The Directors Guild of America’s National Board of Directors voted unanimously this afternoon to recommend ratification of the new three-year collective bargaining agreements between the DGA and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), DGA President Michael Apted announced today.
The vote followed the reports to the Board of the recently agreed-upon terms of the new contracts by Negotiations Committee Chair Gil Cates and DGA National Executive Director Jay D. Roth. The vote took place at the Board’s regularly scheduled meeting today at the Guild’s Los Angeles headquarters.
“This has been a great achievement for the DGA. Ten days ago we reached a tentative agreement with the studios and today the Board approved it unanimously,” said Apted. “We achieved our three primary goals: jurisdiction in new media, which was absolutely essential; compensation for the use and reuse of our work in new media; and significant gains on issues of real importance for our work in traditional media.”
The ballot will now go to the DGA’s 13,500 members for ratification.