"The 15-month effort by dancers employed at the Star Garden Topless Dive Bar in North Hollywood, Calif. to gain union recognition and become the nation’s only unionized strippers ended today in complete victory."

https://www.actorsequity.org/news/PR/StarGardenVictory/

#LosAngeles #LA #SexWork #Strippers #Unions #Strike #NorthHollywood #ActorsEquity #Labor #LaborUnions #ToplessBars #StarGarden

Our hard-working siblings at Actors’ Equity Association have negotiated for two months for safer working conditions, increases in compensation that has seriously lagged behind inflation, and continued EDI progress. After 18 sessions without an acceptable offer from the Broadway League, Equity’s National Council has voted to authorize a strike, and our union kin need our support: please follow the link below to sign in solidarity.

http://actorsequity.org/road

#UniteTheRoad #ActorsEquity #Solidarity

The tax code allowing performing artists to deduct qualified business expenses is outdated and obsolete. The bipartisan Performing Artist Tax Parity Act (PATPA) will make critical, above-the-line business expense tax deductions available to substantially many more actors and artists.

Let Congress know you support PATPA and ask them to urge them to include it in the year-end spending bill.

https://actionnetwork.org/letters/support-patpa-now?source=direct_link&

#ActorLife #Taxes #PAPTA #UnionStrong #SagAftra #ActorsEquity

Sign the pledge and stand with the actors and stage managers of Broadway as they demand a fair contract, negotiated in good faith with The Broadway League. #ItsAboutTimeBroadway
🖋️Sign here - https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/stand-with-broadway-workers/ #Actor #Theatre #Theater #Union #StageManager #Equity #ActorsEquity #TheatreMastodon #TheaterMastodon (Post echoed from Actor’s Equity on the former site.)

My son is #developmentally delayed. Unable to talk yet. Embraced by a village of caring #therapists who work with him four -five times a week, along with the reinforcement my wife and I offer.

I - I don’t know what or who I am anymore. A member of #actorsequity and #sagaftra whose cards just collect dust. An office full of #guitars I haven’t touched in years. I’ve lost the callouses on my left hand. I’ve written dozens upon dozens of #songs - many of the drafts available on #youtube .