Los Angeles (January 15, 2009) — Screen Actors Guild today released the following message for distributors and Screen Actors Guild signatories in response to press reports that studio-affiliated distributors have raised concerns about their potential obligations as distributors of motion pictures produced under Guaranteed Completion Contracts in the event of a SAG work stoppage. SAG’s [...]

A MESSAGE FROM ERIC BOGOSIAN Dear Friends, The New York Board of the Screen Actors Guild has released a statement of non-support for the upcoming strike authorization vote. I am writing to tell you that I was not part of the meeting in which this resolution was adopted, I did not vote for it and [...]

Los Angeles, (January 13, 2009) — SAG National President Alan Rosenberg sent the following message to Screen Actors Guild national board members and alternates today: “At the end of the National Board plenary meeting this afternoon, a group of board members submitted a document to the Guild that purports to deal with the employment of [...]

Dear Screen Actors Guild Member, Screen Actors Guild today released the following statement in response to the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producer’s (AMPTPs) ad scheduled for tomorrow. “There they go again. The AMPTP’s ad is great fiction, with convoluted bullet points and confused messages — and, it’s completely wrong. Here’s the truth: * [...]

Dear Screen Actors Guild Member, In an “open letter” full-page ad published today in the Los Angeles Times, eight entertainment industry CEO’s whose annual salaries and bonuses exceed the amount needed to achieve labor peace for our industry asked why SAG wants a better deal than the other Hollywood guilds. What they conveniently left out [...]

Dear Screen Actors Guild Member, On Wednesday, October 1, the SAG National TV/Theatrical Negotiating Committee passed an advisory motion to the national board of directors that will be discussed at the board’s upcoming plenary meeting in Los Angeles on October18 and19. The advisory motion recommends that the national board should send a strike authorization referendum [...]

Dear Screen Actors Guild Member, On Wednesday, October 1, the SAG National TV/Theatrical Negotiating Committee passed an advisory motion to the national board of directors that will be discussed at the board’s upcoming plenary meeting in Los Angeles on October18 and19. The advisory motion recommends that the national board should send a strike authorization referendum [...]