The major film studios and TV networks are planning to make the Screen Actors Guild
"a last, best and final offer" as early as next week, Daily Variety reported
today (Friday), citing no sources. If the guild refuses to accept it or does not
back off from demands for higher DVD and Internet residuals than those agreed to by
the DGA, WGA and AFTRA, production will halt at the end of June, the expiration of
the current agreement, the trade publication said. Such a situation would inevitably
result in delaying the start of the fall TV season, industry observers noted, a situation
that has not occurred since the writers' strike of 1988.
20/06/2008
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