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Article: Producers rag on SAG.(Screen Actors Guild, Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers )
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- Daily Variety
- Article date:
- March 21, 2006
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Studios have hit back at the Screen Actors Guild over the prospect of a strike.
SAG has managed to perturb the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers by asking members for strike authorization over its basic made-for-cable contract rather than accept a 14% increase.
AMPTP announced Monday that SAG had spurned its offer, which would align residuals compensation with the formulas used by the DGA and the WGA, and hadn't set a date for resuming contract talks. SAG's seeking strike authorization at five caucuses this week for members who work the cable contract, including meetings Monday in Chicago, Miami and San Francisco.
"SAG's ...