Screen Actors Guild talks end without a contract

Hopes for a last-minute breakthrough in negotiations between Hollywood studios and the Screen Actors Guild were dashed Tuesday when contract talks ended on a bitter note, fueling anxiety over the prospect of another strike. After three weeks of talks, studios walked away from the table, saying that negotiations were "thrust into reverse" by what they called "unreasonable demands." SAG accused the studios of turning their backs on the guild to focus on contract talks with the smaller actors union, the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. "It's deeply troubling because we said we wanted to stay in the room and make a deal and our pleas were ignored," SAG President Alan Rosenberg said.
http://www.latimes.com/business/printedition/la-fi-sag7-2008may07,0,3186...
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SAG, Hollywood Producers End Contract Talks (Associated Press)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/06/AR200805...

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http://www.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idUSN0651004520080507

SAG, Studios End Talks Without Deal
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