SAG Board Re-Fires Doug Allen

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Screen Actors Guild leaders, in the latest twist in the guild’s extraordinary drama, have set the stage for resuming contract talks with the majors by again firing topper Doug Allen and booting out the feature-primetime negotiating committee in favor of a task force.

The moderate majority of the national board of the Screen Actors Guild approved Sunday — for the second time in as many weeks — a resolution to take those actions, which are also aimed at removing the basis for president Alan Rosenberg’s recent lawsuit against SAG and the 41 members who had supported the measure two weeks ago.

Sunday’s move is likely to re-launch feature-primetime negotiations as early as Feb. 17 after Rosenberg’s stunning legal challenge put those talks on hold last week. SAG’s feature-primetime contract expired June 30 and the last set of negotiations took place in November.


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