Category Archives: AFTRA-SAG Strike 2008

SAG changes leadership, holds on to strike authorization

Despite a 59 percent vote in favor of new leadership for SAG that would rather negotiate with AMPTP instead of strike, SAG has not yet voted to table strike authorization. This is after a campaign that promised to keep actors working. SAG, which has been woefully out of touch with economic realities and how it …

February 9, 2009 – 3:20 AM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in AFTRA-SAG Strike 2008 | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

SAG strike thoughts

One can negotiate a PS3 shooter easier than the negotiations between SAG and the AMPTP, following the expiration of SAG’s contract on July 1 and the successful ratification of rival actor’s union AFTRA’s contract a week later. The current hubbub is that the AMPTP is saying that SAG rejected its “last best final” offer, while …

July 13, 2008 – 10:57 PM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in AFTRA-SAG Strike 2008 | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Details of the AFTRA-AMPTP deal

As mentioned earlier on my HollywoodIdiocy blog, AFTRA, one of two actors unions active in Hollywood, reached a tentative three-year deal with the AMPTP today, the first sign of hope that a second major labor stoppage in Hollywood might be averted. AFTRA, the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, controls only about a dozen …

May 28, 2008 – 9:30 PM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in AFTRA-SAG Strike 2008 | Tagged , , , , | Comments (1)