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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…

SAG-AFTRA national executive director David White has condemned a social media post that he described as a "threat" against Gabrielle Carteris, the union's recently re-elected president. "It has come to our attention that elected leaders have been threatened," he said in an email to the guild's board of directors…

UPDATE: SAG-AFTRA presidential candidate Matthew Modine has conceded defeat, sort of. The election was marred by some mudslinging from each side, and in a statement Modine appears to be keeping options open if the election is scrutinized. “I am proud of our campaign for transparency and the goal of uniting all 160,000…

In the conveyance of SAG-AFTRA presidential candidate Matthew Modine’s objections to a Los Angeles Times article last week about his use of videos from the New York Film Academy on his website, a Deadline report inaccurately summarized the LAT article. In particular, the Department of Labor and SAG-AFTRA rules quoted…

In dueling email blasts to the members of SAG-AFTRA, presidential candidates Matthew Modine and Gabrielle Carteris both now are alleging that the other might have violated federal labor law in the course of the election, which concludes Wednesday with the counting of ballots. "If Matthew Modine broke the law in our…

EXCLUSIVE: SAG-AFTRA presidential candidate Matthew Modine is crying foul over a Los Angeles Times article published yesterday. Curiously timed with one week of voting left in the guild’s election, the article alleged that Modine had accepted in-kind campaign contributions from his "employer" – the for-profit New York…

Funnyman Rob Schneider has been elected to the SAG-AFTRA national board representing San Francisco and northern California, defeating incumbent Katheryn Howell and three other challengers. Howell, however, was re-elected president of the local. Schneider's election is a victory for Membership First, the union's…

More than 130 actresses and #MeToo activists have signed a statement in support of SAG-AFTRA presidential candidate Matthew Modine in the wake of a joke he made at Thursday night's town hall meeting of the union's three leading presidential candidates. "We deplore the politics of personal destruction" that have been…

The three leading candidates for president of SAG-AFTRA spoke Thursday night at a members-only town hall meeting at the Faith Presbyterian Church in Valley Village. The event was sponsored by UnionWorking, a grassroots organization that seeks to "stem the tide of union busting." About 150 SAG-AFTRA members attended…

UPDATED: Rosanna Arquette has received her ballot. "Ballot went to business manager," she tweeted. "I've got it." PREVIOUSLY, 4:30 PM: SAG-AFTRA says it’s looking into reports that some of its members have not received election ballots more than a week after they wre mailed out. Presidential candidate Matthew Modine…

SAG-AFTRA president Gabrielle Carteris and challenger Matthew Modine have released dueling videos accusing each other of attempting to mislead the union's members as they vote in the guild's ongoing election. Ballots went out on July 29, but Modine's camp says that "social media is filled with many who have not…

SAG-AFTRA president Gabrielle Carteris and members of her slate are fighting back against Matthew Modine and his slate's threat of a "frivolous" lawsuit over her alleged use of guild resources, including “insider and highly confidential information,” to advance her candidacy — a claim she vehemently denies. Modine's…