Comments on: Actors Make Employee Free Choice the Star http://firedoglake.com/2009/05/14/actors-make-employee-free-choice-the-star/ Firedoglake weblog Fri, 17 Feb 2012 13:44:43 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Lisa Derrick http://firedoglake.com/2009/05/14/actors-make-employee-free-choice-the-star/#comment-1899059 Lisa Derrick Thu, 14 May 2009 18:20:41 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/05/14/actors-make-employee-free-choice-the-star/#comment-1899059 <p>Skippy, I live in an acting-supported household and owe my health insurance to SAG. I respect that your actor friends and you don’t agree with the current negotiations. The actors, crew and studio support staff I deal with on a regular basis are fine with it, they don’t want a strike and they wish this agreement had happened back when pay hikes were on the table.</p> Skippy, I live in an acting-supported household and owe my health insurance to SAG. I respect that your actor friends and you don’t agree with the current negotiations. The actors, crew and studio support staff I deal with on a regular basis are fine with it, they don’t want a strike and they wish this agreement had happened back when pay hikes were on the table.

]]> By: skippy http://firedoglake.com/2009/05/14/actors-make-employee-free-choice-the-star/#comment-1899030 skippy Thu, 14 May 2009 17:32:39 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/05/14/actors-make-employee-free-choice-the-star/#comment-1899030 <blockquote><p>stage, television, and screen actors have been famously unionized for decades, and the screen actors guild just resolved a messy contract dispute with producers.</p></blockquote> <p>not to derail your point or anything, lisa, but we have yet to vote on the contract. and i can tell you that a large percentage of sag actors are not happy w/the contract negotiations. this “messy contract dispute” that has been “resolved” provides little to no (literally) compensation for work shown on the internet, and many actors fear that this will become the distribution system of choice for programming in the very near future (read: next year). so all our pay, as well as our funding for pension and health benefits, will be reduced by around 80-90%.</p> <p>i know many actors that are planning to vote ‘no’ on the contract.</p>

stage, television, and screen actors have been famously unionized for decades, and the screen actors guild just resolved a messy contract dispute with producers.

not to derail your point or anything, lisa, but we have yet to vote on the contract. and i can tell you that a large percentage of sag actors are not happy w/the contract negotiations. this “messy contract dispute” that has been “resolved” provides little to no (literally) compensation for work shown on the internet, and many actors fear that this will become the distribution system of choice for programming in the very near future (read: next year). so all our pay, as well as our funding for pension and health benefits, will be reduced by around 80-90%.

i know many actors that are planning to vote ‘no’ on the contract.

]]> By: Ann in AZ http://firedoglake.com/2009/05/14/actors-make-employee-free-choice-the-star/#comment-1898950 Ann in AZ Thu, 14 May 2009 15:47:15 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/05/14/actors-make-employee-free-choice-the-star/#comment-1898950 <p>Gregg Levine has <a href="http://firedoglake.com/2009/05/14/breaking-pelosi-says-%E2%80%9Cthe-cia-is-lying%E2%80%9D/" rel="nofollow">breaking news</a> about CIA briefing Nancy Pelosi: “BREAKING: Pelosi Says “The CIA is Lying””</p> Gregg Levine has breaking news about CIA briefing Nancy Pelosi: “BREAKING: Pelosi Says “The CIA is Lying””

]]> By: conniptionfit http://firedoglake.com/2009/05/14/actors-make-employee-free-choice-the-star/#comment-1898948 conniptionfit Thu, 14 May 2009 15:44:36 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/05/14/actors-make-employee-free-choice-the-star/#comment-1898948 <p>And the ones I do know are OLD! When did that happen??</p> And the ones I do know are OLD! When did that happen??

]]> By: WarOnWarOff http://firedoglake.com/2009/05/14/actors-make-employee-free-choice-the-star/#comment-1898943 WarOnWarOff Thu, 14 May 2009 15:25:27 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/05/14/actors-make-employee-free-choice-the-star/#comment-1898943 <p>Good on them, although I am so out of the loop on popular culture these days I don’t know who half of these “stars” are!</p> Good on them, although I am so out of the loop on popular culture these days I don’t know who half of these “stars” are!

]]> By: jackie http://firedoglake.com/2009/05/14/actors-make-employee-free-choice-the-star/#comment-1898942 jackie Thu, 14 May 2009 15:22:51 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/05/14/actors-make-employee-free-choice-the-star/#comment-1898942 <p>That is a very cool Ad. :)</p> That is a very cool Ad. :)

]]> By: mack http://firedoglake.com/2009/05/14/actors-make-employee-free-choice-the-star/#comment-1898933 mack Thu, 14 May 2009 14:57:49 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/05/14/actors-make-employee-free-choice-the-star/#comment-1898933 <p>Where are Ben Stein, Keifer Sutherland and Kelsey Grammer?</p> Where are Ben Stein, Keifer Sutherland and Kelsey Grammer?

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