CBS - UNION/STUDIOS BUTT HEADS

UNION/STUDIOS BUTT HEADS

The Screen Actors Guild and Hollywood studio heads each accused the other ofgreed over the Thanksgiving holiday. SAG President Alan Rosenberg led offthe latest barrage by responding to criticism that during the currenteconomic turmoil it was a bad time to be talking of a strike. "Like it's ourfault," he said. "We are the victims of corporate greed. We didn't causethis turmoil." The heads of the six major studios and the heads of CBS andNBC responded in an open letter published as an advertisement in the LosAngeles Times "SAG is demanding that the entire industry literallythrow out all of its hard work because it believes it deserves more than the230,000 other working people in the business," they said. "To comply withSAG's demands would mean SAG merits more than everyone else. Saying yeswould jeopardize the trust we have so carefully established with the rest ofthe industry."

01/12/2008