On April 15, SAG plans to sit down with the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers to begin formal negotiations on a new contract.

The meeting is set for 10 a.m. at AMPTP headquarters in Encino.

"Now that we have concluded our wages and working conditions process and the SAG National Board has approved our proposal package, we look forward to productive negotiations," SAG national executive director and chief negotiator Doug Allen said Tuesday night.

SAG and AFTRA have had separate discussions with representatives of the AMPTP about when they would begin talks on bargaining agreements to replace the pacts set to expire June 30.
AFTRA had urged that talks begin as soon as possible, while SAG had appeared to be dragging its feet.

For decades SAG and AFTRA have negotiated such agreements with the AMPTP jointly, but jurisdictional disputes prompted AFTRA to proclaim that it would proceed separately this time. On Saturday, AFTRA said that it would suspend its joint bargaining agreement with SAG and go it alone with the studios. It has not yet set a date to begin talks.

Since then, SAG has been angling to beat its sister performers' union to the negotiating table. The prospects of AFTRA being the first to begin talks with the AMPTP raised the possibility that AFTRA could lock in new terms that then would be forced upon SAG.

Negotiations insiders suggested that AFTRA soon will announce its own timeline for talks with the AMPTP, and it appeared that there is some possibility that it might separately negotiate with the AMPTP even while SAG talks are in progress. However, there appears to be no chance that AFTRA will begin its talks by the time SAG starts its negotiations April 15.

To prepare the way for the formal talks, SAG reps already have had informal meetings with a number of the company CEOs. One or more of those meetings still could take place before the formal negotiations begin.

沪江小编：编剧协会的合同刚刚搞定，演员工会的谈判即将开始。本来往常都是美国演员工会（SAG）和美国电视与广播演员联合会（AFTRA）一起同制片方展开谈判的，结果谈判之前兄弟反目，两个组织决定单独与制片方谈判。在谈判时间上双方有一些分歧，本来AFTRA希望谈判越早越好，扯后腿的好像是SAG，结果演变到现在SAG的谈判定于4月15日正式开始，而AFTRA却似乎遥遥无期。