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Members of Actors' Equity File Lawsuit Against Their Union
Here it is, folks. Hot off the presses. About frickin’ time. I have a copy of the complaint and will go over it with a fine tooth comb. Hold onto your hats!Members of Actors Equity File Lawsuit Against Their UnionActors and other members of the Los Angeles theatrical community filed a lawsuit today against Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers. The lawsuit challenges the Union’s decision to eliminate its 25-year-old waiver of...
Filed But Not Served: Unpacking the Los Angeles' Pro99 Lawsuit Against Actors' Equity Association
By now you’ve probably heard that some Los Angeles-based Equity plaintiffs, many of them well-known actors, including Ed Asner, French Stewart, Amy Madigan and Ed Harris, have filed a lawsuit in a California Federal court against their own union, Actor’s Equity Association (AEA). If you’d like to read the full 37 page complaint that was filed you can do so ...
Pro99 Rallies for AJS Costumes and Against AEA Proposals
Almost on the eve of a pack of Pro99 Plaintiffs filing a lawsuit against their own union, Pro99 rallies in North Hollywood to help the endangered NoHo costume shop AJS Costumes.I could not make it as i was volunteering my services at my son’s school landscaping and gardening.<img src=“https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/t31.0-8/12032767_10153274181312734_8017266259438298155_o.jpg” alt="" width...
Actors' Equity Association Responds to the Pro99 Lawsuit
Well that was quick, and predictable. Here it is from their site:Actors’ Equity Association Statement on the Minimum Wage LawsuitActors’ Equity Association is a labor union that exists primarily to advocate for better wages and working conditions for its artist members.After dedicating months of staff time, conducting surveys...
Comments from the Actors' Equity Facebook Page...
Saw this ditty in the comments section from the AEA Facebook page, from an utterly bewildered NYC AEA member on the lawsuit and our union’s response. Guess what, pal? We are as bewildered as you are. Maybe, I dunno, help us out a little bit?Saum Eskandani: This IS the...
Ex-Actors' Equity Member Patrick Vest Calls Bullshit on His Ex-Union
Thanks to Patrick for letting us re-print his takedown of AEA’s response to the lawsuit which you can read in its more pristine but less flawed state here:From the Desk of Patrick VestThe lawsuit has been filed.This was inevitable from the moment AEA circumvented the 99-seat theatre agreement, and pu...
More Comments from the Actors' Equity Facebook Page...
Again, East Coast member, Saum Eskandani, absolutely kills it with this comment on the Equity Facebook page. When our East Coast brothers and sisters get wise and step up like this enmasse, it may actually cause a turn in this tide. But as I’ve said many times before, the only real action that will force them to pay attention is a mass exodus from their union. Why? Because it is and always has been about money. Rip about ten...
Wall Street Journal on the Equity Lawsuit: "What’s truly deleterious is forcing a compensation model on businesses that cannot afford it."
Yes, that’s correct, in a very recent WSJ editorial, the paper comes out in favor of the lawsuit and against the 99 Seat Proposals Equity has foisted...
99 Seat to Contract: Innovative New Tool to Track the Success of Los Angeles' Intimate Stages
This is a great idea, born from the Pro99 movement. It’s an open public survey where people can add productions that were born and raised in the intimate stages of Los Angeles – and under the 99 seat plan – that then went on to larger more lucrative Eq...
THE OTHER ELEPHANT
Full disclosure: I’m a raccoon. Not literally, of course; it’s just how I make my living. I voice one for a popular Cartoon Network series. Besides being my job, I believe it’s also art, and the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences has agreed with me at least once. That’s not why I came to Los Angeles, of course. I didn’t say to myself “I’m gonna move to LA to make it big in cartoons!” (and video games; I voice a lot of those). I moved here nearly twenty years ago because I wanted to try to make...