ACTRA

Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists
Founded	1940s
Members	21,000
Country	Canada
Office location	Toronto, Ontario
Website	www.actra.ca

The Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio (ACTRA) is a Canadian labour union representing performers in English-language media. It has 21,000 members working in film, television, radio, and all other recorded media. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... A union (labor union in American English; trade union, sometimes trades union, in British English; either labour union or trade union in Canadian English) is a legal entity consisting of employees or workers having a common interest, such as all the assembly workers for one employer, or all the workers... “Moving picture” redirects here. ...

The organization negotiates, safeguards, and promotes the professional rights of its members. It also works to increase work opportunities for its members and lobbies for policy changes at the municipal, provincial and federal levels. This article is about the political effort. ...

ACTRA presents the ACTRA Awards to honour the best in Canadian radio and television performances. An ACTRA Award is a Canadian prize given to members of the Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists for accomplishment in film, radio and television. ...

Affiliations

ACTRA is affiliated with the Canadian Labour Congress and the International Federation of Actors. The Canadian Labour Congress, or CLC (in French le Congrès du travail du Canada or CTC) is the central labour body in Canada to which most Canadian labour unions are affiliated. ...

In July, 2005, ACTRA and the United Steelworkers announced that the two unions have entered into a strategic alliance to take on the globalization of the culture industry and to address a range of common issues.^[1] This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union (United Steelworkers or USW) claims over 1. ...

What the acronym means

The earliest form of the organization represented radio performers in Toronto in the 1940s. This organization was called RATS: the Radio Artists of Toronto Society. In 1943, with wider involvement of groups from other Canadian cities, the Association of Canadian Radio Artists (ACRA) was formed. Year 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1943 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

ACRA over time evolved into the Association of Canadian Radio and Television Artists, the Canadian Council of Authors and Artists, the Association of Canadian Television and Radio Artists and, in 1984, the Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists. This article is about the year. ...

See also

• Screen Actors Guild (SAG) - similar U.S. organization for motion picture actors
• American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) - similar U.S. organization for television and radio actors

The Screen Actors Guild (S.A.G.) is the labor union representing over 120,000 film actors in the United States. ... The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) is a performers union that represents a wide variety of talent, including actors in radio and television, as well as radio and television announcers and newspersons, singers and recording artists (both royalty artists and background singers), promo and voice-over announcers...

External links

• ACTRA National
• ^ Steelworkers, ACTRA Join Forces in Strategic Alliance, Service Agreement (April, 2005)