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At CES in Las Vegas in January, Sean Astin discussed the importance of global cooperation between actors’ unions to meet the challenges of AI. He cited the 40 unions from around the world took part at FIA (International Federation of Actors) World Congress in the UK last December.
Two unions representing actors and media professionals held a rally on Saturday outside the Toronto headquarters of Amazon and Apple, to hig
Two unions representing actors and media professionals held a rally on Saturday outside the Toronto headquarters of Amazon and Apple, to highlight the plight of their members in long-running labour disputes. The Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists (ACTRA) is seeking higher pay, protections and benefits for its members amid fractious talks to renew the National Commercial Agreement with the Institute of Canadian Agencies (ICA). Members of the Screen Actors Guild–American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) have been striking for better pay and protection from the use of artificial intelligence (AI), among other things. ACTRA president Eleanor Noble said her union has been locked out of its commercial jurisdiction by Canadian advertisers for "an unconscionable 501 days," while SAG-AFTRA has been on strike for 58 days. "We are in our lockout and you are in your strike because of corporate greed. Corporate greed, making billions of dollars off the backs of performers," Noble said. "We have said it time and time again — enough is enough."
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Dozens of Toronto residents are now boycotting Home Hardware due to the company's "engagement" with a specific advertising company that a...
Dozens of Toronto residents are now boycotting Home Hardware due to the company's "engagement" with a specific advertising company that advocates claim "lock out unionized performers."
In a recent post to a local community Facebook group, one Toronto resident informed other members that the home improvement retailer was one of the companies named on ACTRA's (Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists) boycott list.
"Did you know that Home Hardware is on a boycott list issued by ACTRA, the union of Canadian performers on TV and film? Why? Because they buy their ads from a company that has locked out unionized performers for the last year in an attempt to break the union," the post reads.
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Other companies listed on the ACTRA lockout include H&R Block, Canadian Tire, Rogers, Wendy's, and Sleep Country.
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1982.
Jim Carrey co-hosted the ACTRA Awards the night SCTV lost to the Air Farce.
Strike vs. Lockout (What ACTRA has been dealing with)
So we all have a pretty good understanding of what a "Strike" is. But how many of you know what a "Lockout" is?
A labour strike is when workers are unable to reach an agreement during the collective bargaining process and collectively decide to stop working.
Makes sense.
Unlike strikes that are initiated by workers, a lockout is initiated soley by employers who refuse to provide work to workers as a tactic to pressure them into accepting the employer’s terms.
Gross.
This is what ICA (Institute of Canadian Advertising Agencies) has been doing to ACRTA (Canada's acting union) members for 500+ days.
Shame.
The mediator found that both parties were too far apart on issues regarding payment and AI regulations, and ended this round of mediation.
So what now?
We keep fighting.
We continue to boycott union-busting brands.
We continue rallying.
And we keep saying "Enough is Enough".
To peeps sharing and posting about what SAG-AFTRA and the WGA have been going through, I ask that you please also share this info as well.
Their fight is our fight.
If you would like to know more, please check out the following links. And make sure to follow ACTRA and their various other branches for up-to-date info.
I'm not sure why i never thought of it before but can you imagine Johnny Cage out on the picket lines for the WGA/ SAG-ACTRA strike showing his unwavering support:
Johnny walking the picket lines, taking selfies with the other striking members.
Ordering a catering service to feed the strikers.
Organizing paid sparring matches with the funds going back to helping fund the out of work writers and actors.
Cage Movie pickets gathering the actors, production staff and crew.
Also let's not forget Sonya being quietly proud and helping organize things when she can. Cassie helping her dad make signs with witty slogans and walking with him.
It would be cool to see like one person in the WGA/SAG-AFTRA and ACTRA strikes wearing a mask you know? This goes for Pride as well.
It's such a weird world to support and/or be a part of a group of people who apparently haven't even thought about supporting the disabled and high-risk members of their own communities
Every time I see pictures of protests or even creators I used to really respect out in (crowded!) public with no masks I'm reminded that people really just keep practicing causal eugenics like it's nothing. Like we're nothing. Then they turn around and talk about what a huge loss AIDS was to the queer community.
you know, AIDS? that other pandemic that we all fought back against and wore protection against pretty much forever after -- even though it was "inconvenient" and "a buzzkill" and "annoying" -- to ensure we protected one another because we knew no one else was going to do it.
ACTRA SOLIDARITY
ACTRA is on strike under their commercial agreement. McCann and Wendy's are trying to bring in Scabs and also bust the union. It has been 15 months. There are other companies that are struck but I don't have access to the article they were listed in.
And as an act of solidarity they are going to be doing a rally in support of #sagaftra and the #WGAstrike
