TORONTO - ACTRA’s bargaining team has decided that after 17 slow months of negotiations with Canada’s ad agencies and advertisers, it will seek a strike mandate from its membership. “We’re going to our members to ask for a strike mandate to demonstrate loud and clear that performers will not accept less for their work,” said Stephen Waddell, ACTRA’s national executive director, in a press release. “After almost a year and a half of negotiations, our members’ patience is running out.” While ceding some progress, the actors’ union negotiating team and representatives from the Institute of Communications Agencies (ICA) and the...
