SAG pleas against AFTRA deal

I’ll give a brief update on this story’s history, for the ones who didn’t follow.

The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) started negotiations with the studios about new contracts two months ago. The talks dragged on and on, until the studios were scheduled to talk to the AFTRA (TV and Radio) about renewing their contracts. These talks were delayed a couple of times in favor of the SAG negotiations, but later the SAG had to make way for the AFTRA. At that point, the SAG still didn’t have a deal. Far from it actually, with main disputes about DVD residuals and so on.

But where the SAG saw major problems, the AFTRA saw no problems at all. In a couple of weeks they made a new deal with the studios, putting extra pressure on the SAG. Needless to say, they were not pleased and criticized the union for their lack of effort.

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