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Screen Actors Guild rejects contract offer: Hollywood producers
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LOS ANGELES The major Hollywood studios have told the Screen Actors Guild that if the union does not accept its final contract offer by Aug. 15 any proposed wage increases would not be retroactive, the studios said Wednesday. (article 1)
If the deadline passes before the union ratifies a contract, that means the actors could lose more than $200,000 a day in increases dating to July 1, the day the new contract would take effect. (article 1)
S.A.G., Hollywood's dominant actors' union with some 120,000 members, has been embroiled in increasingly rancorous negotiations with television and movie producers over a new contract since spring. (article 7)
LOS ANGELES - The Screen Actors Guild weighed bargaining strategies Friday after Hollywood producers warned a souring economy could cause them to reconsider their contract offer. (article 6)
The guild's national negotiating committee met in a closed-door strategy session and remains " committed to continuing to bargain for a fair contract SAG said in a statement Friday. (article 6)
AFTRA said 62 percent of voting members approved its prime-time TV contract with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, a deal that will go in effect retroactive to July 1. (article 2)
SAG committee members are scheduled to meet Friday to discuss the situation and said they will contact producers in the afternoon. (article 4)
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Source articles
- SAG could lose 200k a day if agreement isn't reach... (suntimes.com, 07/11/2008, 599 words)
- Actors union ratifies deal with Hollywood studios :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Television (suntimes.com, 07/09/2008, 942 words)
- Screen Actors Guild rejects contract offer: Hollywood producers (cbc.ca, 07/11/2008, 319 words)
- Hollywood producers say SAG rejects contract offer (Washington Post, 07/09/2008, 643 words)
- SAG rejects contract offer :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Television (suntimes.com, 07/11/2008, 883 words)
- Actors guild weighs strategy as studios hold firm (seattletimes.nwsource.com, 07/11/2008, 460 words)
- Leaders of Actors’ Union Call Offer Unacceptable (nytimes.com, 07/11/2008, 735 words)
- Letters to the editor (L.A. Times, 07/11/2008, 366 words)
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