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   AFTRA Foundation Sets Up Hurricane Sandy Relief Fund

   10:44 pm 11/7/2012

   • by Jonathan Handel

   The $50,000 fund will provide grants up to $1,000 per person to respond to what one official called “an epic storm with devastating consequences.”Read more

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   About 15 Percent of SAG-AFTRA Staff Leaving in Voluntary Buyout (Exclusive)

   9:21 am 9/27/2012

   • by Jonathan Handel

   The program is part of the ongoing integration of SAG and AFTRA. The union declined to provide financial details of the packages or payroll impact.Read more

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   Tom Carpenter leaves SAG-AFTRA, joins Actors’ Equity as General Counsel

   4:38 pm 8/13/2012

   • by Jonathan Handel

   The union’s chief labor counsel departs for a legal and executive role at Actors Equity – further consolidating the power of former SAG staff in the merged union’s executive ranks.Read more

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   AFTRA Health & Retirement Plan 'Examining Options' After Merger (Analysis)

   4:35 pm 7/24/2012

   • by Jonathan Handel

   It looks like the AFTRA health and retirement plan is reviewing the possibility of unification with the corresponding SAG plan, but the AFTRA plan is not ready to commit –- even through the union wants immediate interim action.Read more

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   SAG-AFTRA Board Urges Unified Pension & Health Plan

   3:50 pm 7/22/2012

   • by Jonathan Handel

   The unions merged months ago, but the two plans are legally separate from the joined entity.Read more

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   Ex-AFTRA President to Merger Opponents: 'Message F---in' Delivered'

   6:11 pm 3/30/2012

   • by Jonathan Handel

   The vote in Hollywood, home of anti-merger efforts, is a surprising 78 percent in favor.Read more

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   SAG/AFTRA Merger Passes: It's Now SAG-AFTRA

   1:40 pm 3/30/2012

   • by Jonathan Handel

   Eighty years later, two Hollywood unions are one. Both approve the merger by more than 80 percent.Read more

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   SAG’s 2008-09 Contract Stalemate Continues to Batter Its Pension and Health Plans (Graphical Analysis)

   10:42 am 3/30/2012

   • by Jonathan Handel

   Part 3 of 3: The labor disturbance was costly then and continues to impair the pension and health plan four years after it started.Read more

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   SAG Health Plan Income Dropping – and Pension Plan is One of the Reasons (Graphical Analysis)

   9:28 am 3/30/2012

   • by Jonathan Handel

   Part 2 of 3: The AFTRA health plan is operating at a profit and now has more assets than SAG’s health plan. A hungry SAG pension plan is one of the causes.Read more

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    SAG Health Plan on Steep Downward Trend, While AFTRA Plan's Changes Are Modest (Graphical Analysis)

    8:07 pm 3/29/2012

    • by Jonathan Handel

    Part 1 of 3: The SAG health plan isn’t so much better than AFTRA’s any more –- if at all –- and SAG’s is declining more quickly than AFTRA’s.Read more

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