In words strikingly reminiscent of Membership First’s salvos from three years ago, a member of the SAG Interactive Negotiations Committee and former Membership First Hollywood Board member, David Sobolov, says he’s quit the committee. Sobolov has long been an AFTRA critic and was an unsuccessful candidate for AFTRA’s National Board running with a Membership First-led [...]
Dismaying, to say the least. Videogames, which had seemed a new source of union employment unaffected by the recession, has now apparently succumbed to the economic forces that have devastated the industry. Year over year sales 2009 vs. 2008 were down 9%, despite a good Christmas season. Now there’s January 2010 vs. January 2009. Down [...]
After the rejection of the proposed Interactive Agreement by SAG Hollywood, over the objection of the rest of the country, and after AFTRA accepted the same deal SAG rejected, there have no new negotiations between SAG and the producers. Variety says SAG earnings under interactive have plunged to under $3 million and look to drop [...]
Just as Captain Renault said in Casablanca that he was “shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!” we found it somewhat anticlimactic that SAG reported member earnings down in 2008. As reported by Variety: SAG actors saw earnings decline 2.5% last year to $2 billion, mostly due to TV earnings plunging [...]
The margin is said to be 2-1. Here’s the official announcement! The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) – a national union of more than 70,000 professional performers, recording artists and broadcast journalists working in the entertainment and news media – announced today that AFTRA members have ratified a new AFTRA Interactive Media [...]
We couldn’t help but be struck by the wild inaccuracy of some of the claims about the tentative AFTRA Interactive contract coming from the usual suspects in Hollywood. The biggest doozy is the claim that the vote in Hollywood and San Francisco can be taken to represent 85% of the work, since 85% of the [...]
