Hollywood took another step toward labor peace on Wednesday morning, as a union representing television actors reached a tentative three-year deal with production companies after talks had stalled over the re-use of performers? images on the Internet. The agreement between the producers and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists builds pressure on another, bigger actors union, the Screen Actors Guild, to devise a similar solution. Alan Rosenberg, the president of the Screen Actors Guild, said in a statement Wednesday that the union would carefully analyze the deal?s provisions. But the guild has said it would not simply accept the same terms as other unions, which were the basis of the agreement with the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. And that means this city will continue to be preoccupied with the threat of Hollywood shutting down.
See "Studios in a Tentative Deal With TV Actors in One Union, but Uncertainty Remains", Michael Cieply, The New York Times, May 28, 2008