SAG Members Overwhelmingly Approve Live-Action, Basic-Cable Movie Agreement

Screen Actors Guild members have approved a two-year agreement covering actors in live-action basic cable movies.

The vote was 93.71% approve to 6.29% disapprove.

The deal, retroactive to June 10, includes a 3% pay hike this year and a 3.5% hike on June 10, 2010, as well as additional pension contributions.

"The members have spoken and I am pleased that they had an opportunity to have their voices heard," said guild President Alan Rosenberg in a statement.

The board voted overwhelmingly to approve the agreement last month.

John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.