Remember THIS? They don’t look terribly upset to me, but apparently a Canadian screen actors union is protesting the flash mob Super Bowl ad from Budweiser saying the crowd featured non-unionized labor. This from the National Post…
The Toronto branch of the Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists (ACTRA) asserts that the members of the crowd, as well as the “unsuspecting hockey players” should have been paid union-negotiated wages.
“It’s an embarrassing day for Labatt [Budweiser’s parent company] when they’re caught exploiting every-day folks in their multi-million-dollar television ads,” Heather Allin, president of ACTRA Toronto, said in a Feb. 10 statement.
The full story is HERE.
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