agreement represented "a new paradigm" that gave the union its "biggest contract-on-contract gains" in its history.