You may notice a change at the top of our page. And in the coming few days we think you’ll understand more about why we’re looking forward with optimism, and positioning ourselves for the future. As we’ve said several times, SAG’s top leadership and key AFTRA leaders have been in touch on a pretty regular [...]
Disney/Marvel. NBC/Univision/Universal/TBA… Kraft/Cadbury. But not SAG/AFTRA. No, that would be bad. (end sarcasm font.) Does that really make sense?
To be sure, the choices haven’t changed. But the stakes are certainly much higher, as the Screen Actors Guild faces the next year. While we’re expecting that when the votes are counted Tuesday the TV-Theatrical Contract will be ratified, the ultimate choices don’t change either way. Two very different visions of SAG’s future have been [...]
A couple of comments and e-mails got us thinking about the distinctions between the two principal factions in SAG and the two principal slates running in AFTRA. They’re really parallel in their thinking. As we see it, both groups recognize that we’re in this to try to improve the wages and working conditions of all [...]
We’re taking a break for the holiday. Barring the unlikely event of the AMPTP playing Santa and us noticing that they did it, we’re all putting union activity aside, and heading for family activities. We hope you’re all doing the same, and that your holidays are a lot better than this past year! All the [...]
Speaking in terms that could not be misunderstood, SAG members in Hollywood have joined their union brothers and sisters nationwide in saying “Enough.” Enough to the posturing. Enough to working without a contract. Enough to the war between the branches. And, perhaps most of all, enough to the Allens’ and Membership First’s war with AFTRA. [...]
