ACTORS UNION REJECTS STUDIOS’ OFFER
Bosses at the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) have rejected the "last, best and final offer" from Hollywood’s biggest film studios for a new contract.
The union, which represents approximately 120,000 actors, voted by nearly 75 per cent to turn down the offer over the studios’ demand that the contract begin from when it is signed.
The national governing board of the Screen Actors Guild wants the deal to start from when the last one expired in June last year (08).
SAG said in a statement: "The (studios’) last-minute, surprise demand for a new term of agreement… is regressive and damaging and clearly signals the employers’ unwillingness" to negotiate a deal.
But the studios, represented by the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, maintain they cannot offer SAG a "better deal" than the one accepted by other Hollywood trade unions in 2008.
The rejection adds to the threat of strike action Hollywood has been facing since the last labour deal with SAG ended in June.
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