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The Time Has Come for the Screen Actors Guild to Demand a Real Raise for Background Artists
As you can see from Screen Actors Guild Member, Pete Antico's, Campaign Platform in his 2017 run for SAG-AFTRA President, the very...
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As Background Artists constitute the Majority Membership of the Screen Actors Guild, it is incumbent upon our Union - the AFL-CIO Affiliate known as SAG-AFTRA - to vigorously advocate for fair pay and safe working conditions for all Union Background Artists. But as SAG-AFTRA has repeatedly failed to adequately protect Union Background Artists from predatory film & television Production Contracts - endorsing production contracts that pay Union Members no more than Minimum Wage, and in some cases, pay Union Members NOTHING at all for their work - and repeatedly failed to protect Union Background Artists from unlawful, unsafe and unhealthy working conditions - prompting the Background Artists Coalition to open an ongoing dialogue with NYC Council Speaker Corey Johnson, with whom we continue to advocate for the NYC Council to enact legislation intended to protect Background Artists working on film and television sets throughout NYC, Background Actors have united in this Nationwide Coalition to advocate on our own behalf.
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