The Screen Actors Guild begins contract negotiations with the studios

April 16th, 2008 | Category: TV News

Here we go again. We have barely healed from the wounds that the Writers Guild of America strike opened up late final year, now it’s the Screen Actors Guild’s turn to manufacture us nervous about the television we watch.

Yesterday, SAG representatives began negotiations with the Hollywood studios by swapping contract proposals amoung the two parties. that is the first moment in nearly three decades that the Guild is negotiating solo with the studios since the American Federation of Television

and Radio Artists (AFTRA) has rejected combined talks. AFTRA is upset with the Guild by concerns that it is attempting to poach its members. The Guild is denying that accusation with the statement that it normally broils its members by a low flame with some butter sauce.

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