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Article: SAG board digs in for the long haul.(Screen Actors Guild)
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- Daily Variety
- Article date:
- July 28, 2008
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The monthlong contract stalemate between SAG and the majors shows no signs of a breakthrough anytime soon.
Instead, both sides have settled in for continued sniping--probably for the rest of the summer--as SAG's national board voted unanimously Saturday to back its negotiating committee's stance that the new-media provisions in the majors' final offer are unacceptable.
The panel reiterated SAG's contentions that it can't endorse a deal that allows non-union work in low-budget productions and doesn't guarantee residuals for new-media programming replayed on digital platforms. As expected, SAG leaders didn't discuss taking a strike authorization vote, a ...