What is Actors Equity?
Actors’ Equity is the labor union that represents more than 45,000 actors and stage managers in the United States. Equity seeks to advance, promote and foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions and provides a wide range of benefits, including health and pension plans, for its members. Actors’ Equity has announced solidarity with Local One during the strike. What is Local 802? Local 802 of the American Federation of Musicians is the largest local union of professional musicians in the world. Local 802 fights for the interests and well-being of the musicians employed in New York’s music and entertainment industries, through organizing and collective bargaining as well as through legislative and political action. Local 802 has announced solidarity with Local One during the strike. What are Local One and The League fighting about? The answer is complicated, but it comes down to minimums… How many stagehands are
