SAG Talks Continue
Members of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) met at the Sportsmen’s Lodge in Studio City today. Leaders had one message for them: we’re still negotiating.
Hmmm, what’s it all mean? I just hope they can work things out before it comes down to another situation like the writer’s strike last winter. I think an actor’s strike would be much more damaging to everyone involved. I believe George Clooney agrees with me on that, as he’s been working to ensure it doesn’t happen. Yeah, me and George. We’re tight.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, SAG wants:
- DVD residuals doubled
- consent for use of actors’ clips in new media
- jurisdiction over all programming made for new media productions
- increases in minimums, pension and health, among other things
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Those leaving the meeting said members were upbeat and positive at the event and, most importantly, supportive of the SAG leadership. “They were not a bunch of revolutionaries waving their flags,” said one member, referring to SAG leaders, including national executive director Doug Allen and SAG president Alan Rosenberg. “I’m supportive of what the negotiating team is doing. I stand behind them.”
SAG and the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers have not held formal negotiations since June 30 when the actors contract expired and the studios made their final offer to the union.
Since then, there have been three meetings between the two sides, including a question-and-answer session on the AMPTP’s offer, SAG’s response to the offer (which was a counter-proposal that the studios rejected) and a two-hour sidebar last week that resulted in “no comment” from both sides. Talks are currently in limbo with no meeting dates scheduled between the two sides.
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1 opinion for SAG Talks Continue
Dave
Aug 1, 2008 at 12:12 pm
I think the Producers are being clever, if cynical, in how they’re approaching this. However, they’re dealing with very creative types that know how to do media blowback. The WGA was adequate proof of that.
But, these are Actors. Notoriously fractured as a Union entity, easy to infiltrate and divide their membership, which appears to be the AMPTP exact strategy.
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