@hollyweirdnorth.bsky.social#ACTRAToronto President Ziegler was dumbstruck by the news that a commercial lock-out had come into effect in 2022.
Commercials were her primary source of income. She was worried that she might have to sell her house
She was reduced (financially) to waiting on tables.
@hollyweirdnorth.bsky.socialKate Ziegler wouldn't have become #ACTRAToronto President if she hadn't gone around #ACTRA leaders and reached out directly to the members.
She formed the RCAP (Rank and file Caucus of ACTRA Performers) and capitalized on the membership's dissatisfaction with ACTRA's leadership
@hollyweirdnorth.bsky.social#ACTRAToronto President Ziegler is misrepresenting the vast majority of the 15,000 'Artists' she was elected to serve when she uses herself as an example.
Her story is not their story. Her success is not their success. They aren't paying their bills vicariously through her.
@hollyweirdnorth.bsky.socialThe majority of #ACTRAToronto members aren't workers as much as anybody else.
The majority of #ACTRA Toronto members can't sustain themselves on what they earn as 'Artists' because they aren't getting enough work on union productions and ACTRA prohibits them from working on non-union productions.
@hollyweirdnorth.bsky.social#ACTRAToronto President Ziegler isn't the first #ACTRA Toronto representative to 'borrow' (steal) from an American icon to promote Canadian Culture.
Here's former ACTRA Toronto Councillor Colin Mochrie bastardizing an MLK Jr. speech :
@hollyweirdnorth.bsky.socialWhat next?
Are the #ACTRAToronto union members who've been losing the bet that they placed on themselves going to DEMAND that the Ontario taxpayers reimburse every SOL 'Artist' for every losing lottery ticket that they buy along the way?
@hollyweirdnorth.bsky.social2026 was an extraordinarily foolish time to launch the #ACTRAToronto campaign for Status of the Artist legislation in Ontario.
Stop acting like everybody in Ontario is going to forget who they are if they don't remember who you are.
Get over yourself, Kate.
@hollyweirdnorth.bsky.socialJudging by #ACTRAToronto President Kate Ziegler's choice of words, copying (aka stealing) what the Americans say and claiming it as her own is a substantial part of her version of 'Canadian Culture'.
"Good trouble" was popularized by the late civil rights leader and U.S. Congressman John Lewis
@hollyweirdnorth.bsky.social#ACTRAToronto President Kate Ziegler would end up buried under a mountain of tossed shoes if she spoke like that in front of a crowd of #SagAftraMembers who have been missing out on employment opportunities in the US because of all the American tv & film productions that have been shooting in Canada
@hollyweirdnorth.bsky.socialAre you going to ask Labor Notes for advice on how to sell unemployed US workers in the film & tv industry on the idea that they'll be standing up to Donald Trump if they keep their mouths shut about all the American jobs that are leaving the US?
@hollyweirdnorth.bsky.social#StatusOfTheArtistNow #ACTRAToronto
The video of the American Conference where you described how YOUR Canadian union leaders jerked you around isn't a deep fake, Kate Ziegler
Are you going to LIE and say that you weren't trashing them at 31:44 in this video?
@hollyweirdnorth.bsky.social#StatusOfTheArtistNow #ACTRA #ACTRAAlberta #UBCP/ACTRA
On April 21, 2024 you told a packed audience at the Labor Notes Conference in the US that you were promptly removed from #ACTRAToronto 's bargaining team for being untrustworthy, Comrade Ziegler.
@hollyweirdnorth.bsky.social@hollyweirdnorth.bsky.social#ACTRAToronto union members are independent contractors.
The vast majority of #ACTRA members can't live on what they earn in the film & tv industry
They bet on themselves and now they DEMAND that the Canadian taxpayers pay off their bet for them when they lose???
@hollyweirdnorth.bsky.socialIt's insulting to the workers in other industries to compare what they're doing in their respective industries to what the majority of #ACTRAToronto 's 15,000+ members aren't doing (working) in the Canadian film & tv industry.
The financial Status of the majority of the 'Artists' in #ACTRA is SOL
@hollyweirdnorth.bsky.social@hollyweirdnorth.bsky.socialThe 'Canadian Content' that's being produced by the
Canadian film & tv industry in Canada isn't being watched by the vast majority of Canadians in Canada.
#ACTRAToronto President Ziegler blathers on as if the vast majority of Canadians only have access to 'Canadian Content' in Canada.
@hollyweirdnorth.bsky.social#StatusOfTheArtistNow #ACTRA #ACTRAToronto #ACTRAMontreal #ACTRAAlberta #UBCP/ACTRA
Uh-oh Canada
@hollyweirdnorth.bsky.social#StatusOfTheArtistNow #ACTRA #ACTRAToronto #ACTRAMontreal #ACTRAAlberta #UBCP/ACTRA
Uh-oh Canada
@hollyweirdnorth.bsky.social#StatusOfTheArtistNow #ACTRA #ACTRAToronto #ACTRAMontreal #ACTRAAlberta #UBCP/ACTRA
Uh-oh Canada
