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The battle for control of SAG-AFTRA has turned ugly, with allegations and threats of lawsuits flying between the feuding factions. Unite for Strength, the union's ruling party, is calling on Matthew Modine and his MembershipFirst opposition party to publicly denounce the "rhetoric of hate" allegedly espoused by…

Camryn Manheim, SAG-AFTRA's national secretary-treasurer, and nine other members of her Unite for Strength ruling party have filed an election campaign violation complaint against Matthew Modine, Joely Fisher, Sam Rubin and their MembershipFirst opposition party. The complaint, filed with the union's national election…

SAG-AFTRA is the only major Hollywood union that doesn't own its own headquarters, and that's become a topic of heated debate between its warring factions in the union's ongoing election of national and local officers. SAG – and now SAG-AFTRA – hasn't owned its own national offices for 35 years, leasing at two…

SAG-AFTRA presidential candidate Matthew Modine says the union "cannot survive" two more years of the sacrifices that the current leadership has asked members to make and compared a vote for his rival Fran Drescher – who's making her first run for union office – to a vote for a former U.S. president "who said he'd be…