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		<title>Membership First is playing with words</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Sep 2010 02:10:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Membership First is playing with words UFS candidate Ron Perlman sent the following message to Hollywood SAG members on Sept. 3, 2010. Dear Hollywood Members, There&#8217;s something you need to know before you vote in this election: - Unite for Strength is talking straight. &#8211; Membership First is playing with words. UFS has always believed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why UFS is the Right Choice</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Sep 2010 01:20:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[UFS candidate Ned Vaughn wrote the following in a group email exchange with fellow SAG members: It’s a simple fact that a majority of Membership First board members voted against joint bargaining with AFTRA for the TV/Film contract talks that start in September. Considering the negative effects of separate negotiations in the last round of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Union merger central issue in election</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Sep 2010 01:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posted: Fri., Sep. 3, 2010, 2:00pm PT Union merger central issue in election Perlman sends missive to members By DAVE MCNARY With the Screen Actors Guild&#8217;s election season in full swing, the renewed push for a merger between SAG and AFTRA has become the dominant issue in the guild&#8217;s upcoming board election. Ron Perlman, one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Actors vying for seats on SAG boards</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 06:35:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Actors vying for seats on SAG boards Jeff Garlin, Ron Perlman among candidates from UFS party By Jay A. Fernandez Aug 4, 2010, 01:51 PM ET Updated: Aug 4, 2010, 08:38 PM ET Jeff Garlin, Ron Perlman, Clark Gregg and Gabrielle Carteris are among the candidates from the Unite for Strength party vying for seats [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SAG, AFTRA presidents form merger forum</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 18:17:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SAG, AFTRA presidents form merger forum
Unit supplements committee already discussing union combo
That much-debated merger of SAG and AFTRA just got another nudge toward the front burner.]]></description>
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		<title>SAG-AFTRA Task Force Letter</title>
		<link>http://uniteforstrength.com/?p=2118</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 18:15:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>AFTRA takes step toward SAG merger</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 18:05:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leaders of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists have taken another step toward merging with the Screen Actors Guild.]]></description>
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		<title>SAG Board Appoints National Chair of TV Animation and Basic Cable Animation Negotiating Committee</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 17:21:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SAG National Board of Directors Appoints Bob Bergen National Chair of Television Animation and Basic Cable Animation 
National President Ken Howard reported to the Board regarding the formation of The Presidents’ Forum for One Union – a joint platform with American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) to facilitate development of a process that can lead SAG and AFTRA to form one autonomous union.]]></description>
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		<title>AFTRA Letter &#8211; A New Union for a New World</title>
		<link>http://uniteforstrength.com/?p=2135</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 08:14:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Hollywood Members: Annual Hollywood Division Membership Meeting</title>
		<link>http://uniteforstrength.com/?p=2146</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jun 2010 09:18:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hollywood Members: Annual Hollywood Division Membership Meeting, Saturday, June 19 Hollywood Members: Annual Hollywood Division Membership Meeting, Saturday, June 19 Hollywood SAG members are invited to attend the annual membership meeting on Saturday, June 19, 2010 at the Sportsmen&#8217;s Lodge in Studio City (see schedule below). The meeting will also include the presentation of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wages &amp; Working Conditions Process 2010</title>
		<link>http://uniteforstrength.com/?p=2092</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 02:04:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[American Federation of Television and Radio Artists and Screen Actors Guild are pleased to announce the beginning of the Joint Wages &#038; Working Conditions (W&#038;W) process in preparation for the negotiation of the AFTRA Exhibit A and SAG TV/Theatrical Contract. ]]></description>
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		<title>Actors lose out on health benefits as SAG, AFTRA maintain separate plans</title>
		<link>http://uniteforstrength.com/?p=2061</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 May 2010 19:45:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Actors lose out on health benefits as SAG, AFTRA maintain separate plans By Richard Verrier, Los Angeles Times May 14, 2010 &#124; 7:10 p.m. Fred Ochs&#8217; second career as an actor took off last year. The 62-year-old former software engineer landed gigs on nine TV shows, playing the singing policeman in the crime series &#8220;The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SAG Beats Drum for Merger</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 20:25:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SAG Beats Drum for Merger By Daniel Holloway May 7, 2010 Last month, the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists devoted two pages in its official magazine to a call for merger with the Screen Actors Guild. This week, SAG doubled that effort. The new issue of the guild&#8217;s Screen Actor magazine, mailed to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SAG making case for AFTRA merger</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 07:18:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SAG making case for AFTRA merger: Guild pushing issue to its members in magazine By DAVE MCNARY May 7, 2010 Leaders of the Screen Actors Guild have the urge to merge with AFTRA &#8212; without specifying when that might take place. SAG&#8217;s launching a full-on official push to persuade its 120,000 members combine with the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SAG&#8217;s board makes peace with rival union</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:41:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SAG&#8217;s board makes peace with rival union March 13, 2010 &#124; 12:19 pm Hollywood&#8217;s two actors unions have officially ended their two-year feud. The Screen Actors Guild board of directors voted Saturday by a ratio of 78% to 22% to revive a joint bargaining agreement with its smaller rival, the American Federation of Television and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SAG approves joint-bargaining with AFTRA</title>
