The Latest on the SAG/AFTRA AMPTP Negotiations
Will there be an actor's strike? Maybe, if AFTRA and SAG can't just get along:
Picture this: AFTRA’s president, negotiating committee and various staff scurrying through the lobby at 5757 Wilshire with suitcases in hand Wednesday in a mad dash to depart the building and avoid briefing SAG's leadership or even its negotiating committee on their new deal with the AMPTP. It happened -- and I'm told it was funny in a lame-ass kind of way. Tragicomedy, because the losers were the 40,000 dual cardholding actors – a majority of them here in Los Angeles – who "got ditched like a bad prom date" by the AFTRA negotiating committee that purports to represent them.--Nikki Finke’s Deadline Hollywood Daily » AFTRA Skedaddled To Avoid Briefing SAG
posted by J. Ott @ 5/29/2008 07:26:00 AM
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I am very disenchanted by the aftra "business model". They allow anyone to join the union in order to try and get the count of members up high enough where they have negotiating leverage. The leverage is actually working AGAINST ITS MEMBERS!! People join AFTRA because they are told you MUST JOIN after 30 something days of working an AFTRA day on set. Anyone who knows business would agree that AFTRA members that also belong to SAG should DROP AFTRA and walk away from it. DEPLETE THEIR NUMBERS - THEY WILL WEAKEN AND NOT BE ABLE TO SIGN A CRAPPY $$ DEAL WITH THE STUDIOS
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