'No Progress' on SAG Strike Talks

Two-Day Meeting Fails to End Impasse on Three-Month-Old Strike
NEW YORK–Representatives of the striking actors’ unions and the advertising industry met face-to-face here last week in an attempt to resume negotiations over the actors’ commercial contract.
Held last Thursday and Friday, the meetings failed to resolve conflicts over the payment of residuals, the main bone of contention for the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.
“We made no progress at all,” said Ira Shepard, labor counsel to the Joint Policy Committee on Talent Union Relations, representing the American Association of Advertising Agencies and the Association of National Advertisers.