SAG Pickets GM in Advertising Strike

The Screen Actors Guild, which has designated General Motors Corp. as its “main target” in the union’s 5-month-old strike against national advertisers, picketed GM plants and distributed leaflets near GM dealerships in California and several other states. Former SAG President Ed Asner and other union members handed out leaflets near a Chevrolet dealership in Los Angeles. GM was targeted because “the company has been aggressively producing nonunion commercials,” union spokesman Greg Krizman said. SAG said its members were joined by Teamsters-represented GM employees at an assembly plant near Atlanta, and that production inside the plant was disrupted. GM denied that the Teamsters’ action slowed production. In a related development, SAG said funeral services for member William Embry, 38, who collapsed and died Tuesday while picketing in Los Angeles, will be held at 9 a.m. Saturday at Inglewood Cemetery and Mortuary on West Manchester Boulevard.