SAG's strike call was no balk

October 05, 2008 When SAG's negotiating committee sent the strike-authorization decision back to the guild's national board, some members suggested internal politics were the driving force behind the move. Not so, said MembershipFirst leader Anne-Marie Johnson, who sits on both the negotiating committee and the national board, which in the summer gave the bargaining panel the go-ahead to request a strike vote if it wished. The Hollywood-based MembershipFirst faction, made up of the more militant wing of the guild, has held the majority on the negotiating committee and the national board.

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