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SAG/AFTRA suspend joint bargaining agreements
March 31, 2008
The feud between SAG and AFTRA is nothing new. But the critical decision Saturday by AFTRA's national board to suspend its joint bargaining agreement with SAG, known as Phase One, has heightened the bad blood between the actors unions to Hatfield and McCoy lev
AFTRA's go-it-alone approach with the TV-theatrical contract, which covers 44,000 members of both unions, now raises the question of which union will sit down first for formal talks with the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers.
"You have two competing unions now, and who's going to go first is important," one SAG member said.
The union that does not negotiate a new contract first with the AMPTP could find itself facing a bigger battle, depending on whether its proposals are greatly different than what was agreed upon by the other union. AFTRA has been pushing for early talks all along, so it would come as no surprise if they were first to the table.
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