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TO CROSS OR NOT TO CROSS?
Nov 9 2007 
As several stars of network TV shows indicated that they may refuse to cross picket (more)

SAG WON'T WALK OUT WITH WRITERS
Oct 24 2007 
The Screen Actors Guild notified members Tuesday that if the Writers Guild of America calls (more)

SAG BOARD OVERWHELMINGLY REJECTS DEAL WITH PRODUCERS
Jan 25 2005 
The Screen Actors Guild's Hollywood board has voted 36-3 to reject the deal that the (more)

AFTRA-SAG DISPUTE ESCALATES
Tuesday, January 15 2008    Digg!
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.


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 (more)

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. (more)

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