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LOS ANGELES and NEW YORK (Sept. 12, 2010) – The Joint National Board of Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA, AFL-CIO) today met by videoconference plenary in Los Angeles and New York and approved a package of proposals for the upcoming Joint AFTRA Exhibit A and SAG TV/Theatrical Negotiations.
SAG President Ken Howard and AFTRA National President Roberta Reardon will co-chair the negotiations. AFTRA National Executive Director Kim Roberts Hedgpeth and SAG National Executive Director David White will serve as the unions’ co-lead negotiators.
Joint negotiations with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) are scheduled to commence on Sept. 27 at the AMPTP headquarters in Sherman Oaks, Calif.
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That’s just great. Not one of these four people have actually negotiated a union contract before. This is a slam-dunk for the AMPTP.
David White in my opinion is a scumbag sellout studio plant.
Just get it done, we need the industry to finally return to normal and enough of these damn unions holding the industry hostage. GET IT DONE ALREADY, so we can all return to normalcy that has been stolen from us in the business the last 3 years….
R.T., the unions have not been “holding the industry hostage”, as was proven when SAG did sign the deal last year – nothing changed afterward. Both SAG and WGA before us were blamed for the slowdown in the industry. But on both occasions, once the dust had settled nothing changed. There was no stockpile of work holding out for the unions to sign a contract. The slowdown is primarily from runaway production for tax incentives in other states, and CA politics not doing much to fight back.
Okay, enough, we’re putting that down right now. You saying nothing changed? There was no industry left when the deal was signed, the industry has had to slowly build itself back these last months because of the union strikes. The “runaway production,” started BECAUSE of the union strikes. The unions don’t get off on this, they caused the problems… they don’t get to dodge responsibility. They affected everyone who wasn’t in the unions, where was that “pile of work,” for the rest of us when the unions signed finally signed their deal?? IT WASN’T THERE… No more dodging responsibility.
No, “we’re” not putting anything down. I said that nothing changed after the union contracts were signed. I’m not sure what you’re bitching about more – what the industry was like, say seven years ago because of runaway production to Canada (are you blaming the union(s) for that too?), or are you blaming the unions for runaway production for the past few years? Neither is accurate.
There was no production increase after either/any union deal was signed, proving that overall production decrease wasn’t about any strike or threat of strike by the union(s). People just went back to work on the same smaller amount of work that was there before the union problems.
If you’re claiming (or blaming) that the unions drove production out of SoCal, think again. The industry was already hurting – primarily from runaway production to Canada – long before all of the union problems. There has been only one recent strike – the WGA strike – and it didn’t affect much, unfortunately for the writers. (What they won from striking still hasn’t been paid yet, AFAIK.) Didn’t harm (or change) feature film production at all, in fact, because of so many projects already in the pipeline. TV slowly came to a halt because of running out of scripts, but it also revved right back up after the strike. That slowdown sucked for the industry, yes, but it had to be done. People have to stand their ground and fight to not get ripped off by their employers. If you’re personally not paid somehow by the AMPTP, then you don’t understand about getting ripped off.
Remember, record box office again this year (and pretty much every year previously)? The AMPTP has been crying poor forever. They have been rolling back contract agreements, while pocketing record profits. It’s all about greed.
Producers are taking production out of SoCal because of tax incentives from other places, pure and simple. They can afford to shoot in LA, but if someone’s offering a kickback to shoot in their neighborhood, why wouldn’t they do it? It’s a business decision to fatten the bottom line. Producers aren’t loyal to anyone or anything – they’re in it for the business and profit. Producers are still using union crew in these other locations around the country (they’d be foolish not to), they’re just getting paid off to go there.
you are an idiot. We need to strike as our contracts sucks. AFTRA should be kept separate as they will bankrupt SAG pension and health.
Not entirely true, David white finished The last negotiations round. Not that it was very successful, i’m waiting on AFTRA to bail or sell SAG out per their usual, though.
You are technically correct. Further, both Roberta and Kim have “negotiated” with the AMPTP as well. (Note the quotation marks.) None of these three people negotiated in the true sense of the word. They did not negotiate in the best interests of their respective membership. It was all “sit down, shut up and sign here”. White and his cronies went through the motions of acting tough, but they were toothless and the AMPTP knew it. It was over before it started.
Years ago I was on the SAG Board in NYC and at that time SAG was foolishly arrogant regarding associating and/or participating with AFTRA. Hopefully both Unions have learned the lesson: that if they allow management to divide them, all will lose. Unless they present a United front and quit bickering, no one will benefit. Neither can afford to take the other for granted nor deal behind the other’s back.
Hope the new contract expands the “Extra’s Zones”. After the Accident in the Midwest, Background Players need more protection from unsafe working conditions.
Runaway production has been a problem for far, far longer than the recent strikes. You don’t even know what the fuck you’re talking about.
Absolutely right. Extras getting critical injuries on set needs to become an extremely rare occurance. On the business side of this,: SAFETY=GOOD BUSINESS.