Screen Actors Guild President Alan Rosenberg has expressed frustration over dissension
within his union over bargaining strategy with the Alliance of Motion Picture and
Television Producers. In an interview with Broadcasting & Cable, Rosenberg said
that he wished the members of his union stood behind their negotiators the way the
members of the Writers Guild of America did theirs. The WGA, he said, "didn't get
the kind of resistance from their members that we get from ours." The dissension,
he indicated, is the reason that the union leadership has not called for a strike
authorization vote -- despite the fact that the current contract with the AMPTP expires
in two weeks. Asked when he might decided to ask SAG members to authorize a strike,
Rosenberg replied, "I really don't know. ... It depends on our assessment of whether
we can get it or not. I think we'd get it." In fact, the AMPTP noted Friday that
if a contract is not locked in by June 30, the current "de facto strike" will simply
be extended with TV and movie producers delaying production on new films and television
shows until an agreement is reached.
16/06/2008
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