SAG sticks to script
FROM VARIETY: War of words continues between guild, AMPTP
By Dave McNary of Variety -- Video Business, 7/29/2008
JULY 29 | FROM VARIETY: Even without any negotiations scheduled, SAG is keeping up the heat on the majors over its dissatisfaction with the final offer on the feature-primetime deal — and the congloms keep hitting back.With the contract stalemate a month old and no settlement in sight, SAG president Alan Rosenberg continued to complain Monday in a message to members about the deal’s multiplicity of shortcomings.
Though Rosenberg’s message left out any mention of the guild’s proposal for a DVD residuals hike, SAG sources and the AMPTP said the issue remains on the table. The DGA, WGA and AFTRA deals — which mirror the AMPTP’s final offer to SAG — did not achieve any progress in that area.
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