Making its way around the e-mail chains: It’s a simple fact that a majority of Membership First board members voted against joint bargaining with AFTRA for the TV/Film contract talks that start in September. Considering the negative effects of separate negotiations in the last round of talks, voting against joint negotiations this time is remarkable [...]
Can’t make this stuff up, folks. Maybe they’re busy changing their story (again!). Or deleting their links to their supposedly hacked original site. Update: the blog reappeared overnight, having apparently been heavily edited. The links are gone, as is a post about a fundraiser. Curious.
It looks like the whole thing was a stunt designed to push the harder line core positions of Membership First with a layer of deniability. It failed. The fading SAG faction has two websites, one at membershipfirst.com, the other a blog at membershipfirst.blogspot.com. In an apparently well coordinated though poorly conceived effort last night, the [...]
Also posted at their website: SAG election ballots will be mailed this week and your vote will answer a critical question:Are actors stronger in one union or two? You know where Unite for Strength stands. Uniting SAG and AFTRA is part of our mission, and we’re actively taking steps to make it happen. SAG President [...]
The original Membership First site has either been hacked or someone’s playing some strange games. The front page of membershipfirst.com replaced by a virulent anti-AFTRA message which originates on the SAGActor website, run by a long time MF supporter. In the meantime, the group on its newer site has announced a $25 per ticket fundraiser [...]
The TV Theatrical plenary has concluded, and the proposals from the dozens of sessions across the nation have been winnowed down to a priority list. That’s the good news. The bad news: the session was in many ways the most acrimonious of the entire process, with one particular well known individual making a real spectacle [...]
