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	<title>SAGWatch - Observing the Screen Actors Guild and AFTRA &#187; Interactive</title>
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		<title>Interactive Committee Member Quits, Blames NDA</title>
		<link>http://www.sagwatch.net/2010/07/interactive-committee-member-quits-blames-nda/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sagwatch.net/2010/07/interactive-committee-member-quits-blames-nda/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:38:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Interactive]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SAG Politics]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sagwatch.net/?p=4385</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In words strikingly reminiscent of Membership First&#8217;s salvos from three years ago, a member of the SAG Interactive Negotiations Committee and former Membership First Hollywood Board member, David Sobolov, says he&#8217;s quit the committee. Sobolov has long been an AFTRA critic and was an unsuccessful candidate for AFTRA&#8217;s National Board running with a Membership First-led [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Now it&#8217;s VideoGames?</title>
		<link>http://www.sagwatch.net/2010/02/now-its-videogames/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sagwatch.net/2010/02/now-its-videogames/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:03:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Interactive]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media Business]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sagwatch.net/?p=3726</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Dismaying, to say the least.  Videogames, which had seemed a new source of union employment unaffected by the recession, has now apparently succumbed to the economic forces that have devastated the industry. Year over year sales 2009 vs. 2008 were down 9%, despite a good Christmas season. Now there&#8217;s January 2010 vs. January 2009. Down [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>SAG Videogame Deal Going Nowhere</title>
		<link>http://www.sagwatch.net/2009/12/sag-videogame-deal-going-nowhere/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sagwatch.net/2009/12/sag-videogame-deal-going-nowhere/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 04:48:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Interactive]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sagwatch.net/?p=3463</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After the rejection of the proposed Interactive Agreement by SAG Hollywood, over the objection of the rest of the country, and after AFTRA accepted the same deal SAG rejected, there have no new negotiations between SAG and the producers. Variety says SAG earnings under interactive have plunged to under $3 million and look to drop [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>We&#8217;re Shocked, Shocked to Learn That 2008 SAG Earnings Are Down</title>
		<link>http://www.sagwatch.net/2009/11/were-shocked-shocked-to-learn-that-2008-sag-earnings-are-down/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sagwatch.net/2009/11/were-shocked-shocked-to-learn-that-2008-sag-earnings-are-down/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:10:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Voiceguy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Commercials Contract]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Exhibit A - TV Theatrical]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Interactive]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sagwatch.net/?p=3287</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Just as Captain Renault said in Casablanca that he was &#8220;shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!&#8221; we found it somewhat anticlimactic that SAG reported member earnings down in 2008. As reported by Variety: SAG actors saw earnings decline 2.5% last year to $2 billion, mostly due to TV earnings plunging [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>AFTRA INTERACTIVE CONTRACT OVERWHELMINGLY RATIFIED</title>
		<link>http://www.sagwatch.net/2009/11/aftra-interactive-contract-ratified/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sagwatch.net/2009/11/aftra-interactive-contract-ratified/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:08:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Interactive]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sagwatch.net/?p=3272</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The margin is said to be 2-1.  Here&#8217;s the official announcement! The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) – a national union of more than 70,000 professional performers, recording artists and broadcast journalists working in the entertainment and news media – announced today that AFTRA members have ratified a new AFTRA Interactive Media [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>34</slash:comments>
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		<title>Fact and Fiction in the Interactive Debate &#8211; updated</title>
		<link>http://www.sagwatch.net/2009/11/fact-and-fiction-in-the-interactive-debate/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sagwatch.net/2009/11/fact-and-fiction-in-the-interactive-debate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:58:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Interactive]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sagwatch.net/?p=3204</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We couldn&#8217;t help but be struck by the wild inaccuracy of some of the claims about the tentative AFTRA Interactive contract coming from the usual suspects in Hollywood. The biggest doozy is the claim that the vote in Hollywood and San Francisco can be taken to represent 85% of the work, since 85% of the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>31</slash:comments>
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		<title>The AFTRA Push for Interactive Ratification</title>
		<link>http://www.sagwatch.net/2009/10/the-aftra-push-for-interactive-ratification/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sagwatch.net/2009/10/the-aftra-push-for-interactive-ratification/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:04:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Interactive]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SAG Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SAG-AFTRA]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sagwatch.net/?p=3202</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We got a forward of this e-mail from AFTRA New York President Holter Graham, who works the Interactive contract, and was Chair of the Interactive Steering Committee: AFTRA members are about to vote on a new deal for video games (Interactive Media). As a chair of the AFTRA Interactive Steering Committee who has been working [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Player SAG Exit Game? Clicks Yes &#8211; UPDATED!!!!</title>
		<link>http://www.sagwatch.net/2009/10/player-sag-exit-game-clicks-yes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sagwatch.net/2009/10/player-sag-exit-game-clicks-yes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:45:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Interactive]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sagwatch.net/?p=3180</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re hearing that although the vote was unanimous in favor everywhere, in Hollywood, the number of members who braved the wind and power outages to attend the ratification caucus was enough to overwhelm the rest of the country, and the proposed contract has been rejected. The unofficial tally of the vote in Hollywood was 73-9 [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>31</slash:comments>
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		<title>SAG NY Vote: Unanimous In Favor of Interactive Ratification</title>
		<link>http://www.sagwatch.net/2009/10/sag-ny-vote-unanimous-in-favor-of-interactive-ratification/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sagwatch.net/2009/10/sag-ny-vote-unanimous-in-favor-of-interactive-ratification/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 02:31:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Interactive]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sagwatch.net/?p=3156</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The number wasn&#8217;t big, but it was unanimous. 27-to-0 is what we hear. It may be a while before we get more from other cities.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>AFTRA Ratifies Interactive Contract &#8211; THEN SENDS IT TO AFFECTED MEMBER VOTE! &#8211; UPDATED</title>
		<link>http://www.sagwatch.net/2009/10/aftra-ratifies-interactive-contract/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sagwatch.net/2009/10/aftra-ratifies-interactive-contract/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 21:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Interactive]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sagwatch.net/?p=3146</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The AFTRA National Board first overwhelmingly voted to ratify the deal, first turning back a substitute motion by Anne-Marie Johnson to take no action. Then it voted to send the contract for a ratification vote by affected members, with a strong yes recommendation. The zig zag may have been  done to meet a deadline set [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>59</slash:comments>
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