Tri Union Info
Actors' Equity Association (AEA), founded in 1913, represents more than 48,000 stage actors and stage managers in the United States.
Equity negotiates wages and working conditions, providing a wide range of benefits, including health and pension plans for its members. Our mission is to advance, promote and foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society.
AEA is a member of the AFL-CIO, and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. For almost 100 years, Actors’ Equity has been the proud tradition, voice and spirit of actors in the American theatre.
Visit AEA at www.actorsequity.org.
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Screen Actors Guild is the nation’s largest labor union representing working actors.
Established in 1933, SAG has a rich history in the American labor movement, from standing up to studios to break long-term engagement contracts in the 1940s to fighting for artists’ rights amid the digital revolution sweeping the entertainment industry in the 21st century.
With 20 branches nationwide, SAG represents more than 122,000 actors who work in film, television, industrials, commercials, video games, music videos and in all new media formats.
The Guild exists to enhance actors’ working conditions, compensation and benefits and to be a powerful, unified voice on behalf of artists’ rights.
SAG is a proud affiliate of the AFL-CIO. Headquartered in Los Angeles, you can visit SAG online at www.sag.org.
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The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, AFL-CIO, are the people who entertain and inform America.
More than 70,000 professional performers, broadcasters and recording artists are moving forward together through AFTRA to protect and improve our jobs, lives, and communities.
AFTRA members embrace change in society—from new culture to new technology—and incorporate change in our work and craft. AFTRA celebrates and thrives on the diversity of our members and the work we do.
AFTRA opens a whole new world of opportunities for success for professional performers, broadcasters, and recording artists. In 32 locals across the country, AFTRA members work as actors, journalists, dancers, singers, announcers, hosts, comedians, disc jockeys and other performers across the media industries including television, radio, cable, sound recordings, music videos, commercials, audio books, non-broadcast industrials, interactive games, the Internet and other digital media.
Visit AFTRA at www.aftra.com.
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