De facto impasse?

July 13, 2008 Talks between Hollywood actors and the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers have become so fractured that it appears they are in the state of a de facto impasse, with SAG saying they're still bargaining and the studios saying talks have ended. Still, no official declaration of an impasse has been made by the AMPTP, though its executive vp business and legal affairs, Carol Lombardini, appeared to lay the groundwork for such an action at Thursday's meeting between the studios and SAG. SAG, however, has pointed out that several "final offers" by the AMPTP have been made in past negotiations with other guilds and unions, most recently during the WGA negotiations, a charge the AMPTP denies.

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