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Article: AFTRA has SAG at arm's length.(American Federation of Television & Radio Artists and Screen Actors Guild )
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- Daily Variety
- Article date:
- May 8, 2008
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In a move underlining the deep divisions between the two performers unions, AFTRA is not letting the Screen Actors Guild get back into the negotiating room with the majors--at least for a few weeks.
The American Federation of Television & Radio Artists spurned a SAG bid Wednesday to postpone its primetime negotiations with the majors so the guild could continue its talks, which ended as scheduled late Tuesday over SAG's objections.
"I think it's insanity that we're notable to finish our negotiations and that the unions are being pitted against each other," SAG national exec director Doug Allen told Daily Variety. "We ought to be able to figure out a way ...