The membership is the union. It’s time we start acting like it.

Let’s get out and vote, Los Angeles.

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It is vital that we participate in the governance of our union. We all complain about staff, we all complain about contract enforcement, we all complain about healthcare and residuals…but how many of us actually do the bare minimum and fill out a ballot when it’s time to elect our union’s leaders?

I wish Skylight didn’t automatically cross post to Bluesky. What’s the point in having two apps if the content isn’t novel?

Anyway, here’s a cute video of my dog.

Tiny baby puppy dogs 🩵🩵🩵

How real is The Itsy Bitsy Spider?

That MomTok hairstylist Mormon swinger.

So is Wicked…not about college students anymore? Did they change the plot for the movie?

This bathing suit looks like Bart Simpson

Gains for Background are always good and long overdue.

The win on this page is the streaming bonus thing. It’s whatever. I hope a few people get some money from it. And I’m a little confused/worried about this TBD fund.

If our goal was to make up for lost syndication money, I don’t think we did that. To put it mildly.

But it breaks my heart that Motion Capture performers are excluded from SAG-AFTRA coverage.

Mo-Cap artists are performers with a specific skill, just like dancers, singers, and actors. They deserve union protections like the rest of us.

Page 6 is a mixed bag. The pension and health caps seem like a small gain, but it’s actually a HUGE first step on the road to getting our P&H plans functional. We need to make progress like this every year moving forward. Before 2023, our P&H caps hadn’t gone up in like 40 years.

This one made me cry a little. Basically, we continued giving up AI protections even though we were on strike.

The idea that consent to AI scans can’t be a condition of employment isn’t on either of the original grids, so I can’t say when we lost that or if we even asked for it.

This page is easy. Our only gain between the pre-strike offer and the current tentative agreement is that we get weekends and holidays free from having to self-tape auditions.

This page is another bummer. I feel now, as the NegCom did in July, that these increases aren’t enough. But you can’t have big wins everywhere in a negotiation, and these weren’t the key issues we went on strike over.

Page 2’s gains are easy to explain: if a dancer lip syncs, she has to learn the lyrics to the song, so she should be paid for learning it just like if she sang it. And if singers have to dance, they should get extra money for doing that extra work. This is all good stuff!

The big thing on this page that we did NOT achieve is Fran’s baby: the revenue sharing plan. This was sold to us as a chance to get something like the income members used to receive from the syndication of popular shows. It was a HUGE part of why we went on strike.

On Page 1, we achieved two things: The first is a break of the DGA/WGA pattern to get us a 7% raise instead of the 5% we were offered. Breaking pattern is a big deal, but 7% isn’t 11. This raise doesn’t replace the money we’ve lost to inflation. But it is a gain.