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Article: Splitsville for SAG, AFTRA?(Screen Actors Guild)(American Federation of Television and Radio Artists)
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- Daily Variety
- Article date:
- January 14, 2008
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SAG and AFTRA's upcoming film-TV contract negotiations with the AMPTP have gotten a lot messier--with a possible divorce between the performers unions in the cards.
Long perturbed over AFTRA's refusal to cut back its 50-50 representation on bargaining committees, leaders of the Screen Actors Guild have approved going to SAG's 120,000 members next month with a referendum that proposes ditching the guild's 27-year-old Phase 1 joint bargaining agreement.
Saturday's national board voting was split along geographic lines, with Hollywood reps, who hold 60% of the seats, endorsing the move over vehement opposition from New York and regional reps.
With ...