SAG-AFTRA
| Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) |
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| purpose | labor union |
| Establishment date: | March 30, 2012 |
| Number of members: | 116,741 (2016) |
| Seat : | Los Angeles , California , USA |
| Website: | www.sagaftra.org |
The Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists ( SAG-AFTRA ) is an American union that brings together approximately 160,000 film and television actors , journalists , singers , dancers , disc jockeys , voice actors , other film and television professionals , and more Media Representing Professionals Worldwide. The organization was founded on March 30, 2012 after the merger of the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (1937). SAG-AFTRA is a member of the AFL-CIO , the largest trade union federation in the United States.
meaning
SAG-AFTRA has a diverse membership consisting of actors, announcers, broadcast journalists, news writers, news editors, program managers, puppeteers, recording artists, singers, stunt performers, speakers and other media professionals.
Functionally, SAG-AFTRA is a network in which members can come into contact with one another. SAG-AFTRA is also a notice board for jobs and commitments for which collective agreements have been concluded with the union. Due to the size and influence of the union, most of the major media companies have a collective agreement with SAG-AFTRA through the Association of Film and Television Producers. Studios that have a collective agreement with SAG-AFTRA must usually give preference to union members when recruiting.
SAG-AFTRA is headquartered in Los Angeles , with another national office in New York City and other local offices across the country.
Strikes and calls for boycotts
Since its inception, individual groups of people within SAG-AFTRA have been in a union strike, including a 340-day strike that ran from 2016 to 2017, which came about after around one and a half years of fruitless negotiations with eleven American video game developers and publishers, including Activision , Electronic Arts and Insomniac Games , Take 2 Interactive was born. This exceeded the 95-day Emmy Awards strike of 1980 and the advertising strike of 2000 in length.
Web links
- Sean J. Miller: SAG-AFTRA Names Top Leadership . In: Backstage , May 21, 2012. Retrieved July 16, 2013.
- Richard Verrier: SAG, AFTRA members overwhelmingly approve merger . In: Los Angeles Times , March 31, 2012. Retrieved July 16, 2013.
Individual evidence
- ^ Unions of the AFL-CIO . AFL-CIO. Retrieved February 1, 2016.
- ^ SAG-AFTRA, Steps to Join
- ↑ Dave McNary: SAG-AFTRA Video Game Strike Ends After a Year . In: Variety . September 25, 2017. Retrieved September 25, 2017.
- ^ David Robb: Actors Strike Against Video Game Industry Now Second-Longest in SAG History . In: Deadline.com . January 24, 2017. Retrieved January 24, 2017.
- ^ Iman Smith: Voice Actors Strike Against Video Game Companies . In: NPR . October 22, 2016. Retrieved January 24, 2017.