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SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher Easily Re-elected; Running Mate Joely Fisher Wins Big To Return As Secretary-Treasurer
UPDATED with L.A. Local results: Fran Drescher has been re-elected president of SAG-AFTRA in a landslide. Drescher, winning a second two-year term in votes counted Friday, handily defeated independent candidate Maya Gilbert-Dunbar. Drescher received 23,080 votes to Gilbert-Dunbar’s 5,276, with 22.84% of the guild’s 124,477 eligible members casting ballots. Drescher’s unity slate running mate, Joely …
- WorldVariety
Fran Drescher and Joely Fisher Re-elected to Lead SAG-AFTRA as Strike Nears Two-Month Mark
Fran Drescher has been elected to a second term as president of SAG-AFTRA, as the union’s first studio strike in 43 years nears the two-month mark. Drescher was elected with 81.4% of the vote, defeating Maya Gilbert-Dunbar, who took 18.6%. Joely Fisher took 70.3% in her race for a second term as secretary-treasurer. Her opponent, …
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Fran Drescher Reelected SAG-AFTRA President
In an election cycle that took place amid a historic strike, Fran Drescher has been reelected SAG-AFTRA president. Meanwhile, Joely Fisher was reelected the union’s secretary-treasurer. Drescher received 23,080 votes, over competitor Maya Gilbert-Dunbar’s 5,276 votes. Fisher received 19,777 votes, while challenger Pete Antico garnered 8,361 votes. The voter turnout was 22.84 percent. “I am …
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WGA & SAG-AFTRA To Rally For California Bill That Would Grant Unemployment Insurance To Strikers
The Writers Guild and SAG-AFTRA will rally on Thursday at Amazon Studio in Culver City to highlight their push a bill that would provide unemployment insurance to striking workers in California. Striking writers and actors in New York and New Jersey are already eligible to receive unemployment benefits after 14 days on the picket line, …
- USDeadline
WGA West’s Meredith Stiehm & SAG-AFTRA’s Joely Fisher Lobby For California Bill That Would Give Striking Workers Unemployment Benefits
WGA West President Meredith Stiehm and SAG-AFTRA Secretary-Treasurer Joely Fisher were in Sacramento last week lobbying California legislators for passage of Senate Bill 799, which would make striking workers eligible to collect unemployment benefits. The bill passed through the Assembly Insurance Committee on Thursday and the Legislature has until September 14 to send the bill …
- CelebrityThe Hollywood Reporter
Martin Sheen, Kerry Washington, Ron Perlman at Solidarity Rally: Don’t Let Studios “Gaslight Us”
Thousands of union members braved a beating sun on Tuesday outside Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California, as SAG-AFTRA brought out speakers including Kerry Washington, Martin Sheen and Ron Perlman as well as such labor leaders as Lindsay Dougherty, Duncan Crabtree-Ireland and Joely Fisher as part of its National Day of Solidarity rally. Burbank police …
- EntertainmentLA Times
Hollywood actors on strike, but many A-list celebrities still working. Inside side deals debate
SAG-AFTRA approved side agreements allowing more than 100 independent film projects and series to move forward amid the strike, but the deals have spurred debate.
- CelebrityCloser Weekly
Joely Fisher Says Mom Connie Stevens Is a ‘Fighter’ in Assisted Living: ‘We Surround Her With Love’
Actress Joely Fisher jokes that she learned how to call for hotel room service around the same time that she learned to talk. “My mom was on the road, and she took us with her,” Joely, the daughter of Connie Stevens and Eddie Fisher, told Closer prior to the SAG-AFTRA strike. “It wasn’t always a...
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SAG-AFTRA Election Underway: Fran Drescher To Face Maya Gilbert-Dunbar For President; Joely Fisher And Peter Antico Vie For Secretary-Treasurer
Although SAG-AFTRA’s leading political factions have united around the reelection of President Fran Drescher and Secretary-Treasurer Joely Fisher, they’re not running unopposed in the guild’s upcoming election. Independent candidate Maya Gilbert-Dunbar will face off against Drescher and indie candidate Peter Antico will challenge Fisher, all four of whom have now officially qualified to appear on …
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Dispatches From The Picket Lines: Strikers Protest Lack Of Progress On Safe Zone Outside NBCUniversal; Studio Responds
It’s Day 19 of the SAG-AFTRA strike and Day 92 of the WGA strike. Frustrated with the lack of progress on a safe zone for picketers outside of the NBCUniversal lot, SAG-AFTRA Board Member Secretary-Treasurer Joely Fisher was joined by WGA Negotiating Committee Co-Chair David Goodman and U.S. Representative Jimmy Gomez (CA-34) on Tuesday to […]
