Canadian film and television workers are feeling the sting of twin strikes by Hollywood writers and actors.
Vancouver-based Derek Baskerville, who rents costumes mostly to U.S. film shoots, says he laid off a part-time worker last week and has scaled back the hours of other staff as work dried up.
The Writers Guild of America walked off the job May 2 and the performers union SAG-AFTRA began its strike last Friday. In Vancouver, Baskerville says he let one of his part-timers go because he couldn’t afford to pay them. He’s reduced two other part-timers to one day a week, and two full-time workers are down to four days a week instead of five. One of them is on a six-hour day instead of eight.Sign up for the CHEK Now daily email newsletter to get breaking news and the day's top stories sent to your email.“It’s been really bad for all of us gig economy workers for the last four years.
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