Representatives of television and radio commercial actors voted Saturday night to go back to work, ending a six month strike against advertisers — Hollywood's longest job action ever.
Actors can audition and attend calls starting Monday, said Screen Actors Guild spokesman Greg Krizman.
"We know there are a lot of pent-up demands," he said.
The vote by about 150 members of the boards of SAG and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists was "nearly unanimous," Krizman said. The boards voted to end their stop-work order, endorse an agreement worked out with advertisers last weekend, and send the deal to members, who will cast their votes by mail.
Because rank-and-file reaction so far has been positive, Krizman said, the three-year contracts should be official by the end of November.
The advertising industry and commercial actors made key concessions on labor issues that ranged from the payment of residuals to jurisdiction over the potentially lucrative Internet market.
The industry agreed to continue to give actors residual payments when their ads run on network television. The unions gave up their demand to spread the residual system to cable TV stations.
The advertising industry also agreed to recognize the union's jurisdiction in Internet ads, which had been a contentious issue.
AFTRA and SAG claim a combined membership of 135,000.
Striking actors lost untold millions in commercial payments in the strike that began May 1 and some found themselves hard-pressed to keep up with car payments and mortgage bills.
The job action also cost the Los Angeles-area economy an estimated $125 million in lost production and drove commercial work to Canada and Europe.
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