The Screen Producers’ Association of Australia (SPAA) has ripped up your Offshore Commercials Agreement. From midnight tonight August 6th, 2009, we are officially on strike.
We’ve talked about it, we’ve voted on it and now it’s time to Act. Perhaps you have never worked on an offshore television commercial. Perhaps you never will. But if you work in the industry, you will work under SPAA/Equity Agreements in film, television or in theatre under an agreement we negotiate with the producer there. So if SPAA think they can rip up one agreement, what’s to stop them from ripping up any other agreement. Performers must take a stand here and now.
We’ve stood our ground before and won – your fellow performers are relying on you to stand firm, stand together and stand up in this dispute. Equity is planning some campaign actions to let SPAA know that we aren't happy, starting with a picket next week at their offices in Surry Hills.
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