The Screen Actors Guild and the AMPTP negotiated a contract that the SAG Board agreed to submit to their members for a vote.
This vote took place on April 19th, 2009. The next step is for the actual vote to take place which according to a letter to the members of the Guild will be based on the following time line.
Ballots will be mailed to all eligible members on May 19, 2009. Ballots must be mailed in the return envelope provided and received at the Everett, WA, post office box no later than 5:00 p.m. (PDT) June 9, 2009. Ballots received after this deadline, or at a location other than the post office box, will not be counted.
We are holding member informational meetings so that you can hear about the tentative agreement and ask questions. Member informational meetings are scheduled for Hollywood and New York as follows and will be announced for Branch locations next week.
The special meetings are for members to ask questions and express concerns about the 2 year tentative extension of the previously existing 2005 Producer-Screen Actors Guild Codified Basic Agreement and 2005 Screen Actors Guild Television Agreements.
Here is the schedule of the meetings in LA and New York:
HOLLYWOOD
Thursday, May 21, 2009
7 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.
Renaissance Hollywood Hotel
Hollywood Ballroom
1755 N. Highland Ave.
Hollywood, CA 90028
NEW YORK
Monday, June 1, 2009
6 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Directors Guild of America
110 West 57th Street (between 6th & 7th Aves.)
New York, New York