AMPTP, N.Y. actors branch put heat on SAG

December 12, 2008 Separately, SAG announced a "solidarity campaign," pledging support for the strike authorization vote listing the names of 30 actors who have signed on. The states are notable not only for their Democratic tilt and relative support for labor organizations, but also for their tax incentive programs, which Hollywood increasingly uses. Meanwhile, in the midst of SAG leadership meetings this week with publicists, managers, agents and actors as part of a campaign to persuade them of the need to vote "yes" on a strike authorization, the guild's New York board continued its rogue ways.

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