No progress on resolving actors’ strike: union negotiator
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Toronto (Canada) (AFP) – Hollywood’s major studios and streamers have made no contract overtures to striking actors since they walked off the job in July, the performers’ chief negotiator said Thursday, urging the companies to make a good-faith effort. Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, who negotiates on behalf of the 160,000 movie and television actors who belong to the Screen Actors Guild (SAG-AFTRA), gave the update on the work stoppage on day one of the Toronto International Film Festival. In mid-July, actors joined writers on the picket line in the first industry-wide walkout for 63 years over pay …