Branch News
On September 21, 2011 Screen Actors Guild announced the election results for Philadelphia Branch Elections.
Branch President John Wooten, Vice President Sylvia Kauders, Secretary Harvey Jaffe, Treasurer Gail Elaine Lewis, National Board Director Helen McNutt, and Council Members at Large Donna Dundon, Lisa Ann Goldsmith and Michael Kraycik welcome the following newly elected candidates to the Philadelphia Branch:
Los Angeles (September 22, 2010) - Screen Actors Guild today announced election results for the Philadelphia Branch elections.
Candidates elected from the Philadelphia Branch include:
John Wooten, President, three year term
Sylvia Kauders, Vice President, three year term
Harvey Jaffe, Recording Secretary, three year term
Gail Lewis, Treasurer, three year term
Donna Dundon, Council Member at Large, two year term
Lisa Ann Goldsmith, Council Member at Large, two year term
Dear Philadelphia Branch Members:
On September 22, 2009, Screen Actors Guild announced the election results for the Philadelphia Branch elections.
Philadelphia Branch President Tom McCarthy, Branch Vice President Sylvia Kauders, Secretary Harvey Jaffe, Treasurer Gail Lewis, and current Council Members at Large Donna Dundan, Deborah Carn and Tom McNutt welcome the following newly elected candidates to the Philadelphia Branch:
Helen McNutt / National Board Director / three-year term
The Philadelphia Branch of the Screen Actors Guild, and the Philadelphia Council AFL – CIO, are asking you to contact Senator Arlen Specter and ask him to support the “Employee Free Choice Act”. The Employee Free Choice Act, supported by a bipartisan coalition in Congress, would enable working people to bargain for better benefits, wages and working conditions by restoring workers’ freedom to choose for themselves whether to join a union. This critical legislation is relevant to all workers in the U.S., and to you as a professional actor.
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We thank those SAG members who attended the meeting in support of the Pennsylvania film tax incentives on May 1, 2009, but we need more help! Please read the article below and follow instructions for your additional assistance.
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