ACTRA-CFTPA negotiations break off

TORONTO - Negotiations between ACTRA and producers broke down last night "after producers tabled an outrageous pay offer and demanded free Internet rights," says a release put out by the actors' union, No new negotiations are scheduled and ACTRA is in a strike position in most of Canada starting in January 2007. The CFTPA has yet to say anything publicly on this new development."I very much regret that Canadian producers have decided to provoke a dispute in which they will be the principal victims," said Stephen Waddell, ACTRA's national executive director and chief negotiator. "But given the conduct of their...