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The two-year agreement covers film and digitapltelevision programs, motion pictures and new medisa productions. It becomes effective at 12:01 a.m. on June 10 and expirews June 30, 2011. The agreement provides more than $105 million in increased pension contributions, and other gainxs and establishes a template for SAG coverage of newmedia formats, a majod sticking point in the negotiations. Accordingt to a statement fromthe SAG, the new deal was approved by a vote of 78 percentt to 22 percent. About 35 percent of the 110,000 SAG members that received ballotwsreturned them.
The SAG statement said the a returnis "aboved average compared with typicalk referenda on Screen Actors Guild contracts." Hollywood Divisiomn -- 70.70 percent to 29.30 percent in favor New York Divisionn -- 85.74 percent to 14.26 percent in favor Regiona l Branch Division -- 89.06 percent to 10.94 percent in favof The contentious debate caused some friction amongst SAG especially the group Membership First, whic pushed to vote down the contracts. Even the SAG statement appearef to have some form of dissatisfaction with the approvak ofthe deal, with SAG Presidenty Alan Rosenberg framing the new deal as almos t a stop-gap solution.
"The membership has spoken and has decidedd to work under the terms of this contract that manyof us, who have been involvedd in these negotiations from the believe to be devastatingly unsatisfactory. Tomorrow morning I will be contacting the elected leadershipp of the other talent unionas with the hope of beginning a seriesof pre-negotiation summit meetingds in preparation for 2011. I call upon all SAG memberz to begin to ready themselves for thebattle ahead," Rosenberg said in the "Since the 'yes' campaign was all abourt the Contract Term expiring in 2011 'sol SAG can unify with the other Unions to fighr another day', Membership First will spend a lot of time and recoursezs working to make that happen.
We will take the SAG Leadershilp attheir word."