Member voting commenced Thursday on SAG-AFTRA’s new TV/theatrical deal, the performers’ union announced, and additional details of the agreement were released in a lengthy ballot packet available online.
Voting concludes July 22. Ratification is expected, but the packet includes an opposition statement, and almost one-third of the votes on the organization’s national board were opposed to the deal, making the ratification ballot a test of members’ confidence in the Unite for Strength faction that has led the union and predecessor SAG since 2009. “We were negotiating for our future,” said SAG-AFTRA president Gabrielle Carteris in a video statement. “And we did it.
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