Screen Actors Guild President Alan Rosenberg has publicly challenged Roberta Reardon, his opposite number in AFTRA, to a debate before the membership of both unions over AFTRA's recently concluded deal with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers -- and Reardon has turned him down. Reardon called Rosenberg's proposal "somewhat disingenuous" since, she said, it would merely "contribute to the destructive and divisive efforts of the last year instigated by the guild's Hollywood leadership." Reardon maintained that AFTRA negotiators had won numerous benefits for its members and denounced SAG's efforts to interfere in AFTRA's affairs and undermine its contract. Moreover, Reardon observed that she herself is also a dues-paying SAG member and as such, she said, "I urge SAG to focus solely on its own negotiations."
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