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It’s in the Los Angeles Times. A very much on the money explanation of the issues.

Here’s the press release:
Screen Actors Guild and AMPTP Agree on New Two-Year Contracts for Television Animation and Basic Cable Animation
Los Angeles (August 18, 2009) — Screen Actors Guild and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) today reached agreement on the terms of new, two-year contracts covering Screen Actors Guild members working in [...]

Variety reports:
Several hundred SAG members attended a raucous town hall meeting over the contentious ratification vote on the feature-primetime deal.
SAG president Alan Rosenberg received a standing ovation from part of the audience at the Hollywood Renaissance Hotel while interim national exec director David Young [White] received scattered boos at the start of the Thursday evening [...]

This came out from SAG today regarding the letters some SAG (and AFTRA) members got from Axium’s bankruptcy trustee, demanding the return of money paid by Axium.
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AXIUM ALERT
If you received payments through Axium in the 90 days preceeding the Axium bankruptcy filing, you may have received letters from Howard Ehrenberg, the Chapter 7 Trustee for [...]

A bizarre e-mail from 5757 this afternoon:
From: Screen Actors Guild
Sent: Dec 26, 2008 7:39 PM
To: SAG Members
Subject: GUILD MEMBERS: Contract Reminder
Dear Screen Actors Guild Member,
During this holiday season, and into the new year of 2009, please be reminded that you are free to audition, accept employment and work under all of the Guild’s contracts.
These include [...]

We’re taking a break for the holiday. Barring the unlikely event of the AMPTP playing Santa and us noticing that they did it, we’re all putting union activity aside, and heading for family activities.

We hope you’re all doing the same, and that your holidays are a lot better than this past year!

All the best-

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