On the heels of yesterday’s optimistic information that the Movement Image and Tv Producers Alliance and the WGA are heading again in for talks on Friday, SAG-AFTRA’s Duncan Crabtree-Eire says that so far as actors go, it is nonetheless crickets from producers.

“We have not heard from AMPTP since July twelfth after they informed us they would not be prepared to proceed talks for a while,” the consortium’s nationwide govt director and chief negotiator informed Deadline this morning.

In the meantime, for the AMPTP and WGA, that is the primary time the 2 sides have met for the reason that strike started on Could 2.

Crabtree-Eire added, “As now we have mentioned publicly and privately day-after-day since 12 July, we’re prepared, prepared and in a position to return to the desk at any time.”

He continued, “The one solution to finish the strike is by having the events discuss and urge them to come back again to the desk in order that we will get the trade again up and working as rapidly as potential.”

Yesterday in an interview with TODAY, SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher mentioned the union had been in it for the lengthy haul till they got here to a superb deal for everybody: “We have ready ourselves financially for the following six months. And we’re actually in it to win it.”

Final night time, the WGA despatched a memo to members, which learn, “AMPTP, by means of Carole Lombardini, has reached out to the WGA at present and requested a gathering on Friday to debate negotiations.”

“We are going to get again to you someday after the assembly with extra data. As we mentioned earlier than, watch out for rumours. When there may be vital information to share, you’ll hear it instantly from us,” added the be aware, which got here from the WGA negotiating committee.

Yesterday, Drescher additionally testified on the committee’s public listening to, telling members of the New York Metropolis Council that the movie and tv trade within the period of broadcasting nonetheless wants actors and writers and that SAG-AFTRA and WGA members are entitled to a share of the studios’ streaming subscription revenue. The Committee on Labor Points handed each resolutions unanimously, and despatched them for consideration by the complete metropolis council. The Los Angeles Metropolis Council unanimously handed an analogous decision in June to assist the WGA. Each actions by Los Angeles and New York Metropolis are symbolic gestures of union solidarity.

The New York resolutions, from council members Carmen de la Rosa and Amanda Farias, are non-binding and largely symbolic. However members of SAG-AFTRA and WGA East welcomed them on Tuesday for sending a message of political solidarity with the commerce unions.

As as to if there’s a plan for SAG-AFTRA to arrange separate committees with AMPTP to debate separate matters, equivalent to synthetic intelligence and residuals, Crabtree-Eire informed Deadline yesterday, “Not in our negotiations (with AMPTP). They do in a few of their bargains, however This isn’t a typical characteristic of our bargains.”

The WGA Strike is on its 93rd day whereas SAG-AFTRA counts its twentieth day in picks.