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The Latest on the SAG/AFTRA AMPTP Negotiations

Will there be an actor's strike? Maybe, if AFTRA and SAG can't just get along:

Picture this: AFTRA’s president, negotiating committee and various staff scurrying through the lobby at 5757 Wilshire with suitcases in hand Wednesday in a mad dash to depart the building and avoid briefing SAG's leadership or even its negotiating committee on their new deal with the AMPTP. It happened -- and I'm told it was funny in a lame-ass kind of way. Tragicomedy, because the losers were the 40,000 dual cardholding actors – a majority of them here in Los Angeles – who "got ditched like a bad prom date" by the AFTRA negotiating committee that purports to represent them.

--Nikki Finke’s Deadline Hollywood Daily » AFTRA Skedaddled To Avoid Briefing SAG

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