ADVOCACY
NABET 700-M UNIFOR actively represents its members by participating in different boards and committees within the film industry. This involvement allows the union to work collaboratively to advocate for fair working conditions, prioritize safety on set, and contribute to the growth and success of its members and Ontario's film and television industry.
NABET 700-M UNIFOR holds positions on the boards and committees listed below
Film Ontario
Jayson Mosek, Labour Co-Chair
Founded in 2003, FilmOntario is a not-for-profit, non-partisan industry consortium with members from all parts of the province’s screen-based industry, including unions, guilds, producers, studios, equipment suppliers, and financial and legal services companies. They advocate for the industry at all levels of government and promote Ontario as a leading production jurisdiction.
City of Toronto Film, Television and Digital Media Board
Jayson Mosek, Vice-Chair
The Film, Television and Digital Media Board provides advice to City Council on ways to strengthen and grow the film, television and commercial production industry to ensure the competitiveness and the viability of the sector.
Ontario Green Screen Advisory Committee
Ryan Pogue, NABET Representation
Ontario Green Screen is the collaborative initiative between government, industry partners, unions, guilds, trade associations and companies that endeavours to make lasting change in the industry and to empower individuals, production companies and studios to make sustainable choices.
National Reel Green Committee
Ryan Pogue, NABET Representation
Through its operating principals, Reel Green™ promotes an ambitious, non-political vision for sustainable production based on sound scientific understanding, policy, and reasonable business for the benefit of the motion picture industry and the international community.
Workplace Safety and Prevention Service Television, Film and Live Performance Advisory Committee
Jayson Mosek, Vice-Chair
WSPS advisory committees represent ten different sub-sectors within the agriculture, manufacturing, and service industries. It is a collaborative group, formed around a shared belief that Ontario workers deserve to go home safe at the end of every workday.
Section 21 Film And Television Health And Safety Advisory Committee
Jayson Mosek, Labour Co-Chair
The Section 21 Film and Television Advisory Committee of the Ontario Ministry Of Labour Training And Skills Development (MLTSD) holds regular meetings to discuss “the industry’s” safety issues, concerns, and accidents. The committee also continues to draft “The Safety Guidelines for the Film and Television Industry in Ontario,” which are meant to assist employers/producers, supervisors, and cast and crew in determining ways to best comply with their obligations set out under the OHSA. The committee aims to provide information to all industry professionals in all disciplines in hazard recognition and aid in developing safe work practices.
Unifor National Media Council Board
Peggy Kyriakidou, Film/Freelance Representative
Unifor is Canada's largest private sector trade union representing 315,000 Canadians in 20 major economic sectors. Unifor represents over 10,000 journalists and media workers in broadcasting, print and online news, graphical printing, and film production. NABET has a Film/Freelance Representative on the Board.
Durham Region Film and Television Advisory Committee
Jayson Mosek, MEMBER
Durham Region plays an important role in Ontario's multi-billion-dollar film, television and digital media industry due to its proximity to Toronto's production studios, film industry workforce, supporting businesses and blend of urban and rural film locations.
TERMINOLOGY REFORM INITIATIVE
FOR FILM AND TV
The entertainment sector, like many others, is grappling with questions of how to build a diverse and inclusive workplace. We have a unique dual responsibility to do so, as an industry both highly visible to the public, and bearing the power to shape the public’s perceptions.
The attached Terminology Reform bulletin was created by a NABET 700-M UNIFOR Permittee who saw an opportunity for change from within their own ranks. This bulletin highlights terminology used regularly on set primarily in the Grip and Lighting Departments, terms that should be immediately removed from set vocabulary due to their discriminatory origins and/or implications.
We hope that by identifying terms that are currently being used without awareness of their impact and message they send, and by sharing the origins of these terms, crews can move onto language that promotes open and inclusive workplaces.
The issues of our society at large will not be resolved by any one grand action but rather they will be gradually improved by a series of many small steps; the language that we choose to use on set is something that every one of us has direct control over and can be our contribution to progress.
We would like to ask that you please help support this initiative of raising awareness and igniting change through discussion and action.