Washington-Mid Atlantic Local Holds Historic First SAG-AFTRA Membership Meeting

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Washington-Mid Atlantic Local Holds Historic First SAG-AFTRA Membership Meeting(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)Members and staff of SAG-AFTRA’s Washington-Mid Atlantic Local gathered together for the first time in early November under the newly-merged union of SAG-AFTRA. Members “from every corner of the local” attended the meeting in Rockville, the local reports, including members from North Carolina, Richmond, and Baltimore. Executive Director Pat O’Donnell reviewed changes within the local and around the country under the new union, while members Tyrone Barksdale and Ellie Wang reported on the union’s recent National Board Meeting in Los Angeles. Associate Executive Director Jane Love (at left in photo) provided an update on productions in the region, especially with the addition of North Carolina. Later in November, Love discussed the benefits of union membership with a crowd of more than 80 actors, filmmakers and other film industry professionals in Charlotte, North Carolina, as well as with some 40 students in the Business of Theatre class at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA. “I had no idea how much of a resource joining SAG-AFTRA would be for me,” marveled student Jessica Johns. “In a profession in which there's so much uncertainty, I now feel that there's an organization that can provide a certain aspect of stability in my career.”
photo: Jane Love and Lauren Dortch-Crozier from Corrigan Johnston Casting at the Charlotte event

 

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