Johannesburg - The Creative Workers Union of South Africa (CWUSA) is planning to picket at the launch of M-Net's new soapie The Wild to protest the broadcaster's "racist" policies.
In a press statement the CWUSA claims it is "mobilising all creative workers and the general public to a war against the privately-owned and profit imbedded broadcasting company M-Net for its continued racist, exploitative measures and undermining of South African talent".
The CWUSA also accuses M-Net of "rewarding actors (who are workers by selling their acting skills to make a living) with poverty contracts and wages".
The statement calls on all creative workers and the general public to join the organisation in picketing at the launch of M-Net's new soap opera, The Wild, which will take place on Sunday April 3 at the Sandton Convention Centre.
The union says the aim of this gathering is "part of our efforts of putting pressure to the spoilt boys and girls at the helm of M-Net and The Wild Production Company to take the creative workers of our country seriously as fellow human beings that need to be treated with respect and dignity".
In a press statement the CWUSA claims it is "mobilising all creative workers and the general public to a war against the privately-owned and profit imbedded broadcasting company M-Net for its continued racist, exploitative measures and undermining of South African talent".
The CWUSA also accuses M-Net of "rewarding actors (who are workers by selling their acting skills to make a living) with poverty contracts and wages".
The statement calls on all creative workers and the general public to join the organisation in picketing at the launch of M-Net's new soap opera, The Wild, which will take place on Sunday April 3 at the Sandton Convention Centre.
The union says the aim of this gathering is "part of our efforts of putting pressure to the spoilt boys and girls at the helm of M-Net and The Wild Production Company to take the creative workers of our country seriously as fellow human beings that need to be treated with respect and dignity".