SAG-AFTRA has weighed in on the appointment of latest management on the Alliance of Movement Image and Tv Producers forward of the union’s negotiations with the key Hollywood studios subsequent 12 months.
“Greg Hessinger has in depth data of the trade and is an skilled negotiator,” Nationwide Government Director and Chief Negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Eire mentioned in an announcement to Deadline on Tuesday. “We stay up for productive bargaining with him as we proceed to symbolize and advance the pursuits of all performers.”
Hessinger is the previous Nationwide Government Director of the Display Actors Guild, having taken up the publish for about six months in 2005, earlier than the merger with AFTRA. Nevertheless, previous to his SAG high job, Hessinger additionally served because the Nationwide Government Director of the American Federation of Tv and Radio Artists.
No stranger to labor negotiations, Hessinger additionally beforehand served as Director of Labor Relations for CBS.
The AMPTP‘s succession plan comes practically 5 months after the group introduced that its president of 15 years, Carol Lombardini, can be stepping down this 12 months. Hessinger assumes his new place on April 14, and Lombardini will tackle an advisory position.
“Carol Lombardini has given many years of service and broke floor as the primary feminine lead negotiator for the employers. We want her properly as she steps into an advisory position with the AMPTP,” Crabtree-Eire concluded.
Hessinger is taking on on the heels of a comparatively contentious earlier bargaining cycle, when each SAG-AFTRA and the Writers Guild of America went on strike for greater than 100 days. His expertise on the opposite facet of the negotiating desk might point out a brand new dynamic to come back between the AMPTP and the guilds as they start early talks within the subsequent few months, forward of subsequent 12 months’s formal bargaining cycles.
The WGA’s contract expires on Might 1, 2026, and the Administrators Guild of America and SAG-AFTRA agreements each expire on June 30, 2026.
