Two years after SAG-AFTRA indicated that it needed to convey intimacy coordinators into the union, the labor group has taken a primary step towards making that aim a actuality. On Wednesday, the performers union stated it had filed a petition for a union election with the Nationwide Labor Relations Board. SAG-AFTRA is looking for to cut price nationally on behalf of intimacy coordinators employed by Alliance of Movement Image and Tv Producers member corporations, the leisure business’s prime studios and streamers.
The transfer arrives after the union has spent years making an attempt to manage the burgeoning skilled house, which ascended within the wake of the #MeToo motion. Intimacy coordinators are accountable for choreographing intimate scenes, and people involving nudity, on units, in addition to facilitating a dialogue between performers and creatives regarding this work. “Working in scenes involving nudity or bodily intimacy is a number of the most susceptible work an actor can do.
Intimacy coordinators not solely present help in navigating these scenes however additionally they create a security web for performers making certain consent and safety all through the whole course of,” SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher stated in a press release. “Intimacy coordinators have our backs on set and now it’s our flip to have theirs.” A SAG-AFTRA spokesperson stated that the union had requested voluntary recognition from the AMPTP.
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