SAG has set members-only informational meetings on the proposed contract. Supporting the deal are SAG staff and the SAG National Board, including SAG's moderate majority leadership, comprised of the LA-based Unite for Strength faction, LA independent board member Morgan Fairchild, and most or all of the NY and regional board members. MORE >>

Voting on party lines, a sharply divided SAG board approved the tentative deal with the studios yesterday by a vote of about 53% to 47%. Current SAG president Alan Rosenberg has come out in opposition to the deal, while Ned Vaughn, leader of the moderate Unite for Strength group, told Variety that he favored a yes vote. percent to 46.62 MORE >>

Variety has details: SAG's deal includes a 3.5% percent to approve and recommend to members, new, two-year successor agreements to the 2005 Producer-Screen Actors Guild Codified Basic Agreement and 2005 Screen Actors Guild Television Agreement. SAG is a proud affiliate of the AFL-CIO. salary increase in the second. MORE >>

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became the Executive Director of the Nashville Local in 1986 and became AFTRA’s National Director of Sound Recordings in 2005, while continuing in my role as the Director in Nashville. In addition to AFTRA, the other unions in the 4A’s are SAG, [Actors'] Equity, AGMA, and AGVA. Virginia, 377 U.S. 1 (1964)). People loved him. MORE >>