The Screen Actors Guild is accusing the major Hollywood studios of offering a contract deal worth less than an agreement tentatively approved by the leaders of a smaller actors union.
SAG executive director Doug Allen told The Associated Press on Wednesday the offer is worth millions of dollars less over the life of the proposed three-year contract.
SAG declined to immediately provide details on the differences in the offers.
Jesse Hiestand, a spokesman for the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, says bargaining is continuing but declined further comment.
Allen claims the studios are trying to get the guild to bargain up to a tentative deal reached by the smaller American Federation of Television and Radio Artists in May.
SAG is urging members of AFTRA to vote against the contract.
Results are due July 8. The contracts of both unions expire Monday.
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