Potential SAG AMPTP agreement reached...

[Casey Green]

There's hope...

http://www.sag.org/press-releases/april-17-2009/joint-sag-amptp-statement

Joint SAG-AMPTP Statement

"Screen Actors Guild and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers Reach Tentative Agreement on TV/Theatrical Deal

LOS ANGELES (April 17, 2009) – The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers and Screen Actors Guild today announced that the parties have reached tentative agreement on successor agreements to the Producer-Screen Actors Guild Codified Basic Agreement.

Details of the agreement covering television programs and motion pictures will not be disclosed prior to review by the SAG national board of directors this Sunday, April 19, at a previously scheduled board meeting via videoconference in Los Angeles and New York.

Screen Actors Guild's negotiators will present the tentative agreement to the Screen Actors Guild national board of directors for approval and referral to the membership for ratification."

 

[Casey Green]

More articles:

http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/entertainment/SAG-Producers-Reach-Tentative-Labor-Agreement.html

http://cbs2.com/local/Screen.Actors.Guild.2.987681.html

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/entertainmentnewsbuzz/2009/04/sag-and-studios-.html



Think it's gonna really go through?

 

[M Most]

Think it's gonna really go through?

If there are still enough rank and file SAG members with working brains, yes. In part because feature production needs to be restarted, in part because at least some of them must notice that they've now completely cut their own throats in terms of television representation (all but 2 pilots were done under AFTRA contracts), and primarily because if reports are correct, it's only a 2 year deal, and when it ends, the expiration date is in lock step with the WGA and DGA contracts - giving labor more power than it's had for a long time. Not that it will make any difference, though.

What I find unfathomable is how the SAG membership has allowed its leadership to hurt their own cause so completely for such a long period of time.