SGA and possible (as in 'who knows, it could happen?' SAG (Screen Actors Guild) Strike
Just keeping track in case a strike occurs, which is all speculation at the moment….
SAG members on SGA cast definitely include Joe Flanigan and Jason Momoa. Since David Hewlett has worked in the States, he’s probably dual SAG/ACTRA. Mitch Pileggi is SAG.
Excerpts: click on links for full stories
http://www.variety.com/article/VR111...goryid=14&cs=1
Mar 3
AFTRA is telling the Screen Actors Guild to stop dragging its feet -- and warning that it's willing to start negotiations as early as this month without SAG.
The move by the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists is the latest indication of the town's increasing frustration over SAG's refusal to schedule formal negotiations with the AMPTP as soon as possible, given the recently completed 100-day Writers Guild strike and the looming June 30 expiration of the SAG-AFTRA film-primetime contract.
http://www.variety.com/article/VR111...ery=doug+allen
SAG aims for April start date
Feb 28
Facing pressure to start contract talks as soon as possible, SAG has announced it won't start formal negotiations with the AMPTP until April at the earliest.
In a message sent to members Thursday, SAG president Alan Rosenberg and national exec director Doug Allen said SAG plans to stress the issues of new media, compensation for middle-class actors and forced endorsement on product integration.
In the message, Rosenberg and Allen repeated their previous insistence that the guild needs to complete its process of holding "wages and working conditions" meetings to hammer out the details of its proposal and said that process would conclude March 31. They also retiterated that they need to complete discussions with AFTRA over the SAG-AFTRA joint bargaining arrangement before setting a date for talks.
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The SAG-AFTRA contract on feature film and primetime TV expires June 30; studio worries about an actors strike have resulted in execs refusing to schedule production start dates on films that can't be completed by that date.
The SAG duo -- who met informally last week with Disney topper Robert Iger -- also said they plan to continue informal get-togethers with the moguls to lay the groundwork for the formal bargaining, noting that the DGA and WGA had taken a similar path earlier this year.
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SAG was so closely aligned with the Writers Guild during the recent strike that many assumed the WGA deal would preclude an actors strike. Rosenberg and Allen have said repeatedly that SAG must maintain a strike threat in order to get the best possible deal, asserting that without that leverage, collective bargaining becomes "collective begging."
Just keeping track in case a strike occurs, which is all speculation at the moment….
SAG members on SGA cast definitely include Joe Flanigan and Jason Momoa. Since David Hewlett has worked in the States, he’s probably dual SAG/ACTRA. Mitch Pileggi is SAG.
Excerpts: click on links for full stories
http://www.variety.com/article/VR111...goryid=14&cs=1
Mar 3
AFTRA is telling the Screen Actors Guild to stop dragging its feet -- and warning that it's willing to start negotiations as early as this month without SAG.
The move by the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists is the latest indication of the town's increasing frustration over SAG's refusal to schedule formal negotiations with the AMPTP as soon as possible, given the recently completed 100-day Writers Guild strike and the looming June 30 expiration of the SAG-AFTRA film-primetime contract.
http://www.variety.com/article/VR111...ery=doug+allen
SAG aims for April start date
Feb 28
Facing pressure to start contract talks as soon as possible, SAG has announced it won't start formal negotiations with the AMPTP until April at the earliest.
In a message sent to members Thursday, SAG president Alan Rosenberg and national exec director Doug Allen said SAG plans to stress the issues of new media, compensation for middle-class actors and forced endorsement on product integration.
In the message, Rosenberg and Allen repeated their previous insistence that the guild needs to complete its process of holding "wages and working conditions" meetings to hammer out the details of its proposal and said that process would conclude March 31. They also retiterated that they need to complete discussions with AFTRA over the SAG-AFTRA joint bargaining arrangement before setting a date for talks.
…..
The SAG-AFTRA contract on feature film and primetime TV expires June 30; studio worries about an actors strike have resulted in execs refusing to schedule production start dates on films that can't be completed by that date.
The SAG duo -- who met informally last week with Disney topper Robert Iger -- also said they plan to continue informal get-togethers with the moguls to lay the groundwork for the formal bargaining, noting that the DGA and WGA had taken a similar path earlier this year.
…..
SAG was so closely aligned with the Writers Guild during the recent strike that many assumed the WGA deal would preclude an actors strike. Rosenberg and Allen have said repeatedly that SAG must maintain a strike threat in order to get the best possible deal, asserting that without that leverage, collective bargaining becomes "collective begging."
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