Here’s the official announcement: Los Angeles (October 15, 2009)-Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists announced today that the AFTRA Administrative Committee and Screen Actors Guild National Board of Directors have approved an 18-month extension to the SAG Industrial and Educational Contract and AFTRA Code of Fair Practice for Non [...]
We totally jumped the gun on a post earlier today. The extension of the Interactive contract has not been ratified by either SAG or AFTRA – it’s on SAG’s National Board agenda this weekend. There is a mini controversy brewing over the interactive extension relating to what are being called “atmospheric” voices — really more [...]
In a National Board session demonstrating that at SAG even the simple things are never easy, the board voted to delay increasing the initiation fee (which only went up to its current level a couple of years ago) and only managed a 52-48 majority to oppose the closing of the Motion Picture & Television Fund [...]
It seems pretty much unanimous that joint negotiations work best, with SAG and AFTRA together at the table against the employers. So here’s the question about to be put to the boards of both unions. The Commercials Contract process worked. We had joint W&W and joint committees working unanimously under the Phase 1 rules and [...]
AFTRA announced that it has appointed a Non-Broadcast/Industrial/Educational Steering Committee to prepare for renegotiation of the Non-Broadcast/Industrial/Educational Code. That contract expires October 31, 2009. That’s one of the contracts formerly covered under Phase One. There’s some irony in the timing of the announcement – just as the flap over the Membership First/Hollywood Board raiding committee [...]
It turns out the session Monday with the SAG and AFTRA’s NEDs, the unions’ lawyers and the AFL-CIO umpire was more of a preliminary session than a full hearing. We’re hearing that the tone was constructive, rather than punitive – the idea was to see if there might be a way to deal with the [...]
