“Saturday Night Live” post-production editors have reached a tentative agreement with NBC ahead of the previously announced strike date of April 1, a source close to the show told TheWrap on Friday.
If the team of 12 to 20 editors ratifies the deal, they will see immediate pay increases and better health benefits, as well as bonuses for food, transportation and hotels, and housing.
Last week, motion picture editors announced that the post-production editorial team at “SNL” was planning to strike as early as next month after the union failed to reach an agreement with NBCUniversal.
Last fall, about 20 post-production editors aligned with the Editors Guild, also known as IATSE Local 700. The union sent a contract to NBC Universal in December, and NBCU responded a month later, but the Editors Guild said the counteroffer was not adequate.
The Editors Guild cited the low pay for its employees in a series of tweets, saying the pay was “well below industry standards”. march 9, “Assistant editors receive only a fraction of what their counterparts earn on union shows,” the Guild said, adding that management [the] Give the crew the respect they deserve.
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