Hollywood actors union faces internal rift
2008-07-25 17:13:56 (GMT) (Caymanmama.com - Entertainment News)Los Angeles, California (CaymanMama.com) — An insurgent from within the Screen Actors Guild has launched a campaign to wrestle control from the powerful union leaders whom they blame for the stalemate in contract talks with the leading Hollywood studios.
A SAG member that calls himself “Unite for Strength” unveiled a 31- candidate slate on Wednesday in order to gain the majority with regards to the national elections governing board scheduled for September 18th.
A moderates group that is Hollywood-based and is known as Membership First has emerged with a very serious challenge to the SAG ruling coalition. This means that the 3-½ week-old standoff that exists between the studios and the union will actually continue for two more months at the least.
Two of the candidates that are running on the Unite for Strength slate are Amy Brenneman and Kate Walsh from the TV show “Private Practice”. In fact, Doug Savant of the show “Desperate Housewives” and Adam Arkin from “Chicago Hope” are also included.
They are accusing the present leadership of mishandling the labor talks and straining existing relationships with the smaller sister union of SAG, the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, through SAG’s failed campaign to try and scuttle one of the contracts that are separately negotiated between the studios and the AFTRA.
Veteran character actor, Ned Vaughn, a spokesman and candidate for the unite for Strength group, said on Thursday that his slate is capable of winning the majority with the net gain of about 5/6 seats among 33 that are at stake in the Hollywood branch. He said, “We hope very much to do a lot better than that.”
The Membership First coalition, led by SAG President Alan Rosenberg, took power in 2005 after he pledged to get tough with studios in contract negotiations.
Opponents say that the confrontational stance of Rosenberg toward the AFTRA has actually backfired by his allowing of the studios to play as one union off another.
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