Screen Actor's Guild Elections

The Joint Policy Committee is the negotiating body that represents agencies and advertisers in the Screen Actors Guild Commercials Contract negotiations, an event that occurs every three years.

An idea floating around the industry last week involved persuading the union to defer negotiations while a committee jointly explored new ways of compensating performers in television commercials, an idea we heartily applaud. But a heated election at SAG has produced a new president and control of the National Board by a group called Membership First, thus we suspect that this excellent idea will not survive.

“I will fight like hell to get actors their fair share,” said Alan Rosenberg, the new president of SAG .

Of the 120,000 SAG members, only 27% voted in the election.

Mr. Rosenberg is meeting with the New York members of SAG next week, an affair expected to be quite vocal.

The SAG Commercials Contract expires in October of 2006. It would appear that the negotiations will start mid-year in 2006.

More to come.

November 1, 2005