what's a little sweater sniffing between sworn enemies?

Canadian commercial actors say American actors are crossing the border and the picket line in the middle of a major US entertainment industry strike and filling the jobs of Canadian actors who have been locked out for over a year.

Thousands of unionized commercial actors in Canada have been locked out since April 2022 while The Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists (ACTRA) has been negotiating with commercial agencies to try and get a fair deal.

Now, as a result of the ongoing SAG-AFTRA actors and WGA writers strikes that have shut down TV and film productions in the United States, some Hollywood actors have travelled north of the border in search of non-union commercial work in Canada.

“Over the last year there’s been a lot of American commercials shooting up in Canada doing everything non union because they can walk around it,” one ACTRA member who requested to be anonymous told PressProgress. [...]

Tagging: @politicsofcanada

unfortunatebedhead

if you want to support ACTRA members who have been locked out for 16 months you can donate to the AFC here

ACTRA has also called for a boycott of Canadian Tire, Home Hardware, Rogers, Wendy's, Sleep Country, and H&R Block

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