Screen Actors Guild Urges Support For Locked Out Members of Canadian Media Guild

Los Angeles – Screen Actors Guild (SAG) today announced it is urging all of its professional actors to support members of the Canadian Media Guild, who have been locked out by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) for almost four weeks. Management’s lockout of more than 5,000 newspaper workers began on August 15 after the break off of talks between the union and employers.

It is disgraceful and entirely unacceptable that management at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has locked the doors on thousands of working men and women who sought only one thing: a just and equitable agreement with their employer,” said Screen Actors Guild President Melissa Gilbert, who also serves as a member of the AFL-CIO Executive Committee. “Screen Actors Guild stands squarely with the Canadian Media Guild in this fight for fair wages and working conditions. The Guild is urging its members, particularly its high-profile members, to seriously consider this situation and wherever possible to avoid granting interviews with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation until this matter is resolved.”

The more than 5,000 union members who have been locked out by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation are part of the Canadian Media Guild, TNG-CWA Local 30213 (CMG).