SAG-AFTRA lays off dozens more amid the pandemic.

SAG-AFTRA lays off dozens more amid the pandemic. In the new round of layoffs, its third this year, approximately 45 staffers were impacted by the cuts. Some 171 staffers have been laid off by SAG-AFTRA since March brought COVID-19 shutdowns in the United States.

–Leadership for the performers union, president Gabrielle Carteris and national executive director David White, wrote a note to SAG-AFTRA’s roughly 160,000 members on Thursday, saying that the additional layoffs were made “in response to the accelerating impact of the pandemic on the union’s current and future financial condition.” The story in The Hollywood Reporter.