Sunday, June 29, 2008
Hollywood - Another strike, not again???
美国演员工会将举行大罢工

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- The Screen Actors Guild on Wednesday accused major Hollywood studios of offering the union a contract deal worth less than an agreement already approved by the leaders of a smaller actors union.

SAG made the claim amid demands in Hollywood that it end the possibility of a strike or lockout by accepting the same deal as the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.

"When we came back to the table, what they offered us, then and since, is tens of millions of dollars less than the AFTRA deal itself," SAG executive director Doug Allen told The Associated Press.
"It's obvious that they are trying to get us to bargain up to a deal they already know is unacceptable," he said.

SAG declined to provide details on the differences between the offers.
The contracts of both unions are set to expire Monday. The lack of a deal has left studios reluctant to greenlight major movie productions.
Jesse Hiestand, a spokesman for the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, declined to comment on the bargaining position of the studios.

"We are approaching the conclusion of the process," he said. "The bargaining continues."

SAG represents 120,000 actors in movies, TV and other media. The TV and radio federation represents 70,000 members, including actors, singers, announcers and journalists. SAG and AFTRA share 44,000 dual members.
SAG president Alan Rosenberg also note that SAG must negotiate terms for actors in movies roles who are not covered by AFTRA

Read this news on Hollywood actors contract ending another new strike going to start with A-list actors Tom Cruise etc. Come on why US likes to have strike. Not only US economy now badly affected by the property loans. Recently the Writer's strike cost US hundreds of millions of income loss for the people affected and the entertainment industry.

Now with this not too sure how long it will last. Please, I do hope this time it will not last too long. I still want to go to movies at least once a month to catch some nice movies. Bad news my favourite "Transformer" Part 2 is now on hold because of this coming strike.

TV drama "24" is already on hold for a year because of writer's strike. I do hope the people in-charge in Hollywood who call for the strike can think properly before they call for another long strike and cause us all to miss movies and people who might not get any pay during the strike.


Reference:

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/06/26/hollywoodlabor.ap/index.html

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/06/27/hollywood.labor.clooney.ap/index.html

http://www.xin.sg/article.php?article=20446



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