$257,345.22. That, we’re told is the near final, if not final, total of your dues dollars spent by the Allens in their failed anti-Exhibit A campaign. As in more than 40% more than they told the NEC it would cost, and 250% more than the Allens are telling everyone they spent. $257,345.22. For what? – [...]
This was forwarded to us today, originally from Ned Vaughn and Amy Brennerman. – From: Ned Vaughn & Amy Brenneman <info@uniteforstrength.com> Date:  Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:05:29 -0700 To: SAG Members <info@uniteforstrength.com> Subject: Unite for Strength: SAG Members Committed to Change  Fellow SAG members,  Earlier this year, over 1500 of us petitioned SAG [...]
He was hired in January 2004 to serve as then NED Bob Pisano’s Assistant NED for Administration and Finance. Like Pisano, a former studio exec, Peter Frank replaced Francesca Hickson, who left in the fallout of the failed 2003 AFTRA merger campaign. In 2005, Frank would become the interim SAG NED when Greg Hessinger was dumped as part of a [...]
Clocks. Two of them, on their homepage. One counting up the dollars the producers say SAG members are losing in pay raises by working under the expired TV-Theatrical contract. It’s approaching $7 million as of this writing. The other clock counts the days and hours since the expiration of the contract, saying that new media [...]
As predicted, Membership First is already accusing Unite for Strength of “lying” about the suddenly changed budget projection the Allens announced for SAG, an overnight swing from a $6.5 million deficit to a $4 million surplus, announced just in time for the election campaign. After calling us “scumbags” for publicizing and questioning the instant and oh-so-fortunate-for Membership First [...]
According to Andrew Salomon in a BlogStage post, SAG has concluded it wants to extend the Commercials Contract – a decision believed to be the same reached by AFTRA last week. Neither union has held W&WC sessions on Commercials contract proposals. The post also says the Allens have gone one step further, telling AFTRA that SAG [...]
