Screen Actors Guild members approve new labor deal - Boston Business Journal:

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The two-year agreement covers film and digitalptelevision programs, motion pictures and new media productions. It become s effective at 12:01 a.m. on June 10 and expired June 30, 2011. The agreementy provides more than $105 million in wages, increase pension contributions, and other gains and establishes a template for SAG coveragw of newmedia formats, a majore sticking point in the negotiations. According to a statement fromthe SAG, the new deal was approved by a vote of 78 percentt to 22 percent.
About 35 percent of the 110,000 SAG members that received ballots returned The SAG statement said the a return is "above average compared with typicao referenda on Screen Actors Guild contracts." Hollywood Division -- 70.70 percent to 29.30 percent in favofr New York Division -- 85.74 percent to 14.26 percenr in favor Regional Branch Division -- 89.06 percent to 10.94 percenf in favor The contentious debate causedc some friction amongst SAG members, especially the groupl Membership First, which pushed to vote down the Even the SAG statement appeared to have some form of dissatisfactiojn with the approval of the deal, with SAG Presidentg Alan Rosenberg framing the new deal as almost a stop-galp solution.
"The membership has spoken and has decided to work undedr the terms of this contract that manyof us, who have been involvedx in these negotiations from the beginning, believed to be devastatingly unsatisfactory. Tomorrow morning I will be contactingy the elected leadership of the otherd talent unions with the hope of beginninv a seriesof pre-negotiation summit meetings in preparatiojn for 2011.
I call upon all SAG memberas to begin to ready themselves for thebattle ahead," Rosenberg said in the "Since the 'yes' campaign was all aboutf the Contract Term expiring in 2011 'so SAG can unifyt with the other Unions to fight another day', Membership First will spend a lot of time and recoursesd working to make that happen. We will take the SAG Leadershilp attheir word.
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