SAG Hardliners' Picnic No Walk in the Park

What if you held a picnic and nobody came? That's almost where Membership First found itself yesterday. A beautiful day, a heavily promoted event, yet the SAG faction was only able to draw about 70 people to its Griffith Park / LA Zoo shindig, reports Variety.

SAG President Alan Rosenberg, who spoke at the picnic cum rally, predicted "a good chance" of defeat for the pending TV/theatrical deal, but that seems unlikely if MF can only attract a handful of members to an event in LA, considered the group's stronghold. The ballots go out tomorrow (Tuesday the 19^th), with a June 9 return date, so we'll know in a few weeks whether the MF tigers still roar or whether they've turned to paper.

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Well J.Handel it's no wonder the MF "rally" yielded little results. Because this intrafaction of SAG isn't going to give membership what they really want, a strong contract to preserve the livelihood for Union actors, safeguard future use of actor's work/image likeness via residuals, and NOT be exploited by multimedia platforms frequencies, should anyone be surprised the backbone of membership wouldn't sit to break bread with them? Consider this, most starving/struggling look for free meals...not in this instance! Seems this "free meal" comes with a heavy price tag :]