The embattled Screen Actors Guild on Thursday saw a dissident slate elected to its national board, adding pressure on the U.S. actors union to compromise and reach a new deal with Hollywood studios.

The union election saw enough members from the opposition Unite for Strength slate join the board to wrest control away from the MembershipFirst faction, which has long controlled SAG under president Alan Rosenberg.

Rosenberg struck a conciliatory tone in his reaction to the board election: ‘Now it’s time to work in tandem on behalf of SAG members throughout the country, to get a fair contract we can all be proud of. A union divided benefits only the employers, and SAG members deserve nothing less than unified, focused leadership,’ he said in a statement.

A possible end to the current stalemate at the bargaining table between SAG and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers follows a week where the union’s leadership and rebel members jockeyed for position.

On Wednesday, SAG revealed that 87% of its membership polled urged its leadership to turn down the latest offer from Hollywood producers and to continue negotiating a new contract.

At the same time, only 10% of SAG’s 103,630 paid-up members responded to the mail-in poll included in an Aug. 28 update on the current bargaining between SAG and the studios.

The AMPTP branded the union survey ‘a farce’ and said it was designed to give SAG a mandate to continue negotiating without polling members on the studios’ latest offer.

Hollywood actors have continued to work since June 30, when their last contract expired and the studios made a final offer, subsequently rejected by SAG officials.