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AFTRA and SAG members jointly negotiated the contract covering primetime dramatic programming on the major television networks for the first time. In 1978, in only the second national strike in AFTRA’s history, AFTRA and SAG members struck the advertising agencies and national advertisers over the jointly negotiated Commercials Contracts. [10]
EXCLUSIVE: SAG-AFTRA has collected more than $1 billion in dues and “agency fees” from its active members and financial core non-members since its founding 10 years ago with the merger of SAG ...
The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) was an American labor union which represented over 100,000 film and television principal and background performers worldwide. On March 30, 2012, the union leadership announced that the SAG membership voted to merge with the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) to create SAG-AFTRA.
In 1952, residual payments were extended to these television reruns, thanks in large part to Ronald Reagan, whose first term as president of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) ran from 1947 to 1952. [3] In 1953, the WGA negotiated residuals for up to five reruns for made-for-TV shows. [4] That said, film actors were still not paid residuals for reruns.
SAG-AFTRA joined them on the picket line two months later after failing to reach an agreement on contract terms with the AMPTP, which represents networks, studios and streamers like Netflix ...
SAG-AFTRA's national board voted unanimously Thursday to go on strike, marking the first time film and television performers have staged a work stoppage since 1980.
As of SAG-AFTRA's 2023 filing with the Office of Labor Management, the union's active membership was 175,747. At that time, 4,802 performers had opted out of the union through Ficore status. Combining those two figures adds up to a total number of performers affiliated with SAG-AFTRA at 180,549.
Hollywood actors could be headed back to work soon after nearly four months on strike. On Nov. 8, SAG-AFTRA, a labor union union that represents about 160,000 actors and others in the ...