Drescher's party -- Unite for Strength -- will still command a majority on the national board, observers say. And as president, Drescher will decide who serves on which committee -- including the committee that will negotiate the union's next TV/Theatrical contract in 2023.

Star of “The Nanny” Takes Helm of a Divided Actors’ Union in the USA

Star of “The Nanny” Takes Helm of a Divided Actors’ Union in the USA

Drescher's party -- Unite for Strength -- will still command a majority on the national board, observers say. And as president, Drescher will decide who serves on which committee -- including the committee that will negotiate the union's next TV/Theatrical contract in 2023.

Fran Drescher claimed victory in her race for president of SAG-AFTRA on Thursday night, and vowed to lock arms with her fellow union members and “rise up out of the melee.”

Easier said than done. Drescher takes charge of a union that is famously fractious, and more divided than it has been in recent years.

Even as the star of “The Nanny” defeated Matthew Modine by a narrow margin, Modine’s dissident faction — Membership First — gained seats on the national board, took overwhelming control of the Los Angeles local, and won the election for national secretary-treasurer, the third-ranking post in the union.

Drescher's party -- <strong>Unite for Strength</strong> -- will still command a majority on the national board, observers say. And as president, Drescher will decide who serves on which committee -- including the committee that will negotiate the union's next TV/Theatrical contract in 2023.
Drescher’s party — Unite for Strength — will still command a majority on the national board, observers say. And as president, Drescher will decide who serves on which committee — including the committee that will negotiate the union’s next TV/Theatrical contract in 2023.

But the gains made by Membership First suggest rising discontent among some of the rank-and-file, at least among the 26.5% of the electorate who returned their ballots.

Drescher campaigned on a platform of vague positivity, and was not steeped in the the minutiae of union affairs. Her detractors see her as little more than a figurehead. But her supporters say she has a steely backbone — and note that she is not bogged down by the bitter internal fights of the past.

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