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Article: SAG meets majors again.(Screen Actors Guild)
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- Daily Variety
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- November 17, 2008
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Following a month of shuttle diplomacy by a federal mediator, SAG and the majors will meet Thursday for the first time in four months about their contract stalemate.
The two sides agreed Friday to the confab, set up by mediator Juan Carlos Gonzalez and which will be held at the Sherman Oaks HQ of the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers.
Neither side issued any official comment. Both sides have made minimal disclosure about the process since the Screen Actors Guild requested mediation on Oct. 19. Gonzalez has met twice with both sides in an effort to resume talks.
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Thursday's meeting may not lead to ...