Michael Maizner News Today

Star image makers say industry pay practices are "unsustainable," as a labor lawyer advises forming a guild is the best route to effect change.

An expulsion would be a message to the industry: "Consider not engaging him." SAG-AFTRA hasn’t expelled a member since its merger nearly a decade ago, and before that neither union had done it since 2002. While most disciplinary hearings contemplating other severe penalties involve violations of Global Rule 1 — the restriction against working on non-union projects — it’s a threat to members’ safety that has prompted the organization to take such a step now. On Jan. 19, the union disc...