Actors and producers talk again as strike vote starts

MONTREAL – With its current contract expiring on New Year's Eve, actors and producers started talking again this week. "We told them again today that our members will not accept their rollback proposals," said Stephen Waddell, ACTRA's national executive director and chief negotiator, in a release. "The producers - including some of the world's biggest multinational studios - have not and cannot show that the main production companies at the table are in financial trouble, that this trouble is because of our agreement, and that rolling back the pay of performers is what is required to put them back in...