doug-allen
Kind Of Like Jimmy Hoffa, Except Alive
STV · 01/28/09 02:26PMChief Negotiator Still At The Table For SAG
STV · 01/13/09 07:55PMChief Negotiator In Limbo as SAG Board Implodes
STV · 01/13/09 11:50AMActors No Closer to Deal as SAG, AFTRA Spar Over Clips
STV · 05/19/08 04:00PMAfter a week-long lull in apocalyptic mutterings from all sides of SAG and AFTRA negotiations with the major studios, a couple of new stumbling blocks have appeared en route to a deal. For starters, AFTRA national president Roberta Reardon today sent out a sobering e-mail to her members, both acknowledging her discussions' ongoing news blackout while giving the rank-and-file plenty to leak to the press. To wit: Reardon writes that even AFTRA, which was expected to breeze to a new contract after SAG very publicly dug in its heels last month, is apparently having a hard time coming to terms with the majors on new media:
SAG Saves Best Acting For the Press as Negotiations Grind to Halt
STV · 05/08/08 02:45PMThere's only so much ledge-prancing, saber-rattling, gun-pointing madness a person can get away with spinning in the press, and at a glance, anyway, it appears SAG national executive director Doug Allen may be faking the labor funk a little too aggressively. Now that his union's extended (and re-extended) negotiation period with the major studios is over, leaving AFTRA to step in and take everything it's offered no-questions-asked, Allen kvetched to Variety today that goddammit — they were so close! Like, just a few hours away! No, really. He actually said that: