June 13, I'll be on a labor panel at the UCLA Altered States Media Conference, sponsored by the UCLA Producers Program and the UCLA Festival for New Creative Works. Conference price ranges from $80 (guild members or out of school 5 years or less), $125 (general admissions), $175 (MCLE legal education credit), and $25 (student). MORE >>

This is a problem—if true, it would explain in part why Rosenberg and his co-plaintiffs continue the futile and disruptive suit against SAG, which is burning up the union’s money at a that the guild has ben left with a $6 million deficit by MF. Go to the blog itself to subscribe via RSS or email. It’s pro bono.” MORE >>

SAG and AFTRA announced yesterday that their combined paid-up membership, about 132,000 members, overwhelmingly ratified the contracts between the unions and the advertising industry. According to Vaughn, Rosenberg was asked at the meeting what he proposed the union do if it voted down the deal. Of those voting, about 94% voted yes. MORE >>

The referendum on the proposed contract between SAG and the studios began yesterday, as ballot packets were mailed to about 110,000 paid up members of the Screen Actors Guild. The proposed deal expires in mid-2011, as do the Directors Guild, Writers Guild and AFTRA deals.) Should the two unions merge? So what next? MORE >>

Where did the Screen Actors Guild go? After months of news—a near daily barrage covered diligently by various journalists and citizen-journalists, including this author—the guild fell off the radar screen. That appears to violate an agreement between the two unions that prohibits disparagement and raiding. The stakes are high. MORE >>