SAG-AFTRA Urges Members To Defeat Proposition 32

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• How’s the whole post-merge Pension & Welfare thing coming along? Anybody? Yoo-hoo!?!?

  Comment by Cappy — Thursday September 27, 2012 @ 9:42am PDT  Reply to this post

• Well duh, because Hollywood wants to buy politicians! I will keep my YES vote thankyouverymuch. http://www.yesprop32.com/

  Comment by Marie — Thursday September 27, 2012 @ 3:01pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Prop 32 looks to benefit unions more than corporations because it doesn’t prevent unions from using their numbers to do retail politicking, while it would neutralizer the clear advantage corporations have in fundraising.

  Can’t SAG-AFTRA take yes for an answer? Or are they THAT in the bag for the studios?

  Comment by Michael Heister — Friday September 28, 2012 @ 1:05am PDT  Reply to this post

  • I’m going to correct myself here. Just read the summary of Prop 32, and it places more restrictive rules on unions than on corporations. I’ll be voting against it.

    Comment by Michael Heister — Friday September 28, 2012 @ 2:24am PDT  Reply to this post

• Michael Heister:
  Please review line item a of propisition 32. please read again and all corporations have greater restrictions since there are no written advantages within the proposition.

  Article 1.5. The Stop Special Interest Money Now Act

  85150. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law and this title, no corporation, labor union, or public employee labor union shall make a contribution to any candidate, candidate controlled committee; or to any other committee, including a political party committee, if such funds will be used to make contributions to any candidate or candidate controlled committee.

  (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law and this title, no government contractor, or committee sponsored by a government contractor, shall make a contribution to any elected officer or committee controlled by any elected officer if such elected officer makes, participates in making, or in any way attempts to use his or her official position to influence the granting, letting, or awarding of a public contract to the government contractor during the period in which the decision to grant, let, or award the contract is to be made and during the term of the contract.

  85151. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law and this title, no corporation, labor union, public employee labor union, government contractor, or government employer shall deduct from an employee’s wages, earnings, or compensation any amount of money to be used for political purposes.

  (b) This section shall not prohibit an employee from making voluntary contributions to a sponsored committee of his or her employer, labor union, or public employee labor union in any manner, other than that which is prohibited by subdivision (a), so long as all such contributions are given with that employee’s written consent, which consent shall be effective for no more than one year.

  (c) This section shall not apply to deductions for retirement benefit, health, life, death or disability insurance, or other similar benefit, nor shall it apply to an employee’s voluntary deduction for the benefit of a charitable organization organized under Section 501(c)(3) of Title 26 of the United States Code. 85152. For purposes of this article, the following definitions apply:

  (a) “Corporation” means every corporation organized under the laws of this state, any other state of the United States, or the District of Columbia, or under an act of the Congress of the United States.

  (b) “Government contractor” means any person, other than an employee of a government employer, who is a party to a contract between the person and a government employer to provide goods, real property, or services to a government employer. Government contractor includes a public employee labor union that is a party to a contract with a government employer.

  (c) “Government employer” means the State of California or any of its political subdivisions, including, but not limited to, counties, cities, charter counties, charter cities, charter city and counties, school districts, the University of California, special districts, boards, commissions, and agencies, but not including the United States government.

  (d) “Labor union” means any organization of any kind, or any agency or employee representation committee or plan, in which employees participate and which exists for the purpose, in whole or in part, of dealing with employers concerning grievances, labor disputes, wages, rates of pay, hours of employment, or conditions of work.

  (e) “Political purposes” means a payment made to influence or attempt to influence the action of voters for or against the nomination or election of a candidate or candidates, or the qualification or passage of any measure; or any payment received by or made at the behest of a candidate, a controlled committee, a committee of a political party, including a state central committee, and county central committee, or an organization formed or existing primarily for political purposes, including, but not limited to, a political action committee established by any membership organization, labor union, public employee labor union, or corporation.

  (f) “Public employee labor union” means a labor union in which the employees participating in the labor union are employees of a government employer.

  (g) All other terms used this article that are defined by the Political Reform Act of 1974, as amended (Title 9 (commencing with Section 81000)), or by regulation enacted by the Fair Political Practices Commission, shall have the same meaning as provided therein, as they existed on January 1, 2011.

  Comment by Mark — Tuesday October 2, 2012 @ 7:29pm PDT  Reply to this post