SAG-AFTRA President Gabrielle Carteris explains why Donald Trump was kicked out of the union based on hearsay. Peter Antico explains why the union is not a political organization and why it should be remembered as a labor union.
00:02:24.280And members like Tom Cruise or Tom Hanks and George Clooney, the maximum they can earn is $96,000 per year.
00:02:32.720So our union has now been co-opted, running by the staff for the benefit of the staff, and the members are getting shut out.
00:02:40.180Now, Donald Trump, who was also a member because of the enormous popularity of The Apprentice,
00:02:47.360plus having appeared in numerous films and in memorable cameos, was ejected from the union.
00:02:55.100That was spearheaded, as I recall, by the union president, Gabriel Carteris, based on hearsay when he was going through impeachment proceedings.
00:03:05.300And, of course, ultimately, he was exonerated.
00:03:08.660It sounds to me like our union is extremely politically correct.
00:03:13.220Well, our union is an entertainment union and a labor union across the country.
00:03:19.860And we've always mandated, since back to Ed Asner, not to be political, because, obviously, there's tax credits in many different states.
00:03:27.360And if you're either on the Democratic or Republican side, if you anger those kinds of people, you could lose that kind of funding, which would damage the employment opportunities for our members.
00:03:37.420In regard to Mr. Trump, President Trump, getting thrown out of the union or rejected, it was based upon hearsay.
00:03:48.060They stated that he was damaging the broadcasters because he was calling a lot of them out for the false reporting that they were doing.
00:03:58.500And it's interesting because it usually works as we have a disciplinary committee.
00:04:04.180But the president, Gabriel, took it to the national board because I believe she didn't want to single herself out because I believe that she feared getting litigated against for defamation of character.
00:04:16.260And the board voted to eject him, except for eight members that voted no.
00:04:22.140I was one of the people that voted no simply because there was a lack of due process.
00:04:26.300I mean, you have to let the accuser appear and you have to provide evidence.
00:04:30.760And so this was a kangaroo court that was basically voted on for political reasons because classically our union presidents, they spent time in Washington with the Democratic Party, with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer.
00:04:44.700And during this time, it was very contentious in the country.
00:04:48.660So this was going through when Mr. Trump was going through a trial and then got exonerated.
00:04:53.920They should have apologized and they didn't do that.
00:04:56.960They basically threw him out because of lack of due process.
00:06:41.600In the 2020 collective bargaining agreement, the contract negotiation, Duncan Crabtree Island, our executive director, and a political party called Unite for Strength, which represents the majority of our national board, put out propaganda that stated $54 million was negotiated into our pension and health.
00:07:02.100When I first heard that, I jumped up and down and said, that's phenomenal.
00:07:05.960But they used that to actually sell the contract.
00:07:08.700But what they withheld was that 75 percent of that $54 million was picked from actors' pockets and taken and moved over from their cost of living raises.
00:07:18.120So a gain is only a gain if the opposing party puts the bill, and they didn't do that.
00:07:23.980Two weeks after they voted that contract up in 2020, 8,200 seniors were kicked off the plan because our national executive director, Duncan Crabtree Island, failed to inform our negotiating committee that the health plan was in financial trouble.
00:07:41.060And he is a trustee of that plan, and he breaches fiduciary duty.
00:07:45.160So I initiated a lawsuit for the benefit of the seniors against the trustees of the health plan, which included Duncan Crabtree Island.
00:07:53.640And the case was ultimately settled for 20.6 in favor of the seniors.
00:07:58.220Now, I want to let you know that Fran Drescher called it frivolous.
00:08:02.640The entire opposing party called it frivolous, but in a court of law, we were proven correct.
00:08:08.980And to add insult to injury, three weeks ago, there was a netcode contract, and Duncan is a trustee on AFTRS Retirement Fund.
00:08:18.060He came to the board and stated that AFTRS Retirement Fund was in financial trouble, and if we didn't put money into it, that the trust agreement would have to be reorganized.
00:08:29.520And that means it basically could go bankrupt.
00:08:46.540That's why I believe the union should be federally investigated, because I believe there's a lot of nefarious, salacious behavior in regard to our finances that have actually destroyed the infrastructure.
00:08:58.720And the benefits that do the members of our union.
00:09:03.920As I understand it, you are a candidate for secretary treasurer of the union.
00:09:08.880Do you believe the election process will be fair for candidates who are not well-known celebrities?
00:09:14.960Well, no, I actually don't, because here's how most people don't understand this.
00:09:19.220They charge national candidates money if we want to send an email out to the entire membership during the election season.
