Gabrielle Carteris has been re-elected president of SAG-aftra in a contentious race to lead the 140,000-member performers union. Her slate of Unite for Strength running mates also made narrow gains but further solidified their control of the national board and the union's Los Angeles local, of which Jane Austin was elected president today. Carteris received 14,674 votes to Morales’ 8,145, Pete Antico’s 4,114, Robert B. Martin Jr.’s 1,207 and Marilyn Monrovia’s 715…...
- 8/25/2017
- Deadline
Gabrielle Carteris has been re-elected president of SAG-aftra in a contentious race to lead the 140,000-member performers union. Her slate of Unite for Strength running mates also made narrow gains but further solidified their control of the national board and the union's Los Angeles local, of which Jane Austin was elected president today. Carteris received 14,674 votes to Morales’ 8,145, Pete Antico’s 4,114, Robert B. Martin Jr.’s 1,207 and Marilyn Monrovia’s 715…...
- 8/25/2017
- Deadline TV
Tomorrow, SAG-aftra, the nation’s largest union for media artists, will announce the results of what has been a lively and, at times, tense election for union leadership. Incumbent Gabrielle Carteris, representing Unite for Strength, is running against Membership First’s Esai Morales and independent candidates Pete Antico, Robert B. Martin Jr., and Marilyn Monrovia. On the heels of a new film and television contract, escalating campaign rhetoric has moved between passionate and accusatory. Running for re-election as Unite for Strength’s candidate, Carteris’ platform is focusing on what her supporters see as accomplishments for the union during her service, from unifying the union’s previously separated healthcare plans and expanding tax incentives for filming, to toting new contract earnings. Morales with the opposition slate, Membership First, is running a campaign that attempts to harness the frustrations of an inner-union political culture that some members have grown to resent. With...
- 8/23/2017
- backstage.com
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