Union Comment Irks WTWO Exec

A top Bemis corporate official is hitting back in response to criticism from a union leader amid the current strike at the company’s Terre Haute plant.In a recent interview on WTWO-TV, Noel Beasley, executive vice president of Workers United, the Bemis union, stated that Bemis Co. had “disrespected” its workers and the Terre Haute community.“I decided to respond to this absurd and outrageous remark,” wrote Gene Seashore, vice president of Bemis Co. and a Terre Haute resident in the late 1990s.

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Will WTWO's Strike Be Over by August?

The employee strike at Bemis could be over by next month. Bemis confirmed to WTWO the company has agreed to meet with the union. The meeting is planned for the week of August 10. Union employees have been on strike since early this week. The strike began after negotiations with the company failed.

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SAG Polls Membership on New Contract Negotiations

The leadership of the Screen Actors Guild is polling the union's 120,000 members, asking actors whether the union should continue to fight for contract terms better than those already accepted by directors, writers and the other actors’ union or fight on for a stronger contract.

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SAG Given deadline to Accept Offer

The major Hollywood studios have told the Screen Actors Guild that if the union does not accept its final contract offer by Aug. 15 any proposed wage increases would not be retroactive, the studios said Wednesday.


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SAG Reviewing Studio Offer

With actors working under a contract that expired a day earlier, SAG officials met Wednesday with studio reps for roughly four hours, discussing details of what the studios called their "final offer."SAG insiders say the guild told the AMPTP that they needed more time to study the offer and that another similar session would be set next week.The break for the Fourth of July holiday means that before they meet again, both sides likely will know the results of AFTRA's contract-ratification vote, the results of which are to be released Tuesday. The final offer that SAG has received mirrors the tentative pact that AFTRA members are voting on. SAG is urging its members who are also AFTRA members to vote down the deal.

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SAG Strike Strategy Based on Upcoming AFTRA Vote

The contract expires June 30, but for Screen Actors Guild honchos, D-Day really arrives on July 8.
That's the date when AFTRA ballots -- worded in obtuse legalese guaranteed to confuse even the most erudite union member -- are due, and AFTRA unveils the results of its ratification vote on a primetime deal.

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Pressure Shifts ot SAG After AFTRA Deal

With AFTRA reaching a tentative deal with the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers after round-the-clock talks during Memorial Day weekend, attention now turns to SAG and whether the guild will follow the lead of its sister union as it revs up talks for its primetime/theatrical contract. SAG and AFTRA contracts with Hollywood producers expire June 30.

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