A Place at the Table: Actors' Equity Now Affiliated With AFL-CIO

[Omaha Steve]

http://broadcastunionnews.blogspot.com/2013/02/a-place-at-table-actors-equity-now.html

By Kenneth Jones
Playbill.com
26 Feb 2013

Actors' Equity Association, the labor union representing more than 49,000 professional stage actors and stage managers in the U.S., received a national charter from the AFL-CIO on Feb. 26, giving AEA direct association with a wider community of labor leaders.



The charter — given at the morning session of the AFL-CIO Executive Council meeting — means that Equity has direct affiliation with the AFL-CIO, giving the actors' union a seat at the labor table alongside major international unions like IATSE, top entertainment unions like SAG-AFTRA and many other labor unions in various industries across the country. The affiliation means Equity will be part of AFL-CIO's annual conferences, executive meetings and discussions concerning various issues — health, pension, wages, safe working conditions and more.

The "direct charter" makes AEA the 57th labor organization to receive the honor of formal association with the national federation of American unions.


Pictured (L-R): AFL Secretary Elizabeth Shuler, AEA E.D. Mary McColl, AEA 1st VP Paige Price, AFL President Richard Trumka, AFL VP Arlene Holt-Baker Photo: Julie Fletcher Photography - See more at: http://www.actorsequity.org/NewsMedia/news2013/feb26.AFLCIO.asp#sthash.Bp0emZXt.dpuf
Pictured (L-R): AFL Secretary Elizabeth Shuler, AEA E.D. Mary McColl, AEA 1st VP Paige Price, AFL President Richard Trumka, AFL VP Arlene Holt-Baker
Photo: Julie Fletcher Photography - See more at: http://www.actorsequity.org/NewsMedia/news2013/feb26.AFLCIO.asp#sthash.Bp0emZXt.dpuf
AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka presented the charter to AEA first vice president Paige Price and executive director Mary McColl at the AFL-CIO's annual executive council meeting.


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