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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…

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…

House Judiciary Committee chairman Jerrold Nadler took time out from the ongoing impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump today to address a musicians rally in New York City. The American Federation of Musicians, in its contract talks with management's AMPTP, is demanding residuals from films and TV shows made…

Delegates to this week's SAG-AFTRA biennial convention will be voting on dozens of proposed resolutions, including one that appears to be aimed directly at President Donald Trump, who has called numerous news organizations – including CNN, NBC, CBS and ABC – "the enemy of the American people." Trump, who is a member…

SAG-AFTRA is calling on the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce to rescind the Businessperson of the Year Award it presented Wednesday to Raul Alarcón, chairman and CEO of the Spanish Broadcasting System. The union, which calls SBS “an abuser of Hispanic broadcast talent and media workers,” has been battling the…

Barring any late-breaking impeachment developments, House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler will join musicians at a rally for a fair film and TV contract outside NBCUniversal's headquarters in New York City on Monday. A similar rally will be held the same day at the offices of management's AMPTP in Sherman Oaks. The Ame…

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a bill that will provide recourse for victims of nonconsensual digital sexually explicit videos, also known as "deepfakes." Many of the victims of these new face-swapping technologies have been actors whose faces have been digitally superimposed on the bodies of porn…

EXCLUSIVE: The New Orleans local of SAG-AFTRA has been ordered to re-run its recent election. The order, handed down by the local's election committee in a 12-page decision, found that the winning NOLA Slate for Change candidates had accepted "unlawful contributions" from employers at a campaign event held on June 29…

David Gross has been named CEO of Contract Services, the entertainment industry trust fund that administers the safety, training and roster provisions of the collective bargaining agreements between management’s Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers and the film and television industry's West Coast…

Demanding a fair contract, 25 chanting members of the American Federation of Musicians held a rally – accompanied by a raucous brass band – outside the 92nd Street Y on Tuesday night in New York City, where Disney chairman and CEO Bob Iger was talking to Oprah Winfrey about his new book that touts his…