00:09:25.880So it cost me $4,900 right now to send one email out to the national membership.
00:09:32.700It cost me $2,400 to send one email to California, Los Angeles branch, and it cost me another $1,100 to send one to New York.
00:09:44.400Most of my emails, 70% of them went to spam.
00:09:48.000I filed a complaint with the Department of Justice and the Department of Labor because they coded the emails incorrectly, and they used a company called iContact, which is a bulk email spammer that's on the blacklist for spamming people.
00:10:02.520And then they put the word campaign in the headers, and it goes to many of the email service spam.
00:10:09.240So I gave the board, I gave the governance department the technical specs on how they screwed up.
00:10:16.620And wouldn't you know it, five days later they came back and wrote me a letter and stated that we inadvertently miscoded the emails, and then they stated that only 107 of them would be resent.
00:10:30.920And I said that's technologically impossible.
00:10:34.380When you're sending out a bulk email, once it goes to the server and you push send, it goes out to all email inboxes.
00:10:40.400So out of all the people I polled, nine in New York, nine out of 11 I just started, and eight out of 10 went to the spam folders.
00:10:48.980So how are members going to have a fair election if the members at large in the entire country are getting 70% of the emails go to spam?
00:10:59.420Everyone should be able to hear your financial platform and your policies and what you're going to do to protect the members.
00:11:06.900And then that's fair, but they didn't do that, and that's why I also believe they need to be federally investigated.
00:11:13.140Furthermore, I'm reading information from Free the Vote or True the Vote that these voting machines can be hacked.
00:11:21.260And though they're mail-in ballots, when they put them in the machines, they have to be watched.
00:11:28.200And this really has to be done correctly with people there that understand how this works.
00:11:34.280And I really would wish someone from True the Vote would be there to make sure there's no routers operating because they shouldn't be connected to any Internet and any routers, nor using any SB ports to plug into those machines, or the votes can be changed.
00:11:49.480So this was just brought to my attention four days ago, and I didn't know this, but I'm bringing it to your attention because SAGAPRA has not been run fairly.
00:12:00.960They don't give information to the members, and they censor information that would cause the membership, you know, to rise up and vote and create new leadership.
00:12:11.720Because, respectfully, our pension funding from 2014 to 2024 has gone down a half a percent to a percent and a half a year, and that's for 10 years.
00:12:22.580And as I said before, the health care is only 10 percent people that qualified.
00:12:27.980So if you look at the financial metrics, that doesn't lie.
00:12:32.260The union has been failing from a financial point of view.
00:12:35.860So you really have to look at it pragmatically and just look at the data because the data speaks for itself.
00:12:41.820Well, I hate to tell you this, but I think you were subjected to what we call a political dirty trick.
00:12:54.820If Hillary Clinton put out a blast email, it was classified in such a way that it had about a 90 percent delivery rate.
00:13:03.800Yet if Donald Trump's campaign put out a blast email, say a press release, 90 percent of those would go to the spam file.
00:13:13.520And we actually proved this at the time.
00:13:16.760It's just one of the ways that they cheat.
00:13:19.420It's going to be very interesting because Tulsi Gabbard, who is the director of national intelligence, is currently looking at classified documents regarding the efficiency, the effectiveness and the integrity of these computerized voting machines.
00:13:37.720As you know, she's already made stunning revelations about the so-called Russian collusion hoax.
00:13:46.080And I think she's now turned her attention to the election process of 2020 to see whether we had a fair, honest election.
00:13:57.640A lot of people waiting with bated breath for her report.
00:14:01.920She's shown stunning courage so far in terms of exposing the fact that the Russian collusion hoax narrative was exactly that, a fraud upon the American people.
00:14:13.860It was nothing less than the greatest single dirty trick in American political history.
00:14:19.920It was an abuse of power in which the full authority of the U.S. government and the incredible capability of our intelligence agencies were used to try to undo the results of a fair election, the 2016 election.
00:14:35.880Whether anybody's going to be held responsible for that, well, that remains to be seen.
00:14:42.340I want to thank our guest, Peter Antico.
00:14:44.320I want to also wish you the very best, Peter, in your upcoming election.
00:14:48.280Sounds like you've got an uphill fight.
00:14:50.120But also, I can tell just on the basis of this interview that you are a fighter and that you will never quit when it comes to doing the right thing.
00:14:59.500And lastly, I'd just like to say that if anybody didn't turn in their ballot today, please mail your ballot, you know, vote your heart based upon the information you get.
00:15:10.000And I pray that that everyone that's listening, go to your spam email folders and look for my letters to the membership.
00:15:16.820One was on August 15th and sorry, one was on September.