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   Anti-Merger Lawsuit Lives on Even Though SAG Doesn't

   4:22 pm 4/25/2012

   • by Jonathan Handel

   A month after merger, a dissolved defendant – SAG – files an answer in a suit that it argues is both stale and premature.Read more

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   SAG-AFTRA Moves Toward Halting Music Video Work

   2:20 pm 4/25/2012

   • by Jonathan Handel

   The new union says it may issue a "Do Not Work" order next month, days before talks with the labels resume. The decision on an order will send a signal to studios, commercial producers and even talent agents.Read more

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   SAG's David White Becomes Sole Exec Director of SAG-AFTRA (Exclusive)

   2:48 pm 4/16/2012

   • by Jonathan Handel

   Co-National Executive Director and former AFTRA NED Kim Roberts Hedgpeth departs, leaving White as sole NED of the new union – and underscoring the predominance of SAG staff in the merged union’s executive ranks.Read more

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   SAG-AFTRA: 3 Big Challenges for the Merged Union (Analysis)

   6:44 pm 4/3/2012

   • by Jonathan Handel

   The new mega-union is going to be tested in battle—and sooner than most people realize.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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    SAG/AFTRA Merger Vote Announcement to be Live Streamed

    6:58 pm 3/29/2012

    • by Jonathan Handel

    The announcement will cap a month of balloting – and may conclude 80 years of on and off efforts.Read more

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