SAG Board Receives AFTRA Merger Report

La (October 22, 2011) The Screen Stars Guild National Board of Company directors met inside a regularly scheduled plenary meeting on October 22, within the James Cagney Boardroom in the Guilds La headquarters. The meeting started having a moment of silence in recognition of people who've died because the last meeting. The board received reviews from operational departments, committees and task forces including: Merger Task Pressure Leader Ken Howard reported towards the board around the efforts from the Guilds Merger Task Pressure and efforts to unite SAG and AFTRA people in one successor union. The Board also received status reviews from member and staff co-leads of each one of the six merger workgroups: Governance & Structure Procedures & Staff Finance & Dues Collective Negotiating Pension, Health & Retirement Member Education & OutreacH Finance Report National Secretary-Treasurer Amy Aquino shipped a study around the Guilds first quarter financial results observing that SAGs revenue and expenses are monitoring your budget for fiscal year 2012. National Executive Company directors Report National Executive Director David Whitened reported on operational improvements going ahead in the Guild. Whitened told the board concerning the ongoing success and broadened utilisation of the lately released online SAG Production Center and contract signatory function. Whitened revealed which more than 2,250 productions have performed or requested SAG production contracts with the online signatory function because it openly released in June 2011, a figure that surpasses all forecasts for that initiative at this time. Whitened also reported around the Guilds support for, and participation in, the Creative America effort to prevent content thievery. SAGs participation in the market-wide education and knowledge campaign has incorporated member communications, staff communications as well as other pr efforts including video testimonial messages and print giveaways provided at member occasions. In other business, the Guild handled routine governance matters including overview of committee visits along with a set of the Regional Branch Rules of Procedure project. The meeting was adjourned at 9:00 p.m. PDT.