SAG Calls For 2011 Fall Election Candidates: Ken Howard & Amy Aquino Running Again

COMMENTS (6)

• So they want a 0.5 percent raise next time.

  SAG, WGA need a teamster president. Someone who can ensure that writers and actors ( all of them) get the salary Long shoremen do.

  Comment by 8movies5plays — Thursday June 23, 2011 @ 3:22pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I find it a little odd that SAG is allowed to publicly endorse one candidate over the other. What resources have been used to do this? Will any mailers be sent out, from the Guild, announcing these endorsements? I doubt it’ll stop at press releases. Where’s the level playing field here?
  SAG, the institution, is desperate to ensure that Howard, Aquino and UFS stay in control in order to achieve the kind of merger AFTRA wants. This will be a merger plan on AFTRA’s terms. It would have been nice if SAG sent out a survey to its members asking what kind of merger they needed. I bet the majority of respondents would want: Pension and health plans that are more like SAG’s than AFTRA’s. A rule 1 policy that does not allow broadcasters and other AFTRA members making millions working non union. Or a rule 1 that allows any member to work non-union because I don’t see actors being too pleased to be prohibited from working non union while their “brothers and sisters” continue to work MSNBC or CNN or ESPN radio. Patrick Verrone getting back into the game only supports the assessment reported in DeadLIne about the lack of trust and respect WGA has for SAG and its leadership. Maybe this means that the WGA will be ready to play hardball at the next negotiations. But unfortunately they’ll be by themselves once again because the SAG membership has been in a union daze for the past 2 years and will approve anything that comes out of the mouths of UFS. MembershipFrist is dead. Maybe that’s a good thing. Maybe now there will be independents running for the board and presidency who are not afraid to tell it like it is because I don’t trust any message or plan that comes out of SAG.

  Comment by union advocate — Thursday June 23, 2011 @ 4:59pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Fabulous news.
  Ken “Hammerhead” Howard
  and
  Amy “Satan’s Mom” Aquino.
  An unbeatable duo.
  Our tour guides on the bus ride to hell.
  I hear Ned “Running on Empty” Vaughn is going to be appointed dog catcher.
  On a cheery note,
  the scuttlebutt is that the SAG Foundation office is being turned into a soup kitchen.
  That should come in might handy during this contract cycle.

  Comment by Monsieur Fromage — Friday June 24, 2011 @ 3:13am PDT  Reply to this post

• A prediction: not gonna happen. For a number of reasons that will be coming out relatively soon. Also, read below the practical opinion of a labor expert, labor and law professor, and former SAG NED prospect, Steve Diamond – as opposed to zero enthusiasm from any other labor expert or expert on union mergers from anyone. I haven’t seen a single enthusiastic endorsement of this from a single, unbiased, outside source – only the inside, always pro-merger, predictable voices. Where is the balance? Where is the push-back? It’s about time this gets a long, hard look from people who actually know what they are talking about, not SAG members in glorified positions, who are really just actors with a pro-merger beef. Which is mystifying to anyone who looks at what has happened to SAG since vehemently pro-merger UFS has taken over: SAG has basically been dealt a series of death blows, intentional ones at that, such as the giving away, without protest by the current leadership of SAG, all scripted TV to AFTRA. Unprecedented, crushing financially to SAG, and literally unthinkable until this group took over. No previous SAG administration would have allowed that, whether they were progressive OR moderate. ANY previous administration would have gone straight to the NLRB given SUCH and outrageous violation of jurisdiction by AFTRA, to protect SAG’s rightful jurisdiction, a jurisdiction codified in current labor law, that the current government of SAG is simply ignoring in it’s lust for a producer-friendly merger. Shameful, and again, I predict, not going to happen. You watch.

  On the rumored sale of Hulu, by Professor Steve Diamond, labor and law professor, Santa Clara University, former SAG NED prospect, and former moderate-leaning SAG-politics enthusiast. Not more. Not for a while.

  From today:

  Yahoo is reportedly one of the possible buyers.

  And Reed Hastings of Netflix is joining the board of Facebook.

  And meanwhile, like generals fighting the last war, leaders of the guilds gather in Maryland, of all places, to forge a merger that will do (next to) nothing to alter the strategic landscape in which actors now find themselves.
  Steve Diamond

  Comment by Large — Friday June 24, 2011 @ 11:03am PDT  Reply to this post

• Ken Howard, Amy Aquino and Co. don’t deserve another term, they need to be indicted for crimes against the Screen Actors Guild.

  Comment by Simon — Friday June 24, 2011 @ 5:08pm PDT  Reply to this post

• iNTELLIENT dISCOURSE IS pARAMOUNT

  Comment by sHARON rUBINiI — Tuesday July 19, 2011 @ 12:35pm PDT  Reply to this post