Summit Of AFL-CIO, SAG, AFTRA Leaders

sag-2.jpgEXCLUSIVE: I'm told this Saturday the leadership of the Screen Actors Guild as well as AFTRA will attend a Washington DC summit  meeting hosted by AFL-CIO President John Sweeney. Already, I've received several tips claiming that SAG toppers Alan Rosenberg and Doug Allen are being "summoned" by Sweeney to sit down with AFTRA’s Kim Roberts-Hedgepeth and Roberta Riordan and under duress "work out their differences” after afl-cio-sweeney.jpgAFTRA sought and obtained a full AFL-CIO charter earlier this month over SAG's leadership objections. (Previously AFTRA was able to access AFL-CIO consulting and aid only indirectly.) But other SAG insiders tell me that far from being a "call to appear in chambers", the meeting was requested by SAG, recommended by Peter DiCicco (Sweeney's chief advisor on the AFTRA charter request) and agreed to by Sweeney as a condition of the AFTRA charter grant. "SAG's leaders are pleased to attend," one insider said. "Besides, Alan Rosenberg is a member of the AFL-CIO executive council. He is, in fact, the only actor's union leader who does sit on the executive council which is chaired by President Sweeney." 

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  1. Thanks a bunch for this post Nikki…if the sit down meeting in Washington takes place between SAG AFTRA and one or more AFL-CIO reps hopefully the actors come closer together before they start negotiating with the AMPTP (or more preferably with the moguls themselves)

    Oh and Rosenberg is indeed on the Executive Council of the AFL-CIO…he is pictured on their website at:
    http://www.aflcio.org/aboutus/thisistheaflcio/leaders/ecmembers_my.cfm

    Comment by VDOVault — February 15, 2008 @ 3:52 am

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