SAG-AFTRA Launches New Website for Reporting Sexual Harassment
Actors guild also announces qualification and training standards for intimacy coordinators
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SAG-AFTRA Extends Dues Relief, Announces Bias Training and Diversity Initiatives
National board also adopts new rule explicitly prohibiting harassment, abuse and retaliation for filing complaints
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Why COVID-19 Safety Protocols Are Here to Stay on Hollywood Sets – For Now
“We know there’s been a more infectious variant spreading in California for months, and we don’t know if more are on the way,” one individual with knowledge says
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CBS Will Pay $3.4 Million in Residuals to Settle Dispute With Writers Guild Over Streaming
Network will pay residuals owed for TV shows added to the since-rebranded CBS All-Access streaming service
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Hollywood’s 4 Biggest Questions to Get Production Back to Normal
Unions and studios are still figuring out how to deal with COVID-19 variants and vaccines, as well as when all these safety measures might be lifted
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Do Hollywood Writers Still Need Agents After WGA’s Packaging Fee Victory?
Many writers are re-examining their relationship with their agents after 21-month standoff in which many relied on each other to find jobs
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Hollywood Unions Lobby for Tax Incentive to Promote Diverse Hiring in the Industry
AFL-CIO and Hollywood labor are also pushing for bills that protect bargaining to help reduce the wage gap
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WGA President Says Pandemic ‘Sped Up’ Packaging Fee Victory: ‘Agencies Aren’t Out of the Writer Business’
David Goodman also hints at how Hollywood writers’ relationship with their agents may shift after three-year battle
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WGA Thanks Members After Packaging Fee Victory: ‘We Are Unbroken’
“We took on the agencies, not because they are our antagonists, but because they are our allies,” guild says in memo
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SAG-AFTRA Bars Donald Trump From Readmission Into Guild
Guild cites Trump’s “antagonism of the union’s journalist members and disregard for the values and integrity of the union” as reason for ban
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Writers Guild Reaches Deal With WME to Eliminate Packaging Fees in Hollywood
Nearly three years of struggle over what was once a major revenue stream for agencies ends in victory for the WGA
