In the battle for YouTube supremacy, Unite for Strength has fired off half a dozen guns. Ken Howard’s video is here. He calls for “building unity with our labor partners, especially AFTRA” and criticizes SAG’s previous leadership for fighting with AFTRA instead of working with them. “We can not afford not to be united,” he [...]
In a complicated decision, the AFL-CIO umpire has ruled on AFTRA’s complaint that SAG had disparaged AFTRA. SAG interim NED David White and AFTRA NED Kim Hedgpeth have sent out a memo, including the umpire’s summary of the decision: With respect to the May 11 resolution adopted by the SAG Hollywood Division Board, establishing a [...]
It’s both bizarre and at the same moderately revealing. It calls itself “unedited” but at the same time says it’s excerpts in an obviously heavily edited interview-style production. It contains a lot of softball questions. On Merger: He’s against it. He says SAG has bad leadership that hasn’t enforced jurisdictional boundaries with AFTRA. Should the branches have [...]
After insisting they want a live debate, Anne Marie Johnson’s New York supporters say they’ll hold a one hour teleconference in which she’ll respond to member questions, but only if those questions are submitted at least a day in advance. Wednesday, September 2, 2009 from 8:45 to 9:45 PM Eastern, 5:45 to 6:45 Pacific. Call [...]
What do you see as the responsibility of the office of SAG President (or the office for which you are running)? To represent and reflect the majority of the union as a whole. (Important: must keep all members informed of the agenda of current National Board with decisions made for all member’s that will be [...]
In an article today in the Los Angeles Times, Richard Verrier describes the current state of the Guild as “weakened” and says the election is really about finding “a leader who can best repair the damage inflicted on Hollywood’s largest talent union over the last two years.” Curiously, Verrier writes; SAG has become so weakened, [...]
