The AMPTP’s Latest Gimmick
Clocks. Two of them, on their homepage. One counting up the dollars the producers say SAG members are losing in pay raises by working under the expired TV-Theatrical contract. It’s approaching $7 million as of this writing.
The other clock counts the days and hours since the expiration of the contract, saying that new media productions are being produced each hour and day under which SAG members don’t get residuals, while other unions do, because SAG members haven’t agreed to the new contract.
