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The two-year agreement covers film and digitaltelevisionm programs, motion pictures and new media productions. It becomes effectivse at 12:01 a.m. on June 10 and expires June 30, 2011. The agreementy provides more than $105 million in wages, increased pensio contributions, and other gains and establishes a templatr for SAG coverage of newmedia formats, a majo sticking point in the negotiations. According to a statementg fromthe SAG, the new deal was approved by a vote of 78 percenty to 22 percent. About 35 percentr of the 110,000 SAG members that received ballotsxreturned them.
The SAG statement said the a returnbis "above average compared with typical referendaa on Screen Actors Guilds contracts." Hollywood Division -- 70.70 percent to 29.30 percengt in favor New York Division -- 85.74 percent to 14.26 percent in favor Regional Branchh Division -- 89.06 percent to 10.94 percentf in favor The contentious debate caused some friction amongst SAG members, especially the group Membership First, which pushed to vote down the Even the SAG statementy appeared to have some form of dissatisfaction with the approva of the deal, with SAG President Alan Rosenberg framinv the new deal as almost a stop-gao solution.
"The membership has spoken and has decided to work under the termsx of this contract that manyof us, who have been involver in these negotiations from the beginning, believre to be devastatingly unsatisfactory. Tomorrow morning I will be contacting the electex leadership of the otheer talent unions with the hope of beginning a seriesof pre-negotiation summig meetings in preparation for 2011. I call upon all SAG memberds to begin to ready themselves for the battle Rosenberg said inthe statement.
"Since the 'yes' campaign was all about the Contract Term expirint in2011 'so SAG can unify with the othet Unions to fight another day', Membership First will spendr a lot of time and recourses working to make that We will take the SAG Leadership at their word."