SAGWatch – Observing the Screen Actors Guild and AFTRA

Jonathan Handel says in addition to wanting retroactivity and higher wages, the Teamster-represented business agents feel unloved.

Ballots hit the mail this week for the SAG National and Division Board elections. We invite the candidates to submit their answers to our annual questions for the candidates survey. Our list is based both on the questions you submitted in comments and by e-mail, as well as our own. As we have in the [...]

The AMPTP has announced that all five of the major craft unions have now ratified their contracts. Jonathan Handel’s analysis…

SAG Press Release: New Orleans (August 12, 2010) — Screen Actors Guild National Executive Director David White has been named “Entertainment, Sports & Art Law Section Attorney of the Year” by the National Bar Association, the oldest and largest association of African American lawyers and judges. The honor was presented to White today in New [...]

AFTRA, DGA, IATSE, SAG and MPAA Joint FCC Filing The following is a joint filing submitted to the Federal Communications Commission today by a broad coalition of entertainment industry guilds, unions and studios, including AFTRA, DGA, IATSE, SAG and the MPAA who have combined forces to speak with one voice on the issue of Internet [...]

When even the Teamsters and IATSE bury the hatchet and start working together, you have to think good things are going to happen. It might even become a trend. Jonathan Handel has some analysis.