Committee aligns for SAG, WGA

April 27, 2007 In another sign of strengthened relations between the guilds, SAG for the first time has created a committee to liaison with the WGA before and during writers' contract talks with the studios. [...] even as the cozier relationship between those guilds suggests heightened labor solidarity for the impending contract season, it's worth noting that AFTRA wasn't consulted on the new SAG advisory committee, according to well-placed sources. [...] the DGA has tended to keep its distance from the other talent guilds, whereas sources suggest AFTRA was excluded from the session in line with SAG executive director Doug Allen's campaign to minimize AFTRA representation in SAG's upcoming negotiations with the AMPTP.

Subscribe to the Hollywood Reporter and see the entertainment industry from its best angle: the inside looking out. Complete access to real-time news and exclusive analysis that goes behind the scenes from film to television, home video to digital media.

   Subscribe now.