Hollywood Strike Talk Might Be Just an Act

Uncertainty still reigns in Hollywood as the largest actors union, the Screen Actors Guild, faces a pair of tough choices, Variety reports. SAG could try to sabotage a deal reached by the smaller American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, and it will need to get its members to authorize a strike if its contract with studios expires June 30 without a new agreement. 

One analyst says "interunion strife" will keep SAG from getting the 75% vote needed to OK a strike; encouraging members who also belong to AFTRA to nix that union's agreement with studios could backfire if it passes by a wide margin and further erodes SAG's bargaining position. "SAG is the caboose on a train that is traveling full speed," the analyst notes. (More Screen Actors Guild stories.)