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Nov 19, 2008 5:07 pm US/Pacific
Studios, Actors To Meet For More Negotiations
LOS ANGELES (AP) ―
The Screen Actors Guild and Hollywood studios plan to hold their first contract talks in four months tomorrow and will negotiate this time with the help of a federal mediator.
Expectations for a deal to be struck are low.
Some observers expect the talks to be a formality before the guild asks its members for a strike authorization vote before the awards season early next year.
Tomorrow's face-to-face meeting will include SAG's chief negotiator, Doug Allen, and J. Nicholas Counter III, lead bargainer for the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers.
It comes after weeks of shuttle diplomacy by federal mediator Juan Carlos Gonzalez, who has met with each side separately.
Both sides have declined to comment ahead of the meeting.
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