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Article: SAG enters combat zone: more sniping over AFTRA deal.(Screen Actors Guild and )
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- Daily Variety
- Article date:
- June 10, 2008
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The SAG-AFTRA hatefest has shifted into high gear with fighting on multiple fronts over the upcoming membership vote on AFTRA's primetime deal.
The battles between the two unions came into sharp focus Monday as the guild hosted a boisterous anti-AFTRA rally at its Hollywood headquarters--an event with echoes of the 100-day writers strike, as dozens of Writers Guild members donned their familiar red-and-black shirts and hoisted picket signs. De fenders of AFTRA blasted SAG's effort as misguided and full of lies.
The Screen Actors Guild is aiming to persuade the 44,000 thesps belonging to both unions to vote against ratification of the pact AFTRA reached ...