Overview
- PACT sent revised contract wording by the January 19 deadline with improvements on AI safeguards for performers, according to Equity.
- Following a January 20 meeting, both parties agreed to enter a new period of good-faith negotiation.
- Equity says more than 99% of members in an indicative vote would refuse on-set digital scanning, with turnout above 75%.
- General secretary Paul W. Fleming warned a statutory ballot and industrial action on upcoming productions remain options if protections are deemed inadequate.
- The AI terms are part of nearly two years of wider bargaining that underpins most UK film and TV work, including pay, residuals and contract standards.