The ACFC West office will be closed over the holidays from Monday, December 23rd through Friday, January 3rd, returning on Monday, January 6th, 2020 at 9:00am.
Please send any annual dues or day bank inquiries to Nicole Rempel, HR Generalist at administrator@acfcwest.com
All other inquiries can be sent to info@acfcwest.com
The next ACFC West General Meeting will be held on December 1, 2019 at the Executive Hotel at 4201 Lougheed Highway in Burnaby.
Members attending the General Meeting on Sunday, December 1, 2019, have a chance to win $500 to be given away as a door prize!
Additionally, Members who are travelling from out-of-town (such as Vancouver Island or the Okanagan) to attend the General Meeting may be eligible for a travel allowance to cover some travel costs. Reasonable travel expenses up to a total of $200 can be reimbursed by submitting ORIGINAL receipts to the ACFC West office.
Parking: Leave your license number at the hotel front desk for complimentary parking. Registration begins at 1:15pm.
If you have any questions or would like additional information, please contact Nicole in the ACFC West office at (604) 299-ACFC (2232) or email administrator@acfcwest.com.
The annual dues year for ACFC West, Local 2020 Unifor begins October 1st of each year and runs through to and including
September 30th of the following year. If you are currently a Member in Good Standing and have received our notice, you are
eligible to renew your membership for the upcoming year commencing October 1st, 2019.
Annual dues for the 2020 dues year, which is required to maintain your Member in Good Standing status, is $100.00.
Please note: in order to renew membership, a Member who requires a driver’s license to perform his or
her duties must provide a current drivers abstract or a signed authorization letter allowing the union to
obtain the member’s abstract.
In addition, payment of annual dues DOES NOT entitle you to renew your benefits through ACFC West, Local 2020
Unifor’s health benefits plan. However, maintaining benefits on the health plan are subject to payment of Annual Dues, and
will be immediately terminated if dues are delinquent by 30 days.
Payment Instructions:
1) In order to remain a Member in Good Standing of ACFC West, Local 2020 Unifor, you are required to pay one
payment of $100.00 for the full year. Your payment must be received at the ACFC West, Local 2020 Unifor
business office on or before October 1st, 2019.
*** This payment DOES NOT automatically entitle you to renew health benefits. ***
2) You can pay your 2020 Annual Dues by phone with Visa or Mastercard, or in-person with Cash, Debit or Cheque.
Please call our office at (604) 299-2232
3) Please mail any Cheques or Money Orders to the following address:
c/o ANNUAL DUES
ACFC West, Local 2020 Unifor
#108 – 3993 Henning Drive
Burnaby, BCV5C 6P7
Cheques and/or Money Orders should be made payable to: ACFC West, Local 2020 Unifor
The next ACFC West General Meeting will be held on September 29, 2019 at the Executive Hotel at 4201 Lougheed Highway in Burnaby.
Members attending the General Meeting on Sunday, September 29, 2019, have a chance to win $500 to be given away as a door prize!
Additionally, Members who are travelling from out-of-town (such as Vancouver Island or the Okanagan) to attend the General Meeting may be eligible for a travel allowance to cover some travel costs. Reasonable travel expenses up to a total of $200 can be reimbursed by submitting ORIGINAL receipts to the ACFC West office.
Parking: Leave your license number at the hotel front desk for complimentary parking. Registration begins at 1:15pm.
If you have any questions or would like additional information, please contact Nicole in the ACFC West office at (604) 299-ACFC (2232) or email administrator@acfcwest.com.
Creative BC and Technical Safety BC have issued compliance regulations for Special Effects Technicians in BC. Please see the attached PDF with all information regarding compliance.
If you have any additional questions, please contact our Chief Steward, Jeff Holloway at jeffholloway@acfcwest.com or (604) 299-2232.
Please see the following link for more information on the Screenwriting email scam.
Be protective of your private information.
Link: https://www.stage32.com/lounge/screenwriting/Attention-screenwriters-scam-alert
The next ACFC West Annual General Meeting will be held on March 31, 2019 at the Executive Hotel at 4201 Lougheed Highway in Burnaby.
Members attending the Annual General Meeting on Sunday March 31, 2019, have a chance to win one of TWO cash prizes of $500!
Additionally, Members who are travelling from out-of-town (such as Vancouver Island or the Okanagan) to attend the General Meeting may be eligible for a travel allowance to cover some travel costs. Reasonable travel expenses up to a total of $200 can be reimbursed by submitting ORIGINAL receipts to the ACFC West office.
Parking: Leave your license number at the hotel front desk for complimentary parking.
If you have any questions or would like additional information, please contact Nicole in the ACFC West office at (604) 299-ACFC (2232) or email administrator@acfcwest.com.
Applicability: These rules are applicable province-wide to a driver while operating a commercial motor vehicle solely for the transportation of property or persons to or from a theatrical film, video, commercial or television motion picture production site.
Maximum on-duty hours per day (BC): 14 hours
Maximum off-duty hours per day (BC): 10 hours each day. Up to 2 hours may be in blocks of at least 30 minutes
Log books: Drivers are required to record hours using a graph grid (paper or electronic) that is compliant with Schedule 2. A Carrier may choose to modify the graph grid to remove “Off-duty time when spent in a sleeper berth”. Carriers and drivers are not eligible to use the local time records exemption under MVAR 37.18.01
PDF of Motion Picture Industry Hours of Service Info Sheet
