Many happy returns? Guilds, studios eye pre-holiday accords With fall dates for DGA, SAG and WGA contract talks, Christmas could come early By DAVE MCNARY It could — emphasis on could — be an extremely pleasant holiday season for the congloms on the labor front. Thanks to the Directors Guild of America, the Screen Actors [...]

SAG Pension Plan Improves  SAG Prez to chair negotiations committee  The following is what your NEW WORLD AFTRA LEADERSHIP HAS IN STORE FOR ACTORS.  (And A Group is forming to take back SAG’s jurisdiction.) DGA to negotiate with AMPTP in November Directors Guild to wait out SAG, AFTRA talks SAG Pension Plan Improves Slightly, Now [...]

The following must read from the latest SAG’s Hollywood Callsheet. – In My Opinion 1st National Vice President Anne-Marie Johnson Dear Hollywood Division Members: I wish I had positive and encouraging news to share with Hollywood SAG members, but I don’t. Seventy-nine pilots. Seventy-nine scripted dramatic programming pilots. Seventy-nine work opportunities for which our members [...]

  Well, I am happy to say that I have been checking the AFTRA website since I posted this story yesterday, and although eleven days late, it was finally posted. Why did AFTRA wait a third of a month to post it. I’ll leave that up to you. As we showed you, “Lopez Tonight” started [...]

  Impromptu Protest Rally Scheduled at SAG board meeting Saturday Morning Los Angeles and New York, (March 13, 2010) – Screen Actors Guild National Board of Directors today approved 78 percent to 22 percent a joint bargaining agreement with American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) for the negotiation of successor agreements for the [...]