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State of the Union

David Dean Bottrell | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Sag, Entertainment, Parts and Labor, Show Business, SAG Elections, David Dean Bottrell, Screen Actors Guild, Unions, Boston Legal, Hollywood, Bluray, Aftra, Martin Sheen, Old Media vs. New Media, Writers' Strike Opinion, Aftra-and-Studios, Writers Guild of America Strike, Writers' Strike, Cable Tv, SAG Strike, Amptp, Doug Allen, Ed Harris, AFTRA Negotiations, Dvr, New Media Advertising, New Media, Alan Rosenberg, Politics News

If the new SAG leadership doesn't rapidly start taking all the painful, but necessary steps to merge with AFTRA, we are fucked.

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SAG's Strange Voyage

Jonathan Handel | Posted 06.19.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Aftra, Sag, Amptp, Breaking Entertainment News, Labor, Screen Actors Guild Strike, Hollywood Strike, Screen Actors Guild, Hollywood, Labor Unions, Entertainment News

Where did the Screen Actors Guild go? After months of news, the guild fell off the radar screen. The quiet was deceptive however.

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Can Hollywood Recover From the SAG Strike that Wasn't?

Earnest Harris | Posted 05.31.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Sag, Filmmaking, Amptp, Screen Actors Guild, Earnest Harris, Producers, Hollywood, Los Angeles, Movies, Actors, Entertainment News

The toll of this month's long semi-strike, the 100 day long writer's strike, and the Director's Guild and AFTRA negotiations in 2008, has impacted and hurt not only our wallets, but our hearts as well.

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SAG Board Approves Studio Deal

Jonathan Handel | Posted 05.21.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Sag, Amptp, Breaking Entertainment News, Labor, Screen Actors Guild Strike, Hollywood Strike, Screen Actors Guild, Hollywood, Labor Unions, Entertainment News

The Screen Actors Guild National Board of Directors today voted to approve and recommend to members, new, two-year successor agreements to the 2005 Producer-Screen Actors Guild Codified Basic Agreement.

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SAG & Studios Agree to Tentative Deal

Jonathan Handel | Posted 05.19.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Sag, Amptp, Breaking Entertainment News, Labor, Screen Actors Guild Strike, Hollywood Strike, Screen Actors Guild, Hollywood, Labor Unions, Entertainment News

Hanging over all of this are the twin factors of the economy and new media. The troubled economy will continue to harm the entertainment industry for some time to come.

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SAG and the Studios: The Next Roadblocks

Jonathan Handel | Posted 05.06.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Sag, Amptp, Breaking Entertainment News, Labor, Screen Actors Guild Strike, Hollywood Strike, Screen Actors Guild, Hollywood, Labor Unions, Entertainment News

Last year proved that time is not on SAG's side. Recall that the union's then-leadership wanted better terms in new media than the other Hollywood uni...

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Actors' Commercials Negotiations Deteriorate

Jonathan Handel | Posted 04.17.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Sag, Amptp, Breaking Entertainment News, Advertising, Labor, Screen Actors Guild Strike, Hollywood Strike, Screen Actors Guild, Hollywood, Labor Unions, Jpc, Entertainment News

Though it gets less play than the stalled SAG TV/theatrical talks, SAG and AFTRA have been jointly negotiating for several weeks with the advertising industry over the commercials contract.

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SAG: What Might Happen at Next Week's Board Meeting

Jonathan Handel | Posted 02.06.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Hollywood Strike, Screen Actors Guild Strike, Sag, Screen Actors Guild, Amptp, Hollywood, New Media, SAG Strike, Entertainment News

Support for the strike authorization vote is eroding. Rather than risk defeat, the hardliners who control the Guild may instead push for the deal to be sent out to the members for ratification.

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SAG: Opposition Grows to Strike Authorization

Jonathan Handel | Posted 01.12.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Screen Actors Guild Strike, Screen Actors Guild, Hollywood Strike, Amptp, Entertainment News

Members of the NY SAG Board have begun what Back Stage's blog describes as a "regional uprising," releasing a letter opposing a strike authorization.

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Exclusive: SAG-AFTRA New Media Battle?

Jonathan Handel | Posted 01.11.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Aftra, Sag, New Media, Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, Hollywood Strike, Amptp, Entertainment News

Although no one else has publicly raised this issue to my knowledge, buried in the SAG deal on the table are the seeds of a scathing fight for control of the future of new media.

