Friday, September 02, 2016
NLRB Dismisses Charge Against Equity in 99-Seat Dispute
Stage Directions: The National Labor Relations Board dismissed the charge of unfair labor practices against Actors’ Equity. Opponents of Equity’s plan to require theatres to pay actors filed the charges. Equity released a statement about the dismissal which read, in part, “Equity applauds the NLRB’s decision to dismiss the frivolous charge.”
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The majority of my issue with this article is in the quote from The Actors’ Equity Association. Equity mentions how they are “pleased with the NLRB” and how they decided that Equity “did not breach its duty of fair representation” in the 99-Seat Theatre Dispute. I think that if there is a dispute over legislature of a union then there is not “fair representation” since clearly someone did not feel supported by the organization. On www.equityworksla.com there is an indepth explination behind Equity’s decision and where the suit originated from. The union fully admits to a negative effect on 14% of its member organizations in Los Angeles that used the previous legislation at all. Of the consistant production companies that number grows close to 25%. If 25% of a group of small theatres are being effected, there should be some backlash from the community. I consider this a slightly larger issue given the location of Los Angales. The West Coast has theatre which, at least in my point of view, has more isolation than east coast theatre since there is so much more on the east and it is all closer together geographically; therefore, I believe that there should be a heightened protection over smaller theatre companies especially but also theater in general. In a perfect world there will be an even distribution of theatre across the United States so that everyone, no matter where they live, have the opportunity to expeience theatre and alow it the opportunity to effect their lives.
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