Article: Producers set deadline for actors to accept deal

Article: SAG holds out for a rewrite.(Screen Actors Guild)
Daily Variety;  July 14, 2008 ;     700+ words ......growing consensus that the Screen Actors Guild is not going to strike...have to scale back their final offer if the economy worsens. SAG...negotiate further on the majors' final offer--even though the companies...has told SAG explicitly the final offer is a ...

Article: Majors move toward final offer to SAG.(Screen Actors Guild )
Daily Variety;  June 20, 2008 ;     481 words ...With negligible progress at Screen Actors Guild negotiations, the majors...the guild a last, best and final offer. The final offer move--a tactic never used...While the exact timing of the final offer's still in flux, it's almost...

Article: SAG wants to keep talking with majors.(Screen Actors Guild, Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers)
Daily Variety;  July 7, 2008 ;     331 words ...The Screen Actors Guild still wants more negotiations...plug on further bargaining via a final offer to the guild. Our industry does...today's Daily Variety. Support your Screen Actors Guild's national negotiating committee...to make an announcement about the final ...

Article: SAG board digs in for the long haul.(Screen Actors Guild)
Daily Variety;  July 28, 2008 ;     700+ words ......new-media provisions in the majors' final offer are unacceptable. The panel reiterated...and won't revise the month-old final offer. The guild has repeatedly spurned...is a core principle of (the) Screen Actors Guild--That no non-union work...authorized to be done under any ...

Article: SAG goes to the polls.(Screen Actors Guild)
Daily Variety;  September 2, 2008 ;     557 words ......entering its third month, the Screen Actors Guild is pleading with its...or sign on to accept the final offer from the Alliance of Motion...inadequacy of the AMPTP's final offer. The AMPTP released a statement...officially rejected their final offer on July 9 and the ...

Article: INTERNATIONAL: Hollywood producers make final offer to actors on hours.(News)
The Birmingham Post (England);  July 2, 2008 ;     188 words ...Hollywood producers said they made a final offer on actors hours before the current labour contract was to expire, but the Screen Actors Guild responded by saying the offer failed to address some...the old contract after the deadline passes. In short, our final offer to SAG represents a ...

Article: SAG to send offer to guild.(Screen Actors Guild)
Daily Variety;  July 15, 2008 ;     379 words ......majors' request to send out their final offer to the 120,000 guild members at the...voting thesps endorse the deal. The Screen Actors Guild and the Alliance of Motion Picture...terms contained in the two-week-old final offer. It's becoming increasingly apparent...request to do so. ...

Article: Screen Actors Guild contract rejection hinges on Internet
Charleston Gazette;  July 19, 2008 ;     435 words ...LOS ANGELES - The Screen Actors Guild on Thursday gave its most...statement. The producers have said a final offer they made June 30 was worth $250...counterproposals. The producers said if their final offer is not ratified by Aug. 15, any...

Article: SAG meets majors again.(Screen Actors Guild)
Daily Variety;  November 17, 2008 ;     361 words ......disclosure about the process since the Screen Actors Guild requested mediation on Oct. 19...negotiating and will not revise its final offer, issued on June 30 as SAG's contract...they're only willing to tweak parts of the final offer--which contains terms similar to those...

Article: SAG, studios keep up defiant stance.(Screen Actors Guild)
Daily Variety;  July 21, 2008 ;     546 words ......three-week stalemate between the Screen Actors Guild and the majors, both...they're not revising their final offer, which was put on the table...Rosenberg both bashed the final offer and rival union AFTRA, which...members fail to ratify the final offer by Aug. 15. It ...

Article: Guild spat splits stars.(Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists)
Daily Variety;  July 2, 2008 ;     553 words ......emerges as the key date for the Screen Actors Guild when the results of...spot thanks to the AMPTP's final offer, announced Monday a few hours...contract expired. If the AMPTP's final offer is not acceptable to the...but to present the AMPTP's final offer to the ...

Article: Guild's getting tough: SAG cracks down on nonunion work.(Screen Actors Guild)
Daily Variety;  November 10, 2008 ;     441 words ......working for nonunion producers. The Screen Actors Guild recently notified its 120,000...the same day the majors made their final offer--and members currently work under the...AMPTP'S insisted it won't change the final offer to SAG and stressed that its terms are...

Article: SAG, majors set a date.(Screen Actors Guild and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers)
Daily Variety;  February 11, 2009 ;     490 words ...The Screen Actors Guild and the congloms...the companies making a final offer. The mow to fire Allen...believes that the June 30 final offer from the AMPTP is unacceptable...of objections to the final offer, including the lack of...

Article: SAG is silent on star power.(Screen Actors Guild)
Daily Variety;  March 16, 2009 ;     423 words ......long-stalled film-TV negotiations. The Screen Actors Guild has yet to officially acknowledge...on June 30, when the AMPTP made its final offer to SAG. The two sides nearly reached...other parts of the congloms' last, best, final offer on Feb. 19. Separately, SAG and AFTRA...