The National Board of Directors for the Screen Actors Guild voted to reject the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers alleged ?final? offer this weekend. Although the movie producer alliance apparently made several concessions since talks in November, the two groups are now disagreeing over contract dates. The union suspects that the AMPTP demand to extend the end-date of the new contract is an effort to separate SAG negotiations from those of other movie industry labor groups ? which decreases bargaining leverage for the union. 73% of the SAG National Board of Directors voted against the new offer.
See "SAG Directors Reject "Last, Best, Final Offer"", msnbc.com, February 22, 2009