In the recent developments of the Screen Actors Guild inner conflict caused by leadership division, the board majority of SAG is pressuring the union’s executive director Doug Allen to step down, Los Angeles Times reported.

In an e-mail statement to SAG members, the majority coalition claimed it no longer had confidence in the leadership of Doug Allen, citing his “failed strategy” for securing a new contract for actors. SAG members have been without a contract for almost seven months.

Following last week's marathon board meeting, Allen proposed delaying the controversial strike-authorization vote and delivering the studios' contract offer to the membership for a ratification vote, which according to SAG New York president Sam Freed would have been “irresponsible and cynical.”

Freed also suggested that under the direction of Doug Allen, the guilt spent in vain hundreds of thousands of dollars of members' money criticizing the contract in an effort to manipulate the membership. The studios have calculated that the refusal of SAG leaders to accept the AMPTP's final offer made on June 30 means that members have missed out on $46.5 million in pay gains.

But there were no indications that negotiators for the AMPTP would be willing to resume any talks with SAG, particularly not with Allen's future at the guild in doubt.

Monday’s statement went on accusing Allen and SAG President Alan Rosenberg of preventing moderates from voting on a resolution to fire Allen and replace the negotiating committee during last week’s meetings.

”We firmly believe that SAG needs a change of course and a new captain,” the board members said. “Mr. Allen has held fast to a failed strategy for over half a year, even as members have lost nearly $50 million from working under an expired contract.

”With a new direction, we can turn this around and put the Screen Actors Guild back on the right track,” the statement added.