SAG-AFTRA to deliver petition to Droga5 on unfair wages

Thousands of union members urge agency to pay all actors fair wages in digital productions

BestMediaInfo Bureau | Delhi | January 12, 2016

Members of SAG-AFTRA, the union representing approximately 160,000 actors, announcers, singers and other performers, will deliver a petition that calls on leading digital ad agency Droga5 to stop undermining the industry standards that ensure commercial performers can earn a middle-class living.

In a press communiqué issued from New York, the union has said that with the delivery of a petition signed by more than 8,000 members at Droga5's headquarters in lower Manhattan, New York, the union will demand that Droga5 live up to its self-professed commitment to being “humanity obsessed” by paying fair market wages for performers in all of their productions. The union alleges that Droga5's current practice of paying actors substandard wages without any benefits is unfair and exploits the often struggling performers who take the jobs.

The petition delivery action is part of a larger initiative launched in late 2015 that calls out Droga5 —and other digital ad agencies — for unfair hiring practices and substandard working conditions that harm performers.

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