When it comes to what SAG considers its fair share in new media, the actors union is standing firm.

The union’s national board on Saturday passed, 68-0, a resolution indicating jurisdiction over new media and residuals for all made-for new media productions are of the utmost importance during the current stalled contract negotiations. The resolution was voted on during an 11-hour marathon meeting.
SAG and the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers have been locked in a de facto impasse ever since the production companies and studios made their final offer to the union on June 30.

SAG responded with a counter-proposal, which the AMPTP rejected. Since then, there has been one sidebar meeting between the two sides that failed to resolve the continued stalemate.
The resolution showed the first signs of solidarity among the fragmented national board since negotiations started in April. Board members from SAG’s Hollywood division, led by the faction MembershipFirst, have locked horns with board members in New York, Chicago, San Francisco and elsewhere regarding the current state of negotiations as well as its failed attempt to get members of both SAG and AFTRA to vote down AFTRA’s primetime/TV contract

With negotiations in limbo, Hollywood is at a virtual standstill. While TV productions continue, the major studios do not have many projects filming, in the event that SAG’s negotiating committee decides to take a strike vote and members vote to walk out.