SAG delays strike authorization vote

December 23, 2008 On Monday night, SAG national executive director and chief negotiator Doug Allen e-mailed guild members to inform them that the impending strike authorization vote has been delayed until after an emergency national board meeting. While this drags out the uncertainty regarding a potential strike, SAG leadership hopes to use the meeting and intervening time to "restore the consensus demonstrated by the national board at our October meeting" and persuade more of its membership of the necessity of the strike authorization, Allen said. Meanwhile, the AMPTP reiterated its request that SAG members "study the producers' offer at AMPTP.org and make an independent decision as to whether it makes sense to strike over a deal that will raise wages, raise benefits, add new residuals and establish jurisdiction in new media for the first time."

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