According to Variety.com, SAG and AMPTP have officially launched feature-primetime negotiations. "Official bargaining began Tuesday morning at the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers in Encino after sister union AFTRA spurned a last-minute invite from SAG to rejoin it at the bargaining table." Source.
AFTRA will begin its primetime negotiation on April 28.
The SAG-AFTRA contract on feature film and primetime TV expires June 30, 2008.
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AFTRA (The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists) is a national labor union representing over 70,000 performers, journalists and other artists working in the entertainment and news media.
SAG (Screen Actors Guild) is the USA largest labor union representing working actors. It represents nearly 120,000 actors who work in motion pictures, television, commercials, industrials, video games, Internet and all new media formats.