8 Facts About Screen Actors Guild

1. Screen Actors Guild secured residuals payments in perpetuity to its members for broadcast and re-broadcast of films, TV shows, and TV commercials through clauses in the basic SAG agreements with producers.

2. All members of the Screen Actors Guild agreed to work only for producers who had signed contracts with SAG.

3. Since 2002, the Screen Actors Guild had pursued a policy of worldwide enforcement of Rule One, and renamed it Global Rule One.

4. On November 17, 1947, the Screen Actors Guild voted to force its officers to take a "non-communist" pledge.

5. Since 1995, the guild annually awarded the Screen Actors Screen Actors Guild Awards, which are considered an indicator of success at the Academy Awards.

6. Screen Actors Guild was associated with the Associated Actors and Artistes of America, which is the primary association of performer's unions in the United States.

7. Screen Actors Guild was founded in 1933 in an effort to eliminate what were described as exploitation of Hollywood actors who were being forced into oppressive multi-year contracts with the major movie studios.

8. Screen Actors Guild was an American labor union which represented over 100,000 film and television principal and background performers worldwide.