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For Members NEWS, INFORMAT ION AND BENEFITS TENTATIVE AGREEMENTS REACHED WITH AMPTP S creen Actors Guild now has new tentative agreements with our employers for the TV/Teatrical and the Basic Cable and Animation agreements. It was announced on November 7 that Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists have reached a tentative agreement with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers on successor agreements to the Producer-Screen Actors Guild Codified Basic Agreement for feature motion pictures, scripted network primetime television and pay television programs, Exhibit A of the AFTRA National Code of Fair Practice for Network Television Broadcasting (covering scripted network primetime and pay television programs), and Te CW Supplement. Te new three-year agreement is subject to approval by the Joint National Board of Screen Actors Guild and AFTRA, and ratification by the unions’ memberships. Te current contracts expire on June 30, 2011, and the new three-year agreement will be effective from July 1, 2011, through June 30, 2014. HIGHLIGHTS OF THE NEW TENTATIVE AGREEMENT INCLUDE: • A 6% wage increase over the term of the agreement with 2% in each of the three years, effective July 1, 2011, 2012 and 2013 • A 10% increase in the current rate of employer contributions paid to the Screen Actors Guild-Producers Pension and Health Plans and AFTRA Health & Retirement Funds, bringing the total contribution rate to 16.5% effective July 1, 2011. This represents the largest dollar value increase to the plans, under these contracts, since the plans were founded and is the largest percentage increase to the plans in more than two decades • Two additional background positions in theatrical and one additional background position in television in the Western Zones • An expansion of major role provisions to apply to new pay television series commencing in their second season • Expanded union coverage over made for new media productions • Increases in the area of money and schedule breaks • Improved contract language to increase equal employment opportunities for union performers Continues on page 31 NED VAUGHN S MIKE HODGE DAVID HARTLEY- MARGOLIN creen Actors Guild’s division boards elected the union’s 1st, 2nd and 3rd vice presidents in October, following the outcome of national elections in September. Ned Vaughn was elected 1st vice president, representing the Hollywood Division. And 2nd Vice President Mike Hodge and 3rd Vice President David Hartley-Margolin were re-elected, representing the New York Division and Regional Branch Division, respectively. Te vice presidents also serve as the chairpersons of their divisions. “I am honored to serve Screen Actors Guild as 1st vice president and privileged to represent the members here in Hollywood,” said Vaughn. “Our recent board election made it clear: Hollywood members overwhelmingly want performers in one union, not divided in two. I’ll work hard to advance that goal and to make progress in every aspect of protecting our members.” Vaughn is serving his first term on the Screen Actors Guild National Board of Directors and his second term as a member of the Hollywood Division Board of Directors. He is a career actor whose list of credits includes roles in major motion pictures including Apollo 13, Te Hunt for Red October, Courage Under Fire and Frost/Nixon, as well as guest star and recurring roles in hit television series such as 24, Mad Men, Desperate Housewives, Te Mentalist, and the upcoming Harry’s Law, among others. Returning to his post for a second year, 2nd Vice President Hodge said, “It is an incredible honor to serve New York Division members of Screen Actors Guild. I look forward to another year of productive service and to real Continues on page 30 MONEY FOR COLLEGE: The Union Plus Scholarship Program will award $150,000 in scholarships to the families of union members in 2011. Visit UnionPlus.org/scholarships and apply by January 31, 2011. 24 SCREEN ACTOR - Fall/Winter 2010 SAG.org NEW AND RETURNING LEADERS COMPRISE 2010/11 NATIONAL BOARD