With negotiations on new TV and movie labor contracts set to begin in less than 10 months, the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists and the Screen Actors Guild have yet to take formal steps to agree on joint bargaining with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, Daily Variety observed today (Monday). "We've had a lot of internal discussion about joint negotiations but we haven't formalized anything," AFTRA President Roberta Reardon told the trade publication. Reardon implied that AFTRA members may have some misgivings about teaming up with SAG, which is deeply divided between members who would like to form a single performers union and those who oppose such a merger and who believe AFTRA undermined SAG's own dealings with the AMPTP during the last round of collective bargaining. "We would [engage in joint negotiations] if it were something that's to the advantage of all our members," she told Variety. SAG declined to comment on her remarks.