In a victory for the SAG moderate coalition, the Unite For Strength candidates for president, Ken Howard, and secretary, Amy Aquino, won the union's national offices.
Jonathan Handel | Posted 11.24.2009 | Entertainment
According to unofficial sources, and as SAGWatch is reporting, SAG moderates have won every open NY Board seat that was up, and all the regional seats that were up as well.
Jonathan Handel | Posted 11.19.2009 | Entertainment
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.
Jenna Busch | Posted 09.10.2009 | Entertainment
You have to have a script to work with in order to do the novelization. An outline would be horribly inadequate. You also hope for supplementary materials.
Jonathan Handel | Posted 07.13.2009 | Entertainment
With the SAG contract ratified, will the film business finally get back to normal? Unfortunately, no. Although we'll see a brief spike in production,...
AP | RYAN NAKASHIMA | Posted 07.10.2009 | Entertainment
LOS ANGELES — Members of the Screen Actors Guild voted overwhelmingly to ratify a two-year contract covering movies and prime-time TV shows made...
Jonathan Handel | Posted 06.20.2009 | Entertainment
David White heralded the proposed agreement between SAG and the studios as "a good deal with solid gains," and added that "Within the context of negotiations [lasting] over a year and an economy changed radically since 2008, it's a fantastic deal."
Jonathan Handel | Posted 06.19.2009 | Entertainment
Where did the Screen Actors Guild go? After months of news, the guild fell off the radar screen. The quiet was deceptive however.
Jonathan Handel | Posted 06.17.2009 | Entertainment
SAG President Alan Rosenberg, who spoke at the picnic cum rally, predicted "a good chance" of defeat for the pending TV/theatrical deal, but that seems unlikely if MF can only attract a handful of members to an event in LA.
Jonathan Handel | Posted 06.13.2009 | Entertainment
SAG's Hollywood branch, dominated by the hardline Membership First faction, has passed a motion forming a task force to explore "acquisition of actors...
Earnest Harris | Posted 05.31.2009 | Entertainment
The toll of this month's long semi-strike, the 100 day long writer's strike, and the Director's Guild and AFTRA negotiations in 2008, has impacted and hurt not only our wallets, but our hearts as well.
Jonathan Handel | Posted 05.21.2009 | Entertainment
The Screen Actors Guild National Board of Directors today voted to approve and recommend to members, new, two-year successor agreements to the 2005 Producer-Screen Actors Guild Codified Basic Agreement.
Jonathan Handel | Posted 05.19.2009 | Entertainment
Hanging over all of this are the twin factors of the economy and new media. The troubled economy will continue to harm the entertainment industry for some time to come.
AP | RYAN NAKASHIMA | Posted 05.18.2009 | Media
LOS ANGELES — The Screen Actors Guild and the Hollywood studios said Friday they have reached a tentative deal on movie and prime-time TV show p...
Jonathan Handel | Posted 05.06.2009 | Entertainment
Last year proved that time is not on SAG's side. Recall that the union's then-leadership wanted better terms in new media than the other Hollywood uni...
Jonathan Handel | Posted 05.02.2009 | Entertainment
SAG and AFTRA reached a deal with the advertising industry, retaining the compensation structure for broadcast network commercials, and resisting the industry's attempt to reduce pension and health contributions.
Jonathan Handel | Posted 04.17.2009 | Entertainment
Though it gets less play than the stalled SAG TV/theatrical talks, SAG and AFTRA have been jointly negotiating for several weeks with the advertising industry over the commercials contract.
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 03.23.2009 | Entertainment
The Screen Actors Guild is besieged by bad news, and thanks to the misguided strategies of the previously-dominant hard-line faction, the union may be slipping towards irrelevance.
Frank A. Weil | Posted 03.21.2009 | Business
The answer begins by explaining that the word credit is derived from the ancient word "credere" meaning to believe, to trust.
Jonathan Handel | Posted 03.16.2009 | Entertainment
Friday the 13th proved unlucky for SAG president Alan Rosenberg and his co-plaintiffs in their lawsuit against their own union.
Jonathan Handel | Posted 03.12.2009 | Entertainment
The SAG Board met yesterday and re-affirmed actions already taken in writing two weeks earlier: the ouster of former National Executive Director Doug Allen and the replacement of the negotiating team.
Jonathan Handel | Posted 03.02.2009 | Entertainment
The chance of a strike is close to zero.
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 11.24.2009 | Entertainment