Professional Representation All-Day Seminar

Continuing to build on its goal of increasing interaction with SAG-AFTRA performers, the Professional Representatives Department staged its inaugural all-day agency seminar with members. This series of meetings began early morning on the East Coast, where our New York team walked members through all the intricate and sometimes confusing documents that they often sign in their relationships with their agents. 

Agency Forms 101: Everything You Need to Know about the Agency Documents Approved by Your Union began the event in New York and was immediately followed by a much larger bicoastal event moderated out of the Los Angeles Office, titled General Services Agreements: What Every Member Should Know before Signing this Contract. Afterwards the L.A. P.R. Team hosted its own Agency Forms 101 seminar for an entirely new group of member-participants.

This series of events, consisting of six-and-a-half hours of valuable content disseminated to members, was a tremendous success. The professional representatives national team on both coasts interacted with more than 325 members in one day. They also distributed surveys to all participants to learn how to make these types of events more responsive to their needs. Based on the completed surveys, members gave SAG-AFTRA high marks on its initiative, dedication to member service and provided content. “The message we heard was overwhelmingly positive,” stated National Director/Senior Counsel, Professional Representatives Zino Macaluso. “Members left our events more informed, entertained and more connected to their union than before they walked in. Given the success of this event, we plan on staging more of them in the near future.”  

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This item was originally featured in the September 2016 local newsletter.