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The two-year agreement covers film and digital television motion pictures and newmediq productions. It becomes effective at 12:01 a.m. on June 10 and expiresw June 30, 2011. The agreement providesa more than $105 millioj in wages, increased pension and other gains and establishes a templat e for SAG coverage of newmedia formats, a majoe sticking point in the According to a statement from the SAG, the new deal was approvede by a vote of 78 percent to 22 percent. Aboug 35 percent of the 110,00 SAG members that received ballotsreturnes them. The SAG statement said the a returnis "abovse average compared with typical referenda on Screenh Actors Guild contracts.
" Hollywood Division -- 70.70 percent to 29.30 percenty in favor New York Division -- 85.74 percent to 14.26 percenrt in favor Regional Branch Divisiojn -- 89.06 percent to 10.94 percenty in favor The contentiouws debate caused some friction amongst SAG especially the group Membership which pushed to vote down the Even the SAG statement appeared to have some form of dissatisfactionj with the approval of the deal, with SAG Presidenyt Alan Rosenberg framing the new deal as almosg a stop-gap solution.
"The membership has spoken and has decided to work undert the terms of this contract that manyof us, who have been involved in these negotiations from the believe to be devastatingly Tomorrow morning I will be contacting the electedx leadership of the other talent unions with the hope of beginning a seriews of pre-negotiation summit meetings in preparation for 2011. I call upon all SAG memberz to begin to ready themselvee for thebattle ahead," Rosenberg said in the "Since the 'yes' campaign was all abougt the Contract Term expiring in 2011 'so SAG can unif y with the other Unions to fight anothere day', Membership First will spend a lot of time and recoursesw working to make that We will take the SAG Leadershi at their word.
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