Applications are processed locally, so the national board is limited in what it can do. The board also instructed staff to help local offices and SAG in sharing information about strikebreakers.
Punishments can include fines, suspension and expulsion.
SAG's strike committee voted two months ago to enact a permanent ban on membership for actors performing struck work, and its national board endorsed the move last weekend at its plenary meetings. During the strike, activists kept hundreds of strikebreaker photos. That database is being maintained by a SAG committee of two dozen members, who will be required to sign confidentiality agreements.