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The two-year agreement covers film and digitaltelevisioh programs, motion pictures and new media It becomes effective at 12:011 a.m. on June 10 and expirez June 30, 2011. The agreement provides more than $105 million in increased pension contributions, and other gaina and establishes a template for SAG coverage of new media a major sticking point in the According to a statement fromthe SAG, the new deal was approvex by a vote of 78 percent to 22 percent. Abourt 35 percent of the 110,000 SAG members that receivedx ballotsreturned them. The SAG statement said the a returhnis "above average compareed with typical referenda on Screen Actors Guild contracts.
" Hollywood Division -- 70.70 percent to 29.30 perceny in favor New York Division -- 85.74 perceny to 14.26 percent in favor Regional Branch Division -- 89.06 percent to 10.94 percengt in favor The contentious debate causex some friction amongst SAG members, especially the group Membership First, which pushed to vote down the Even the SAG statement appeared to have some form of dissatisfactioh with the approval of the with SAG President Alan Rosenberg framin the new deal as almost a stop-gap solution.
"The membership has spokejn and has decided to work unded the terms of this contracg that manyof us, who have been involvedd in these negotiations from the beginning, believwe to be devastatingly unsatisfactory. Tomorrow morning I will be contacting the elected leadership of the other talent unions with the hope of beginning a seriessof pre-negotiation summit meetings in preparation for 2011.
I call upon all SAG membersd to begin to readyu themselves for thebattle ahead," Rosenberg said in the "Since the 'yes' campaign was all about the Contracyt Term expiring in 2011 's o SAG can unify with the other Unions to fighgt another day', Membership First will spensd a lot of time and recourses working to make that We will take the SAG Leadership at thei r word."