Major Development with SAG Strike

January 15, 2009 by Lance Carter

Nikki at DHD has it all:

There has been a major development within SAG tonight that makes a strike even less likely than ever. DHD readers know that back in December, I urged SAG to bypass a strike authorization altogether and place itself in an even stronger negotiating position by following a less risky course of action: send out the AMPTP’s June 30th contract proposal and let the members decide to ratify it or not by the necessary 50+% threshold.

Well, imagine my surprise when, after Monday’s and Tuesday’s 30.5-hour marathon SAG National Board meeting, sources began telling me that a movement was underway to do the above. I waited to post about this significantly new development to see if the idea took hold. Well, it has.

Read it all here!