SAG-AFTRA & Music Artist Groups Tell FTC That “Onerous” Contracts Are “Rampant” In Entertainment, Recording & News Industries

EXCLUSIVE: Dues payable by SAG-AFTRA’s high-earning members will be going up over the next two years, per a resolution passed at the union’s recently-concluded 5th biennial convention. The dues hike will be achieved by increasing the maximum earnings on which members pay their percentage of work dues.

Ben Whitehair, a staunch supporter of SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher, has been elected executive vice president of the union at its fifth biennial convention. He succeeds Rebecca Damon in the post, which is the union’s second-highest elected position.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefTech giant Microsoft has withdrawn its LinkedIn professional social media service from mainland China, citing the difficulties of compliance in the Middle Kingdom.The move marks the withdrawal of the last major western social media operation in China, where the Communist government is simultaneously pushing back against tech firms, private capital and western influence.The Chinese government is in the process of pushing tech firms out of the news business, even

A Trafford takeaway boss has been hit with a £12,000 fine after a ‘horrendous’ mice and cockroach infestation was discovered - alongside tubs of coleslaw which were 95 DAYS past their use-by date and still on sale to customers.

SAG-AFTRA will hold its biennial convention this weekend, where delegates will help map out the union’s priorities for the coming years.

A man has been seriously injured in East Kilbride sparking an investigation.

Former Little Mix star Jesy Nelson has addressed the controversy surrounding her first solo single which saw her accused of ‘blackfishing’.

A predator who has been highlighted as "a danger to girls and women" had been living in a community under the radar of police and helping vulnerable women after volunteering in the city.

EXCLUSIVE: SAG-AFTRA’s national election committee has dismissed a plethora of post-election protests that were filed by the losing candidates and their supporters in the union’s recent election in which Fran Drescher, running on the ruling party’s Unite for Strength (UFS) slate, was elected president, and Joely Fisher, running on the opposition Membership First slate, was voted in as national secretary-treasurer, defeating Anthony Rapp.

Beginning tomorrow, anyone aged 12 and over attending a large-scale outdoor event in Los Angeles County with 10,000 people or more — such as Lakers, Rams and college football games — will be required to show proof of full vaccination against Covid-19 or a negative test taken within 72 hours.

EXCLUSIVE: Mischa Barton has been tapped to lead crime thriller Invitation To A Murder, which is being directed by Stephen Shimek (The Adventure of A.R.I.: My Robot Friend).

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.