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“The Eastern Regional Meeting will convene on Friday, October 14, 2011 at 2 pm in the Council Room on the 14th Floor of the Equity Building, 165 West 46th Street, New York, NY. The agenda will include the following: * Report of the Eastern Regional Director. * Report of the Eastern Regional Vice President. * [...]

Register to join Actor’s Equity in the National Walk to End Alzheimer’s sponsored by the Alzheimer’s Association in New York City October 23!

In a groundbreaking agreement, RWS and Associates Entertainment (a firm that produces entertainment for amusement parks, retail centers and corporations) will be hiring equity actors who will work under union contracts starting in 2012. Ryan Stana, the CEO of RWS, says “As an Equity member myself, it has been a goal of mine since founding [...]

An anti-merger group called Union Democracy Now has announced that 12 of the candidates in SAG’s upcoming election are anti-merger or at least skeptical.  Ten of these candidates are Scott Bakula, George Coe, Valerie Harper, David Hillberg, David Jolliffe, Mobin Khan, William Mapother, Esai Morales, Scott Pierce, and John Tremayne, while two are still undisclosed.  Union Democracy [...]

New York actor Roberta Reardon has been re-elected as the National President of AFTRA by over 300 delegates (all professional performers, broadcasters and sound recording artists.) Reardon says, “I am a proud member of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. It is a tremendous privilege and an honor to represent AFTRA in the great [...]

AFTRA has ratified a new contract for videogames, and for the first time ever, performers will be compensated for cloud gaming (a new trend in videogames, where they are purchased on demand and streamed onto a computer).  Read the whole press release at AFTRA!

“Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists convened this weekend for the first, formal face-to-face discussions between the AFTRA New Union Committee and the SAG Merger Task Force at the National Labor College in Silver Spring, Maryland. “The two groups, comprised of members including actors, performers, recording artists and broadcast [...]

“SAG and AFTRA leaders held a “listening tour” meeting Tuesday night in Los Angeles and heard a variety of opinions on merging the two unions, ranging from “please merge” to “I’d rather not,” albeit expressed somewhat more vigorously. “Among the intriguing points from inside the closed-door meeting: some members urged that a merged, successor union [...]

Last week, AFTRA, DGA, IATSE and SAGE released a statement showing their support for legislation that would make illegally streaming movies and television online a felony. “As the Guilds and Unions that represent 300,000 creators, performers and craftspeople who create a multitude of diverse films, television programs and sound recordings that are enjoyed by consumers [...]

Barry Habib, the lead producer of the Broadway musical Rock of Ages went on Fox News to discuss how the unions make it difficult to produce his show.  He mainly cited examples to do with the stage hand union, saying that it would cost $600 for a union-member to simply type a sentence that would go [...]