Acting Unions Agree to Keep Talking

Leaders of the Screen Actors Guild have agreed to resume their negotiating partnership with the American Federation of Television & Radio Artists for upcoming bargaining with companies on the feature-primetime contract. SAG’s national board gave approval Saturday morning with 78% in favor during a videoconference meeting. The move came two weeks after AFTRA’s national board approved joint negotiations — and nearly two years after AFTRA had split from SAG and negotiated its own primetime deal. SAG has seven weeks of negotiations with the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers starting on Oct. 1 and is the only Hollywood union with a negotiations date already set. Both the SAG and AFTRA deals expire on June 30, 2011.

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