In a November 21st article of Variety Magazine, SAG CEO Pisano slammed SAG Members Rick Barker and Gil Combs for filing their Conflict Of Interest lawsuit over SAG’s practice of allowing elected officers to also serve as AFTRA board members. On subsequent occasions it seems the current leadership has not missed a beat in berating [...]

Posted: Mon., Jan. 12, 2004, 5:57pm PT WGA looks ahead New guild prexy Holland encourages troops By DAVE MCNARY Variety Magazine HOLLYWOOD — Taking an assertive initial tack, new WGA West president Charles Holland has declared that last week’s surprise departure of Victoria Riskin from the prexy slot hasn’t hurt the guild as it heads [...]

It has been over a year and a half since the ATA/NATR referendum, that CEO Bob Pisano and Melissa Gilbert tried to push onto the membership, was resoundingly defeated. At that time, rather than enforce SAG’s Codified Agency regulations, Mr. Pisano convinced the SAG Board to “temporarily” suspend enforcement of Article 16 (a) of the [...]

Posted: Thurs., Jan. 8, 2004, 4:29pm PT Org taps studio vet chief financial officer By CLAUDE BRODESSER Variety Magazine The Screen Actors Guild has hired Peter C. Frank as deputy national executive director for administration and chief financial officer. He reports directly to executive director and chief exec A. Robert Pisano. The guild had been [...]

The SAG Watchdog has learned that Melissa will utilize a new non-intrusive method to track suspected Internet Union subversives enabling her and her pals to weed out Embedded Union Busters, unauthorized e-mail senders, those who oppose Qualified Voting, the ATA/NATR giveaway and Consolidation! Therefore, since we know that the Ol’ SAG Watchdog, and its readers [...]