AFTRA elects board members

June 04, 2009 Re-elected to three-year terms on the Los Angeles Local Board of Directors were actors David Bowe, Raza Burgee, Andrew Caple-Shaw, Gabrielle Carteris, Bob Joles, Kate Linder, and Paul Napier; announcer Mike Sakellarides; dancer Galen Hooks; broadcaster Pepe Barreto; and singers Susan Boyd Joyce and Dick Wells. AFTRA National Board members from the Los Angeles Local re-elected to four-year terms include actors Gabrielle Carteris, Jay Gerber, Ron Morgan, and Paul Petersen; dancer Bobbie Bates; and singers Susan Boyd Joyce and Sally Stevens. Membership First partisans, who lost their majority on the SAG national board last fall, are against any kind of merger with AFTRA and campaigned heavily against the ratification of AFTRA's TV-theatrical contract last year (SAG's own TV-theatrical deal hangs in the balance until June 9).

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