Despite continued discord within Hollywood's biggest labor union, members of the Screen Actors Guild are expected next month to ratify a tentative studio contract narrowly endorsed by its governing board. Industry experts say approval of the proposed deal would help rejuvenate feature film production that has languished since the old contract covering 120,000 SAG members in film and television expired nine months ago, heightening concerns of a strike. However, a group of Hollywood actors remains staunchly opposed to the proposed two-year deal, and is gearing up to fight its ratification by members. Scott Wilson, a 67-year-old actor who has been in more than 50 movies and nearly a dozen TV shows, is part of the hardline group opposing the deal and has protested the studio's offer for the last 12 weeks in front of the Guild's headquarters in Los Angeles. Wilson argues that the agreement is dangerous because it allows producers to create Internet-only shows with non-union actors, opening the door to the union's eventual irrelevance.
