AFTRA and producers shake on it


	AFTRA and producers shake on it

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7-9-2008 9:44 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/eec6b71a-a1d6-43ed-920f-11f23fde6ec5/47089C0B-1B51-4D95-95C7-949085F48C10/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20211216,00.html" href="http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20211216,00.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.ew.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20211216,00.html"><H1>AFTRA Approves Deal <SPAN class="minor"></SPAN></H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20211216,00.html">FROM VARIETY) – Members of the American Federation of Television & Radio Artists approved the union's thee-year primetime deal with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers on Tuesday (July 8) by 62.4 percent. The other major actors' union, the Screen Actors Guild, ran a campaign attempting to derail ratification of the proposed deal, saying it failed to deliver acceptable terms in areas such as new media, DVD residuals, and salary minimums. Although the campaign brought AFTRA approval below the typical 90 percent given to guild contract votes, it still enabled AFTRA and the AMPTP to claim a victory. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20211216,00.html"><P>The results of the AFTRA vote came nine days after the AMPTP <A class="embedded-link" href="http://hollywoodinsider.ew.com/2008/06/sag-talks.html">broke off negotiations</A> with SAG (the larger actors' union) on June 30, a few hours before its feature-primetime contract expired. SAG actors continue to work on television under guidelines laid out in the expired deal, and SAG has granted waivers to more than 355 indie features. (<A target="_blank" href="http://www.variety.com/VR1117988635.html">Variety</A>)</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/47089C0B-1B51-4D95-95C7-949085F48C10/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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