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Netflix has signed SAG-AFTRA's film and TV contract. Up until now, Netflix had a deal with the union on a production-by-production basis, but now SAG-AFTRA has an overall agreement with the streaming giant for live-action dramatic productions. The first-of-its-kind deal between the two sides was unveiled Saturday, and…

SAG-AFTRA's 10-month strike against the Bartle Bogle Hegarty ad agency is over, with the agency agreeing to sign the guild's newly negotiated commercial contract. It's a major victory for the union, which had engaged in picketing, mass rallies and shaming in its efforts to get BBH to return to the union fold. Under…

EXCLUSIVE: SAG-AFTRA presidential candidate Jane Austin, who's currently the guild's national secretary-treasurer, has a plan to fix the union. She tells Deadline that SAG-AFTRA "has lost its way in its core mission – to serve and protect the needs of the entire membership, all 25 locals, all categories, so they can…

Actress and union activist Jodi Long is running for the office SAG-AFTRA national secretary-treasurer on the Membership First slate headed by presidential candidate Matthew Modine. Long, a member of the guild's national board, will be squaring off in the upcoming election against Camryn Manheim, who's running on…

Unite for Strength, the ruling party of SAG-AFTRA, announced its slate of candidates today in the union's upcoming elections. Michelle Hurd, currently serving on the national board, will be running for president of the Los Angeles local; Clyde Kusatsu and Ellen Crawford will be running for vice president slots…

Disney and SAG-AFTRA are working to resolve late residuals payments to a "small number" of actors, the union told its members recently. The union says it has filed claims and will be collecting applicable late-payment penalties on impacted titles. "Payment delinquencies, due in large part to Disney's recent changeover…

Camryn Manheim is running for national secretary-treasurer of SAG-AFTRA. The Emmy-wining actress, whose many credits include The Practice, Person of Interest and Ghost Whisperer, as part of president Gabrielle Carteris' Unite for Strength/USAN slate. "Our industry is in the midst of a major transformation," Manheim…

A SAG-AFTRA disciplinary committee has found actor Kip Pardue guilty of "serious misconduct" in relation to a sexual harassment complaint filed by actress Sarah Scott, who'd accused him of masturbating in front of her shortly after filming a scene together on the indie TV project Mogulettes. She also claimed that he…

Several national LGBTQ advocacy groups have joined SAG-AFTRA in its appeal of a federal court ruling that a union-backed state law prohibiting IMDbPro from publishing actors' ages was unconstitutional. The union claimed that publishing the ages of actors contributed to age discrimination in the industry. In joining…

Employees at KCRW, the public radio station in Santa Monica, have voted to recognize SAG-AFTRA as their union. The new bargaining unit will cover more than 90 public media professionals, including DJs, hosts, producers, reporters, production engineers, board operators and others who create content for all areas of…

The “Presidents of the Guilds” panel at ATX Television Festival has been canceled, Deadline has confirmed. SAG-AFTRA president Gabrielle Carteris, WGA West president David A. Goodman and DGA president Thomas Schlamme were scheduled to attend the Austin-based festival, but the panel was removed from their schedule. The…

Hundreds if not thousands of mid-level actors saw an increase in their taxes this year because of President Donald Trump's massive tax cut, which took away their ability to write off miscellaneous itemized deductions for expenses they incur to stay in the business and to find jobs. SAG-AFTRA and Actors’ Equity…