SCREEN ACTORS GIULD (SAG)
Richard Tucker founder of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG)
Ralph Morgan cofounder of SAG and first president
Established: June 30, 1933 Hollywood, CA. In 1933 actors were lucky to get paid $15 for a long day or $66 for a 6 day week. In March of 1933, actors took a 50% pay cut. The pay was not the worst part, there was unregulated hours, no required meal breaks for actors, and terrible contracts. If an actor was under a seven-year contract that they would most likely be forced to renew, a producer can tell them who to marry, what their morals must be and which political opinion to hold.
Members: more than 160,000
Mission:
SAG is committed to organizing all work done under thier juristriction; negotiating the best wages, working conditions, and health and pension benefits; preserving and expanding members’ work opportunities; vigorously enforcing contracts; and protecting members against unauthorized use of their work.
Members: more than 160,000
Mission:
SAG is committed to organizing all work done under thier juristriction; negotiating the best wages, working conditions, and health and pension benefits; preserving and expanding members’ work opportunities; vigorously enforcing contracts; and protecting members against unauthorized use of their work.
David White, Executive Director
Roberta Reardon, Co-President
Ken Howard, Co-President
SAG recently had elections, Roberta Reardon 90210 star nearly lost the election.
SAG cut the average waiting time for delivery of residual checks from eight weeks last May to three weeks following extensive internal efforts.
Sources:
http://variety.com/2014/film/news/sag-aftra-wait-time-for-residuals-cut-to-three-weeks-1201149437/
http://www.iampwd.org/screen-actors-guild-fact-sheet
http://www.sagaftra.org/home
http://www.angelfire.com/art/acting/sag.html
SAG cut the average waiting time for delivery of residual checks from eight weeks last May to three weeks following extensive internal efforts.
Sources:
http://variety.com/2014/film/news/sag-aftra-wait-time-for-residuals-cut-to-three-weeks-1201149437/
http://www.iampwd.org/screen-actors-guild-fact-sheet
http://www.sagaftra.org/home
http://www.angelfire.com/art/acting/sag.html