David Robb Labor EditorIn his latest “fireside chat,” SAG-AFTRA Foundation president Courtney B. Vance offered a history lesson to help weather the multiple storms now lashing the nation and the industry’s unemployed workforce.
21.05.2020 - 23:03 / deadline.com
By David Robb
Labor Editor
With many TV commercials still being shot using actors working from home during the coronavirus shutdown, SAG-AFTRA is advising members and their agents to negotiate additional compensation if asked to perform non-acting duties such as self-filming, editing, directing and hair and makeup.
“During the COVID-19 global pandemic, many advertisers are still producing commercials,” the union said in a message to its members. “Instead of showing up to a set or location,
David Robb Labor EditorIn his latest “fireside chat,” SAG-AFTRA Foundation president Courtney B. Vance offered a history lesson to help weather the multiple storms now lashing the nation and the industry’s unemployed workforce.
David Robb Labor EditorSAG-AFTRA president Gabrielle Carteris on Monday condemned attacks on journalists covering the nationwide protests – whether at the hands of police or protesters.“Over the past week, we have witnessed numerous attacks on journalists during the protests that grip our nation,” she said in a message today to the union’s broadcasters.
Riverdale has apologised to star Vanessa Morgan after she raised concerns about pay disparity in the show.Morgan, who plays Toni Topaz in the show, said in a recent series of tweets that she was “tired” of black characters being shown as “thugs, dangerous or angry, scary people,” adding that she was “the only black series regular but paid the least”.Morgan continued: “To my black fans, I have now made it my purpose to fight for us.
David Robb Labor EditorSAG-AFTRA, which represents thousands of broadcast journalists, pushed back today against President Donald Trump and his surrogates — without naming them — for their constant attacks on the free press, and for the more than 150 “pernicious assaults” on reporters who have been covering 11 days of nationwide protests.Trump repeatedly has called media outlets with which he disagrees “the enemy of the American people” and regularly reviles reporters on Twitter and at press
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Melania Trump, 50, is back to ditching her face mask. The First Lady attended a presidential recognition ceremony at the White House on Friday, May 15, along with her husband President Donald Trump, 73, who also opted not to wear a protective face covering or gloves. The pair were seen greeting a group of in-uniform Girl Scouts at the Rose Garden ceremony, with the President handing out paper certificates to several honorees.
By David Robb
SAG-AFTRA will require members to seek the union's approval before accepting new work amid health and safety concerns related to the COVID-19 pandemic as lockdown measures begin to be eased.
By David Robb
By Dave McNary
What’s a union to do about inadequate contract language when members are taking it on the chin? That’s the problem confronting SAG-AFTRA: some television studios are holding actors under contract on unpaid “hiatus” during the pandemic rather than paying them as per force majeure provisions. That’s because 2009 revisions to the SAG TV Agreement made the entire force majeure concept arguably optional.