All Posts Tagged With: "Strike"

post thumbnail

Screen Actors Guild Plans to Take Strike Consent Vote

The national board of the Screen Actors Guild adjourned a marathon 30-hour meeting on Tuesday afternoon without voting on a proposal calling for the removal of Doug Allen, the union’s national executive director, from his role as lead negotiator for the 120,000-member union.

13Jan2009 | | Comments Off | Continued
post thumbnail

Fox TV delivers blow to SAG

“With all the uncertainty surrounding the stalled negotiations with SAG, 20th Century Fox Television is considering shooting its spring pilots under the AFTRA agreement,” a spokesman said.
More after the Jump…

16Dec2008 | | Comments Off | Continued
post thumbnail

Rumors Say a SAG Strike Vote Before Holidays Likely

“It simply comes down to a few who think they deserve more than everybody else” according to the source. More importantly, SAG leadership “could not care less about the below the line workers” that have been some of the hardest hit by this stalemate.

1Dec2008 | | Comments Off | Continued
post thumbnail

Actors’ Union Talks Break Down

the producers said: “SAG is the only major Hollywood guild that has failed to negotiate a labor deal in 2008. Now, SAG is bizarrely asking its members to bail out the failed negotiating strategy with a strike vote — at a time of historic economic crisis. The tone-deafness of SAG is stunning.”

23Nov2008 | | Comments Off | Continued
post thumbnail

Hollywood actors union seeks authority for strike

In a move that some say is either long overdue or the most ballsy tactic in recent memory, SAG leadership is calling for action.

More after the jump.

2Oct2008 | | Comments Off | Continued
post thumbnail

SAG seeks to reopen talks, on day stock market plummets

UPDATE: The studios late Monday finally responded. In a statement, the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, rebuffed the offer. “We do not believe it would be productive to resume negotiations at this time given SAG’s continued insistence in terms which the companies have repeatedly rejected.” MORE after the jump…

29Sep2008 | | Comments Off | Continued
post thumbnail

SAG election likely won’t end contract stalemate soon

The balance of power on the national board of the Screen Actors Guild could be shifted after Thursday night, when the union announces results of a hotly contested board election.

17Sep2008 | | Comments Off | Continued
post thumbnail

Is the FX Work Dry Spell Ending?

Everyone in the business needs to get back to serious work or this X-Mas will be one without the G.I. Joe with the kung-fu grip.

17Sep2008 | | 1 comment | Continued
post thumbnail

Another deadline has come and gone

Still no movement in stalled talks between SAG, AMPTP

15Aug2008 | | Comments Off | Continued
post thumbnail

Hollywood producers say SAG rejects contract offer

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Screen Actors Guild rejected the latest contract offer from Hollywood studios on Thursday but claimed it was willing to negotiate and presented a counterproposal.

11Jul2008 | | Comments Off | Continued
Older Entries
Get Adobe Flash playerPlugin by wpburn.com wordpress themes