		<link>http://uniteforstrength.com/?p=2026</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:51:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SAG approves joint-bargaining with AFTRA March 13, 2010 &#8211; 12:03 pm By Jay A. Fernandez Labor is one step closer to harmony. The Screen Actors Guild’s national board today approved a joint negotiating agreement with the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. The vote was strongly in favor of re-merging for preliminary talks with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AFL-CIO Executive Council Unanimously Supports Anti-Piracy Measures</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:10:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[AFL-CIO Executive Council Unanimously Supports Anti-Piracy Measures Orlando, Mar. 2, 2010 – The AFL-CIO Executive Council, at its meeting today in Orlando, unanimously adopted a statement on the subject of the theft of intellectual property. Submitted to the Council by the Department of Professional Employees on behalf of the entertainment unions and guilds affiliated with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AFTRA approves joint talks with SAG &#8211; Entertainment News, TV News, Media &#8211; Variety</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 01:25:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[AFTRA approves joint talks with SAG Org repairs negotiating relationship with guild By DAVE MCNARY The American Federation of Television &#38; Radio Artists and the Screen Actors Guild have officially repaired their negotiating relationship by taking a major step toward reconciliation &#8212; and joint negotiations &#8212; after a few years of hostility. AFTRA&#8217;s national board [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Actors unions move toward joint bargaining agreement</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 19:06:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Actors unions move toward joint bargaining agreement February 27, 2010 &#124;  5:45 pm Richard Verrier Hollywood&#8217;s two quarrelsome actors unions took a big step toward ending their blood feud and presenting a united front in upcoming contract negotiations with the studios. The board of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, which represents more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SAG elects Howard president</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:51:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SAG elects Howard president Bitter race concluded Thursday By DAVE MCNARY Ken Howard&#8217;s election to national president of the Screen Actors Guildamounts to a repudiation of the uncompromising strategy that previous prexy Alan Rosenberg embodied during his four-year tenure. With an impressive 47% of the vote after a bitter race, Howard&#8217;s win for a two-year [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SAG health and pension plans making cuts</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 04:04:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Changes going into effect starting January Citing major losses in its investments and lower employer contributions, the health and pension plans for the Screen Actors Guild are significantly reducing benefits and increasing premiums in January. And the changes, announced Thursday in the plans&#8217; newsletter to members, have already become a factor in the SAG election [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UFS VIDEOS</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 03:58:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>SAG members look to end dissension in election for president</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:11:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The potential merger with the smaller AFTRA is a key issue in the balloting. When members of the Screen Actors Guild cast their ballots for president in the coming weeks, they will be voting for a leader who can best repair the damage inflicted on Hollywood&#8217;s largest talent union over the last two years. With [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2009 Voting Guide</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 05:59:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>UFS Announces Ken Howard as Candidate for SAG President</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 01:08:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amy Aquino to run for Secretary-Treasurer, 33 others for Board of Directors on UFS slate Unite for Strength today announced Ken Howard as its candidate for Screen Actors Guild President, and Amy Aquino as its candidate for Secretary-Treasurer in Guild elections to be held this September.  Unite for Strength will also field 33 candidates from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seeking Fast Break From Disunity, Howard Runs for SAG Prez</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 04:35:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ken Howard, an actor who gained national recognition for his role as the high school basketball coach of an often-fractious team, is vying to become the next president of SAG, Hollywood&#8217;s most divided union. In addition to Howard, Amy Aquino, who has a decade of previous service in SAG as a board member and vice [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Actors Respond to Contract Ratification</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 03:55:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tony Shalhoub, actor “This is a great decision for SAG and I’m so appreciative of everything the new leadership is doing to put the Guild back on track. They’ve obviously got the right ideas for making SAG stronger.” Stephen Collins, actor &#8220;This contract passed because members knew it was time to take advantage of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Screen Actors Guild Members Overwhelmingly Ratify TV/Theatrical Agreements</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 03:49:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SAG &#8211; Los Angeles, (June 9, 2009) Screen Actors Guild announced today that members have voted overwhelmingly to approve its TV/Theatrical contracts by a vote of 78 percent to 22 percent. The two-year successor agreement covers film and digital television programs, motion pictures and new media productions. The pact becomes effective at 12:01 a.m. June [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 04:06:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guild, AFTRA ad talks will resume Despite recent nudges by Tom Hanks and other high-profile thesps, SAG