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LOS ANGELES - Screen Actors Guild leadership backed their negotiating committee’s rejection of a contract offer by studio officials with an unanimous vote Saturday that presented a united front after years of publicised internal dissent.
Board members aforementioned in their resolution, passed 68-0, that union jurisdiction over Internet and other new-media productions and residuals for made-for-new media programs were a “core principle” of the guild.
“This sends a very strong message to the members and the industry that these two issues are essential and must be addressed in whatever agreement with management,” SAG national executive director and chief treater Doug Allen told the Associated Press.
The studios, delineated by the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, made what they have called their last offer on June 30, when the three-year SAG contract expired.
In a financial statement issued after the club vote, the AMPTP said the accord rejected by guild negotiators would consume offered young media compensation and rights not represent in the actors’ last contract.
“The continued refusal of SAG’s negotiators to accept AMPTP’s final offer means that actors will bear on to work indefinitely below the expired contract - an one-time contract that contains none of the $250 1000000 in additional compensation provided by AMPTP’s final put up, and an old reduce that provides none of the new media rights and residuals that other Hollywood Guild members have now been enjoying for months,” the AMPTP said.
SAG has disputed AMPTP’s compensation figure and said the deal falls short in pay and union jurisdiction on made-for-Internet productions.
The offer mirrors those previously recognized by writers, directors and by the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, the smaller actors union. SAG had urged AFTRA members to eliminate the deal.
Saturday’s unanimous vote portrayed the union leading as firm and merged on brotherhood jurisdiction and residual pay days after 31 actors dissatisfied with the stalled contract dialogue said they had joined to campaign for seating on SAG’s board of directors.
The actors, who let in Kate Walsh and Amy Brenneman of TV’s “Private Practice,” are running under the mention Unite for Strength.
The group is challenging the leading of MembershipFirst, the group that supported guild chief Executive Alan Rosenberg’s successful election campaign trinity years agone, when he ran on a platform promising tougher negotiations with Hollywood’s studios.
MembershipFirst released its slate of 33 possible candidates Friday, which include Scott Bakula, Keith Carradine, Charles Shaughnessy and Joely Fisher. Twenty-two incumbents to the board listed on the slate include Justine Bateman, Nancy Sinatra, JoBeth Williams and Joe Bologna.
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