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SAG-AFTRA's national board is weighing action on a convention resolution that condemned "recent threats of violence and use of violent imagery" during the union's latest elections. Approved over the weekend, the resolution urged the board to "take whatever action it deems appropriate to address what has occurred and…

SAG-AFTRA's national convention closed today with voting on resolutions and speeches from the 160,000-member union's top elected officials. The biennial conclave was a major show of support for SAG-AFTRA president Gabrielle Carteris, whose allies were elected by the delegates to all eight of the union's national vice…

The WGA East and West have filed a motion to dismiss a consolidated antitrust lawsuit brought by three of Hollywood's biggest talent agencies – WME, CAA and UTA. That suit, which was filed in federal court in Los Angeles last month, alleges that "WGA leadership has engaged in an unprecedented abuse of union authority…

More than 400 delegates to SAG-AFTRA's biennial convention today unanimously passed a resolution in support of a “free and unencumbered press.” The resolution appears to be aimed directly at President Trump, who has called numerous news organizations – including CNN, NBC, CBS and ABC – "the enemy of the American…

It was a clean sweep today for supporters of SAG-AFTRA president Gabrielle Carteris at the union's biennial convention, where delegates elected eight of her allies to serve as the union’s national vice presidents. All eight are listed as supporters of hers on her Unite for Strength slate's website. As reported here…

Rebecca Damon has been re-elected executive vice president of SAG-AFTRA by delegates to the union's fourth biennial convention in Los Angeles. A staunch supporter of SAG-AFTRA president Gabrielle Carteris, Damon is the union's second-highest elected official. "I'm grateful for the national show of support for my…

The Association of Talent Agents is calling out the WGA on its demand that agents turn over their writer-clients' contracts and invoices to the guild. "Agents have a fiduciary duty not to disclose a client's confidential financial information unless the client consents to the disclosure," the ATA said in a statement…

As the WGA's ongoing battle with Hollywood's talent agents nears the end of its sixth month, the guild is making the case for one of its demands that's kept many mid-tier agencies from signing its new Code of Conduct. That code, which went into effect on April 13 when the guild ordered all of its members to fire their…

Unite for Strength, SAG-AFTRA's ruling party, has decided not to challenge the Los Angeles local's recent election, even though it claims that the Membership First opposition party — which clobbered them in the L.A. races — "irrefutably violated" federal election law by allegedly accepting "illegal" campaign…

Saying that "your vote counts, even if they make you do it twice," a group of SAG-AFTRA members in New Orleans say they will "embrace" the mandated re-run of their local's election even though they think the do-over is the result of a "biased decision." "The decision to re-run the NOLA election is a biased decision…

National Public Radio, Hulu & A24 and Columbia Records/Sony Music will be this year's recipients of chonoring producers who realistically portray union talent from misrepresented or underrepresented groups. The awards will be presented Friday at the union's biennial convention at the Beverly Hilton. NPR won the Belva…

EXCLUSIVE: More than a dozen protests of Gabrielle Carteris' re-election as president of SAG-AFTRA have been dismissed by the union's national election committee. "We conclude that there was no violation of the SAG-AFTRA Constitution, the Election Policy, or federal election law," the committee found. "Accordingly, we…