Strike Update: Two Days of Mediation and….
CFTPA’s 1st offer: internet for free
ACTRA: No thanks…
CFTPA’s 2nd offer: internet for $5.65 a year
ACTRA: Um, no thanks…
The CFTPA has proposed that ACTRA agree to assign internet rights without any revenue-sharing, for five years, in return for a 1% annual fee.
ACTRA’s daily minimum fee is $565.
That’s $5.65 a year, for five years.
What does CFTPA want for this?
Worldwide distribution of professional performers’ work in “any new media now known” including websites, wireless, IP television, handhelds, iPods, cell phones, and so on.
No revenues would be shared with performers during those five years.
These terms would apply to every production ever produced in the past 64 years.
The CFTPA also proposed that performers accept a 0% pay increase in the first year of the agreement, in order to pay for these fees.
Performers would fund the $5.65 fee out of the pay increase they would otherwise receive. And then accept zero revenue sharing on internet distribution for five years.
ACTRA rejects this proposal.
This proposal, for all intents and purposes, is still “internet for free.”
HOW TO SETTLE ACTRA’S STRIKE
Fair rate increase
ACTRA members earn almost 30% less than SAG members on our own sets. We want to be paid fairly when working side-by-side with SAG performers. We want a rate increase that ensures we don’t fall further behind.
Fair compensation for internet use
We want to be compensated fairly for use of our work on the internet. We will not have our work put on the internet for free. ACTRA has proposed to put this issue to a special committee to make recommendations.
An end to litigation
The producers’ associations need to stop their legal threats and attacks against ACTRA and get down to the serious business of negotiating a fair agreement for performers and the industry.
$5.65 A YEAR FOR THE INTERNET? NO WAY
