SAG AFTRA boards vote on proposed merger

LOS ANGELES, Jan 27 (TheWrap.com) - The

Screen Actors Guild and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists play of directors

are scheduled to opinion on a due SAG-AFTRA partnership agreement over a subsequent few days. Depending on their progress, they could make an proclamation during

the SAG

Awards on Sunday.

If a play opinion for a partnership -- as widely expected -- it would not be adopted until a supermajority of members in any guild opinion for it. It is misleading when that voting would begin.

SAG's house is assembly Friday and Saturday.

AFTRA

's meets Saturday and, if necessary, Sunday.

Representatives of a unions declined comment.

The unions have been articulate about merging for years. In 2003, scarcely 58 percent of

SAG

members voted to combine a dual - a transparent infancy though brief of a supermajority indeed indispensable to proceed.

The offer now underneath care has been in a works for months.

Last year, AFTRA's New Union Committee and SAG's

Merger Task Force

shaped a corner cabinet called a "G1," or Group for One Union. That cabinet pennyless into investigate groups, that examined governance and structure, financial and dues, common bargaining, pension, health and retirement, operations and staff and member preparation and outreach.

The G1 spent 9 days this month operative on a recommendations for a merger.

The SAG

and AFTRA play now will opinion on a package that G1 developed.

SAG's president, Ken Howard, was inaugurated on a pro-merger platform. His AFTRA counterpart, Roberta Reardon, also supports a merger.

(Editing By Zorianna Kit)

(news.yahoo.com)