Negotiate new SAG contracts now or lose power...

(FROM VARIETY) — "George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Robert De Niro, and Tom Hanks have banded together to urge the Screen Actors Guild to begin its contract negotiations with Hollywood producers quickly and thus avoid a strike that would further hold up development on movie projects."

Many of these projects has been put on hold do to the Writers 100 Day strike against the heads of industry. Now that the strike is over, the other areas that have been affected by it, needs to utilize this time when the ink in the pens are still hot. George Clooney urges, that the A-Listers wants SAG to begin negotiating contracts and get the ball rolling. SAG is sluggish to do so and beg to differ, feeling that a wait on negotiating will grant them more leverage, when they finally sit down to go over terms.

EW Reports : "The SAG contract expires June 30, but talks have not yet been scheduled."

George Clooney States: ''I think there's a lot of strike fatigue, and I think you actually start losing negotiating power,'' he said. ''I would hope we in the Screen Actors Guild get back to the table.''

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