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SAG Strike Authorization Ballots

Jonathan Handel | Posted 01.10.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Hollywood Strike, Sag, Screen Actors Guild, Labor Unions, Amptp, Hollywood, Entertainment News

The Screen Actors Guild just announced that strike authorization ballots will be mailed Friday, January 2 and will be due back and tabulated three wee...

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Studios Release Final Offer to SAG

Jonathan Handel | Posted 01.04.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Hollywood Strike, Sag, Labor, Screen Actors Guild, Labor Unions, Amptp, Hollywood, Entertainment News

To my pleasant surprise, the AMPTP has now released an offer, along with a summary of key points. Here are some of the key points.

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The AMPTP Strikes Again

Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 01.04.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Sag, SAG Strike, Amptp, 100 Days, Entertainment News

After over four months negotiating with the AMPTP conglomerates, the Screen Actors Guild announced they were finally asking their members for a strike authorization vote. I can feel their pain.

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SAG and the Studios: Post-Prandial Posturing

Jonathan Handel | Posted 01.02.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Hollywood Strike, Labor, Screen Actors Guild, Sag, Amptp, Labor Unions, Hollywood, Entertainment News

Is it really possible, in this economy, that SAG members will vote to authorize a strike? Yes.

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SAG Stalks Towards Strike

Jonathan Handel | Posted 12.25.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Hollywood Strike, Screen Actors Guild, Amptp, Labor Unions, Hollywood, WGA Strike, SAG Strike, Entertainment News

Mediation between the studio alliance (the AMPTP) and the Screen Actors Guild failed late Friday night, and SAG announced plans to seek a strike authorization vote from its members.

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SAG Update: Union Meets with Mediator

Jonathan Handel | Posted 11.26.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Sag, Hollywood Strike, Labor, Screen Actors Guild, Amptp, Labor Unions, Hollywood, Entertainment News

SAG leaders met Friday with the federal mediator, and in a statement said that they discussed with him the union's request for mediation and "the possibilities regarding the resumption of negotiations."

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SAG Still Talking? And What Next?

Jonathan Handel | Posted 09.15.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Membership First, Unite for Strength, Screen Actors Guild, Strike, Sag, Amptp, Entertainment News

Note that Nov. 5 will be the one-year anniversary of the start of the writers strike. A great day for a deal, I suppose, or, more darkly, what better time to cripple the industry with another work stoppage?

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SAG - Looking Ahead

Jonathan Handel | Posted 07.24.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Sag, Screen Actors Guild, Amptp, Entertainment News

This short press release from the AMPTP (studio alliance) re today's SAG-AMPTP meeting says it all. Not particularly encouraging. And, below, my ana...

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Looking at the World Through SAG-Colored Glasses

Jonathan Handel | Posted 07.19.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Hollywood Strike, Aftra, Screen Actors Guild, Sag, Amptp, Entertainment News

Day by day, the Screen Actors Guild's Hollywood leadership stumbles deeper into a morass, dragging behind it a bewildered and divided membership.

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Further Thoughts on AFTRA and SAG

Jonathan Handel | Posted 07.16.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Hollywood Strike, Aftra, Screen Actors Guild, Sag, Amptp, Entertainment News

Expanding on my previous post, I do want to acknowledge the obvious: this vote was a strong victory for AFTRA, especially in light of SAG's aggressive...

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Narrow Margin: AFTRA Ratifies Primetime Contract by 62.4%

Jonathan Handel | Posted 07.16.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Hollywood Strike, Aftra, Screen Actors Guild, Sag, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, Amptp, Entertainment News

SAG will be emboldened by the low yes vote achieved by AFTRA, and is likely to resist compromise with the AMPTP for some time to come.

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SAG-AMPTP: No News is No News

Jonathan Handel | Posted 07.10.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Sag, Screen Actors Guild, Amptp, Entertainment News

SAG and the AMPTP met for four hours today. According to the AMPTP, the meeting was at SAG's request, and the AMPTP answered questions on the proposal it put on the table two days ago.

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Screen Actors Guild: What's Next?

Jonathan Handel | Posted 07.09.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Aftra, Screen Actors Guild, Strike, Sag, Amptp, SAG Strike, Entertainment News

Hollywood's quiet today. Still, with the studios' "final offer" on the table, the natural question is, what happens next -- and will there be a strike?

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