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LOS ANGELES — Leaders of Hollywood’s second-largest actors union approved a new contract with studios that grants actors more money for Internet work — an issue that sparked a crippling writers strike this year.
The board of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists approved the three-year deal late Friday, and it will go to the union’s 70,000 members for ratification this month, the union said Saturday.
The 120,000-member Screen Actors Guild, which is the larger and more combative of Hollywood’s two actors unions, continues to negotiate with the studios. It still has the power to shut down Hollywood film production.
