TORONTO -- Canada's actors strike is headed to formal arbitration after two days of talks between ACTRA and North American producers broke off Thursday without an agreement.
Mediators Elizabeth MacPherson and Richard Champagne failed to end the impasse over payment terms for new-media work during negotiations Wednesday and Thursday in Toronto between ACTRA, representing 21,000 actors, and American producers, the Canadian Film and Television Production Assn. and the Association de producteurs de films et de television du Quebec.
Both sides in the talks considered various payment formulas for new-media product, including ACTRA members receiving an advance against royalties equal to 1% of pay a year for five years of use.
But the 5% buyout offer from the producers is conditional on no wage increase for ACTRA members during the first year of a new labor deal, and 3% wage increases in each of the second and third years of a new contract.
For its part, ACTRA has proposed a 9% wage increase over three years, an additional 1% annual increase for retirement benefits and an advance against royalties for new-media rights.
Mediators Elizabeth MacPherson and Richard Champagne failed to end the impasse over payment terms for new-media work during negotiations Wednesday and Thursday in Toronto between ACTRA, representing 21,000 actors, and American producers, the Canadian Film and Television Production Assn. and the Association de producteurs de films et de television du Quebec.
Both sides in the talks considered various payment formulas for new-media product, including ACTRA members receiving an advance against royalties equal to 1% of pay a year for five years of use.
But the 5% buyout offer from the producers is conditional on no wage increase for ACTRA members during the first year of a new labor deal, and 3% wage increases in each of the second and third years of a new contract.
For its part, ACTRA has proposed a 9% wage increase over three years, an additional 1% annual increase for retirement benefits and an advance against royalties for new-media rights.
TORONTO -- Canada's actors strike is headed to formal arbitration after two days of talks between ACTRA and North American producers broke off Thursday without an agreement.
Mediators Elizabeth MacPherson and Richard Champagne failed to end the impasse over payment terms for new-media work during negotiations Wednesday and Thursday in Toronto between ACTRA, representing 21,000 actors, and American producers, the Canadian Film and Television Production Assn. and the Association de producteurs de films et de television du Quebec.
Both sides in the talks considered various payment formulas for new-media product, including ACTRA members receiving an advance against royalties equal to 1% of pay a year for five years of use.
But the 5% buyout offer from the producers is conditional on no wage increase for ACTRA members during the first year of a new labor deal, and 3% wage increases in each of the second and third years of a new contract.
For its part, ACTRA has proposed a 9% wage increase over three years, an additional 1% annual increase for retirement benefits and an advance against royalties for new-media rights.
Mediators Elizabeth MacPherson and Richard Champagne failed to end the impasse over payment terms for new-media work during negotiations Wednesday and Thursday in Toronto between ACTRA, representing 21,000 actors, and American producers, the Canadian Film and Television Production Assn. and the Association de producteurs de films et de television du Quebec.
Both sides in the talks considered various payment formulas for new-media product, including ACTRA members receiving an advance against royalties equal to 1% of pay a year for five years of use.
But the 5% buyout offer from the producers is conditional on no wage increase for ACTRA members during the first year of a new labor deal, and 3% wage increases in each of the second and third years of a new contract.
For its part, ACTRA has proposed a 9% wage increase over three years, an additional 1% annual increase for retirement benefits and an advance against royalties for new-media rights.
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