Post by Bryce on Jun 30, 2008 11:42:32 GMT -5
I Foundnd an article stating that the contract for the Screen Actors Guild is still not signed and there isn't an update. It doesn't mean there will be a strike per se but it will mean that the SAG is w/o contract. Very probable they will take up the same contract accepted by the writers and the director's guild but just though you should know this is happening on the back burner..
Here's the article :
At midnight tonight, the current contracts under which the Screen Actors Guild and AFTRA have been working expire, and thus far only the latter union has approved (at least on its merits) a new deal. Is SAG set to walk? Guild president Alan Rosenberg maintains, "We have taken no steps to initiate a strike authorization vote by [our] members. Any talk about a strike or a management lockout is simply a distraction."
Come July 7, AFTRA could formally ratify their new contract — thus putting extra pressure on SAG to accept similar terms. Some SAG heavyweights, though, have been urging their sister union to dismiss the new deal, so that better terms (as relating to DVD residuals and such) could be negotiated for both parties.
AFTRA's new deal, however, is based on a model hammered out in recent months by the Writers Guild and Directors Guild, raising questions about the ripple effects that could be felt were the "standardized" new-media tenets to be called into question. — Matt Mitovich
source:
community.tvguide.com/blog-entry/TVGuide-News-Blog/Todays-News/Sag-Strike-News/800042416
Here's the article :
At midnight tonight, the current contracts under which the Screen Actors Guild and AFTRA have been working expire, and thus far only the latter union has approved (at least on its merits) a new deal. Is SAG set to walk? Guild president Alan Rosenberg maintains, "We have taken no steps to initiate a strike authorization vote by [our] members. Any talk about a strike or a management lockout is simply a distraction."
Come July 7, AFTRA could formally ratify their new contract — thus putting extra pressure on SAG to accept similar terms. Some SAG heavyweights, though, have been urging their sister union to dismiss the new deal, so that better terms (as relating to DVD residuals and such) could be negotiated for both parties.
AFTRA's new deal, however, is based on a model hammered out in recent months by the Writers Guild and Directors Guild, raising questions about the ripple effects that could be felt were the "standardized" new-media tenets to be called into question. — Matt Mitovich
source:
community.tvguide.com/blog-entry/TVGuide-News-Blog/Todays-News/Sag-Strike-News/800042416
not again 
