Here's a list of Unions and Guilds in the industry.
Actors’ Equity Association is the labor union representing over 45,000 American actors and stage managers working in the professional theatre.
The largest organization in the world representing the interests of professional musicians. Whether negotiating fair agreements, protecting ownership of recorded music, securing benefits such as health care and pension, or lobbying legislators, the AFM is committed to raising industry standards and placing the professional musician in the foreground of the cultural landscape.
ASCAP is a membership association of nearly 200,000 U.S. composers, songwriters, lyricists, and music publishers of every kind of music. Through agreements with affiliated international societies, ASCAP also represents hundreds of thousands of music creators worldwide. ASCAP is the only U.S. performing rights organization created and controlled by composers, songwriters and music publishers, with a Board of Directors elected by and from the membership.
Welcome to the Communications Workers of America District 6. CWA District 6 is responsible for supporting the CWA Locals in the states of Texas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Kansas and Arkansas. Across this five state area 124 CWA Local Unions operate daily representing over 85,000 workers. They are a very diversified District representing telecommunications, cable, print and publishing, manufacturing, public workers, health care, law enforcement, and workers in numerous other fields.
Through the collective voice of more than 12,700 members that the DGA represents, the Guild seeks to protect directorial teams’ legal and artistic rights, contend for their creative freedom, and strengthen their ability to develop meaningful and credible careers.
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters, with 1.4 million members, is one of the largest labor unions in the world. It is also the most diverse union in the U.S. The union represents everyone from A to Z – from airline pilots to zookeepers. They are primarily drivers and involved with transportation in the film and television industry.
Welcome to the Communications Workers of America District 6. CWA District 6 is responsible for supporting the CWA Locals in the states of Texas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Kansas and Arkansas. Across this five state area 124 CWA Local Unions operate daily representing over 85,000 workers. They are a very diversified District representing telecommunications, cable, print and publishing, manufacturing, public workers, health care, law enforcement, and workers in numerous other fields.
International Cinematographers Guild members – Directors of Photography, Camera Operators and Assistants, Computer Graphics Specialists, Visual Effects Supervisors, Still Photographers and more – are part of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees. The IATSE is comprised of highly skilled technicians working in film, television, live entertainment, animation, special effects and new media.
IATSE Local 127 has been serving the Dallas entertainment community since 1906. Around the turn of the century the Local began providing stagehands for live theatrical events staged in the theaters.
Our industry, and our relation to it, is in flux. It is the unshakable conviction of our membership that the producer is, and will always be, at the visionary center of this creative industry. We invite you to join us in this conviction and avail yourself of all the resources we offer. For, finally, producers are nothing more, and nothing less, than the curators of the world’s imagination.
SAG-AFTRA members are the faces and voices that entertain and inform America and the world. SAG-AFTRA members work together to secure the strongest protections for media artists into the 21st century and beyond.
The WGA is a labor union composed of the thousands of writers who write television shows, movies, news programs, documentaries, animation, CD-ROMs, and content for new-media technologies that keep audiences constantly entertained and informed.
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SAG-AFTRA (Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists)
SAG-AFTRA represents more than 160,000 actors, announcers, broadcasters journalists, dancers, DJs, news writers, news editors, program hosts, puppeteers, recording artists, singers, stunt performers, voiceover artists and other media professionals. SAG-AFTRA members are the faces and voices that entertain and inform America and the world. SAG-AFTRA members work together to secure the strongest protections for media artists into the 21st century and beyond.
Local Contact:
15110 Dallas Parkway, Suite 440
Dallas, TX 75248
214-363-8300
214-363-5386 (fax)
Trish Avery – Dallas–Fort Worth Local Executive Director
trish.avery@sagaftra.org
T.J. Jones – Dallas–Fort Worth Local Director of Outreach and Broadcast
tj.jones@sagaftra.org
Visit SAG–AFTRA online at SAGAFTRA.org or the Dallas Local at http://www.sagaftra.org/dfw.
Follow SAG-AFTRA on Twitter (twitter.com/sagaftra) and Facebook (facebook.com/sagaftra).
Another way to protect yourself… use a “franchised agent.” This is a person, firm or corporation that has entered into an agreement with SAG-AFTRA under which they agree to abide by certain rules and conditions when dealing with performers who work within our jurisdiction.
