AFTRA makes network TV deal

March 10, 2008 After less than a month at the bargaining table, AFTRA and the major networks and producers reached a tentative agreement late Saturday on a new network TV code for its daytime and other members, which will include a new residual structure for new media. The agreement comes at a time when AFTRA has been urging SAG to start early talks with the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers on the two unions' primetime contract, known as Exhibit A of the network code, which the two actors unions have jointly bargained for years. In recent weeks, tensions have flared between the unions, with SAG saying that the "wages and working conditions" process must conclude before formal talks with the AMPTP.

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