What does ficor mean?
Financial Core (also known as FiCore or Fi-Core) refers to a legal carve out that permits workers opposed to participating in a labor union to be employed in a union facility or union profession without compelling them to be union members.
What actors are FiCore?
Fi-Core actors have resigned or rejected SAG-AFTRA membership, and as such are not union members. You cannot claim to be SAG-AFTRA on your online casting profiles or list it on your resume. You are a non-union actor with the right to work on a union set.
What is SAG-AFTRA FiCore?
Fi-Core/FPNM are viewed as scabs or anti-union by SAG-AFTRA members, directors, and writers-most of whom also belong to entertainment unions. Fi-Core/FPNM can’t take advantage of member only benefits.
How do I become a SAG FiCore?
Send a certified letter to the SAG legal department, stating your wish to “enable your financial core status.” If you are currently a union member and live in a union state or a right-to-work state, you must first resign your union membership and then declare your financial core rights.
Can you quit SAG-AFTRA?
What about Honorable Withdrawal? If you decide to take time off from film and TV acting (e.g. to finish school), cannot afford your dues, or want to leave the acting world altogether, you can take an Honorable Withdrawal (HW) from the Union. This suspends your SAG-AFTRA membership indefinitely.
Does SAG eligibility expire?
Once reactivated, a member must maintain active membership for one full year from reactivation date before becoming eligible again for inactive status.
Can a SAG actor work on a non-union film?
Can non-union actors and SAG-AFTRA members work in a production together? Yes, it’s just a matter of who gets covered by a SAG-AFTRA contract. Under the Student Film and Ultra Low Budget Agreements, only the professional performers in the cast are covered.
What is SAG-AFTRA eligible?
The term “SAG-AFTRA-eligible” (sometimes referred to as “SAG-eligible” or “SAG-E”), is a designation that signifies that an actor has met the requirements necessary to join the SAG-AFTRA union.
How do you declare Ficore?
To go Fi-Core, you must submit a written request simply stating your wish to “enable your Financial Core status” or words to that effect, to SAG-AFTRA, Attn: Legal Dept. 5757 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90036.
How much does it cost to join Ficore?
Some websites claim that SAG “makes it too easy” to join, and that many actors who plunk down their $3,000 initiation fee just aren’t ready to compete in the rarified air of the union gig.
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