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you have some facts wrong, david.

1) the traditional split between SAG & AFTRA is film versus video. film being the historic purview of SAG and video AFTRA's. the advent of digital video has put the two guilds at logger heads, as both claim a piece of it.

2) AFTRA has and had primetime, network television contracts. Mostly sitcoms going back to (at least) the early 90s. indeed, it was because of this that SAG started giving out contracts with AFTRA terms.

3) SAG has a history of undercutting their own contracts. where once their were just two types of feature contracts (regular budget/low budget), there are now 3 low budget contracts. limited exhibition contracts (which while paying $100/day stipulated that if sold the actors must be paid the difference between that and regular SAG scale) were replaced by ultra low budget contracts (which also pays $100/day, but no deferrment of scale should pic sell).

4) WGA had a similar situation in qualified voting. they solved it by offering reduced dues payments for those who do not qualify as voting members. that is how it passed their own membership vote. considering the people in power right now owe that power to the "great unwashed" see a tooth and nail fight over this issue (regardless if it is a good idea).

5) unmentioned in your article is that SAG is a house divided against itself. the hollywood board rules as their votes count more than the other branches. SAG NY is disgusted with how things are being run (but have not the votes to do anything about it).

i could go on about how stupid it is that SAG tried to sever relations with AFTRA, but this post is already too long.

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