DISNEY - REPORT: IGER, CHERNIN TO MEET WITH UNIONS

News Corp President and COO Peter Chernin and Disney COO Robert Iger are expected to begin exploratory talks soon with negotiators for the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, Daily Variety reported today, citing no sources. The two media moguls were credited with bringing a resolution to the writers' strike last month. The trade publication observed that they would probably meet with top leaders of the unions once formal talks between union negotiators and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers begins -- in the hope that they could concentrate on resolving major issues standing in the way of an overall deal while the broader issues would be left to the negotiating teams.

27/03/2008