In an open conference call today, SAG VP and presidential candidate Anne-Marie Johnson said she will seek a strike authorization next year.
David Dean Bottrell | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics
If the new SAG leadership doesn't rapidly start taking all the painful, but necessary steps to merge with AFTRA, we are fucked.
Richard Schiff | Posted 07.07.2009 | Entertainment
There isn't a producer in Hollywood who can look you in the eye and keep a straight face while telling you this contract is fair and right.
AP | Posted 03.25.2009 | Entertainment
LOS ANGELES — The Screen Actors Guild board of directors on Saturday rejected the "last, best and final offer" by Hollywood producers for a new ...
Jonathan Handel | Posted 02.27.2009 | Entertainment
The moderates on the SAG National Board today delivered a document to SAG headquarters that ousts Doug Allen as National Executive Director and dissolves the negotiating committee.
Jonathan Handel | Posted 02.13.2009 | Entertainment
As I left the site of the meeting at SAG's LA headquarters at about 2:00 a.m., food arrived, suggesting more long hours for the sleep-deprived board.
Jonathan Handel | Posted 02.12.2009 | Entertainment
The SAG National Board meeting began this morning at 9:00 a.m. accompanied by light informational leafleting from pro and con sources. The meeting is expected to be contentious.
Jonathan Handel | Posted 02.10.2009 | Entertainment
For someone (anonymous, no less) to urge a blacklist of fellow actors for taking a legitimate position on a union issue seems inimical to the spirit of the SAG Awards.
Jonathan Handel | Posted 02.06.2009 | Entertainment
Where do SAG contracts go when they expire? Who knows, but wherever it is, it's getting more crowded by the day. The Guild's got a lot of unfinishe...
Jonathan Handel | Posted 02.06.2009 | Entertainment
Support for the strike authorization vote is eroding. Rather than risk defeat, the hardliners who control the Guild may instead push for the deal to be sent out to the members for ratification.
Jonathan Handel | Posted 02.02.2009 | Entertainment
The strike authorization vote may get canceled altogether--or it might not. In light of this uncertainty, it's still critical to ask whether a strike authorization and possible strike make sense.
Alec Baldwin | Posted 01.31.2009 | Entertainment
One is that Danny Boyle wins for Best Director and that Slumdog Millionaire is Best Picture at the Oscars. I hope its star, Dev Patel, is, at the very least, nominated for this incredible film.
Jonathan Handel | Posted 01.22.2009 | Entertainment
The Screen Actors Guild has delayed sending out the strike authorization ballots until January 14 at the earliest, representing an approximately two-week delay from the originally scheduled mailing date of January 2.
Jonathan Handel | Posted 01.18.2009 | Entertainment
If there's a strike, we may be looking at next fall before there's a deal. In a nightmare scenario, all bets are off.
Jonathan Handel | Posted 01.15.2009 | Entertainment
The reception in New York couldn't have been more different than in Los Angeles last week -- it's clear that this is now a union in open civil war.
E! | Posted 01.15.2009 | Entertainment
While support for an actors' strike was already running thin thanks to the industry-wide burnout still being felt from the 100-day writers' strike in ...
Jonathan Handel | Posted 01.15.2009 | Entertainment
Citing the economy, over 130 A-listers "strongly" urged SAG members not to authorize a strike, and instead "take the high road ... three years down the line ... make a great deal."
Jonathan Handel | Posted 01.07.2009 | Entertainment
I think you'll find this useful if you want to understand the issues, rather than just listen to slogans and each side's self-interested positioning.
Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 01.04.2009 | Entertainment
After over four months negotiating with the AMPTP conglomerates, the Screen Actors Guild announced they were finally asking their members for a strike authorization vote. I can feel their pain.
David L. Wolper | Posted 12.26.2008 | Entertainment
In my 50 years in show business, I have never seen a worse negotiation by a guild than that being conducted by the team of the Screen Actors Guild with the studios for a new contract.
Michael Seitzman | Posted 12.26.2008 | Entertainment
The time we're in now isn't more hospitable to a work stoppage or a better deal. The only thing SAG's timing is more hospitable to is home foreclosure.
Jonathan Handel | Posted 12.25.2008 | Entertainment
Mediation between the studio alliance (the AMPTP) and the Screen Actors Guild failed late Friday night, and SAG announced plans to seek a strike authorization vote from its members.
AP | Posted 12.23.2008 | Entertainment
LOS ANGELES — The Screen Actors Guild said Saturday it will ask its members to authorize a strike after its first contract talks in four months ...
AP | RYAN NAKASHIMA | Posted 11.02.2008 | Entertainment
LOS ANGELES — The Screen Actors Guild's negotiating committee voted Wednesday to support a strike authorization vote, a tactic meant to break st...
Jonathan Handel | Posted 10.04.2008 | Entertainment
When will there be a new SAG TV/theatrical contract - i.e., when will the studios and SAG close a deal? My guess: not until January or even February of next year.
Jonathan Handel | Posted 11.19.2009 | Entertainment