Statement of the AMPTP

AMPTP has issued the following in reference to a postcard mailing that SAG's negotiators have sent to members:

"It's long past time for SAG's negotiators to close this deal, and a mass postcard mailing is just another delay tactic meant to mask the fact that SAG's negotiators have no coherent strategy. In fact, SAG's postcard 'poll' appears to be designed to deliver just one thing: A result pre-ordained by SAG's negotiators.

With four new contracts this year, the Producers and the other Hollywood Guilds have moved on, and we are now back to work. The longer SAG's negotiators hold out, the more SAG members will lose out on the new media rights and residuals, salary, pension and other increases in the Producer's $250 million final offer."