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KRON4 Newspersons Unanimously Reject Young Broadcasting's Latest Contract Offer
San Francisco, CA (June 11, 2013)– Newspersons represented by SAG-AFTRA at KRON4 voted unanimously last Friday to reject the latest contract offer proposed by KRON4/Young Broadcasting management. SAG-AFTRA members cited equitable compensation, threats to job security, and health/retirement benefit concerns as their primary reasons for rejecting the Company’s latest offer. SAG-AFTRA has been negotiating with the Company for over a year while Newpersons continue to work with a contract that expired on April 30, 2012.
First Major SAG-AFTRA Contracts Overwhelmingly Approved with 96 Percent of Vote
New Three-Year Commercials Contracts Effective Retroactive to April 1, 2013
Calling All Candidates 2013
This summer, the union’s top leadership positions will be determined by a vote of the membership. You will have the chance to elect the union’s first National President and National Secretary-Treasurer. Elections will also take place in all of the union’s 25 locals for National Board, Local Officer, Local Board and Convention Delegate positions, and eight (8) Vice Presidents will be elected at the union’s first biennial convention held in Los Angeles, Sept. 26-29, 2013.
Vote Online for Commercials Contracts by Friday, May 31, 5 p.m PT
SAG-AFTRA has negotiated its first major contracts as a new union — the Commercials Contracts — and voting must be completed by 5 p.m. PDT, Friday, May 31, 2013. Member leaders believe they have secured substantial gains for members working in commercials: If approved, the contracts will result in $238 million in wage increases and other payments for all categories of performers, improvements in cable use fees, increases in payments for work on the Internet and new media platforms, and an increase in the late payment fee.
SAG-AFTRA Remembers Jeanne Cooper
SAG-AFTRA joins family, friends and co-workers in mourning the loss of The Young and the Restless star Jeanne Cooper, a pioneer in the world of daytime drama.
SAG Foundation L.A. Short Film Showcase Seeking Submissions
The Screen Actors Guild Foundation is now accepting short film submissions and web series from all states west of the Mississippi for its August 2013 Short Film Showcase. Submissions must be postmarked by Monday, June 3. All entries postmarked after that date will be placed in contention for the Foundation's April 2014 event.
There is no entry fee, nor is there a cost to attend the screening, which is held in Los Angeles, twice a year.
Update for Members Represented by an ATA/NATR Agency
To all members represented by an ATA/NATR agency that have chosen to sign a General Services Agreement (or “GSA”) with their agent:
The Nashville Local Remembers George Jones
“I am proud to call George and Nancy Jones my friends. George was so much more than a country music icon. He was never afraid to stand and act on what he believed in. George was instrumental in helping organize TNN (The Nashville Network), testified at the FCC hearings on media consolidation, and even wrote a letter of support to country DJ’s at an AFTRA Twin Cities radio station. Thank you George, for sharing your voice and music with us, for your continual support of all recordings artists and musicians, and for giving us so many memories that will never fade.
