Screen Actors Guild

After more than a year in limbo, the Screen Actors Guild has announced that its members voted to approve new TV and theatrical contracts by a vote of 78 to 22 percent.According to SAG, the two-year agreement covers film and digital TV programs, motion pictures and new media productions. The contracts provide more than $105 million in wages, increased pension contributions and other gains and establishes a template for SAG coverage of new media formats. The pact became effective June 10 and expires June 30, 2011. About 35 percent of the union’s 110,000 members returned ballots. Votes in favor of the contract exceeded 70 percent in the union’s three