Gabrielle Carteris is seeking re-election as president of SAG-AFTRA, a post she's held since 2016. She'll be running at the top the union's majority party, Unite for Strength. Matthew Modine, running at the top of the union's opposition party, Membership First, was the first to announce that he will challenge her for…

Members of SAG-AFTRA have voted overwhelmingly to ratify a new commercials contract. The union said the new three-year pact was approved by a vote of 96.85% but didn't say how many ballots were cast. Postcards were mailed to roughly 136,000 members. Union leaders have called it a "landmark” deal because it establishes…

Wednesday is the last day for SAG-AFTRA members to vote on the union's new commercials contract, which guild leaders are touting as a "landmark" deal for performers. If ratified, the new contract — which was approved unanimously by the guild's national board of directors — would go into effect on June 1. "The gains…

EXCLUSIVE, updated with SAG-AFTRA statement: SAG-AFTRA is gathering documentation from dozens of former clients of talent agent Jordan McKirahan to support their claims that he failed to remit tens of thousands of dollars of commercial residuals they're allegedly owed. The union pulled McKirahan's franchise on April…

EXCLUSIVE: Matthew Modine has thrown his hat into the ring as a candidate for president of SAG-AFTRA. Modine, a member of the union's local and national boards of directors, is running at the top of the Membership First ticket, the self-styled progressive wing of the union that promises more democracy and transparency…

SAG-AFTRA has pulled the franchise of the Jordan McKirahan Talent Agency, meaning it no longer can represent the union's members, effective April 19. A SAG-AFTRA source said the union forced the agency to surrender its franchise "due to a lack of compliance with our requirements." The Burbank-based agency still is…

SAG-AFTRA is preparing for its next film and TV contract negotiations. The guild’s current pact doesn't expire until July 1, 2020. The 160,000-member union's board tonight approved the establishment of a wages & working conditions negotiating committee, and appointed SAG-AFTRA president Gabrielle Carteris as its…

SAG-AFTRA's national board has unanimously approved a new set of commercials contracts, which union leaders are calling a "landmark" agreement "and a monumental advance in expanding our jurisdiction." The deal, which reached on April 2 with the ad industry’s Joint Policy Committee, will now go to the union's members…

SAG-AFTRA will launch automated residuals payments nationwide beginning May 1. The union, which processes more than 4 million residuals checks for 270,000 people per year, says the new system will "ensure a secure, stable, and high-quality experience that will allow members to receive residual payments and statements…

SAG-AFTRA has reached a tentative agreement with the ad industry for a new commercials contract. The new pact, which the union called a "landmark deal," must now be approved by its board of directors. The old contract generated more than $1 billion a year for the union’s members. Specific retails of the new pact were…

The WGA has a new ally in its ongoing feud with Hollywood's talent agents – SAG-AFTRA. "We congratulate the Writers Guild of America on their successful membership vote and applaud the guild for taking steps in the best interests of their members," the actors' union said today. "We stand with our sister union in the…

SAG-AFTRA, whose commercials contract was set to expire today, has extended its negotiations with advertisers and ad agencies until Tuesday night. "The parties will continue to negotiate, remaining under a media blackout," the union and the ad industry's Joint Policy Committee said today in a joint statement." In the…