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Union deal puts pressue on SAG

Whatever happened to talk of a Hollywood Actors' Strike? Now the AMPTP has stitched up another key union agreement.

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It’s been easy to forget that the possibility of a Hollywood Actor’s Strike is still unresolved. But the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers has inked another deal with a union, this time with casting directors and casting associates.

“The casting director agreement is the fifth labor pact negotiated by the producers so far this year and, along with four major guild agreements with AFTRA, WGA and DGA, the latest indication that our industry is now back to work,” the AMPTP said.

Since the AMPTP’s final offer to the Screen Actors’ Guild on June 30th no official negotiating sessions have taken place. However, SAG said its leaders are continuing to have private meetings with AMPTP members and studio executives in an effort to find some common ground in the current labor deadlock.

The AMPTP denies such talks have ever taken place.

Source: Hollywood Reporter

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  1. They’d better not strike. We only just recovered from the last one. I wouldn’t mind having a FULL season of Heroes, 24, etc without the storylines getting skewed due to unbelievably long hiatuses.

  3. I never forgot about the Writer’s strike. Aussies are still suffering from it because of the late season’s we’re getting here. The finale of NCIS is only going to be shown this week! And I thought channel 10 were going to go straight onto the next season after it finished?

    I wish these cheap skates would just pay them the money they’re demanding. They saw the damage the Writer’s Strike caused. We can’t go through that again.

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