...and they did it with an overwhelming majority. Henceforth it's SAG-AFTRA. Still lots of work to be done, and lots of questions to be answered, but it's been a long time in coming, and I can't help but think it's a good thing. LINKS TO HELPFUL ARTICLES: LA TIMES DUES WILL CHANGE LA TIMES BLOG...
Puzzled by the upcoming proposed merger of SAG and AFTRA? Me too. And as a newly-minted AFTRA member, I haven't even nearly figure out the way things are, much less the way things might be. I'll give the folks at AFTRA high points for trying to provide answers, though. An upcoming online meeting...
Did I mention I recently joined AFTRA? No? Well, I did. I feel crappy about it...but that's because my father is turning over in his grave. I just know it. He taught me that unions were bad business. I mean... the lessons were ingrained. Drilled-in. Hereditary. I didn't really understand at...
Not to beat a dead horse, but this SAG/AFTRA merger keeps banging around in my head, and it seems to me there might be some advantageous moves here if this is something you're considering. At the end of the month, members of both unions are voting on this merger thingy, and if it goes through, the...
Apparently, hell HAS frozen over, pigs DO fly, and SAG will merge with AFTRA. They even announced it on TV, so it must be true! Do you know what a Venn Diagram is? Two separate populations overlap (depicted by circles), showing the commonality of the two groups. This is what we have with both...
The neat freak inside me wants the proposed SAG/AFTRA merger to succeed. I dislike wasteful duplication, gratuitous redundancy, and top-heavy bureaucracies. I've been told talk of a merger has been around about as long as the proposal for a high-speed train between Las Vegas and LA -- decades. On...
The new year finally woke up! So much VO stuff flying around in the matrix, and this blog lists a bunch of 'em...for my own notebooking if nothing else. 'Hope you find something here you may not have seen yet. ONE: SAG and AFTRA say they're closer to a merger. This is the result of years of...
You know I live in Social Media. Because I'm unable to market my VO services in my own community of 2-million people, I reach out. Social Media IS my marketing plan. I see things. I see a lot. One of the things I saw the other day was a post by the prolific and well-respected voice actor Pat...
‘Might want to mosey on over to Taji’s Voice Emporium today if you’re considering the pros and cons of union membership. Click HERE to read his article: “State of the Non-Union”. CourVO