And those “local” supporters have just learned, the hard way, what it means to have David and the UFS gang behind them!!! —— Local Leaders Oppose Restructure Plan By Sean J. Miller     (Posted April 26, 2013, 6:43 p.m.) Backstage Magazine  SAG-AFTRA’s office closures and staff cuts are coming under fire from within the union’s leadership, with critics [...]

The cuts amount to about 15 percent of the union’s staff and could save $8 million per year in salaries and benefit costs.                                                                                          “Newest Sign at 5757 Wilshire” by  Jonathan Handel: SAG-AFTRA will lay off 70 to 80 employees, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. The terminations are part of a restructuring plan meant to [...]

Newly-obtained figures show SAG’s decline, AFTRA’s rise, and other changes in the pilot process. 12:11 AM PDT 3/25/2012 by Jonathan Handel * In a stomach-churning plunge more typical of a double black diamond ski run than a business graph, the Screen Actors Guild’s share of scripted primetime television fell from 93 percent in 2008 to [...]

I want to preface a listing of the new shows and their jurisdiction with this from Brian Hamilton who oversees the SAG  Actors’ Bulletin Board: “The members of Screen Actors Guild are being presented with a dilemma. They’re being told AFTRA is going to take more of SAG’s organized work because “digital has no jurisdiction” [...]

SAG/AFTRA Merger: Leaked Mercer Report Raises Questions About Opposition Lawsuit (Exclusive) by Jonathan Handel   Does the 2003 study prove the anti-merger case as claimed? It’s time for union members to judge for themselves. For almost a decade, proponents of a SAG/AFTRA merger have been haunted by the long shadow of a confidential study that [...]