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SAG-AFTRA
Union Organizing
OPB reporters unionize
Oregon Public Broadcasting and KMHD Jazz Radio voluntarily recognized SAG-AFTRA as the union for 65 on-air staff, hosts, and reporters.Â
Collective bargaining
Strike Stories
2023 was the biggest strike year in decades. We asked readers who struck last year to tell what it was like.
Culture
Outstanding Performances: SAG-AFTRA announces nominees for the 2024 SAG Awards
This year’s gala might get record viewership: It will stream live on Netflix, and it comes after last year's historic SAG-AFTRA strike.
Collective bargaining
Historic SAG-AFTRA strike is over
Screen actors won the right to streaming residuals, and safeguards against abuse of their images through AI.
Collective bargaining
Poll shows high public support for striking actors and writers
TV and film writers have been on strike since May 2, and TV and film actors in SAG-AFTRA have been on strike since July 14.
Collective bargaining
Screen actors on strike
Members of SAG-AFTRA are now in their third week of a nationwide strike that has shut down most film and TV productions since July 14.
Culture
Outstanding Performances
Unlike the Oscars, the SAG Awards are just for actors, and they honor not just individual performances but whole casts.
Union democracy
SAG-AFTRA officer moves on
Union actor Harold Phillips is wrapping up a run as a Portland-area labor activist after close to three decades in the city.
Culture
SAG Awards set for Feb. 27
Tired of the tedium, the pomposity, the gaffes of the annual Academy Awards? That’s management’s award ceremony.
Culture
Spreading the union’s inspiration by air and by internet
A new web project showcases and connects more than four dozen labor podcasts and radio shows from around the nation.
Building our communities
Laid-off costume department workers volunteer to make protective masks
Hospitals and home health care workers are facing a shortage of masks, and are calling for donations.
Culture
Class struggle takes the stage at the 2020 SAG Awards
The union's top award went to the Korean cast of Parasite, the runaway hit dark comedy that depicts a working class family that connives to escape dire poverty by getting jobs as servants for a rich family.
In Memoriam
Robert Blanche, 1962-2020
The former president of the Portland local of SAG-AFTRA was best known for playing Sgt. Franco on NBC's Grimm.
Building our communities
This year’s SAG awards watch party will raise money for a union actor who’s fighting for his life
Local SAG-AFTRA president Robert Blanche is battling complications from a double lung transplant.
Culture
This union’s got talent
Portland-area SAG-AFTRA members met up to watch their union’s televised award ceremony for the most outstanding performances in film and television.
Buying Union
Union-made gift ideas
Buying any gifts this holiday season? If you buy union, you help keep good jobs in the community, and vote with your dollars for enterprises that pay your fellow workers a living wage with benefits.
Collective bargaining
KGW returns to labor peace
A long-festering union dispute comes to a close as the third union at KGW-TV ratifies a new contract.
Jobs
Film unions hail expansion of Oregon tax credit
Grimm, Portlandia, and the upcoming TV show Librarians are among the beneficiaries.
Culture
22nd annual Screen Actors Guild awards
The Union Oscars: SAG film and TV awards are chosen by union members, and honor collective work
Collective bargaining
Facing Gannett, KGW unions pass a test of unity
Defying a company negotiator, the unions attend each other’s contract negotiating sessions
