SAG's ploy has AFTRA brass furious

June 08, 2008 While SAG bills the event as a "solidarity" rally, others in its Membership First faction are expected to use the gathering to speak out against the new primetime/TV contract that its sister union AFTRA will be sending to members for ratification. In the meantime, AFTRA president Roberta Reardon plans to meet with AFL-CIO leader John Sweeney to discuss the clash between the two actor unions, which intensified Friday when SAG's national executive board voted 13-10 to spend $75,000 on educating members about the AFTRA deal. In an e-mail to members Sunday, SAG president Alan Rosenberg outlined what he called contract gains that AFTRA did not get, and said that he and the union's negotiators are trying to win for SAG members.

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