SAG brass cheered as members coalesce

May 20, 2008 SAG made a major push at solidarity with more than 400 of its rank-and-file members at a town hall-style meeting to discuss the recent formal negotiations with the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers. At Monday's meeting, SAG president Alan Rosenberg and national executive director and chief negotiator Doug Allen were given standing ovations by the crowd, who urged the leaders to be tougher with the producers, according to one member who attended the meeting. SAG also handed out a four-page update to members, which it posted Tuesday on its Web site, outlining the "remaining obstacles" in the negotiations, including new media, force majeure provisions in their contract and product integration.

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