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Finally. "The nine-month stalemate between the Screen Actors Guild and producers came to an end Tuesday night as SAG members overwhelmingly voted to approve the union’s new TV/theatrical contract with the AMPTP. The final tally: 78 percent voted 'yay', and 22 percent voted 'nay'," reports the The Warp. "The contract includes a 3 percent wage increase, a .5 percent increase in pension and health contributions and residuals for new-media work similar to the guild’s home-video residuals."
SAG president Alan Rosenberg
SAG Approves Contract with Movie Studios
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I and most of my actor friends voted yes, but not one of us think this is a good contract. This whole negotiation was pathetically mismanaged. It's really spurious of Rosenberg and his crew to dance around as if passage of this deal demonstrates "overwhelming support" from the union. It was really just exhaustion.
Hmmmm? Rosenberg doesn't like this deal either. The only reason this deal needed to be struck is to start the process of gathering all Unions, getting on the same page, and sticking together for a fight in 2011. Previous offers had SAG contract ending at a different time than the other unions, so this is just step one for the battle Rosenberg says is coming in 2011.
[Screen Actors Guild President Alan Rosenberg said, "The membership has spoken and has decided to work under the terms of this contract that many of us, who have been involved in these negotiations from the beginning, believe to be devastatingly unsatisfactory. Tomorrow morning I will be contacting the elected leadership of the other talent unions with the hope of beginning a series of pre-negotiation summit meetings in preparation for 2011. I call upon all SAG members to begin to ready themselves for the battle ahead,” Rosenberg added.]
Wow ... I wish I were in a position to think a 3 percent wage increase and a .5 percent increase in pension and health contributions was a bad deal.