Article: SAG holds out for a rewrite.(Screen Actors Guild)

Article: SAG Nixes final offer: stalemate may leave ...
Daily Variety;  July 11, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... meeting on Thursday at AMPTP's Sherman Oaks HQ, the AMPTP called on SAG to put the final offer to a vote of SAG's 120,000 members. SAG's official rejection of the final offer and AMPTP's request for a membership vote sets the stage for a ...

Article: Majors move toward final offer to ...
Daily Variety;  June 20, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... guild a last, best and final offer. The "final offer" move--a tactic ... as next week, unless SAG changes course and backs ... exact timing of the final offer's still in flux ... would present it to SAG before the June 30 expiration ...

Article: SAG rejects 'final offer' from producers
AP Worldstream;  February 22, 2009 ;     573 words ... ... rejected the last, best and final offer by Hollywood producers for a ... was rejected by 73 percent of SAG's board members, spokeswoman ... Greenwalt said in a statement. SAG called the Alliance of Motion ... one expired, which would mean SAG would not be able to join with ...

Article: SAG rattles survey saber.(Screen Actors Guid)
Daily Variety;  September 18, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... respondees backed SAG leaders, who have ... than those in the final offer by the Alliance of ... the AMPTP ridiculed SAG's poll as bogus ... going to revise the final offer that it made in June ... meaningless." Most of the SAG material recaps and ... of the AMPTP's final ...

Article: SAG goes to the polls.(Screen Actors Guild)
Daily Variety;  September 2, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... to accept the final offer from the Alliance ... your guidance," SAG notes on the card ... the companies, SAG officially rejected their final offer on July 9 and ... 250 million final offer." In July ... campaigning by SAG against the pact ...

Article: SAG board digs in for the long haul.(Screen Actors Guild)
Daily Variety;  July 28, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... provisions in the majors' final offer are unacceptable. The panel reiterated SAG's contentions that ... it's done with SAG negotiations and ... revise the month-old final offer. The guild has repeatedly ... continued refusal of SAG's negotiators to accept AMPTP's final ...

Article: SAG sticks to script.(Screen Actors Guild)
Daily Variety;  July 29, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... negotiations scheduled, SAG's keeping up the heat ... dissatisfaction with the final offer on the feature-primetime ... mirror the AMPTP's final offer to SAG--did not achieve any ... area. "The producers' final offer would immediately give ...