AFTRA said Wednesday that it will start negotiations with the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers on April 28. On Saturday, AFTRA said that it was severing its joint bargaining arrangement with SAG, which Tuesday said it will begin contract talks with the AMPTP on April 15.

SAG, which Tuesday said it will begin contract talks with the AMPTP on April 15.

Since the split, SAG and AFTRA reps have been talking with the AMPTP about a timeline to begin separate talks on their similar contracts, which are set to expire June 30. SAG had been working to get into collective bargaining before AFTRA for fear that if AFTRA started negotiations first it would agree to new terms that would be forced upon SAG.

SAG has a list of demands for its talks that include certain concessions the WGA failed to secure after its 100-day strike. Those include boosted DVD residuals and streaming residuals from the first day a TV show hits the Internet, sidestepping the 17-day "free window" the WGA was forced to accept in its recently secured AMPTP contract.

AFTRA president Roberta Reardon said the union "decided to let SAG go first" in the negotiations.

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