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	PRODUCERS SWITCHING FROM SAG TO AFTRA Nov 26 2008
	With a strike by the Screen Actors Guild appearing more likely following the breakdown in (more)
	STRIKE OPPOSITION GROWS Nov 25 2008
	Even while the Screen Actors Guild was engaged in talks with the Alliance of Motion (more)

UNION/STUDIOS BUTT HEADS
Monday, December 1 2008

The Screen Actors Guild and Hollywood studio heads each accused the other of greed over the Thanksgiving holiday. SAG President Alan Rosenberg led off the latest barrage by responding to criticism that during the current economic turmoil it was a bad time to be talking of a strike. "Like it's our fault," he said. "We are the victims of corporate greed. We didn't cause this turmoil." The heads of the six major studios and the heads of CBS and NBC responded in an open letter published as an advertisement in the Los Angeles Times: "SAG is demanding that the entire industry literally throw out all of its hard work because it believes it deserves more than the 230,000 other working people in the business," they said. "To comply with SAG's demands would mean SAG merits more than everyone else. Saying yes would jeopardize the trust we have so carefully established with the rest of the industry."

NAMES ON NO STRIKE PETITION SOAR
Friday, November 28 2008
Wednesday's announcement by the leaders of the Screen Actors Guild that they will conduct a strike authorization vote next month -- raising the possibility of a strike as early as January -- has had the unintended effect of swelling the signature count on the "No SAG Strike" petition being circulated online. Six days after the petition was posted at http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?DealNow, it contained 14,790 signatures as of 10:00 this morning. (It could not be determined how (more)

HOW MUCH IS NEW MEDIA WORTH?
Wednesday, November 26 2008
Legendary producer David L. Wolper (Roots, The Thorn Birds) has disclosed that prior to its negotiations with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, the Directors Guild of America spent $1 million on a research report "to develop forecasts and analyze future models regarding new media use." He implies that the Screen Actors Guild's leaders have done no such research and are not prepared to inform its members how much they are likely to (more)