Actor Alan Rosenberg Elected SAG PresidentSAG members elected actor Alan Rosenberg and his supporters, who ran on a platform advocating a tougher stance on labor negotiations with studios and advertisers. Rosenberg, who won with 40 percent of the vote, takes over the 120,000-member union after outgoing leader Melissa Gilbert declined to run for another term. She cited excessive infighting as her reason to forego another bid for president. Industry experts predict that the new leadership will take a more confrontational stance with giant media companies. Rosenberg contended during the campaign that SAG gave in too easily during its last negotiations on the issue of better residuals for DVD sales and promised to demand more. “Actors have real value,” he said in an interview with the
Los Angeles Times. “We are the product in this town and we have
to stand up and start behaving like it.” 09-26 |