SAG factions search for support

January 04, 2009 On Dec. 29, Amy Aquino and Arye Gross of UFS e-mailed supporters asking whether they wanted UFS board members at the meeting to allow the authorization vote to go through or to pressure SAG leadership to rescind it. The following morning, national executive director and chief negotiator Doug Allen fired off an e-mail -- one of several to come in a "Know the Facts" campaign -- that aimed to dispel the charge that a strike would "shut down the industry." Allen and SAG president Alan Rosenberg plan to hold more town hall meetings for regional branches of the guild in the lead-up to the Jan. 12 face-to-face board meeting in Los Angeles.

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