No Negotiations Watch: Basic Cable Contract Stuck Behind TV-Theatrical
You may have noticed that the SAG Basic Cable contract was to expire three weeks ago, after having been extended from the original June 30 expiration. Variety this morning points out no talks are scheduled. The expiration appears to have been the trigger for the strange day after Christmas e-mail from the Allens advising members they can work any contract.
Jonathan Handel points out that the number of SAG contracts have expired or are about to is increasing.Â
Actually, MF/DA are 0-8 with contracts.
Basic theatrical. expired 6/30/08. Working under expired contract
TV Expired 6/30/08. WorkingUnder expired contract
Basic Cable Live expired 12/19/08
TV Animation. Further extension pending.
Basic Cable Animation. Further extension pending.
Interactive Agreement. Expired 12/31/08
Commercials. Extended to 3/31/09.Now in W&W process.
Industrial. Expires 10/31/09 (AFTRA extended, we piggybacked).
and of course there’s the agency franchise, too.
wow, at this rate will be working without a contract in all areas — what GREAT leadership!!! CAUSE. CAUSE. CAUSE. Fire the NED. If he’s “working his ass off”, it must be to prevent us from having anymore contracts.
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Exactly what did you expect from someone coming to SAG from a union with just one CBA, but who still haven’t been able to negotiate a new version of that one since 1993? The 1993 agreement has been extended FIVE times since then. Somebody should have seen this coming.
What’s a deadline when you can go into overtime, anyway? We’ve already seen what happened with the SAG version of the “two-minute drill” when they waited so long to negotiate. Now you’re looking at “sudden death,” and you can’t even count on keeping the change from the coin flip.
By the way, the NFL owners have already opted out of any further contract extensions, which means that, after the 2009 season, player free agency, the greatest gain the union can point to in 35 years, will be greatly restricted and that the owners will be free of the contractual obligation to spend more than half their revenue on player costs. There are already rumors of the owners preparing for a lockout in 2010, and setting aside money for it, while the NFLPA, rife with factions and infighting (sounds familiar) has done little to prepare for the prospect. That sounds familiar, too. The $28 million verdict in the Players, Inc. case isn’t going to make building a strike fund any easier.
Gee, if the owners go back to hiring “replacement players” again, maybe Doug Allen’s experience at crossing picket lines will be valuable to them and SAG can trade his contract for a linebacker to be named later, or at least a tape of Keanu Reeves in “The Replacements.”
Great. SAG is paying half-an-f’ing-million bucks a year for an Executive Director and Chief Negotiator who has NEVER NEGOTIATED A COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT????
No wonder we don’t have any contracts.
Dougie is too scared that he might make a mistake, so he won’t agree to anything.
Un -f’ing-believable.
The only contracts he has experience with are his own (and his wife’s) making tons of money doing … what, exactly?
Great. SAG is paying half-a-million bucks a year for an Executive Director and Chief Negotiator who has NEVER NEGOTIATED A COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT?
No wonder we don’t have any contracts.
Dougie is too scared that he might make a mistake, so he won’t agree to anything.
Un-****’ing-believable.
The only contracts he has experience with are his own (and his wife’s) making tons of money doing … what, exactly?