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Following a routine investigation, the U.S. Department of Labor has found no basis to overturn last year's election of Fran Drescher as president of SAG-AFTRA. In rejecting protesters’ claims, the union's own national election committee came to the same conclusion in October. "Your complaint to the Department of Labor…

SAG-AFTRA has expanded its equity and inclusion department, promoting Franklin Sablan to the newly created position of executive director of equity & inclusion and upping Ellen Huang to national director of equity & inclusion programming and engagement and Grace Allen to senior manager of equity & inclusion policy…

Hollywood's Covid safety protocols, which had been set to expire over the weekend, are being extended on a day-to-day basis as labor and management continue to work out details for a formal extension – the first since the highly infectious Omicron variant has led to a worldwide surge in cases, hospitalizations and…

On Monday, most workers in Hollywood will celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a paid holiday for the very first time. MLK Day, observed on the third Monday in January, has been a federal holiday since 1986, but it hasn't been a paid day off for many in the industry until now. It’s still not provided for in most of…

David White, SAG-AFTRA's senior advisor and former national executive director, has been named deputy chair of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. He's served on its board of directors since December 2018. “I am delighted to take on this role and deepen my work with President Mary Daly and the incredible team…

UPDATED with full list of nominees: Nominations were revealed Wednesday morning for the 28th annual SAG Awards, one of the bellwether guild events in the awards-season calendar. On the film side, MGM/United Artists Releasing’s House of Gucci and Netflix’s The Power of the Dog led nominations with three apiece. Power of…

Rosario Dawson and Vanessa Hudgens will announce nominees Wednesday morning for the 28th annual SAG Awards, with the online-only ceremony kicking off at 10 a.m. ET/7 a.m. PT on Instagram Live. The noms are being unveiled exclusively Instagram for a second year in a row, at @sagawards and @vanessahudgens. Ten minutes…

SAG-AFTRA's unclaimed residuals fund has grown to roughly $76 million – up 60% from $48 million six years ago. According to the union, the fund now contains 124,000 separate accounts for members and others, living and dead, that it can't locate. That's up from 96,000 accounts in 2016. “The funds may be unclaimed for a…

Hollywood's guilds and unions saved the film and TV business in 2021. Working cooperatively with the industry’s companies, they adopted Covid-19 protocols that got production booming and their members safely back to work, all the while averting strikes that would have crippled recovery efforts. And earlier this year…

EXCLUSIVE: Accusing AT&T of "callous gamesmanship," SAG-AFTRA has filed suit against the giant media and telecommunications conglomerate in a dispute over nearly $5 million in residuals and other compensation allegedly owed to actors who appeared on Mr. Mercedes, the TV series based on the Stephen King novel that…

SAG-AFTRA and the Actors’ Equity Association have agreed to a six-month extension of an agreement they reached last year that settled a bitter jurisdictional dispute over the taping or streaming of live theater during the Covid-19 pandemic. The agreement was originally set to expire at the end of the year, but the…

SAG-AFTRA says it’s “disappointed” by Friday’s Supreme Court decision that allows Texas’ anti-abortion law to stand, saying that it exposes SAG-AFTRA members to “real risk” through the lack of basic reproductive healthcare. That law, Senate Bill 8, prohibits abortions after the detection of a fetal heartbeat…