AFTRA Leadership Team

AFTRA Ambassador, Executive Committee, County Fed Labor Delegate, Documentarian/Song Writer "Raza's Rap", AFTRA New Media Producer, Director "Fifty For Women Ain't What It Used To Be." …” “Different World,”  “Homeland Security,” Stunt Double “The District.”  Worked UFS Merger Campaign, March 26th Rally, created AFTRA EEO Committee’s “A Night With Results: diversity increase, picket lines: WGA, Commercials, Grocery, CWA: Health Coverage Retirement; key employment motivating elements; member NALIP, NOSOTROS, Visual Communications, W&W, Alternate 2004 Negotiating Team, 2005 Campaign; moderated first PWD CBS Showcase. Opposed Governor Schwartzenegger’s Healthcare propositions.

Local Board for 2 years.  Committee work includes: Seniors Caucus, Women’s Committee, the W & W, the Negotiating Team, the Nominating Committee, and Ambassador to the Organizing Committee.  Attended 2009 AFTRA Convention and 2010 Plenary Meeting. I have always thought unifying AFTRA & SAG would eliminate jurisdictional conflicts, enabling a stronger entity to provide for all members. I would now like to be a part of that process.  So I am asking for your vote to serve on the National Board of AFTRA. And I urge you  to support the entire ALT slate.

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I ask for your vote and continued support in representing you on the Local and National Boards. I have been a performer in AFTRA and SAG for over 20 years. I have seen many changes in our industry. Some have not been what we wanted, but keeping our members working has been the priority.  I want to try and unite all media performers under one Union.  I ask that you allow me to keep working to make AFTRA stronger and better for all of us.

I enjoy working on behalf of my fellow members in particular my dance community. Dance is visible right now with many new shows. People have a greater appreciation  of the hard work required to be a professional dancer. It’s a great time to set policy that will benefit our future. Dancers fight to gain respect and through the union we’ve attained it with gains in our contracts such as hazard pay. I want to be here so we continue to have a voice in the boardroom. EEOC, WOMENS,  NOMINATING, COMMUNICATION COMMITTEES. All media performers united in one union.

It is time to return and, again, add my voice for One Union. I have stepped back, for a few years, to make room for new members to serve AFTRA. As President Reardon has named me AFTRA’S Western National Senior’s Chair, I will be most effective working with the National Board. Former National Women’s Chair and longtime Board Member of AFTRA and SAG. With hopes that my history speaks for me, thanks for your consideration. Jackie Joseph, proud to be an experienced member of the AFTRA LEADERSHIP TEAM.

As we move forward in this increasingly anti-union, anti-worker environment, it is more important than ever to have representation that will speak up and stand up for those of us who are least able. It is also important to have that voice be one of reason and of a mind geared toward finding solutions, and working together. I have spent my life speaking out against wrongs and finding ways to unite. Now is the time we must come together and reinforce what it means to be a union member.  I currently represent AFTRA as a National Vice-President on the Coalition of Labor Union Women.  Being on our National Board will allow me to be a better representative of AFTRA by being involved in our national committees.  I am on the LA Local Board; Women's Committee; Co-Chair of the Golf Committee, and Vice-Chair of the EEO Committee; AFTRA Chair, Ivy Bethune Tri-Union Diversity Awards; Los Angeles Women's Theatre Festival Board Treasurer and Managing Producer.

I have been a Stunt Performer and Stunt Coordinator in AFTRA and SAG for over 16 years.  I am a strong proponent of merger in an effort to form one cohesive union that cannot be leveraged against each other.  I am a business minded individual who communicates clearly and rationally. I have the ability to listen to the needs of those whom I represent, without ego or prejudice. I make decisions based on the goals of our industry as a whole and welcome your support for the AFTRA National Board.

AFTRA/SAG since ’65, SAG NB.  Merger at last!

AFTRA is strong and vital with a clear vision for the future but given the “destroy unions” mentality in this country now, we need to stand together. As do many of us, I work both AFTRA and SAG contracts and in order for successful merger to occur we need to keep both Unions as strong as we can. I am committed to protecting and helping the merger process as we go forward. I want to make a difference. I believe I can. Thank you.

As important as the committee work is I think THE issue now confronting the elected officers of this union is the forming of a new union combining the strengths of AFTRA and SAG.  For all of my 47 years as a union member I have heard that merger or consolidation of our two unions was going to happen “very soon.”  Well, you and I know that has not happened.  We must achieve this to be able to effectively confront the large multinational corporations who control our future.   I would very much like to help make this happen, as I know all the candidates of the AFTRA Leadership Team would like to also.  Please cast your vote for me and the other AFT candidates so we can achieve this.

I work daily under SAG and AFTRA contracts. I serve as an activist incumbent on the AFTRA National and L.A. Local boards, and I support the creation of a new single union for performers. SAG and AFTRA members are preparing a plan for us to vote on next year to combine SAG and AFTRA into one new union. That way we keep our current pension credits and can create a single plan to cover performers for medical without splitting credits between two unions.

But inevitably we will hear the disinformation from naysayers claiming that merging our two unions will cause problems with our medical and pension plans. The fact is our medical & pension plans are separate entities, not a part of SAG or AFTRA, but chartered under separate federal laws and rules. The joining of SAG & AFTRA into a new union will finally enable us to create a new single medical and pension plan for performers and not continue to split credits, allowing us to cover more members with a solid union medical plan. Spread the word to your friends about AftraLeadershipTeam.org. This is a crucial election, both locally and nationally. Your ballot has arrived by snail-mail. Fill it out and mail it in. Thanks for voting.

Our world is changing every day and our business is changing right along with it. That is the reason I am running for the National Board, one word: Merger. We must be one union to be the strongest we can possibly be, for growth and prosperity. I have been a member of Equity since 1963, and SAG and AFTRA since 1964. I am on the Los Angeles Local Board of AFTRA and the National Board of SAG. As an AFTRA board member I am on the AFTRA Leadership Team and was on the negotiating team for AFTRA with the AMPTP. As a SAG board member, I am on the National Executive Committee Review, the Agent Relations Committee, and the Disciplinary Review Committee.