UCLA faculty experts advisory: SAG vote on new contract expected to be close

After nearly a year without a labor contract, Screen Actors Guild members will go to the polls June 9 in what is expected to be a close vote on a new contract with Hollywood film and television studios. UCLA has experts.

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Susanna Park  310-206-7707 | susanna.park@anderson.ucla.edu

David Ginsburg, executive director of the UCLA School of Law's Entertainment and Media Law and Policy Program, is a former president of both the Alliance Atlantis Motion Picture Group and Artisan Pictures. Ginsburg also served as president and chief executive officer of Citadel Entertainment and was a founding partner of the entertainment department of an international law firm.

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Sara Wolosky  310-206-2221 | wolosky@law.ucla.edu

Lauri Gavel  310-722-7761 | gavel@law.ucla.edu

Richard Walter, a professor of film, television and digital media and director of the screenwriting program at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, comments regulary on Hollywood labor issues.

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Teri Bond  310-206-3235 | teri@tft.ucla.edu

David Chute  310-206-0305 | dchute@tft.ucla.edu

Daniel J.B. Mitchell, professor emeritus at the UCLA Anderson School of Management and the School of Public Affairs, is an expert on labor relations and labor-market issues who comments frequently on negotiatons between Hollywood studios and labor unions.

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Susanna Park  310-206-7707 | susanna.park@anderson.ucla.edu