LOS ANGELES, March 30 (Xinhua) -- Hollywood's two major actors unions will negotiate their new labor contracts separately with studios in coming weeks after the TV actors union decided to suspend its long-time agreement with the Screen Actors Guild (SAG), industry observers here said Sunday. Board members of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA), which represents some 70,000 actors, singers, announcers and journalists in the industry, have voted over the weekend to sever the union's 27-year joint bargaining agreement with the 120,000-member SAG.
The move, not a total surprise given the rough relations between the two unions in recent years, ends a longstanding partnership between the two groups, known as Phase One, under which they had jointly bargained film and prime-time TV contracts for nearly three decades.
AFTRA officials told a SAG national board meeting Saturday their decision to terminate the Phase One agreement, and announced they would not negotiate jointly with SAG on behalf of the TV/Theatrical Contract, according to a SAG statement.
A rift between the two major unions could undermine the bigger union's leverage to squeeze the best possible concessions from the studios in its new contract as AFTRA pursues its own agenda on behalf of its members mostly working in television, observers said.
"We remain focused on negotiating the best terms for actors covered by the TV/Theatrical Contract," said SAG President Alan Rosenberg in the statement.
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