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Actors' Guild Rejects The Producers' Final Offer
 
February 23, 2009 7:57 a.m. EST
 
 
Anne Lu - Celebrity News Service News Writer
 
Los Angeles, CA (CNS) - The Screen Actors Guild has rejected the producers' final offer. SAG's national board of directors voted to reject the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers' offer, raising the possibility of another labor strike.
The producers want the contract to start from when it is signed but the actors want it to date retroactively from June 2008, where their most recent contract expired.
SAG claims the producers made the deal unacceptable by making any new three-year deal not retroactive to June 30 last year. Instead the deal would be effective upon ratification and would last until 2012.
SAG said in a statement, "We entered this round of negotiations sending an unmistakably clear message that we were ready to make a deal. In an effort to put the town back to work, our negotiator agreed to modify the Guild's bargaining position to bring the Guild in line with the deals made by our sister unions."
"The AMPTP's last-minute, surprise demand for a new term of agreement extending to 2012 is regressive and damaging and clearly signals the employers' unwillingness to agree to the deal they established with other entertainment unions."
For their part, AMPTP insists that they offer is "strong and fair" and has been judged that way by all of Hollywood's other major Guilds and Unions.
It said in a statement, "We have kept our offer on the table - and even enhanced it - despite the historically unprecedented economic crisis that has clobbered our nation and our industry."
"We simply cannot offer SAG a better deal than the rest of the industry achieved under far better economic conditions than those now confronting our industry."
No further meetings have been scheduled, leaving the two in an uncertain situation following SAG's rejection.
  
    
      
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