Post by icy on Mar 22, 2006 13:11:26 GMT -5
I can just see a high level executive being told the news for the first time at a luncheon...his mouth opens and a juicy glob of steak falls out. "I didn't KNOW!" BULLSHIT! You assholes are the first ones to know this financial shit. Now get on your game; pay the f*cking people what they are worth and move on...
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Source: www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060321-072244-3878r
Studios shocked by SAG hard line - (WHAT A SHOCKER, "EH" C.C.? - ;D Icy)
LOS ANGELES, March 21 (UPI) -- A chief Hollywood negotiator said he was stunned by the Screen Actors Guild's decision to seek a strike authorization during talks over basic cable shows.
SAG announced during the weekend it would bolster its position with producers by seeking the strike vote from its membership.
"We're stunned by this," J. Nicholas Coutner, the industry's top labor executive, told Tuesday's Los Angeles Times.
Counter, president of the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, claimed the guild misrepresented the terms of an offer on the table to its membership in seeking the strike authorization.
For programs on basic cable like "The Shield" and "Nip/Tuck," actors are paid 12 percent of the minimum pay for the first rerun then down to 1 percent for the 13th and later reruns, the Times said.
Producers have offered to pay 17 percent for the first rerun down to 1.5 percent, the same formula used by the Directors Guild of America and the Writers Guild of America.
SAG maintains the dramatic growth in the cable industry is not reflected in the offer, the newspaper said. The contract with basic cable producers does not expire until 2008.
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Source: www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060321-072244-3878r
Studios shocked by SAG hard line - (WHAT A SHOCKER, "EH" C.C.? - ;D Icy)
LOS ANGELES, March 21 (UPI) -- A chief Hollywood negotiator said he was stunned by the Screen Actors Guild's decision to seek a strike authorization during talks over basic cable shows.
SAG announced during the weekend it would bolster its position with producers by seeking the strike vote from its membership.
"We're stunned by this," J. Nicholas Coutner, the industry's top labor executive, told Tuesday's Los Angeles Times.
Counter, president of the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, claimed the guild misrepresented the terms of an offer on the table to its membership in seeking the strike authorization.
For programs on basic cable like "The Shield" and "Nip/Tuck," actors are paid 12 percent of the minimum pay for the first rerun then down to 1 percent for the 13th and later reruns, the Times said.
Producers have offered to pay 17 percent for the first rerun down to 1.5 percent, the same formula used by the Directors Guild of America and the Writers Guild of America.
SAG maintains the dramatic growth in the cable industry is not reflected in the offer, the newspaper said. The contract with basic cable producers does not expire until 2008.