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Unions & Guilds
NFB and DGC reach new collective agreement
DGC members who’ve worked under an NFB contract have ratified the new agreement, which covers 2022 to 2025.
UBCP/ACTRA urges reform for child performer income regulations in B.C.
ACTRA’s B.C. arm is soliciting signatures and calling for new regulations for child performers and their future investments.
Hidden in Plain Sight: Disclosing my Disability
Op-Ed: Thomas Conway (pictured) on the need for a safe and understanding space for writers to comfortably and confidently disclose their disabilities.
Prime Time goes virtual again amid surging cases of Omicron variant
The CMPA has cancelled all in-person events for the conference but now plans to start it a day early, on Feb. 2.
ACTRA ratifies new contract with producers
The three-year deal includes a 3% annual pay raise as well as protections for child performers, new standards for scenes involving nudity and auditions, as well as additional temporary COVID-19 provisions.
Production sector monitoring Omicron ‘really carefully’ over the holidays
With productions on holiday hiatus, many are taking a wait-and-see approach on how the latest COVID-19 variant might affect their sets.
CMPA, AQPM reach tentative agreement with ACTRA
The deal, which must still be ratified, marks the tentative close of negotiations for three national IPAs for CMPA, including NABET and the DGC.
In Brief: The CMPA is set for the second cohort in its co-production accelerator program
Plus: The CMPA has appointed a director of policy, and Sphere adds to Montreal scripted and unscripted teams
Struggle for resources impacts underrepresented screen industry workers in Atlantic region: report
Survey paints portrait of highly educated and skilled professionals who lack access to skills development programs, unions and guilds, and work, on average, only half the year.
IATSE strike averted with tentative agreement
The agreement, which still needs to be ratified by union members, includes a 54-hour weekend rest period and enhanced wages and working conditions for new media.
ACTRA Toronto council names new executive director
Alistair Hepburn will succeed veteran Sue Milling after the pair helped develop pandemic protocols that put the screen industry back to work.
Eleanor Noble elected as ACTRA National president
Noble takes over from David Sparrow, who has stepped down as ACTRA National president after two terms in the role.
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