SAG-AFTRA Files NLRB Complaint Against Producers Of Films & TV Shows From DC Universe Over Clip Reuse On ‘DC Daily’

In the wake of IATSE’s historic strike authorization vote, SAG-AFTRA leaders are calling on Hollywood’s employers to hear the complaints of their workers and adopt “a more conscious capitalism.”

Kate Aurthur editorShannen Doherty has acted since she was a child, and throughout the 1980s, she worked steadily on television (as Jenny on “Little House on the Prairie”) and in movies (as Heather Duke in “Heathers”). In the early ‘90s, she achieved icon status after the slow-burn explosion of the teen soap “Beverly Hills, 90210,” which propelled its cast into the spotlight, and led the gossip press to follow their every move.

SAG-AFTRA and National Public Radio have agreed on a new nationwide contract covering 521 NPR employees including hosts, correspondents, newscasters, reporters, announcers, editors, producers, research, archive and data strategists, and news app developers and designers.

SAG-AFTRA and a coalition of music artist groups have submitted public comments to the Federal Trade Commission asserting that “onerous” contract and employment terms are “rampant” in the entertainment, recording and news industries. These “unconscionable” contracts, they say, not only “harm fair competition and restrict workers from building their careers,” but also “disproportionately” harm underrepresented groups, especially in the music business.

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After Deadline broke the news Monday that CAA said was acquiring ICM Partners in the first major Hollywood agency tie-up since the WMA-Endeavor deal in 2009, the bombshell news has began sinking in around the industry.

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The Directors Guild of America, SAG-AFTRA, Writers Guild of America East and The International Brotherhood of Teamsters are standing in solidarity with IATSE in its efforts to reach a new film and TV contract with the AMPTP.“On behalf of our hundreds of thousands of members working across film and television, we stand in solidarity with our I.A.T.S.E. brothers, sisters and kin,” the four groups said in a statement.

Hollywood’s unions have issued a statement of support for IATSE in its efforts to reach a new film and TV contract with management’s AMPTP, saying that they “stand in solidarity” with IATSE as it prepares to conduct a strike authorization among its members.

SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher has joined the chorus of actors voicing their support for IATSE’s demands for a fair contract as IATSE prepares to take a strike authorization vote. “Standing in #solidarity w/my on-set friends & colleagues in @IATSE,” she tweeted Wednesday. “Entertainment content only happens bc our crews are extraordinary.”

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Fab four! Kim Kardashian doesn’t want any more kids after welcoming North, Saint, Chicago and Psalm with Kanye West.

It may not be over just yet for rocker Lindsey Buckingham and his wife Kristen Messner. After over 20 years of marriage, Messner filed for divorce from the former Fleetwood Mac musician in June.

A staffer on Good Morning America has filed a new claim against ABC, contending that the network retaliated against her after she filed a formal complaint alleging that the show’s top producer sexually assaulted her.