Filibuster saves SAG's Doug Allen

January 13, 2009 Doug Allen, SAG's chief negotiator and national executive director, almost was fired at a marathon 30-hour national board meeting that ended Tuesday. Adding to the bizarre nature of the proceedings, the session included allegations of voter fraud and an eight-hour debate to extend the meeting by three hours -- for a net loss of five hours. The emergency national board meeting began before 9 a.m. Monday and pushed on through the night into Tuesday afternoon, when the organizers had scheduled a hard-stop time of 1 p.m. Within an hour of the official end of the proceedings, exhausted-looking board members could be seen stumbling out to their cars.

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