Negotiators for the SAG-AFTRA actors union agreed late Tuesday to call in a federal mediator to try to forge a last-minute agreement with Hollywood studios and avoid a second simultaneous strike in the entertainment business.
The 160,000 members of SAG-AFTRA, Hollywood's largest union, have authorized a strike if a new labor deal cannot be reached before midnight on Wednesday. The Writers Guild of America has been on strike since early May.
"However we are not confident that the employers have any intention of bargaining toward an agreement," the statement said. On Tuesday, SAG-AFTRA said the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers , the group that negotiates on behalf of studios, "has abused our trust and damaged the respect we have for them in this process."
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