David White, SAG-AFTRA's national executive director, met Tuesday night with some 80 stunt performers to hear their concerns about safety, pensions and contract issues. Stuntwoman Jane Austin, who's the union's national secretary-treasurer and president of its Los Angeles local, also attended the meeting, which was…

A former SAG-AFTRA presidential candidate is accusing the union’s leadership of playing politics with safety. Local board member Peter Antico, a stuntman who finished third in the presidential race last year, has filed a complaint with the union and the Secretary of Labor claiming that the union’s newly formed safety…

It's politics as usual at SAG-AFTRA in the wake of the union's recent election, with several top vote-getters stepping down from their national and local board seats and handing them over to members of their own political faction. What's not usual, however, is that this year a complaint has been filed alleging…

Accusing SAG-AFTRA of "election fixing," Peter Antico has filed a formal complaint with the union on the eve of ballot-counting. Antico, a candidate for union president, also is running for the local and national boards and as a delegate to the union's biennial convention. In his complaint, he charges that the way the…

EXCLUSIVE: Peter Antico is fighting an uphill battle to become the next president of SAG-AFTRA, but he believes he has enough support from members to push him over the top when votes are counted Thursday. His supporters include Sylvester Stallone, Cuba Gooding Jr, Mickey Rourke, Andrew Dice Clay and Morgan…

UPDATED with video of post-meeting chaos, below: Tempers flared at a raucous SAG-AFTRA informational meeting in Burbank yesterday when a security guard grabbed presidential candidate Esai Morales and tussled with him, yanking the microphone out of his hands as he tried to speak to the members from the floor about his…

UPDATED with SAG-AFTRA statement, 5:14 PM: A U.S. Department of Labor document obtained by SAG-AFTRA presidential candidate Peter Antico is raising new questions about the Screen Actors Guild's decision to secretly raise the dues of 771 high-earning actors back in 2011. The secret dues hike, which reportedly raised…

Peter Antico, one of the most outspoken critics of SAG-AFTRA's leadership, has announced he'll be a candidate for president of the 160,000-member performers' union. The election will be held in August, and he's the first to announce his candidacy. Antico, a veteran actor and stunt coordinator, split with Membership…