SAG's N.Y. board: Let the talks begin

February 29, 2008 Members of SAG's New York board announced Thursday that they have passed a resolution urging the guild leadership to begin bargaining by March 31, well before the June 30 expiration of the SAG-AFTRA TV/theatrical contract with the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers. The resolution charges that SAG's leadership "is ignoring the proven success of the strategy of early negotiations" and indicated that if its leaders were following recent precedent -- a reference to the early DGA talks, which broke the WGA logjam -- "negotiations on the TV/theatrical contract would now be in process and would be completed by the end of March." Guild leadership, the resolution continues, "is instead wasting valuable time and Guild resources fighting with our bargaining partner and unnecessarily delaying the start of negotiations."

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