Tom Hanks, a Screen Actors Guild member since 1980, called Thursday’s Guild election “the most important of our existence.”
Sure, the comment was made in a recent YouTube video Hanks shot to bolster his Unite for Strength SAG presidential candidate of choice, Ken Howard, and a hyperbolic tone never hurts when doing these kinds of campaign ads.
But the assertion may not be too far off the mark.
Thursday’s SAG election — which pits the pragmatist Howard against the less moderate Membership First candidate Anne-Marie Johnson, as well as independents Asmar Muhammad and Seymour Cassel — could go a long way toward determining whether the traditionally go-it-alone labor union will finally merge with the more heterogeneously structured American Federation of Televison & Radio Actors.
Hotly Contested SAG Election Comes to a Vote
Could determine if the traditionally go-it-alone labor union will finally merge with AFTRA.