SAG-AFTRA Archives - nwLaborPress

Poll shows high public support for striking actors and writers

Aug 24, 2023

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.

Screen actors on strike

Aug 4, 2023

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.

Outstanding Performances

Feb 15, 2023

Unlike the Oscars, the SAG Awards are just for actors, and they honor not just individual performances but whole casts.

SAG-AFTRA officer moves on

Oct 6, 2022

Union actor Harold Phillips is wrapping up a run as a Portland-area labor activist after close to three decades in the city.

SAG Awards set for Feb. 27

Feb 16, 2022

Tired of the tedium, the pomposity, the gaffes of the annual Academy Awards? That’s management’s award ceremony.

Spreading the union’s inspiration by air and by internet

Aug 19, 2020

A new web project showcases and connects more than four dozen labor podcasts and radio shows from around the nation.

Laid-off costume department workers volunteer to make protective masks

Apr 1, 2020

Hospitals and home health care workers are facing a shortage of masks, and are calling for donations.

Class struggle takes the stage at the 2020 SAG Awards

Jan 21, 2020

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.

Robert Blanche, 1962-2020

Jan 15, 2020

The former president of the Portland local of SAG-AFTRA was best known for playing Sgt. Franco on NBC’s Grimm.

This year’s SAG awards watch party will raise money for a union actor who’s fighting for his life

Dec 27, 2018

Local SAG-AFTRA president Robert Blanche is battling complications from a double lung transplant.