and the congloms have stayed silent about their long-stalled film-TV negotiations. The Screen Actors Guild has yet to officially acknowledge informal moves by Hanks, George Clooney and other stars to persuade the congloms to find a compromise on [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[With a the help of Tom Hanks and some other A-list actors, representatives of the Screen Actors Guild and the studios are quietly taking another whack and trying to work out their differences. Three weeks after the breakdown in contract negotiations, SAG leaders &#8212; including interim Executive Director David White and chief negotiator John McGuire [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 05:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Four weeks slated for ad industry negotiations With SAG&#8217;s feature-primetime contract at its usual stalemate, the Screen Actors Guild and AFTRA have launched what&#8217;s expected to be a month of negotiations with the ad industry over the commercials contract. Talks began Monday morning at the Crowne Plaza in New York, with both sides presenting their [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 04:11:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hollywood&#8217;s studios should respond to the union&#8217;s shift in leadership with a move to the middle. The Screen Actors Guild lurched in a new direction this week, sacking its top executive and naming a new team to bargain with Hollywood&#8217;s largest studios. After months of infighting, the moderate Unite for Strength faction that won control [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 04:15:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, the Screen Actor’s Guild’s new Interim National Executive Director, David White, sent an email to members, setting a tone of unity and moving forward. It was a very hopeful sign of the new era in place at SAG headquarters. The message was calm, eloquent and forward-looking—in other words, something entirely new from SAG HQ. [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 04:13:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WHERE does the Screen Actors Guild go from here? Hollywood tried to get its head around that question on Tuesday after the firing of Doug Allen, the guild’s executive director and chief architect of its hard-line approach to labor negotiations. Is a strike now off the table? Is the guild ready to accept a contract [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Doug Allen steps down from SAG</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 04:18:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Move follows brutal battle over negotiations Doug Allen, the lightning rod at the center of the Screen Actors Guild&#8217;s bitter polarization, has been fired as national exec director and chief negotiator. Allen&#8217;s gig ended Monday afternoon; several hours earlier, the moderates had delivered &#8220;written assent&#8221; documents terminating him &#8212; two weeks after a 28-hour filibuster [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SAG faction takes fresh shot at Allen</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 04:19:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The board majority of the Screen Actors Guild today stepped up its efforts to oust the union&#8217;s executive director, making its case directly to members. In an e-mail statement to SAG members, the board&#8217;s dominant coalition said it no longer had confidence in the leadership of Doug Allen, citing his &#8220;failed strategy&#8221; for securing a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inside the SAG Boardroom</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 04:21:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sources from inside SAG&#8217;s marathon board meeting blasted Screen Actors Guild President Alan Rosenberg as a &#8220;corrupt and dirty chair,&#8221; asserting that he and his Membership First allies repeatedly abused parliamentary rules throughout the &#8220;surreal&#8221; 28-hour national board meeting earlier this week in order to suppress the SAG board&#8217;s moderate majority. In support of their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SAG seeking more talks</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 04:25:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Allen proposes vote on AMPTP&#8217;s offer Amidst a brutal internal war, leaders of the Screen Actors Guild have put their divisive strike authorization on hold until at least next week so they can explore making a run at a last-ditch round of negotiations with the congloms. The gambit by SAG national exec director Doug Allen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SAG board members spurn Allen gambit</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 04:24:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some call it a Hail Mary pass. Beleaguered Screen Actors Guild Executive Director Doug Allen, who barely survived an effort to oust him from his job at a marathon board meeting this week, is now attempting to make nice with his critics on the board in an apparent last-ditch effort to keep his job. But [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[“THUMBS up” and “thumbs down” ratings for commercials. Choose-your-own-advertisement options before shows begin. Interactive games during advertising breaks. In the last year these online advertising innovations have been popularized by Hulu, the online video Web site that will celebrate its first anniversary on Wednesday. For all that has been written about Hulu’s easy-to-use, aesthetically pleasing [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 03:41:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[AMPTP expected to accept federal mediator The sides are poised to get back to the bargaining table soon — but the more important question is whether SAG or the majors are inclined to budge enough to reach a deal. The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers is expected to confirm as early as today [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 04:49:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the backing of moderates, the dissidents, backed by Tom Hanks and Sally Field, now control a majority of votes on the national board. That could jump-start stalled contract talks with studios. Dissidents backed by Tom Hanks and Sally Field won six of the 11 Hollywood division seats on the national board of the Screen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Actors unite for SAG board election</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:17:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unite for Strength endorses upstart faction Tom Hanks, Alec Baldwin, Felicity Huffman, Marcia Cross, Rob Lowe and Patricia Heaton are among the thesps who have endorsed upstart SAG faction Unite for Strength, which is vying against incumbent group Membership First in the upcoming board election. Unite for Strength is fielding 31 candidates for the 33 [...]]]></description>
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