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…
Four months into the WGA's standoff with Hollywood's talent agencies, SAG-AFTRA president Gabrielle Carteris says her union is reviewing its relationship with agents.
"I fully support the WGA in doing what it needs to in order to protect its members," she said in a written statement in advance of last night's town hall…
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…
On Monday, IMDb revised its policy in regards to the publication of removal of birth names after the backlash for publishing the birth names of transgender performers without their consent — also known as “deadnaming”. Prior to the revisions, performers issued complaints about the difficulty in removing birth names…
Frances Fisher is asking for Donald Trump's vote. Fisher, a progressive Democrat who's called Trump "the worst bully in the world," tweeted out to the president, tongue in cheek, asking him to vote for her Membership First slate in SAG-AFTRA's ongoing elections.
"We have Republicans; we have Democrats; we have…
The hotly contested SAG-AFTRA presidential election is in full swing, but the presidents of 16 of the union's 25 locals spread out across the country already have been "declared elected without the necessity of a membership vote" because they were running unopposed.
Members of five locals – in Colorado, Dallas-Fort…
The SAG-AFTRA local in Atlanta is offering its members an election do-over: If they've already cast their ballots for board candidates, they can vote again for different candidates.
The unusual move comes after the local's ruling faction, Union Strong Atlanta (USA), received an unfair and potentially illegal advantage…
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…
