SAG in the hot seat

Leaders of the Screen Actors Guild are being pushed by high level talent, studios and other unions to defuse fears that actors could mimic writers and go on strike.

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Hollywood braces for SAG labor talks

In a Century Plaza Hotel ballroom earlier this week, 600 people gathered to hear Hollywood heavyweights tally the fallout from the writers strike. Read and write movie reviews, find out movie times, & see what's coming to home video. Check out Rene Rodriguez's Reeling blog for the latest news in

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SAG, AFTRA Members To Review Contract Details

The unions will bargain jointly with the Association of Motion Picture and Television Producers. The current SAG contract expires July 1, and the AMPTP has asked to begin negotiations on April 1. The run-up to contract talks has been closely monitored by union members and outsiders alike.

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Hollywood braces for SAG labor talks

The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, which represents studios, has urged the two unions representing actors to begin bargaining by April 1 three months before the current contract is set to expire on June 30.

http://www.usatoday.com/life/2008-03-28-sag-talks_N.htm?csp=34

SAG Creates Online Casting Database

Scheduled for a spring launch, iActor will be a free, online directory for all dues-paid-up members; their profiles will be available to casting directors.

http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6416201.html

Los Angeles Daily News: Preparing an award-winning dinner

The most glamorous awards show of the year (and a chance to see the big stars in designer finery) could just be the 14th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards this Sunday ... if the Oscars show is felled by the lengthy Writers Guild of America strike that seems to have no end in sight.

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SAG sets referendum for games

JUNE 29 | Screen Actors Guild members will get a chance to vote on a videogame contract that was rejected last week by SAG's national executive committee. That's because on Wednesday, the guild's national board voted to hold a referendum vote on the executive committee's June 21 decision.

https://www.videobusinesss.com/article/CA627883.html

Actors unions butt heads over negotiations

The feud between SAG and AFTRA is nothing new. But the critical decision Saturday by AFTRA's national board to suspend its joint bargaining agreement with SAG, known as Phase One, has heightened the bad blood between the actors unions to Hatfield and McCoy levels.

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AFTRA suspends SAG bargaining agreement

Underscoring apparent irreconcilable differences between Hollywood's two major actor unions, the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists voted today to suspend the guild's 27-year joint bargaining agreement with the Screen Actors Guild, leaving the two unions to negotiate separately on

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SAG Gets A Kick In The Pants From That Other Actors Guild [Trade Roundup]

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