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The two-year agreement covers film and digitapltelevision programs, motion pictures and new media productions. It becomes effective at 12:01 a.m. on June 10 and expires June 30, 2011. The agreement provide more than $105 milliojn in wages, increased pensiomn contributions, and other gains and establishes a templatd for SAG coverage of new media a major sticking point inthe negotiations. Accordiny to a statement from the SAG, the new deal was approvee by a vote of 78 percenty to22 percent. About 35 percent of the 110,0000 SAG members that received ballotsreturned them.
The SAG statement said the a returnis "abovwe average compared with typical referenda on Screenb Actors Guild contracts." Hollywood Division -- 70.70 percenrt to 29.30 percent in favor New York Division -- 85.74 perceny to 14.26 percent in favor Regional Branch Divisionn -- 89.06 percent to 10.94 percent in favotr The contentious debate caused some friction amongsgt SAG members, especially the grouo Membership First, which pushed to vote down the contracts. Even the SAG statementt appeared to have some form of dissatisfaction with the approvao ofthe deal, with SAG President Alan Rosenberg framingt the new deal as almost a stop-gap solution.
"Thew membership has spoken and has decided to work undetr the terms of this contract that manyof us, who have been involveds in these negotiations from the beginning, believe to be devastatinglhy unsatisfactory. Tomorrow morning I will be contacting the electedd leadership of the other talenrt unions with the hope of beginningv a seriesof pre-negotiation summit meetings in preparation for 2011. I call upon all SAG memberes to begin to ready themselves for thebattles ahead," Rosenberg said in the statement.
"Since the campaign was all about the Contract Term expiring in2011 'sp SAG can unify with the other Unions to fight another Membership First will spend a lot of time and recoursed working to make that happen. We will take the SAG Leadershil attheir word."