National Tri-Union (SAG/AFTRA/AEA) Performers with Disabilities Committee

This committee works to increase audition and casting opportunities for performers with disabilities (PWD). It strives to mainstream PWD into all areas of the entertainment industry, foster understanding, respect, better working standards for and track employment of PWD.

Performers with Disabilities Casting Data Report Resolution

SAG National Board Approved at the July 15, 2006 National Board Meeting

8B. Resolution re: Performers with Disabilities

The following resolution was approved by the National Executive Committee at its meeting of May 23, 2006:

Whereas the members of the Screen Actors Guild who are Performers with Disabilities are longstanding and outstanding contributors to our Community; and

Whereas the Guild is against any form of discrimination and has a unique and abiding interest in protecting our own members against all forms of bias; and

Whereas our employers in the entertainment industry have consistently committed to a policy of non-discrimination and fair employment, and to submitting a quarterly report disclosing employment data for those of our members who fit the definition of diversity within our contracts; and

Whereas our Performers with Disabilities have labored for years to be recognized as a group by the employers in the entertainment industry by being included in the Casting Data Reports that each employer sends to the Guild each quarter; and

Whereas the Guild views any unreasonable and unnecessary delay in the inclusion of Performers with Disabilities in these Casting Data Reports to be reprehensible and against the spirit of the terms of our collective bargaining agreement;

Be it therefore Resolved that the Board of Directors of the Screen Actors Guild assert our overwhelming support for the efforts by our Negotiating Committees, our PWD Committee, and our staff to obtain the inclusion of Performers with Disabilities within the Casting Data Reports submitted to the Guild.

It was moved and seconded to approve the recommendation: Approved Unanimously