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UPDATED, 9:09 AM: The SAG Awards producers said today that Leonardo DiCaprio will present the SAG Life Achievement Award to Robert De Niro at the 26th annual ceremony next month. The actors first starred together in 1993’s This Boy’s Life, when DiCaprio was a teenager, and later both appeared in films including Marvin…

Stumbling from bad to worse, NBC now has a potential labor landmine under its feet with Gabrielle Union's forced-march exit from America's Got Talent. Just hours after the Comcast-owned network finally put out a statement that seemed to recognize the gravity of the situation and the allegations of racial and other disc…

The U.S. Department of Labor says it will decide by January 10 whether to file suit against SAG-AFTRA for alleged labor law violations in connection with the union's recent elections. The DOL has received eight such complaints – many of which were brought by supporters of losing presidential candidate Matthew Modine…

In an effort to make stunt work safer, SAG-AFTRA will soon launch its Stunt Coordinator Eligibility Roster – a list of those who have successfully completed 500 verifiable days of work as a stunt performer or coordinator on a SAG-AFTRA production. The roster will be released in March 2020. "Many changes have evolved…

EXCLUSIVE, UPDATED with Unite for Strength response: Adam Nelson has filed a 13-count complaint with the U.S. Department of Labor protesting SAG-AFTRA's recent election. Nelson was the campaign manager for Matthew Modine, who lost the presidential race to incumbent Gabrielle Carteris. Nelson's complaints had…

SAG-AFTRA's national election committee has rejected a protest of William Charlton as one of seven national vice presidents elected at the union's recent convention. LA board member Peter Antico objected to Charlton's nomination at last weekend’s convention, but was ruled out of order by president Gabrielle Carteris…

EXCLUSIVE: Investigators at the U.S. Department of Labor are looking into a range of allegations of wrongdoing during and after the recent SAG-AFTRA elections. Brian Hamilton, a member of the union's Los Angeles local's board of directors, spent 2½ hours with DOL investigator Troy Krouse earlier this week detailing…

A new three-year music video contract has been unanimously approved by the SAG-AFTRA national board of directors. "I am proud to be part of the team that helped achieve this contract, which includes new set minimums, protections against sexual harassment and better wages for background performers," said Danielle Town…

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…

SAG-AFTRA and Mexico's performers union have signed what they're calling an "historic cooperative agreement" in which they've pledged to consider joint bargaining in areas of mutual interest. The agreement with the Asociación Nacional de Actores (ANDA) was announced today at SAG-AFTRA's biennial convention in Los…

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…