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Screen Actors Guild rejects contract offer: Hollywood producers
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In a brief statement released in the evening, SAG said its negotiating team " met behind closed doors throughout the day today discussing bargaining strategies. (article 2)
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 6)
The producers alliance threw down that gauntlet in its final offer, which it said included $250 million in additional compensation over three years. (article 6)
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 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 3)
The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers on Friday released remarks made at a bargaining session Thursday by Carol Lombardini, the group's executive vice president for business and legal affairs. (article 3)
The two sides met privately for more than five hours before the producers group released a statement saying the guild was "unreasonably" seeking more than other unions. (article 4)
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Source articles
- Governor offers to help US actors (BBC News, 07/12/2008, 360 words)
- Actors union huddles over Hollywood labor stalemate (Washington Post, 07/12/2008, 448 words)
- Actors guild weighs strategy as studios hold firm (Washington Post, 07/11/2008, 434 words)
- Screen Actors Guild rejects contract offer: Hollywood producers (cbc.ca, 07/11/2008, 319 words)
- SAG rejects contract offer :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Television (suntimes.com, 07/11/2008, 883 words)
- SAG could lose 200k a day if agreement isn't reach... (suntimes.com, 07/11/2008, 599 words)
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