SAGWatch – Observing the Screen Actors Guild and AFTRA

This is their e-mail announcement:

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Chances are, the SAG /AFTRA Commercials contract referendum and the AFTRA elections ballot are in your pile of mail right now – and the SAG TV/Theatrical referendum is on its way. How you vote in each will help determine your future as a professional performer.

THE CONTRACTS

UFS strongly urges your YES vote on both contracts. We’ll be writing about the TV/Film contract in a separate email – in the meantime, please visit www.SAG.org <http://www.sag.org/im-voting-yes>  to see a brand new video featuring SAG members from across the country explaining why they’re voting YES.
 
As for the Commercials contract, suffice it to say that even in the current divisive climate at SAG, that contract was approved unanimously by both the SAG and AFTRA Boards. If that isn’t a recommendation, we don’t know what is, so please mark your ballot YES and mail it IMMEDIATELY: it has to arrive by this Thursday May 21st.
 

THE AFTRA ELECTIONS

Just as important for your future is your vote in the AFTRA elections. And there the answer is also clear: the AFTRA Leadership Team. (http://www.aftraleadershipteam.org).
 
Like Unite for Strength, the candidates of the AFTRA Leadership Team understand that to fight effectively for our rights and careers we must be strategic and unified. They understand what performers need, and approach our profession as a business. They know that having two unions representing us is a fundamental problem – and that merger will solve it. That’s why the AFTRA Leadership Team has consistently supported merger.
 
The other group that’s running – Membership First – rejects that approach. As part of SAG’s current and former leadership, they led a costly attack against AFTRA in the run-up to the last negotiations, and now want to bring their divisive tactics to AFTRA itself. No matter how they dress up their approach, it boils down to the same thing: more fighting between our unions.
 

The AFTRA LEADERSHIP TEAM – for Strength in Unity

If the past year has taught us anything, it’s that when our unions fight, we lose. The AFTRA Leadership Team has already proven itself, navigating turbulent waters with a steady hand. You can trust them to work hard with SAG to bring all performers together and harness the true strength of unity.
 
Please find your AFTRA ballot, vote for the candidates listed below, and mail it right away - but no later than June 1st - so it arrives by June 3rd.
 
 
Unite for Strength
 
PS: If you’re a New York member, you’ll find an equally strong group of candidates, all committed to unity, at www.AFTRAnow.org <http://www.AFTRAnow.org> .

THE AFTRA LEADERSHIP TEAM CANDIDATES (To view a PDF sample ballot – click here <http://www.aftraleadershipteam.org/images/2009_Candidate_Ballot.pdf> )

  NATIONAL BOARD

Bobbie Bates
 Susan Boyd Joyce
 L. Scott Caldwell
 Gabrielle Carteris
 Milo Edwards
 Jay Gerber
 D.W. Moffett
 Ron Morgan
 Paul Petersen
 Jason Priestley
 Sally Stevens   

L.A. OFFICERS

President: Ron Morgan
1st VP:  Susan Boyd Joyce
 2nd VP: Gabrielle Carteris
 3rd VP:  Bobbie Bates
4th VP: Jason George 
  Secretary: Patrika Darbo
   Treasurer: Jay Gerber   

L.A. LOCAL BOARD

David Andriole
 David Bowe
 Susan Boyd Joyce Raza Burgee
 Andrew Caple-Shaw
 Gabrielle Carteris
 Mimi Cozzens
 Sandra de Bruin
 Galen Hooks
 Bob Joles
 Kate Linder
 James Schneider
 Marcia Strassman
 Mike Sakellarides
 Chuck Southcott
 Dick Wells   
  
AFTRA CONVENTION DELEGATES   

 Vote ONLY for the candidates on the PDF sample ballot (click here <http://www.aftraleadershipteam.org/images/2009_Actor_Delegate_Voting_Guide.pdf> )…
 OR
Vote for ONLY 106 of the candidates being recommended by the Nominating Committee.
  (Either way, make sure that you vote for NO MORE than 106 convention delegates.)

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