NETFLIX AGREEMENT - SAG-AFTRA

NETFLIX AGREEMENT

REFERENDUM BOOKLET

AUGUST 10, 2022

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

The SAG-AFTRA National Board overwhelmingly recommends members VOTE YES for the gains negotiated for the 2022 SAG-AFTRA Netflix Agreement.

VOTE YES TODAY

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All eligible members were mailed a postcard on Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2022, with instructions and a PIN number on how to vote online or how to request a paper ballot. If necessary, you can retrieve your PIN number at the voting website by clicking "Find My PIN".

Ballots ? whether submitted online or by mail ? must be received by 5 p.m. PT on Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022.

MEMBER INFORMATIONAL MEETINGS ? VIA ZOOM ?

WEDNESDAY, AUG. 17, 2022

3 PM PT / 4 PM MT / 5 PM CT / 6 PM ET

THURSDAY, AUG. 18, 2022

10 AM PT / 11 AM MT / NOON CT / 1 PM ET

Visit netflix2022 for RSVP details.

For questions, email netflix2022@ or call the contract voicemail at (323) 634-8171.

PLEASE NOTE: ALL MEETING INFORMATION SUBJECT TO CHANGE. Check netflix2022 and watch your email for notices. All paid-up SAG-AFTRA members in good

standing who work the Netflix Agreement are urged to attend these important informational meetings. This meeting is only open to paid-up SAG-AFTRA members in good standing (paid through Oct. 31, 2022,

or in compliance with the May 2022 Dues Relief Extension Program), no guests are allowed. Parents/guardians of performers under 18 years old are welcome.

Dear Member,

As your president, I was proud to chair these talks and to be in the room as it happened. Both the Negotiating Committee and staff have an agreement that they are satisfied with, and I can confirm that we got a darn good deal!

And as your chief negotiator, I am proud to put this agreement before you for your consideration. The extensive efforts of our member bargaining committee, working alongside our expert negotiators and staff, resulted in real change and significant gains that respond directly to the concerns of SAG-AFTRA members.

The provisions in this agreement benefit all members, particularly the journeyman actors who are often squeezed in the middle, and we also made great strides for background performers.

We also advanced significant improvements to options and exclusivity terms, allowing actors with short pickups to have more freedom to work other jobs and ensuring shorter hold periods between pickups.

And we're pleased to let you know that the SAG-AFTRA National Board overwhelmingly approved this agreement with Netflix and is recommending that members vote "yes" to ratify it.

The team has done an excellent job in achieving gains in the areas you told us were most important to you. These historic gains include:

First-ever background coverage zone in Albuquerque, New Mexico, covering all stand-ins and the first 10 background actors.

Stunt coordinators will now receive residuals for continued exhibition of their high-budget streaming programs on Netflix, using the day performer minimum as the basis for the residual calculation.

Juneteenth will be added as a new contractual holiday.

Major changes to the options and exclusivity rules giving series regulars the right to work on other programs when they are not working for their Netflix series, including: ? Increasing the options and exclusivity money breaks from $40,000 per episode or per week to $65,000 per episode or per week for half-hour programs and $70,000 per episode or per week for one-hour programs. This means many more series regulars will be protected by the options and exclusivity terms of the collective bargaining agreement that give them more freedom to work.

SCREEN ACTORS GUILD-AMERICAN FEDERATION of TELEVISION and RADIO ARTISTS Associated Actors & Artistes of America / AFL-CIO

855.SAG?AFTRA / 855.724.2387

? Secured the right for a performer to be a second-position series regular on another series or a second-position lead in a miniseries each calendar year, in addition to unlimited guest star appearances and unlimited guest star recurring roles of not more than six episodes per season of a series.

? Netflix can no longer refuse to allow a series regular to appear on another program because that program is made for pay television, a streaming service or a linear channel that has the right to stream the program within 30 days.

? Netflix can no longer refuse to allow a series regular to appear on another program because another series regular appeared on the same season of that series.

? Netflix must provide a "conflict-free window" of at least three months (and, if possible, longer) following principal photography of each season during which a series regular can commit their time to another program without having to confirm availability or schedule with Netflix.

? Option exercise timelines have been reduced, and the ability to extend them is also reduced and made more expensive, meaning series regulars will know much sooner whether Netflix will employ them for another season of the series.

? For the first time in any contract, there is now a deadline for starting a series regular's services for a subsequent season of a series and/or commencing payment to them for those services: Three months after option exercise, with the ability to extend by another two months in exchange for a non-recoupable, subsequent-season episodic fee.

Significant improvements in dubbing coverage and terms, including: ? The Netflix Dubbing Agreement will be expanded to include the dubbing into Spanish of motion pictures produced in a language other than Spanish.

? New vocal stress protection for dubbers will limit vocally stressful sessions to 2 hours and pay for that time at a 25% premium.

? Subject to the vocal stress provision, effective July 1, 2023, the minimum guaranteed session length for a dubbing session will increase from two to three hours, effectively a 50% raise in dubbing minimums.

A reduction in the ability to move a "soft pickup" window from five days earlier or later to four days earlier or later, meaning that day and weekly performers subject to a "drop/pickup" will have more certainty around when their next day of employment will be.

We invite you to read a summary of the tentative agreement on the following pages.

These improvements are in addition to the gains we anticipate securing in AMPTP negotiations next year, including improvements to wages, residuals rates and structures, that will also apply to Netflix.

SCREEN ACTORS GUILD-AMERICAN FEDERATION of TELEVISION and RADIO ARTISTS Associated Actors & Artistes of America / AFL-CIO

855.SAG?AFTRA / 855.724.2387

For more information, please attend the online Netflix Agreement informational meetings on Wednesday, Aug. 17, at 3 p.m. PT / 4 p.m. MT / 5 p.m. CT / 6 p.m. ET; and on Thursday, Aug. 18, at 10 a.m. PT / 11 a.m. MT / noon CT / 1 p.m. ET.

RSVP at netflix2022. If you need additional information, email your questions to netflix2022@ or call (323) 634-8171. Eligible members were sent a postcard on Wednesday, Aug. 10, with a PIN and instructions on how to vote. Go to netflix2022 and VOTE YES before the 5 p.m. PT deadline on Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022.

You can also retrieve your PIN from that website. If you do not wish to vote online, you may request a paper ballot by calling Integrity Voting Systems toll free at (844) 798-3760 no later than noon PT on Friday, Aug. 26, 2022, and a paper ballot package will be mailed to you.

Vote "yes" on this agreement to lock in these gains.

In unity,

Fran Drescher President

Duncan Crabtree-Ireland National Executive Director & Chief Negotiator

SCREEN ACTORS GUILD-AMERICAN FEDERATION of TELEVISION and RADIO ARTISTS Associated Actors & Artistes of America / AFL-CIO

855.SAG?AFTRA / 855.724.2387

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