SAG Rallies Troops Ahead of Strike Vote

LOS ANGELES The Screen Actors Guild’s “educational campaign” toward strike authorization began Wednesday with a pre-Thanksgiving e-mail to its members.

The seven-page message was the first of many expected from the actors union leading up to a strike-authorization vote slated for December.

“We need to show management that we are willing to fight to preserve our ability to earn a living as union performers; otherwise, management will take that away from us,” SAG said. “Nearly half of our earnings as union performers come from residuals, but management wants us to allow them to make programs for the Internet and other new media nonunion [productions] and with no residuals.”

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