AFTRA Suspends Joint Bargaining with SAG to Negotiate Primetime TV Contract on its Own
• AFTRA's primary goal is to improve and protect the working lives of performers. During the past year, AFTRA has fought hard and expended an enormous amount of time, energy and resources to maintain the integrity of our Phase One joint bargaining process with the Screen Actors Guild, so we could sit across the table from the industry with total and unequivocal unity. Unfortunately, SAG leadership has made this impossible. The important message to members continues here>> • At the close of the AFTRA National Board meeting on Saturday, March 29—where the AFTRA National Board overwhelmingly voted in favor of suspending the joint bargaining process under the Phase One agreement with the Screen Actors Guild and plans to negotiate the Primetime TV contract with employers on its own—Roberta Reardon talked with reporter and AFTRA National Vice President Bob Butler about the significance of the vote. Listen to the interview here>>
AFTRA Achieves Two Milestones at National Board Meeting AFTRA National President Roberta Reardon shares two of the achievements from the February 2 National Board meeting as AFTRA receives a direct charter from the AFL-CIO and affirms that joint bargaining with SAG is over. Read her important message to AFTRA members here>>
