SAG-AFTRA Non-Disparagement?
A month and a half ago, SAG and AFTRA signed an agreement not to disparage each other, with significant fines apparently being the consequence for vio...
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SAG & The Studios: What Are They Fighting Over?
Jonathan Handel | Posted 01.07.2009 | Entertainment
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I think you'll find this useful if you want to understand the issues, rather than just listen to slogans and each side's self-interested positioning.
Studios Release Final Offer to SAG
Jonathan Handel | Posted 01.04.2009 | Entertainment
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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.
SAG and the Studios: Post-Prandial Posturing
Jonathan Handel | Posted 01.02.2009 | Entertainment
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Is it really possible, in this economy, that SAG members will vote to authorize a strike? Yes.
SAG Strike Authorization Vote Shifts Into Gear
Jonathan Handel | Posted 12.27.2008 | Entertainment
SAG sent a long email to its members yesterday urging its members to vote yes on strike authorization ballots to be sent out in December.
How Not to Negotiate: 101
David L. Wolper | Posted 12.26.2008 | Entertainment
In my 50 years in show business, I have never seen a worse negotiation by a guild than that being conducted by the team of the Screen Actors Guild with the studios for a new contract.
SAG Stalks Towards Strike
Jonathan Handel | Posted 12.25.2008 | Entertainment
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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.
SAG Seeks Strike Authorization
AP | Posted 12.23.2008 | Entertainment
LOS ANGELES — The Screen Actors Guild said Saturday it will ask its members to authorize a strike after its first contract talks in four months ...
SAG Update: Union Meets with Mediator
Jonathan Handel | Posted 11.26.2008 | Entertainment
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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."
AMPTP Agrees to Mediate
Jonathan Handel | Posted 11.23.2008 | Entertainment
The AMPTP has agreed to attend sessions conducted by a federal mediator, Juan Carlos Gonzalez, who unsuccessfully mediated the WGA negotiations just before the contract expired and the union decided to strike.
SAG Steps Toward Strike
Jonathan Handel | Posted 11.19.2008 | Entertainment
The SAG national board passed a resolution yesterday on what to do regarding contract negotiations with the studios. My take: Membership First outma...
SAG Stalemate Update
Jonathan Handel | Posted 11.09.2008 | Entertainment
Next news is likely to come next weekend (Oct. 18-19), when the SAG national board meets. Items on the agenda will include whether to send a strike authorization referendum to the members.
Phase One Reanimator
Jonathan Handel | Posted 11.05.2008 | Entertainment
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Aieee, it's alive! Remember Phase One? That's the 27 year old joint bargaining arrangement between SAG and AFTRA that collapsed this spring.
Report: SAG Strike Would Have No Immediate Credit Impact on Entertainment Conglomerates
Jonathan Handel | Posted 11.03.2008 | Entertainment
Fitch Ratings, a leading global rating agency that rates the credit of large businesses, municipal governments, and entire industry sectors (they must...
SAG: Toss that Hot Potato Back (UPDATED)
Jonathan Handel | Posted 11.02.2008 | Entertainment
SAG's negotiating committee has the power to send a strike authorization referendum to the membership at large, but it instead punted to the national board.
SAG Negotiators Ask Board For Strike Vote
AP | RYAN NAKASHIMA | Posted 11.02.2008 | Entertainment
LOS ANGELES — The Screen Actors Guild's negotiating committee voted Wednesday to support a strike authorization vote, a tactic meant to break st...
SAG: A Half Step Closer to a Strike
Jonathan Handel | Posted 11.01.2008 | Entertainment
SAG moved closer to a strike today, but not quite as far as some predicted. The guild's negotiating committee, which has the power to send a strike...
SAG Apparently Seeking Strike Authorization
Jonathan Handel | Posted 10.31.2008 | Entertainment
SAG's appears to be playing a dangerous game: Seek an authorization and fail to obtain it, and the guild's leverage collapses.
SAG Nudges the Studios, but the Studios Say No Thanks
Jonathan Handel | Posted 10.30.2008 | Entertainment
A key sentence warns "If your intransigence continues, however, our choices become harder and fewer." Whether SAG actually has any leverage to back up those words is unclear.
SAG: The Calm before the Storm
Jonathan Handel | Posted 10.23.2008 | Entertainment
The SAG elections are over, and the Unite for Strength challenger slate now has a razor-thin majority on the national SAG Board. Indeed, one of MF's ...
Acting Like Change Is at Hand
Annabelle Gurwitch | Posted 10.20.2008 | Entertainment
Yesterday brought exciting news for many SAG members who voted to elect candidates endorsed by and representing our interests who banded together to form the group Unite for Strength.
A Push-Poll with No Oomph
Jonathan Handel | Posted 10.18.2008 | Entertainment
Sarah Palin may not know what the Bush Doctrine is, but SAG's leadership seems to have forgotten what we might call the (Teddy) Roosevelt Doctrine: s...
The Denigration Express
Jonathan Handel | Posted 10.17.2008 | Entertainment
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The writers strike settled in February, but in the months since, the Screen Actors Guild has been flying apart at the seams like a rag doll spun through the air by a petulant 2-year-old.
SAG: How to Make a Deal
Jonathan Handel | Posted 10.15.2008 | Entertainment
SAG staggers on, occupied by bitterness and dissension, but with little apparent progress towards a deal with the studios. The last contract expired ...
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