Better rights for Supporting Artists

Background

To create a charter for better working rights for Supporting Artists as ‘Usually’ in the filming world we are the last in line to be thought about when production creates their budgets.

Additional details

When SA’s are booked standard FAA or Equity contracts are used. Although productions sign up to this, often many of the rules are overlooked from the initial booking where they can cancel us up to 12pm the day before WITHOUT pay. There is no direct union that looks after SA’s, although BECTU accept SA’s to join, none of them have no actual power to force the production from the correct pay and or standards. SA’s need a separate charter/union/bill of rights that enables SA’s better rights.