SAG Ballot Schedule

COMMENTS (31)

• GG Alin, give me one logical reason to vote yes. Have you even looked at the contract? Bet you haven’t. Would you sell your soul for a walk-on now? Bet ya would…

  Comment by Helen Hill — Friday May 1, 2009 @ 10:54am PDT  Reply to this post

• sagmember: This has gone on long enough. Vote Yes!

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  That’s all you can say in favor of the contract?
  Let’s see if the PR firm can do better.

  Although PR spin or not, the educated actor will vote NO.
  Zachery

  Actually Zachary, I have a lot of reasons I will be voting yes and I am educated about it. I suggest actors go to the sag website and READ the contract and they too will be educated. I’m not a ‘troll’ or an ‘asshole’ as stated by above posters, I’m a card carrying member for 22 years who has always supported myself as an actor. I have seen my income go down by a lot this year and last due to the strike and a lack of a contract, and I do not believe the fear mongering that is being spread. I do not believe we are in a position after a almost a YEAR without a contract and three other unions having one, to expect they will come back to the table.
  I am frustrated the work I have managed to get, did not have the raises it should have, that all the pilots went to aftra which makes it harder for me to make my health insurance, and that the film work I normally go up for has been decreased while we wait for a contract.

  I am happy the dates are now aligned with Aftra so we can reach out to the other unions and hopefully manage to have some leverage on our next contract.

  For all these reasons, I am voting YES.

  Comment by sagmember — Friday May 1, 2009 @ 11:27am PDT  Reply to this post

• Ace.

  Geez dude, I love how anyone that disagrees with you in uneducated and a shill. So typical.

  Why dont you educate yourself. It’s not 1979, the industry has moved on.

  Comment by David — Friday May 1, 2009 @ 11:55am PDT  Reply to this post

• If this contract passes, We all will be vanity card holders.

  Comment by Gary Watts — Friday May 1, 2009 @ 9:44pm PDT  Reply to this post

• sagmember writes, “I am happy the dates are now aligned with Aftra so we can reach out to the other unions and hopefully manage to have some leverage on our next contract.”

  You base this hope for future alliance with AFTRA on the fact that AFTRA showed themselves to be such upstanding team players in this go ’round? Which part won you over: phase one of their plan to dump SAG in the negotiations and sign a lousy deal or phase two, to overtake primetime TV which has always been accepted as SAG’s domain?

  And, if the fear-mongering you refer to is the fact that TV is moving from a broadcast cable platform to an internet cable platform there-by making all broadcast delivery internet- I would urge you to visit Best Buy or pick up a newspaper. It’s not fear mongering when it’s real.

  All TV manufacturers are currently offering “internet ready” TV sets and AFTRA sucker-punched SAG in this contract negotiation and is possibly SAG’s biggest obstacle right now next to the AMPTP.

  I don’t take away your 22 years as a member and I don’t take away you right to make your own decision on this contract. But your listed reasons for voting “yes” have nothing to do with the reality of our situation.

  Comment by pb — Friday May 1, 2009 @ 10:44pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Voting yes. Mortgage payment is past due. Need work! All the people I’ve talked to are voting yes too. There will never be a contract good enough. Deal with it or get out of the business.

  Comment by GG Alin — Tuesday May 5, 2009 @ 1:09pm PDT  Reply to this post