#SAGAFTRA background performers we need to talk about your coverage & Netflix contract. Look at this map & comment from @peggylane & see if this helps visualize new problem you have
Your voices should have been heard. If you want it to change vote for @MembershipFirst & @IDEAL_NY
Let's talk @MatthewModine's qualifications for #SAGAFTRA national board President.
His previous challenger ENDORSES him.
FunFact: His opponent has 0 experience serving her union as an officer, board member, convention delegate or even serving on 1 of numerous union committees.
Let's get more specific on what it means to serve union like @MatthewModine@MsJoelyFisher, @xoJodiLong@TheStuntJane & @TheDaveJolliffe have & why it's a must have in our current times, especially for most senior union leadership offices (crisis + steep learning curve = peril):
Here's the TL;DR on choosing the next #SAGAFTRA national board president & why that choice is @MatthewModine
What's the 'big deal' about being #SAGAFTRA's next national president? Isn't it easy, fun & glamorous? Here's @MatthewModine on the fiduciary nature of that role
Also here's what it means to be a fiduciary
How does @MatthewModine plan to overcome contentiousness that's always been a part of #SAGAFTRA? [Spoiler Alert: Separate the issues & philosophical differences from the personalities & put all members interests above your own]
More from @MatthewModine on how to lead #SAGAFTRA as its next national board president & his values of listening to member's requests, of honestly & realistically assessing where the union stands, of being more transparent & problem solving
What is @MatthewModine's vision for #SAGAFTRA members & the union as it's next national board president?
So why not reelect incumbents from the other slate / party? What was their biggest failure?
Per @MatthewModine it's all about the #SAGAFTRA Health Plan
Note negotiating major union contract (TV/Theatrical) w/o noticing & addressing shortfalls to #SAGAFTRA Health Plan was unforced error on part of incumbents in opposing party. PR spin members' dues paid for to convince members who lost coverage otherwise compounds wasteful error
But what about those incumbents who say the #SAGAFTRA Health Plan & its trustees are separate from those responsible for the governance of the union? @MatthewModine: Not so fast...
Put another way: 1) Union's governing board votes on hiring, firing & replacing #SAGAFTRA Health Plan trustees, trustees who owe a fiduciary duty to its union member beneficiaries 2) Money to fund union's health plan comes from hard bargaining when union contracts are negotiated
So how will @MatthewModine@MsJoelyFisher@MembershipFirst@IDEAL_NY & independent candidates negotiate better contracts
Per Matthew, know worth of performers' contributions, learn from other entertainment unions successes & failures & keep union strategy unobvious to employers.
@vincentdonofrio Awesome idea is to send current photos via smartphones to your sib(s) or whoever is hands-on caregiver & around Mom most so they can look at them together & enjoy them. Something your gifted photographer wife can do to help & will ease visits in person or at...
...a distance via 'technology'. The technology may be making it harder on you Mom's vision to recognize you as you are so your voice may also become important. Consider sending her voice notes to listen to (talking, singing old favorite songs, reading her favorite poems, jokes...
...it's another way to reinforce her familiarity with you & using what her brain is less likely to lose, hearing is a lot less impacted by all the brain changes of the various illnesses that cause dementia than sight is. Sight requires a lot more of brain to work than hearing...
Doing this is (as a very wise hospice doctor advised me not quite 6 years ago) like piloting the Memphis Belle. The plane gets shot up, your crew takes on unpredictable injuries, resources are consumed, difficulties mount. But you've got to pilot it to the best landing you can.
When I learn of someone who is giving care to a person living with #dementia (#Alzheimers is but 1 of a 100+ causes) I tell them it's 1/3 caregiving skills, 1/3 the unique progression of the person living with dementia's illness & 1/3 luck. 2/3rds are not in a caregiver's control
What gets you through years or even decades of this? Curiosity, a willingness to learn, formulating theories or hypotheses, trial & error, flexibility, patience, resilience, some comfort with not being in control, a good sense of humor & sheer tenacity. And adjusting on the fly.
@real_bobcostas You have 280 character limit per tweet but you can thread them. That means that you start typing about whatever you want like eliminating the DL in the AL (& not adding it in the NL) and if you seem to be running out of characters sooner than you expected to you can do this...
@real_bobcostas ...and keep typing your thoughts in another tweet. There are threader or thread unroller applications on here that will create a thread of all your tweets if you just keep replying to each of your tweets.