Actors’ union accuses Ottawa of prolonging labour dispute
is prolonging a long-standing labour dispute with advertising agencies by spending tens of millions of dollars with a major creative marketing company – which the union says has locked out its members from commercial campaigns.
Further frustrating the union and its members is that Ottawa is spending millions of tax dollars with Cossette as it mulls legislation to ban the use of non-union replacement workers, often derisively called scabs, in federally regulated businesses. At the end of January, Public Services and Procurement Canada said that 98 per cent of the $141-million the government spent on advertising the fiscal year prior to the dispute went to Cossette.
The organizations resumed bargaining earlier this year, and both said they were unable to comment because of a media blackout during the process. But in an e-mail to ACTRA members this month obtained by The Globe, union president Eleanor Noble said it would bring forward a motion to a national Canadian Labour Congress meeting in May to press Ottawa to align its procurement policies with its potential labour legislation.
One of the actors said the labour dispute could upend progress on diversity and inclusion in the industry, as many actors from less-privileged backgrounds would not be able to afford to wait out the situation. Ottawa’s position does little to appease the acting community. “Does the government understand what’s happening?” Djoury asked. “I don’t know that corporate clients, when they’re choosing their advertisers, know what’s on the line.”
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