Studios in a Tentative Deal With TV Actors in One Union, but Uncertainty Remains
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LOS ANGELES - Hollywood took another step toward labor peace on Wednesday morning, as a union representing television actors reached a tentative three-year deal with production companies after talks had stalled over the re-use of performers' images on the Internet. (article 1)
The agreement between the producers and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists builds pressure on another, bigger actors union, the Screen Actors Guild, to devise a similar solution. (article 1)
Alan Rosenberg said in a statement Wednesday that the union would carefully analyze the deal's provisions. (article 1)
The 38-year-old actor has played a park ranger in the TV series "Bones a police officer in" CSI: Miami "and a judge on" Hannah Montana. (article 2)
The negotiations were temporarily suspended so AFTRA, with 70,000 members, could start its talks on May 7. (article 5)
The contracts for both unions expire June 30, and Hollywood is nervous that the actors might go on strike, paralyzing the entertainment industry much as a 100-day walkout by screenwriters did earlier this year. (article 4)
The industry already is in de facto strike mode, with studios starting to stockpile TV episodes and unwilling to launch work on movies that could be affected by a walkout. (article 4)
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Actors, SAG, AFTRA, Studios, Guild |
Source articles
- Studios in a Tentative Deal With TV Actors in One Union, but Uncertainty Remains (nytimes.com, 05/29/2008, 671 words)
- Middle class will be a focus of Screen Actors Guild talks (L.A. Times, 05/28/2008, 899 words)
- Actors union, studios reach new TV labor deal (Washington Post, 05/28/2008, 566 words)
- Hollywood actors' labor talks reach key juncture (Washington Post, 05/27/2008, 487 words)
- Actors union pushes for deal with Hollywood studios (Washington Post, 05/28/2008, 356 words)
- Hollywood studios, AFTRA agree on 3-year contract - (baltimoresun.com, 05/28/2008, 405 words)
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