Unions continue progress toward merger
Leaders of the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists have taken another step toward combining the performers unions.
The unions announced Wednesday that reps of the SAG-AFTRA Presidents’ Forum for One Union met last weekend in New York City, resulting in “meaningful progress toward the goal of uniting SAG and AFTRA.”
No date has been set yet for a merger vote, which would create an org of about 150,000 members. SAG members voted down merger in 1999 and 2003 amid arguments that SAG would lose its unique identity as an actors union.
Merger proponents have asserted that a combined union would have greater clout…