Producers, actors talk about early April

March 13, 2008 Formal talks between SAG/AFTRA and the AMPTP could begin as early as the first week of April if all goes well at three scheduled meetings between the two actors unions to hammer out wages and working conditions proposals for a feature-primetime contract. On Wednesday, Nick Counter, president of the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, offered to start talks March 31 during a regularly scheduled meeting at SAG's headquarters with the guild's national executive director and chief negotiator Doug Allen and his AFTRA counterpart Kim Roberts Hedgpeth. In discussing the upcoming calendar, Counter proposed the first week of April for formal talks because it immediately follows the March 25 and 26 joint wages and working conditions committee meetings with SAG and AFTRA members and a national board meeting with the actors unions March 29, sources said.

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