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SAG also reps movie stars, but the A-listers are too rich to care about residuals, and most have sweetheart producing deals with the studios. The stars that do support strikes do so less out of financial self interest and more out of a personal liberalism. The sheer numbers-advantage that the sporadically-employed have in the union have caused many to suggest stripping voting rights from all but a select few; unsurprisingly, that measure has been unpopular.
SAG is quite well known for their [http://www.sag.org/content/global-rule-one "Global Rule One"], which bars their members from working in non-union environments. This made it especially difficult for voice actors who had entered the voice acting business through [[Anime]] (like [[Steve Blum]] and [[Crispin Freeman]]) and reprise some of their old roles, as most anime dubbing projects are considered non-union <ref>Although there are some union studios that do specialize in anime dubbing, [[Bang Zoom]] is one of the few studios that is a union shop and is contracted to SAG and AFTRA</ref>. Needless to say, the Global Rule One is [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|one of the main reasons that]] ''[[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|limited]]'' [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|work for their members]] and some of them even had to work in non-union shops under a pseudonym to [[Take a Third Option|work around this rule]].
There is an out, however. Under current US labor law (not just Hollywood unions) an individual can claim "financial core" status. This requires the individual to pay union dues, and allows them full union protection on union jobs, but does not obligate them to honor the union's bylaws (such as the aforementioned "Global Rule One"). [[Berserk Button|Even mentioning this to a SAG diehard is a bad idea,]] and they routinely put out notices about how "fi-core" will eventually be the end of organized labor as we know it.
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