On Monday, Reuters had this piece:

Tensions Mount Inside Actors Union Over Contract

By REUTERS

Filed at 9:28 p.m. ET

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Tensions within the Screen Actors Guild mounted on Monday as the union’s Hollywood-based leaders rejected a call by SAG’s New York branch to bring in a federal mediator to break a deadlock in contract talks with major studios.

Members of the New York regional board also publicly challenged the assertions of SAG president Alan Rosenberg and chief negotiator Doug Allen that the union is holding informal talks with studio representatives in a bid to close a deal.

And they accused SAG negotiators, in a resolution passed unanimously last week by the 23-member New York board, of "failing to bargain realistically … and remove unattainable items from the table."

"There’s no discernible plan here," New York division board member Paul Christie told Reuters. "You can’t have a plan that just says, ‘We’re holding secret meetings.’ And our question is just what the hell does that mean?"

Rosenberg condemned the resolution as "political" in nature and "an attempt to damage SAG’s negotiations."

 

   A lot of the tension comes out of the feud between SAG and AFTRA. Speaking of Rosenberg:

Both accuse his coalition of straining relations with SAG’s smaller sister union, the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, through SAG’s failed campaign to scuttle a contract negotiated separately between AFTRA and the studios.

   This is all pretty sad. SAG has had internal battles for the past couple of decades. But, AFTRA skates free from criticism in this article–and it shouldn’t. AFTRA was equally at fault in creating the tension, as I observed back when this whole thing bubbled up.