April 6, 2013, 6:50am Filed in: Contracts From SAG-AFTRA Website NEW YORK, (APRIL 6, 2013) — SAG-AFTRA and the Joint Policy Committee have reached a tentative agreement on terms for successor agreements to the television and radio commercials contracts, subject to approval by the SAG-AFTRA National Board of Directors later this month. Both parties recognized [...]

If you want to run for SAG-AFTRA president…ah, get out the Ol’ Checkbook!!!!! Excerpted from Page 21 SAG-AFTRA Constitution —— Article V1  National Officers G. Nomination and Election Procedures a. President and Secretary-Treasurer Candidates for President and Secretary-Treasurer shall be nominated by petition as follows: For President, a written petition signed by not fewer than [...]

The latest from the Great Reporter Dave McNary….ah, with a few ‘low key’ interjections from the Ol’ SAG Watchdog.  (The story sans interruptions follows below.) _________ Opposition remaining dialed down for now Dave McNary Film Reporter @Variety_DMcNary SAG-AFTRA has kept hype and hoopla to minimum since its rowdy announcement of the merger between the Screen [...]

  AFTRA 2   SAG    5:00 AM PDT 3/28/2013 by Jonathan Handel   One union is more harmonious than two, but major, concrete accomplishments have not yet materialized. Ben Affleck, Seth MacFarlane, Oprah Winfrey – in Hollywood, hyphenates are king. But has Hollywood’s hyphenated actors union been more successful than its two independent predecessors? [...]

03.19.13 | 03:56PM PT Dave McNary Film Reporter @Variety_DMcNary The AFTRA-Producers Retirement Plan gained 5.9% to $1.86 billion in fair market value of its assets last year and continues to operate with more than 80% funding of its liabilities. The plan, which operates independently of the SAG-AFTRA performers union, made the disclosures this week on [...]