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Article: Hanks sides with AFTRA in SAG feud.(Tom Hanks, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists and Screen Actors Guild)
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- Daily Variety
- Article date:
- June 23, 2008
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Raising the stakes in the SAGAFTRA brawl, Tom Hanks has joined the pro-AFTRA forces in an endorsement of the smaller union's primetime deal.
Hanks has added his name to a list of more than 100 signatures as part of a campaign encouraging AFTRA's 70,000 members to vote yes on the pact over SAG's strident opposition. The pro-AFTRA letter blasts SAG's recent anti-AFTRA campaign and accuses SAG leadership of clinging to unrealistic contract demands that are "hold(ing) us all hostage."
Other signers include former SAG board members James Cromwell, Mike Farrell and Tess Harper and current board members Morgan Fairchild and Richard Masur, a former SAG ...