Screen Actors Guild Plans to Take Strike Consent Vote
Edward Wyatt for NYTimes.com
LOS ANGELES — The Screen Actors Guild appeared determined to go ahead with a strike authorization vote after a group of board members failed in an attempt to oust the union’s lead contract negotiator.
The national board of the Screen Actors Guild adjourned a marathon 30-hour meeting on Tuesday afternoon without voting on a proposal calling for the removal of Doug Allen, the union’s national executive director, from his role as lead negotiator for the 120,000-member union.
The ouster had been proposed by a group of moderate board members who were seeking to overturn a previously approved referendum to submit a strike authorization vote to the union’s 120,000 members.
Though that group recently won a majority of seats on the union’s national board, they apparently were not able to overcome parliamentary measures that kept their proposal from coming to a vote in a meeting that lasted throughout the night on Monday and into Tuesday afternoon.
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