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Alan Rosenberg Strikes Out In Court
6:25AM STV | SAG president Alan Rosenberg’s final opportunity to preserve his strike-hungry executive director and negotiating committee fizzled this morning in the US Superior Court. More »
Torture-Defending Republican Pal Rushes To Alan Rosenberg’s Legal Aid
3:07AM STV | No wonder Alan Rosenberg’s rejected restraining-order appeal yesterday included a few errors: Any lawyer moving to SAG squabbles from a career in right-wing crisis management would encounter a severe learning curve at some point. More »
Judge Blocks Alan Rosenberg’s Restraining Order Against His Own Union
7:20AM STV | SAG president Alan Rosenberg’s ploy to halt contract talks and reinstate his closest strike-friendly ally could be going better, with a judge this afternoon rejecting his petition for a temporary restraining order.Alan Rosenberg Out For Justice (Or Something)
8:10AM STV | Blues singer to sue for SAG exec’s reinstatement. [The Wrap] More »
Defiant Alan Rosenberg Calls For Sympathy-Vote Resolution
2:38AM STV | This whole SAG presidency thing may not be working out so well for Alan Rosenberg, but so what? His blues-career Plan B is taking off before our eyes — have a listen after the jump! More »Kind Of Like Jimmy Hoffa, Except Alive
4:26AM STV | Rosenberg: Fired Doug Allen “too good” for SAG. [The Wrap] More »
SAG Insurrection Introduces Brave New Levels of Seething Internecine Hatred
6:45AM STV | In a savage coup of upstart infidels, the Unite for Strength ticket outlasted incumbent Alan Rosenberg’s MembershipFirst slate in Thursday’s SAG board election, thus opening a new era of moderation, peace and progress in Hollywood’s rancorous labour wars. Or… not. Maybe? It’s too soon to tell, frankly, with new leadership including Amy Brenneman, Scott Bakula, Adam Arkin, ‘05 loser Morgan Fairchild and Assaf “Brother of Sacha Baron” Cohen making up only a theoretical majority at best; studio-friendly Variety says the SAG/AMPTP squabble’s days are numbered, union flunky Nikki Finke says that’s “simpleton” piffle, and here in the middle, we can’t help but notice that SAG’s contract-negotiating team isn’t changing at all. Still, we look to the future with cautious optimism perhaps best evoked by Rosenberg’s concession on Thursday: More »
Strike Fears Allayed, SAG/AFTRA Now Just in It For the Slap Fights
2:00AM Defamer Hollywood | The nuclear labour plume at left is presented a little closer to actual size this morning, the start of the first full day without the specter of strike hell exhaling waves of rancid breath over Hollywood. Not that AFTRA’s ratification of its prime-time contract Monday evening vanquishes the SAG threat altogether; the 62.4% tally in favour of AFTRA’s deal with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers suggests that while a strike vote might fail, SAG leadership convinced probably upwards of 10,000 AFTRA members to stand down in the pitched battle between unions. More »
SAG Drama Renewed For Another Episode; Full Season to Follow?
5:15AM Defamer Hollywood | More apocalyptic Hollywood strike talk is surfacing this morning, with Variety noting that little progress has been made in the ongoing contract negotiations between SAG and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. Shocking! But with one week remaining on their clock before the compliant gang at AFTRA gets their turn to bend over the conference room table for a little rough, residual-based intimacy, time is of the essence for an aggressive union leadership that wants to at least pretend it maintains the upper hand: Although the guild hasn’t set a strike authorisation vote for the 120,000 SAG members yet, the industry continues to fret about a work stoppage. The majors have remained unwilling to commit to starting new feature productions until a SAG deal is in hand — a situation that some in the biz are calling a de facto strike. More »
