Post by icy on Mar 17, 2006 0:54:46 GMT -5
This MAY or MAY NOT be another factor legit factor for the 1/2 season. Our favorite actors are getting the shaft by corporate FAT CATS on their contracts. Typical assholes. Not only do the actors and actresses suffer. It is the people that do hair, make-up, wardrobe, camera techs, lighting... you name it.
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Source: news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060316/tv_nm/television_actors_dc_1
Hollywood actors seek strike OK in cable rift
By Jesse Hiestand
Thu Mar 16, 3:19 AM ET
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The Screen
Actors Guild said Wednesday it will seek strike
authorization from its members for the basic cable,
live-action contract that expired last month without a
new deal.
The strike authorization, which gives negotiators
added leverage with the networks but does not commit
the union to a work stoppage, will be sought in
meetings over the next 10 days in San Francisco,
Miami, Chicago, New York and Hollywood. Strike
authorization is necessary for the national board or
its designated body to call a strike.
"Your participation is vital to the future of this
contract," read an announcement of the meetings
Wednesday on SAG's Web site. "The guild has been
negotiating with producers for several months, yet the
producers' last offer does not reflect the
extraordinary growth of the cable industry."
Those urged to participate include paid-up members who
work under the contract on such shows as "The Closer"
on TNT and "The Shield" on FX.
A strike authorization requires the support of at
least 75% of those who voted.
SAG went into the talks with a single overriding goal:
to improve the residual formula on a contract that
last was negotiated 16 years ago. The cable industry
has grown by nearly 500% in that time period, while
actors' minimum rates have increased 35%, according to
the union.
SAG officials have complained that the contract
continues to pay residuals at a rate of 12% of their
minimum rate for the first rerun, followed by an
ever-descending rate that bottoms out at 1% for the
13th and all subsequent runs. For some day performers,
this means as little as $7.16 per rerun.
Negotiations started in January on both the basic
cable agreement and a cable animation contract that
also is unresolved, though it is not the subject of
the strike authorization vote. Both contracts expired
February 28.
No new dates have been set to resume the basic cable
negotiations between SAG and at least six of the major
cable networks.
Reuters/Hollywood Reporter
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Source: news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060316/tv_nm/television_actors_dc_1
Hollywood actors seek strike OK in cable rift
By Jesse Hiestand
Thu Mar 16, 3:19 AM ET
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The Screen
Actors Guild said Wednesday it will seek strike
authorization from its members for the basic cable,
live-action contract that expired last month without a
new deal.
The strike authorization, which gives negotiators
added leverage with the networks but does not commit
the union to a work stoppage, will be sought in
meetings over the next 10 days in San Francisco,
Miami, Chicago, New York and Hollywood. Strike
authorization is necessary for the national board or
its designated body to call a strike.
"Your participation is vital to the future of this
contract," read an announcement of the meetings
Wednesday on SAG's Web site. "The guild has been
negotiating with producers for several months, yet the
producers' last offer does not reflect the
extraordinary growth of the cable industry."
Those urged to participate include paid-up members who
work under the contract on such shows as "The Closer"
on TNT and "The Shield" on FX.
A strike authorization requires the support of at
least 75% of those who voted.
SAG went into the talks with a single overriding goal:
to improve the residual formula on a contract that
last was negotiated 16 years ago. The cable industry
has grown by nearly 500% in that time period, while
actors' minimum rates have increased 35%, according to
the union.
SAG officials have complained that the contract
continues to pay residuals at a rate of 12% of their
minimum rate for the first rerun, followed by an
ever-descending rate that bottoms out at 1% for the
13th and all subsequent runs. For some day performers,
this means as little as $7.16 per rerun.
Negotiations started in January on both the basic
cable agreement and a cable animation contract that
also is unresolved, though it is not the subject of
the strike authorization vote. Both contracts expired
February 28.
No new dates have been set to resume the basic cable
negotiations between SAG and at least six of the major
cable networks.
Reuters/Hollywood Reporter