Jun
10
2009
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Screen Actors Guild Members Overwhelmingly Ratify TV/Theatrical Agreements
Los Angeles, (June 9, 2009) – Screen Actors Guild announced today that members have voted overwhelmingly to approve its TV/Theatrical contracts by a vote of 78 percent to 22 percent.
The two-year successor agreement covers film and digital television programs, motion pictures and new media productions. The [...]
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May
19
2009
Message from David White, Interim National Executive Director
Dear SAG Member:
Today ballots for the tentative agreement reached for television, motion pictures and new media will be mailed to all eligible members around the country. As you know, our National Board of Directors has voted to recommend this contract for your approval. For a number of important reasons, I believe they were right to [...]
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May
17
2009
TV/Theatrical Contract Referendum Update
May 17, 2009
Dear Screen Actors Guild member,
After more than a year of negotiations, ballots for the tentative agreement reached between SAG and the AMPTP for television programs, motion pictures and new media formats will be mailed on Tuesday, May 19.
We urge you to carefully read the materials and to cast your vote. The SAG National [...]
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Jan
27
2009
SAG Contract 2008- Update From the New Interim Director
Dear Screen Actors Guild member,
As I enter my first full day today as your new Interim National Executive Director, I have reflected on a Los Angeles Examiner story from 1937 that once hung on the wall of my Screen Actors Guild office when I served as General Counsel.
The article chronicled the moment when [...]
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Jan
23
2009
SAG Contract 2008- Update
Los Angeles (January 15, 2009) — Screen Actors Guild today released the following message for distributors and Screen Actors Guild signatories in response to press reports that studio-affiliated distributors have raised concerns about their potential obligations as distributors of motion pictures produced under Guaranteed Completion Contracts in the event of a SAG work stoppage.
SAG’s [...]
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Jan
22
2009
SAG Contract 2008- A MESSAGE FROM ERIC BOGOSIAN
A MESSAGE FROM ERIC BOGOSIAN
Dear Friends,
The New York Board of the Screen Actors Guild has released a statement of non-support for the upcoming strike authorization vote. I am writing to tell you that I was not part of the meeting in which this resolution was adopted, I did not vote for it and I object [...]
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Jan
15
2009
SAG Meeting adjourns with no Action
Los Angeles, (January 13, 2009) — SAG National President Alan Rosenberg sent the following message to Screen Actors Guild national board members and alternates today:
“At the end of the National Board plenary meeting this afternoon, a group of board members submitted a document to the Guild that purports to deal with the employment of the [...]
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