SAG punts on strike issue

October 19, 2008 SAG's national board played hot potato with the strike authorization question Sunday, effectively assuring Hollywood's labor pains won't go away anytime soon. Close to three weeks after the guild's bargaining committee sent the issue to the national board, that body Sunday deferred a decision and put the question back in the hands of its negotiators. On Sunday, SAG's board instead voted to officially request that a federal mediator be called in to help break the stalemate between the actors union and the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers on their TV/theatrical contract talks.

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