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Article: SAG reconciles with AFTRA.
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- Daily Variety
- Article date:
- February 11, 2008
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SAG has called off its divorce with the American Federation of Television & Radio Artists, asserting it's returning to the usual joint bargaining at upcoming negotiations on a new film-TV contract.
The development, announced Saturday evening, should calm Hollywood fears that the Screen Actors Guild is headed toward a strike when its contract expires June 30. SAG has been the WGA's biggest strike ally, so its determination to continue teaming with AFTRA--which tends to be far less assertive than SAG--will be cheered by the majors.
SAG made the move a week after AFTRA threatened to get in front of the guild via a separate primetime negotiation in early ...