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[b]SCREEN ACTORS GUILD AND AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TELEVISION AND RADIO
ARTISTS STATEMENT ON WRITERS GUILD OF AMERICA/AMPTP TENTATIVE CONTRACT
AGREEMENT[/b]

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LOS ANGELES – The following is a statement from the Screen Actors Guild (SAG)
and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) on the
tentative contract agreement reached between the Writers Guild of America
(WGA) and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) and
the TV networks.

"SAG and AFTRA welcome the news that the Writers Guild of America and the
Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) and TV networks
have reached a tentative agreement on a new three-year contract, and we
applaud their careful efforts to come to a new agreement without a work
stoppage.

Since the AMPTP and TV networks have reached an agreement with the writers,
SAG and AFTRA look forward to analyzing the new WGA deal in detail to see if
it will be helpful in finding a way to address the specific needs of actors
in our upcoming negotiations.

SAG and AFTRA will have no further comment on the WGA deal until our analysis
of it is completed. If the AMPTP and the networks are prepared–as they have
assured us they are–to address the unique needs of actors, we are confident
we can emulate this significant accomplishment of reaching an agreement
without a work stoppage."
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