RCAP aims to build a supportive, respectful community of professional performers that provides members with a collective vehicle for building and exercising democratically accountable power over their working lives. We believe our Union, ACTRA, can and should be that vehicle.

ACTRA belongs to its members. Our Union's structure and operations are opaque and insufficiently democratic. A Union is not a corporation and should not be run like one. Democracy and transparency are the foundations needed to restore the Union to its members. By restoring democratic governance and the "collective" to collective bargaining, we also restore our power vis-à-vis the employers.

As members of RCAP, we share varying perspectives but agree on two fundamental values:

A) Our power comes from growing grassroots member-based networks.

B) We want to reform our Union and rebuild its power, not exit or replace it.

RCAP operates based on active inclusion.

A) We want to work with, on behalf of, and show respect to anyone who wishes to collaborate with the RCAP movement.

B) We support the need for diversity of participation and representation in all RCAP's activities and ACTRA's programs.

RCAP has ambitious goals that begin with getting members working on an effective, fair and robust National Commercial Agreement under ACTRA. We’re starting here because this is where the employers’ attack has hit performers first. We believe every sector of our Union’s jurisdiction, from Film and Television to Audiobooks, Animation, Voiceover and Videogames - will come under similar employer attacks if they haven’t already. We want our movement to be an organizing model for performers working under those contracts.

As members of RCAP, we will uphold, abide and affirm these principles. They will anchor us as we pursue exceptional goals. These imperative principles will keep us honest, safe, kind, and empowered for collaboration.