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SAG-AFTRA, Companies Extend Contract Another 24 Hours
For a second day in a row, SAG-AFTRA and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers have agreed to extend the current TV and movie contracts for 24 hours. The deals had been set to expire...
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SAG-AFTRA Leaders Tout ‘Significant’ Gains in New Contract with Companies
SAG-AFTRA president Ken Howard and national exec director David White (pictured above) have touted “significant gains” in the union’s new tentative deal with production companies — including a...
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SAG-AFTRA Ratification Ballots Out to 137,000 Members
Voting has begun in SAG-AFTRA’s first-ever master contract covering work in movies, primetime TV and new media over three years. The performers union has mailed notifications to approximately 137,000...
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SAG-AFTRA Board Gives David White New Four-Year Contract
The SAG-AFTRA national board has approved a new four-year deal for David White as national executive director. The board approved the deal Sunday. Details of the agreement were not disclosed. Howard...
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SAG-AFTRA Launches Network Code Negotiations
SAG-AFTRA and the networks have launched negotiations over successor agreements to the union’s Network Television Code master contract. The union said Monday it has agreed with the networks to a news...
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SAG-AFTRA Reaches Deal on Network Code Contract
SAG-AFTRA and the networks have reached a tentative agreement over a three-year-plus successor agreement to the union’s Network Television Code master contract. The deal covers about $200 million in...
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SAG-AFTRA’s David White: Health Plans Moving Closer to Merging
The SAG and AFTRA health plans have moved closer to combining into a single plan, according to SAG-AFTRA national executive director David White. The plans remain separate more than three years after...
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SAG-AFTRA Finances Improve, $9.1 Million Surplus Posted
Citing increased dues and initiation fees along with expense management, SAG-AFTRA has posted a $9.1 million surplus for its fiscal year ended April 30 — a 14% improvement from the previous $8 million...
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SAG-AFTRA Dials Up Campaign Against Droga5 Over Non-Union Ads
SAG-AFTRA has culminated its campaign against ad agency Droga5 for using union performers for non-union work, leaving a petition with 8,000 signatures at the agency’s New York headquarters. The union...
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SAG-AFTRA Commercials Contract Talks Set for Feb. 17
SAG-AFTRA has set Feb. 17 as the starting date for its negotiations with the advertising industry on a successor deal to its master contract. The union’s national board voted Saturday to approve the...
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SAG-AFTRA: ‘We Do Not Have Enough People of Color’ in Leadership Roles
SAG-AFTRA’s top executive has called on Hollywood to increase the numbers of people of color in leadership roles to address the industry’s diversity problem. David White, national executive director of...
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SAG-AFTRA Seeks Senate Approval of Beijing Treaty on Audiovisual Performances
SAG-AFTRA has backed President Barack Obama’s move to seek U.S. Senate ratification of the 4-year-old Beijing treaty protecting the intellectual property rights of audiovisual performers. “SAG-AFTRA’s...
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SAG-AFTRA Launching Ad Industry Contract Talks in Silence
SAG-AFTRA and the advertising industry are quietly launching commercial contract talks Wednesday, seven weeks before the current master contract expires on March 31. Both sides have declined to comment...
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57 SAG-AFTRA L.A. Members Seek to Fire Exec Director David White
Fifty-seven Los Angeles SAG-AFTRA members are seeking to dismiss David White, the union’s national executive director since 2009. The action, approved Sunday in a 57-40 vote at the SAG-AFTRA Local...
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SAG and AFTRA Health Plans to Merge by January
SAG and AFTRA’s health plans are on track to be combined by January, according to the top trustee of the AFTRA plan. If the merger goes through, it would come five years after members of SAG and AFTRA...
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SAG-AFTRA Keeping December’s Cuba Trip Under Wraps
SAG-AFTRA sent a high-powered seven-person delegation to the Havana Film Festival in early December — the union’s first official visit to the island since the 1959 Cuban Revolution — and has kept most...
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SAG-AFTRA Seeks State Probe Into ‘Stressful’ Vocal Work for Videogames
SAG-AFTRA is asking the state of California to investigate the videogame industry for allegedly allowing unsafe practices that damage performers’ vocal chords. The union, in a letter posted on its web...
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SAG and AFTRA Health Care Plans to Merge
The trustees of the Screen Actors Guild – Producers Health Plan and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists Health Fund have approved the merger of the two plans. The merger, announced...
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SAG-AFTRA’s Funds Held in Trust Jump 4.5% to $171.7 Million
SAG-AFTRA’s funds held in trust for others have increased by 4.5% to $171.7 million since last year, according to the union’s latest filing with the federal government. Those funds have been at the...
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SAG-AFTRA Board Extends David White’s Contract to 2020
SAG-AFTRA’s national board has given a two-year extension to David White as National Executive Director to 2020. .The board voted unanimously on Saturday to extend White’s agreement to Oct. 11, 2020,...
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