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Hollywood actors, producers talks end without deal
AFP - Saturday, February 21
LOS ANGELES (AFP) - - Fresh talks between Hollywood's feuding producers and actors unions have ended without agreement, dashing hopes of a breakthrough in their long-running contract wrangle.
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The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) issued a statement late Thursday saying it had a "last, best and final" offer to the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) after two-day negotiations spilled into a third day.
"The terms in the offer are the best we can or will offer in light of the five other major industry labor deals negotiated over the past year and the extraordinary economic crisis gripping the world economy," the AMPTP said.
It was the latest twist in a saga that has been rumbling since mid-2008, when the two sides failed to agree on a new contract to replace a previous agreement that expired on June 30.
Fresh attempts to broker a deal foundered in November. SAG is seeking bigger royalties from sales and showings of work screened on the Internet.
The possibility of a potentially devastating actors walkout was raised in December, when hardline union leaders announced that a ballot of members would be held to seek authorization for a strike.
However that announcement was met with anger by moderate factions within SAG, which successfully forced out lead negotiator Doug Allen.
Allen's departure -- and the subsequent decision to return to the bargaining table -- had convinced many that an end to the stand-off was in sight.
In Thursday's statement, the AMPTP said their latest offer would be left on the table for 60 days for SAG to consider, insisting it contained enhancements to previous offers and "significant gains in wages, benefits, new media residuals and jurisdiction."
SAG was not immediately available for comment.
But entertainment industry blogs said the AMPTP's take-it-or-leave-it stance had wrong-footed SAG's negotiators and left the union in disarray.
Nikki Finke, who pens the widely read deadlinehollywooddaily.com blog, accused SAG's new leaders of "lacking the balls to battle."
"The AMPTP was able to deliver its ultimatum and stalk off victorious," Finke wrote, suggesting the actors union had been naive to present themselves as a "moderate" faction.
"Going into a real negotiation with employers, experienced union leaders know that claiming from the outset to be 'moderate' is a strategic error that gets members less than zero," she commented.
Jonathan Handel, an entertainment industry lawyer who writes a column for The Huffington Post online newspaper, said Thursday's development reflected the divisions within the actors union.
"SAG probably has insufficient internal support for a strike, the offer is a bitter pill, and the Guild is in disarray, riven by internal political disputes," Handel commented.
Studio hardliners, he said, "are counting on SAG to be weak."
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