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Gearing up for a possible strike, leaders of SAG-AFTRA today met with talent agents to update them on the status of the union's negotiations for a new film and TV contact. David White, the union's national executive director, gave the agents a one-hour briefing on the contract talks after today's bargaining session…

Negotiations for a new SAG-AFTRA film and TV contract continued today against the backdrop of a strike threat. The union says it will ask members for strike authorization if a fair deal isn't reached by Friday. On Sunday, the union accused management's AMPTP of demanding "outrageous rollbacks" at the bargaining table…

SAG-AFTRA has come out swinging against charges its leaders committed a laundry list of financial misdeeds. On Sunday, the union's national board of directors released the findings of an independent investigation into the allegations, which wholly exonerated the accused executives. The allegations were looked into by…

The SAG-AFTRA board of directors has unanimously approved a statement denouncing as "deplorable" a recent letter that accused the union's top staff of a laundry list of financial misdeeds. The board, however, also approved a motion to ask the union's general counsel – who is one of the accused – to "direct an…

A group of actors led by former SAG president Ed Asner has accused the leadership of SAG-AFTRA of a laundry list of financial misdeeds – allegations the union vehemently denies. The allegations are contained in a 10-page letter that was sent to SAG-AFTRA president Gabrielle Carteris, to national executive director Davi…

More than 400 actors and their supporters rallied today at the La Brea Tar Pits to draw attention to SAG-AFTRA's 105-day-old strike against selected video game companies. It was the largest show of support for the strike to date and included representatives from IATSE, the WGA, the DGA, the Teamsters and the Musicians…

Very few men or women alive today can say that they presided over the creation of a major labor union. With the passing of Ken Howard today, there is one fewer. The dream of merging SAG and AFTRA — the two most powerful actors unions in the country — had been kicking around for decades, but it might never have come…

Although the recent SAG-AFTRA election might suggest that the guild's two bickering factions will be sharing power over the next two years, the balance of power actually remains unchanged. The real power at the guild is held by David White, the union's national executive director. The national board of directors has…

EXCLUSIVE: SAG-AFTRA‘s National Executive Director got a $40,798 raise last year and is now making $600,485 a year, according to the union's latest financial report filed with the U.S. Department of Labor. That's a 7.3% pay raise for David White, which is nearly three-times the 2.5% raise he negotiated last year on…

EXCLUSIVE: SAG-AFTRA National Executive Director David White recently misled the union's board of directors about the union's attempt to whitewash An Open Secret, director Amy Berg's explosive new documentary about the sexual abuse of child actors in Hollywood. He also misled the board about the union's threat to sue…

UPDATE, 7:45PM: EXCLUSIVE: SAG-AFTRA Executive Director David White may be a candidate to head up the NBA players union, but he's still got a big supporter in the head of the Hollywood union. “Just as it was with their opposition to merger, MembershipFirst remains out of touch with members," SAG-AFTRA president Ken How…

The initial suit may have been severely trimmed, but the multimillion-dollar lawsuit against SAG-AFTRA by former SAG president Ed Asner and the 15 members of the self-titled United Screen Actors Committee now has a trial date: June 24, 2014. District Judge Manuel Real set the date today (read it here), 10 days after…