An actor’s strike vote has finally been announced. The Screen Actors Guild plans to send strike authorization ballots to more than 100,000 union members on Jan. 2, a date that doesn’t affect the Golden Globes whatsoever, but puts Oscar night within reach of a potential boycott.

Seventy-five percent of the voting members must vote yes to approve a strike, which the 120,000-plus member union is expected to use as a negotiating ploy to seek further gains from the conglomerates.

After not coming to a contract agreement with producers and studios for nearly six months, mainly over new media residuals, the Screen Actors Guild is set to have its membership vote on authorizing a strike. ”SAG members understand that their futures as professional actors are at stake and I believe that SAG members will evaluate the AMPTP’s June 30 offer, and vote to send us back to the table with the threat of a strike," said SAG National President Alan Rosenberg in a statement today. SAG has been at loggerheads with major studios over compensation for residuals and new media.

The Association of Motion Picture and Television Producers, being on the other side of the battle court said the vote is "to bail out a failed negotiating strategy by going on strike during one of the worst economic crises in history." They hope actors will individually take the responsibility to inform themselves about the contract offer. "No strike can solve the problems that have been created by SAG's own failed negotiation strategy," they said in response to SAG's vote announcement.

The writers strike last year, which lasted 100 days, cost the Los Angeles regional economy an estimated $2 billion.  The strike also disrupted last year's Golden Globe Awards.