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Actors rush to get in first word


April 01, 2008 AFTRA decided Saturday to suspend its 27-year bargaining agreement with SAG and negotiate its own primetime TV contract for members, which expires June 30. AFTRA president Roberta Reardon spoke Monday with AMPTP president Nick Counter as well as studio heads and other unions, including IATSE and the Association of Talent Agents. With the April 15 deadline for financing summer film projects looming, SAG president Alan Rosenberg said the guild is ready to start talking with the AMPTP.

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