Maybe, just maybe the end is in sight for the contentious contract negotiations between the Screen Actors Guild and the major studios. SAG and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers have reached a tentative two-year agreement that will go to the SAG national board for a vote Sunday.…

The Screen Actors Guild spent Oscar weekend fine tuning its performance for most confused union in negotiations. SAG, which recently fired its executive director and lead negotiator, turned down the “Last, Best and Final” offer from the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers; the national board voted it down…

Less than a day after its televised awards gala, the Screen Actors Guild board forced Doug Allen to resign as executive director of the group. Allen, who as chief negotiator favored a strike and was planning a vote despite objections, said SAG counsel informed him Monday of his ouster by…

The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) has delayed voting on a potential strike until at least January 14, THR says. The actors’ union had planned to send strike authorization ballots to its members on January 2—though it had already started asking members to approve a strike vote when talks with the…

As expected, studios and producers aren’t backing down in the face of strike threats from the actors’ guild. The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers reiterated that their final offer of June 30 still stands and are urging the Screen Actors Guild to reverse course and throw its support…

After two days of mediated talks failed, the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) is asking members to approve a strike authorization. The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), representing some 350 studios and production companies, and the actors guild met face-to-face this past week for the first time in…

Three-and-a-half months after talks ended following an impasse, the actors union has inched one step closer into uncomfortable territory for the TV and film industry. The Screen Actors Guild’s national board declined to pass judgment on any strike authorization for the time being. Instead it punted the decision back into…

The board of the Screen Actors Guild is backing up its negotiators on the demand to include new media in contracts. The unanimous 68-0 vote late Saturday comes as Reuters notes, after members upset by the current stalemate in talks with the studios banded together to offer a slate of…

So here it is: SAG says it can’t accept studios’ proposed labor contract because it doesn’t ensure union jurisdiction over new media. And that’s where things stand, still, that is. Studios have refused to guarantee pay for repeat showings of programs created for online or to use union actors for…

AFTRA, the smaller of Hollywood’s two performers unions, has ratified its earlier three year deal with the producers..the labor pact with major studios covering 70,000 members won final approval despite an unusual all-out campaign by SAG urging some 40,000 actors who belong to both unions to vote down the AFTRA…

The Screen Actors Guild is holding firm on its major demand of asking for actors consent for clips of their film and TV work to be posted online by the media companies. The clip issue has emerged as a key point in SAG’s negotiations with AMPTP, reports Variety, set to…

The Screen Actors Guild has agreed to extend the ongoing contract talks with the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers until Tuesday next week, after the first three weeks of talks expired today. No specific reason was given, but LAT reports that SAG’s dropped its proposal to double residuals…

As the slow burn negotiations between Screen Actors Guild and the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers continue, the actors union has outlined why it thinks the digital media revenue share part is important. Well, money, for one. Here’s how it describes it, rather simplistically: “Over 9 billion videos…