The board extended White's contract last April but made no announcement

Recommendations include a draft mission statement for a combined "successor" union and the appointment of formal groups to work on a proposed meeting schedule to develop a merger plan

As suspected, talent unions get only 2% minimum wage increases on new tentative three-year broadcast TV/theatrical agreement; they do secure 10% health and pension funding increases

SAG and AFTRA begin first round of major contract negotiations with AMPTP on Monday, with the rhetoric and acrimony dialed way down