News straight form the AP! The Screen Actor's Guild was ready to accept the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television's final offer drafted last Thursday but voted by a margin of 73 to 27 percent to reject it. The SAG National Board of Directors sited this as their deal breaker:
"The AMPTP's last-minute, surprise demand for a new term of agreement extending to 2012 is regressive and damaging," says SAG. "[This] was not part of their final offer of June 30, 2008; it was not part of the federally mediated talks of November 2008, and should not have been inserted into the discussions when we returned to negotiations on February 17, 2009."
A 75% union vote is necessary for a strike , and it's still uncertain if SAG can generate that kind of number. But still, AMPTP better move fast!
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