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TV, film actors’ unions sever ties

unions representing shoot and telly actors will negotiate severally with producers in upcoming contract talks after cabinet members of the tv actors Bund voted saturday to sever a long-established agreement between the two guilds.

the vote by the room of the american federation of television and portable radio artists came hours in the past a convergence with the cloak actors guild and good three months before the conclusion of the condense covering movies and prime-time shows.

in spite of a sometimes rocky 27-year relationship the unions had shown current signs of peacefulness as they planned for the upcoming talks.

the two groups had hoped at saturday’s meeting to arrive a start date for negotiations. instead of discussing strategies the sides swapped accusations.

“for the nearby year sag leadership in hollywood has tied up in a relentless campaign of disinformation and disparagement,” aftra president roberta reardon said in a written statement.

flagging president alan rosenberg’s written response: “aftra’s disposal now to bargain together with us and their mould-second abandonment of the joint process is calculated, cynical and may serve the interests of their practice, but not its members.”

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the aftra board said the franchise to terminate the agreement, known as “phase one,” was “overwhelming.”

leery of of repeating the damage wrought by the recently ended 100-day hollywood writers strike, producers and several a-list actors including tom hanks, george clooney, meryl streep and robert de niro had been pressing for negotiations to start as early as this week.

the 120,000-member screen actors guild represents actors in movies, tv and other media. the 70,000-member tv and radio federation represents, among others, actors, singers, announcers and journalists.

the alliance of bearing picture and television producers, which represents studios, said in a proclamation that it looks post to bargaining with aftra. it did not mention sag.
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