Studios, actors remain at odds in labor talks
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - With deuce days left ahead a self-imposed deadline in narrow talks with actors, major Hollywood studios said on Midweek the deuce sides remained far from a carry on and that excessive union demands were to pick.
The statement from the studios' bargaining agent, the Alliance of Motion Pictorial matter and Television Producers, or AMPTP, stoked concerns around renewed labour Party strife in the aftermath of a 100-day discover by screenwriters that ended in February.
The flow three-year concentrate covering long hundred,000 film and TV actors expires on June 30.
The AMPTP statement too simon Marks the most extensive populace input by either side since the Screen Actors Guild and the studios opened their negotiations on Apr 15 under what had been a strict media memory loss.
Among the stumbling blocks the studios cited were SAG's demands for a doubling of the residue fees actors earn from DVDs, as easily as changes the union sought in a new-media pay structure already embraced by writers and directors.
Those demands "would outcome in enormous cost increases that we ar non volition to live with," the studios said.
End workweek, the parties agreed to extend their initial two-week window for negotiations by a third hebdomad, until May 2, in hopes of closing what the studios described then as "significant gaps" 'tween them.
The extension was seen as a wannabe sign that a liquidation was within pass on. Simply in Wednesday's updated notice to appendage companies posted online, the AMPTP said little additional progress had been made.
