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AFTRA-SAG DISPUTE ESCALATES
Tuesday, January 15 2008
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Wrangling between union activists and union moderates took a new turn Monday when the Screen Actors Guild board agreed to have its members vote on whether to negotiate a separate agreement with the studios and networks rather than do so jointly with the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. The current SAG leadership has recently engaged in jurisdictional disputes with AFTRA over productions for cable TV, and on Monday SAG President Alan Rosenberg accused AFTRA of being unwilling to demand that producers correct "shortcomings" in the current labor contract. AFTRA responded with a statement of its own denouncing "SAG's repeated attempts to undermine AFTRA and create a schism between our unions." It said that SAG was becoming dominated by a "radical Hollywood faction" that seeks to overturn "a joint bargaining agreement that has been working to our members' mutual benefit for 27 years." Meanwhile talks between the Directors Guild of America and the AMPTP were set to continue into a fourth day today (Tuesday), with expectations high that the two sides would quickly agree on a new contract.
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LATE NIGHT GOES LIVE
Wednesday, January 2 2008
The
late-night
talk
shows
are
due
to
resume
live
competition
tonight
(Wednesday),
with
David
Letterman
expected
to
take
over
as
the
ratings
leader.
Letterman's
company,
Worldwide
Pants,
negotiated
a
separate
deal
with
the
Writers
Guild
of
America
last
week,
which
will
allow
him
to
return
to
the
air
with
a
full
complement
of
writers.
Leno
will
return
sans
writers,
since
his
program
is
produced
by
NBC,
a
struck
company.
Letterman
will
also
have
the
additional
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WGA TO ALLOW WRITER FOR SAG AWARDS SHOW
Wednesday, December 12 2007
The
Screen
Actors
Guild
has
received
a
waiver
from
the
Writers
Guild
of
America
allowing
it
to
use
a
writer
for
its
annual
awards
show
on
January
27.
However,
the
WGA
said
it
has
not
made
a
decision
on
whether
to
grant
similar
waivers
in
the
case
of
the
Golden
Globes
and
the
Academy
Awards
telecasts.
"For
the
time
being,
it's
too
preliminary
to
forecast,"
a
WGA
West
spokesman
told
the
Hollywood
Reporter
on
Tuesday.
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