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actorboston
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I moved from Los Angeles to Boston & didnt transfer my AFTRA membership from LA. I encountered financial hardship & wasnt able to pay my dues for a while (neither AFTRA or SAG). Last month I pd SAG & called AFTRA to pay them this month only to find out they suspended my membership 9 months ago. The kicker is I never recieved a notification letter from them. I wrote the Leniency Committee to explain that I moved & they denied reinstatement unless I pay the initiation fee of 1,300.00. What I owe is alot less than that, any tips, advice???
 
Posts: 5 | Location: boston | Registered: July 08, 2008Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post
Michael Kostroff
Russell Crowe
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I'm going to give some controversial advice here, and I may get slammed.

Hold off on reinstating.

With all the craziness of the current negotiations, there is at least one scenario in which you may not need your AFTRA membership after all. I'd wait and see.

At the very least, I'd wait until you book AFTRA work. Meanwhile, save up for that steep reinstatement fee. Wow...Not so lenient, the leniency commitee.


Michael Kostroff
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Posts: 246 | Location: Los Angeles, California | Registered: June 24, 2008Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post
LADelight
Sean Penn
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I agree w/Michael when it comes to AFTRA. Especially now. Also, being a member of AFTRA doesn't affect your ability to get work on their shows, which is very unlike SAG.
 
Posts: 181 | Location: Los Angeles | Registered: January 15, 2008Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post
actorboston
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...I thought about that too and I agree with Michael: No leniency there. How about if you want to join Equity thru the 4A's (I know a lot of people frown on that practice but..)do you guys know if a "Suspended" status from AFTRA will preclude an actor from joining Equity this way? Thanks for the responses!!!!
 
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actorboston
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Thanks for the responses: I agree with Michael no leniency there and I was thinking about that situation too! I just think it's very cavalier of the Union to ignore the particulars & set an accross the board standard for reinstatement.
 
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Matthew Schuck
Russell Crowe
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how much are the annual dues for SAG, and AFTRA. I know about the initial initation fees, but are the annual dues like $100? I'm obviously speaking from not having either I'm just curious.
 
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actorboston
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MS, it varies:
AFTRA is 63.90 per period plus % of earning: .743 up to $100,00. .137 over 100,000.

SAG is 58.00 base plus % of earnings:
1.85 up to $200,000 & so on & so forth.
 
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prefamous
Morgan Freeman
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quote:
Originally posted by actorboston:
I moved from Los Angeles to Boston & didnt transfer my AFTRA membership from LA. I encountered financial hardship & wasnt able to pay my dues for a while (neither AFTRA or SAG). Last month I pd SAG & called AFTRA to pay them this month only to find out they suspended my membership 9 months ago. The kicker is I never recieved a notification letter from them. I wrote the Leniency Committee to explain that I moved & they denied reinstatement unless I pay the initiation fee of 1,300.00. What I owe is alot less than that, any tips, advice???


I also encountered financial hardship and my aftra membership was suspended. To be honest I am not sure I want to be a member of aftra anymore. It got me into sag and that's were it's usefulness ends. I definitely won't pay $1300.
 
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