End the Lock Out: BIPOC TV & Film stands in solidarity with ACTRA commercial performers

ACTRA commercial performers across Canada are in an ongoing fight for fair and equitable wages and safe working conditions.

BIPOC TV & Film recognizes the important part that unions play in protecting the most precarious workers from being taken advantage of, and we condemn the advertising agencies who seek to undermine these protections in the interest of cost-cutting.

These actions will disproportionately impact performers who are Black, Indigenous or Persons of Colour, who already experience a wage gap with union protections in place.

Without union protections in place, this wage gap will only widen – undoing much of the progress our community has worked hard to win over the past several years.

We call on the Institute of Canadian Agencies to uphold their commitments to diversity, equity and inclusion. Work with ACTRA and the advertisers at the bargaining table. End this unnecessary lock-out now.

For more on this call to action, visit actra.ca. Support ACTRA’s Rally for Respect on August 24 in Toronto.