SAG-AFTRA ‘Extremely Disappointed’ That Rescheduled Grammys Conflict With SAG Awards

Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterSAG-AFTRA said Tuesday that it will consider expelling President Donald Trump from membership over his role in inciting the attack on the U.S. Capitol two weeks ago.Union president Gabrielle Carteris initiated charges against Trump, accusing him of promoting misinformation that led to the attack, which left five people dead and more than 50 police officers injured.

SAG-AFTRA took a major step Tuesday towards kicking Donald Trump out of the union. Meeting in special session, the national board of directors voted overwhelmingly to find “probable cause” that Trump, who has been a member for over 30 years, has “violated the union’s Constitution,” and ordered the matter to be heard by SAG-AFTRA’s Disciplinary Committee.

EXCLUSIVE: Donald Trump is facing possible expulsion from SAG-AFTRA. Deadline has learned that the union’s national board of directors will meet Tuesday morning in a special session regarding disciplinary action against him, which could lead to his expulsion.

When the Grammy Awards decided last week to change their show’s date, picking March 14th, it was only a matter of time until the other shoe dropped. Of course, that date was also held by the Screen Actors Guild Awards, so a corresponding move was inevitable.

LOS ANGELES -- The Screen Actors Guild Awards will not share the same air date as the Grammys after all.The SAG Awards announced Wednesday that the 27th annual ceremony has been moved to April 4.Both awards events were scheduled to air March 14, but the SAG Awards shifted to a different date to avoid conflict with the Grammys.The SAG Awards will air on TNT and TBS at 9 p.m. EST.

The film and television industry’s return-to-work protocols, which were adopted in June following the initial Covid-19 shutdown, have been “a remarkable success,” according to SAG-AFTRA leaders, who are telling their members that “the data indicates that our production sets remain safe environments despite the surge in community infection rates in various North American cities.”

Recording Academy announced on Jan. 5 that they would be rescheduling this year's GRAMMYs show to March 14 due to continued concerns about the COVID-19 pandemic.

The SAG Awards have once again been pushed back further into 2021 so as not to conflict with the newly announced date for the 2021 Grammy Awards.

The 2021 SAG Awards are moving again amid the pandemic.

The 2021 SAG Awards now will be handed out on Sunday, April 4, three weeks after the March 14 date announced during the summer. The 27th annual awards show originally was set for January 24 but has changed twice — first due to the Covid-19 pandemic and now to move off the new date set for the rescheduled Grammy Awards.

Also Read: SAG-AFTRA 'Extremely Disappointed' That Rescheduled Grammys Conflict With SAG AwardsSAG-AFTRA had said it was “extremely disappointed” that the Grammys moved to March 14. Now it appears that union is being the bigger union.“We are extremely disappointed to hear of the conflicting date, March 14, announced today for this year’s Grammy Awards telecast,” SAG-AFTRA said in a statement one week ago.

Janet W. Lee The 27th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards has been rescheduled to April 4, after the Grammy Awards moved to its previous date of March 14.The awards ceremony will be broadcast on TNT and TBS at 6 p.m.

SAG-AFTRA has filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the executive poaching battle between Netflix and Disney-owned Fox. The union isn’t taking sides but says “the case raises important questions about the right of workers to pursue employment opportunities, and the strong protections in California law against employers holding their workers off the market, especially when they are not being compensated for that time.”

SAG Awards bosses are "extremely disappointed" the Grammy Awards have been rescheduled for the same day as their ceremony.

Recording Academy announced on Tuesday that they would be rescheduling this year's GRAMMYs show to March 14 due to continued concerns about the COVID-19 pandemic. The original show was set to take place on Jan.

The 2021 Grammys were postponed this week due to the Coronavirus and it was announced that music’s biggest night would kick off on March 14, 2021 instead. However, there’s already another awards show that night: the 2021 SAG Awards.

Concerns over the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic will delay the planned 2021 Grammy Awards ceremony.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeNow that the Recording Academy and CBS have moved this year’s Grammy Awards telecast to March 14, that puts it in competition with the 27th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards — and SAG-AFTRA is not happy with the news.The COVID-19 pandemic has forced the shuffling of most dates this awards season, and as the Oscars and Golden Globes pushed their 2021 ceremonies into the spring, so did the SAG Awards, which announced the revised March ceremony date on July