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AFTRA Board Approves Joint Bargaining With SAG
At a videoconference meeting today in New York and LA, AFTRA’s national board unanimously voted to approve joint bargaining with SAG for the Primetime Television Contract and the SAG TV/theatrical contract. The move comes a month after SAG’s national board voted, by a tally of 82% to 18%, to “seek engagement with AFTRA in a joint bargaining agreement for negotiation of the Television/Theatrical Contract.” Assuming SAG and AFTRA sign a formal agreement to bargain jointly – which seems highly likely – the negotiations with the AMPTP (studio alliance) will be conducted under
Digital Media Law
- Saturday, February 27, 2010
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SAG-AFTRA Commercials Update
Small moves by each side, but movement nonetheless, characterizes the ongoing commercials contract negotiations being held in New York between SAG and AFTRA jointly and the advertising industry, according to a source close to the talks. The unions retain the option of seeking a strike authorization, the source added, but are not planning to do so as yet, given the incremental progress being made. No doubt the uncertainty of obtaining authorization in this financial and industry climate is also a factor. A welcome bit of news: the source said that SAG and AFTRA are working well
Digital Media Law
- Tuesday, March 24, 2009
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SAG Letter re Force Majeure Claims
SAG just sent members an email regarding force majeure claims. It's reprinted below. ——————— Subscribe to my blog ( jhandel.com ) for more about SAG, or digital media law generally. If you work in tech, check out my new book How to Write LOIs and Term Sheets . ——————— DUNCAN CRABTREE- IRELAND DEPUTY NATIONAL EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AND GENERAL COUNSEL May 12, 2009 Dear SAG Member: I am writing to update you on the status of certain “ force majeure ” claims filed on your Go to the blog itself to subscribe via RSS or email. Or, follow
Digital Media Law
- Wednesday, May 13, 2009
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Independent New Media Productions
There are casting notices out there for SAG new media productions under the “SAG New Media Contract.” Rather, it’s a new media contract (the SAG New Media Agreement) that’s been available to independent producers for a number of years—that is, producers who are not signatories to the theatrical and/or agreements. of the SAG New Media Agreement, wages are freely bargained by the employer and the performer. Third, performers should recognize that independent A few notes may help clarify what these are, and help performers enforce a few of their rights. First, this is not the new media sideletter recently negotiated with the AMPTP (major studios) as part of the theatrical contract.
Digital Media Law
- Tuesday, June 16, 2009
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Pilots Overwhelmingly AFTRA Again
About 60 pilots for scripted network primetime programs will be shot under AFTRA contracts this year, while few – or perhaps none – will be produced under SAG jurisdiction, according to sources close to the two unions, who spoke on condition of anonymity. This continues a trend that began last year, when roughly 90% of pilots (and 83% of pilot pickups ) went AFTRA. Those numbers, in turn, were a stunning reversal from previous years, which had had SAG garnering about 90% of pilots and 86% of pickups in 2008. But to see such figures two years in a row raises a fundamental question: Is SAG fading out of the TV business? Maybe so.
Digital Media Law
- Monday, February 8, 2010
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SAG Cutting Staff by 8%
Because of a budget shortfall, SAG's cutting its staff by 8%, or 35 people out of 440, report the trades, LA Times and blogs (see SAGWatch for links). The budget shortfall is allegedly due in part to uncontrolled spending by SAG while it was underMembershipFirst control for the last several years, according to a report on SAGWatch. Tags: SA No word on whether any top-level staffers will go. One source said that all names known internally are clerks and similar staffers.
Digital Media Law
- Wednesday, April 22, 2009
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SAG Interim Nat'l Exec Director Hired as Permanent
SAG's Interim National Executive Director David White just got the permanent gig and can drop "Interim" from his title. The vote on today SAG's national board, which began meeting yesterday and is still meeting today for a little while longer, was 70.91% in favor, I'm told, which suggests that a few of the Membership First directors joined the moderate coalition in appointing White to the job. The appointment is well-deserved: Not only is White a calming or so, closing one deal after another, including, or course, the biggies (TV/theatrical and commercials). Now the work begins
Digital Media Law
- Sunday, October 18, 2009
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SAG Board Meeting Grinds On Into the Night
The SAG National Board meeting, which began about 9:00 a.m. Tuesday, or more than 18 hours later. I left the site of the meeting, SAG’s LA headquarters at about 2:00 a.m. As I left, food arrived, suggesting more long hours for the sleep-deprived board, including the jet-lagged New Yorkers and regional (RBD) members. Since Tuesday’s session was scheduled to start at 9:00 a.m., they’ll probably just continue straight through. Maybe they’ll dim the lights and doze off in their chairs. The scene, it must Monday morning, apparently continues as of this hour, 3:45 a.m. and
Digital Media Law
- Tuesday, January 13, 2009
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Hollywood Docket: SAG strike 'difficult to envision'; iTunes class action; DJ AM settlement
Entertainment law news this morning: Sources tell lawyer/blogger Jonathan Handel that a SAG strike in the upcoming negotiating cycle is "difficult to envision." A federal judge in Illinois refused to dismiss a class action lawsuit against Apple for selling iTunes...
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SAG: What Might Happen at Next Week's Board Meeting
The SAG National Board is meeting next Monday and Tuesday, Jan. 12-13, and speculation is rampant over whether SAG will send out the postponed strike authorization ballot (as well as whether the negotiating team will be replaced). But what if, rather than send out the authorization ballot, SAG leaders decide instead to send out the deal itself for a vote? That’s just one of the intriguing possible outcomes of next week’s meeting. Here’s why it might happen: support for the strike authorization vote is eroding. Rather than risk defeat, the hardliners who control the Guild
Digital Media Law
- Tuesday, January 6, 2009
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SAG-AFTRA Non-Disparagement?
A month and a half ago, SAG and AFTRA signed an agreement not to disparage each other, with significant fines apparently being the consequence for violation. Although the terms of the agreement are confidential, Variety quoted an AFTRA officer at the time explaining that AFTRA was advised to “scrub” all critical material on the Internet about SAG. Looks like SAG didn’t get the same advice. Go to http://www.sag.org/tvtheatrical-negotiations and click on “Vote No” in the left-hand navigation bar—or, just go to http://www.sag.org/vote-no —and you can read all about how AFTRA’s deal
Digital Media Law
- Sunday, December 7, 2008
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