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Unifor Day at the PNE! September 2nd

Dear members,

Great news! We’ve secured funding for additional tickets for our Labour Day celebrations at the PNE.

You can reserve up to six free tickets for you and your family at this link: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/unifor-the-pne-for-labour-day-2019-registration-66913236291

If you already have your free tickets reserved, we’re excited to see you on September 2 at the meeting point at Notre Dame Regional Secondary School (2880 Venables Street).

NO SHOWS: Last year there were a fair number of no-shows. Out of respect for other Unifor members who could use your tickets instead, please contact us if you can’t attend: Margaret.Olal@Unifor.org

Enjoy the rest of your summer and don’t hesitate to get in touch if you have any questions.

 

In solidarity,

Joie Warnock

Western Regional Director

ACFC West Annual General Meeting – Sunday March 31, 2019 at 1:30pm

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.

MPI Hours of Service – Transportation

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

  • For the purposes of the proposed pilot, the carrier is assumed to be the production company or studio responsible for the production, regardless of what NSC certificate is displayed on a vehicle’s registration documents. The carrier has overall responsibility for monitoring and ensuring compliance with the Hours of Service rules for all drivers operating as part of the production.
  • During the pilot, carriers and drivers operating under the pilot will be exempt from MVAR 37.13.01 through 37.14.04 and 37.16.02 through 37.16.06 as these requirements are replaces by the MPI Hours of Service rules defined below (please see the attached PDF). All other requirements under MVAR Division 37, Part 3 are still in force.

PDF of Motion Picture Industry Hours of Service Info Sheet

Ontario Lawsuit Against Factual Television Producers

You may have seen reports that a $35-million class action lawsuit has recently been filed against Cineflex Media by a story editor following a groundswell of activism arising from the Canadian Media Guild (CMG) / CWA Canada campaign “Fairness in Factual TV,” which is aimed at securing fair working terms for those working unscripted projects. The claim alleges, among other things, that individuals working for Cineflex have been denied basic minimum standards under Ontario’s Employment Standards Act, 2000, in the areas of minimum wage, overtime pay, vacation pay and holiday pay. The prospect of similar lawsuits against other factual television producers, and in other provinces, remains a possibility.

If you work, or have worked, for Cineflix, Insight Productions, Boat Rocker Media, or any other factual television producer, we encourage you to fill out this form to be kept informed about the efforts in this regard.

Please also forward this information to any non-ACFC crew you know who work in the factual television industry. We, as a union, must stand together with all workers in the entertainment industry.

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