SAG negotiations, will they ever stop?

Well, they’ll probably stop when the strike starts, but the Screen Actors Guild and the studios just agreed to resume their labor talks in two weeks, May 28. In last news the SAG negotiations were broken off, because after delaying talks with the AFTRA (Radio and TV) two times, the studios didn’t agree to do it a third time.

The SAG and the studios talked for about three weeks when the negotiations abruptly ended to make way for the AFTRA. The biggest dispute is still the SAG’s demand for bigger residuals from DVD sales, which they already lowered from +100% to +15%. And rules about the distibution of clips on the internet. Starting again May 28, it will give them a little over four weeks before a possible strike after June 30, when the current contracts end.