The DGA, which will start contract negotiations on May 10, stresses the importance of “ensuring reliable pension provision to ensure access to leading health care”. In a video of DGA members talking about the retirement and health care benefits they receive, the guild says, “We’re fighting for our future.”
“The Directors Guild was there for me in 2019 when I donated a kidney so my husband could have a kidney and I can’t put into words what a gift really saved my family,” Millicent Shelton said through tears Eyes Whose include many directing credits blackness And rich.
Watch the video here.
“Being part of a guild and having a pension is very, very important, especially since we’re all going to have to retire one day,” said Canella Williams-Larrabee, a production manager whose credits include NCIS: New Orleans. “The Directors Guild is known for the best healthcare available. So this is the health care I have for myself and my family, for my child.
“I don’t think I can overstate the importance of the DGA retirement plan to my career,” said Arthur Lewis, stage manager for this year’s Academy Awards and numerous other live events, including the Tonys, the Grammys. Saturday night live and three presidential inauguration events. “As a freelancer in New York, I might have six different employers in any given month, and the stability the guild has provided to build a pipeline for retirement and compensation for my retirement has been a huge relief.”
“DGA is known in the industry for having the best care plan of all trades,” says managing director Michael Spiller, whose credits include modern family And The Mindy Project. “My wife just had a major operation. I just had my eyes done. I don’t wear glasses. It was seamless and so easy to do. My children are protected. And I just got my statement from my retirement plan, and it looks very healthy, even when the market was in a big downturn. These things are critical to security as a freelancer. You know, it was unheard of in a lot of creative arts industries to get that kind of support.
As well as pension and healthcare benefits, the DGA said the other “major issues” at issue in the upcoming talks are:
- Win strong increases that help members cope with the rising cost of living.
- To ensure that our SVOD residual program accounts for the growing global audience.
- Improving safety on set.
- Fight to protect the role and vision of all directors, especially TV directors.
- Increasing diversity and empowering the voice of underrepresented individuals across the industry.
With a view to upcoming negotiations with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers promises to be “one of the most difficult and complex in many years”, according to the DGA: “This year’s negotiations are about more than negotiating a strong treaty for the next three years – they are about setting the course for the future, our industry and to ensure the sustainability of hundreds of thousands of quality union jobs.”
Source: Deadline
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