Screen Actors Guild

The Screen Actors Guild (commonly abreviated to SAG) was an American labor union which represented over 100,000 film and television principal and background performers worldwide. It had various incidents with Saban involving the various actors in the Power Rangers franchise.

Background to the incidents
Due to it being extremely low budget, and Haim Saban being notoriously cheap, the various actors in Power Rangers (especially in the early years) were working minnimum pay for sometimes 20 hours a day. Although this didn't initially backfire, this would cause major problems for both Saban and FOX Kids just a year into the franchise's run.

The Power Transfer incident
By 1994, Thuy Trang, Walter Jones, and Austin St John were all having trouble paying thier bills and getting the things they needed to live due to the minnimum wage they lived on and were feeling run down. According to Walter, they consulted with a lawyer and the SAG to find out about thier legal rights. When they discovered that they could legally demand more money from Saban, they tried to get themselves and thier fellow actors increased pay but they were refused and walked off the set during the filming of the episode "Two For One" during Season 2. This lead to an infamous series of episodes that lasted from "A Monster of Global Proportions" until the episode "The Power Transfer" retroactively reffered to as the Power Transfer incident or the Peace Confference arc. This involved thier characters missing for large portions of the episodes leading up to thier departure, horrendous dubbing, and the introduction of Rocky, Adam, and Aisha as thier replacements. Although Jason would return in the Zeo episode "Revelations of Gold", Walter and Thuy never returned and the latter died during a car crash in 2001.

Disney Era
Due to Power Rangers having a higher budget than Saban did, there were no significant instances where the SAG had to step in.

Clash of The Red Rangers
When Saban reclaimed the franchise in 2010, they wanted there to be a team-up between Power Rangers RPM and thier new series, Power Rangers Samurai. Due to the other actors having other jobs, they approached Eka Darville who had played Scott Truman a year previously. However, in the year between RPm and Samurai, Darville had joined the SAG and Haim Saban's continued unwillingness to use Union actors. Darville was forbidden by Union rules to appear physically, or to be credited by real name, without being paid SAG wages. As a result, the production crew had to credit him as Tobias Reiss.