@EquityUK's (YMC) works to protect, promote and extend the rights and interests of our younger members | 2023-2025 Committee
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This is brilliant! Please keep sharing & signing. @actoratcentre & @EquityUK are fighting hard to preserve this vital & unique resource that belongs to the acting community. @7DialsPlayhouse has repurposed & put at risk our home. We urgently need to save & restore it. #timetoact
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How can we secure better working conditions for singers in churches, synagogues, and choirs?
Join @EquitySingers & union staff on 22nd September at 1pm
This meeting is open to both members and non-members of the union. Full details and sign up here: bit.ly/3WYkH3h
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…that performers are generally ‘workers’ under law.
Equity members were engaged during the 2022 season, working extremely long days and sometimes 6-day weeks, and only paid £50-£150 a week in expenses.
The 2021 season had a budget of £250k+
Read more:
equity.org.uk/news/2024/camb…
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…as you may classify as a worker and be entitled to basic employment rights such as minimum wage, holiday pay, and pensions.
Contact [email protected]
Cambridge Shakespeare Festival must be held accountable to this ruling which reaffirms…
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💥A MAJOR employment law victory has ruled Equity members who performed for Cambridge Shakespeare Festival were WORKERS and shouldn’t have been unpaid ‘volunteers’
💥The 2024 season is taking place now in Cambridge Uni’s gardens
💥If you’re working for them, get in touch…
🚨BREAKING NEWS 🚨
📢New campaign launched by Equity and @EquityAudio to give videogames performers fair pay, safe workplaces and control over their work!
🎮Game On! 🎮 #EquityGameOn
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URGENT NEWS- @7DialsPlayhouse to sell lease of 1a Tower St.
Join us/@EquityUK & sign chng.it/X6r6DSZWVj.
4k+ asking the CEO & Trustees to listen to the needs of actors/creatives. Restore training & vital income to the building bought by actors for actors. Save our home.
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🚨Seven Dials Playhouse - formerly the Actors Centre - has been put up for sale in an "act of vandalism".
@paulwfleming says "Equity is united with @actoratthecentre campaign, demanding answers, and solutions, to the disaster that has unfolded since the Centre was rebranded."
Great article in @TheStage by Georgia Luckhurst. @actoratcentre called the sale of 1a Tower St lease "an act of vandalism". @EquityUK General Secretary @paulwfleming ‘said the building had been "bought and paid for by actors, for actors".’
#timetoact
thestage.co.uk/news/seven-di…
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🚨 UNION NEWS 🚨
Congratulations to Jackie Clune and Nick Fletcher who were re-elected as @EquityUK Vice-Presidents and David John who was re-elected as Honorary Treasurer at an Equity Council meeting this week.
Full story 👇
equity.org.uk/news/2024/equi…
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🚨 SPOTLIGHT UPDATE 🚨
This morning eight Equity members filed papers at the High Court in a class action against Spotlight. #TaxOnHope
Find out why 👇
equity.org.uk/news/2024/spot…
We have our committee meeting coming up soon
Anything you'd like us to discuss?
#unions #youngmembers #EquityUK
We've been a little quiet on here
We have a new committee (2023-2025)
Find us over at:
instagram.com/equityymc?igsh…
Hope to post more on here too
#equityymc #youngermembers #union
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Quincy Raymond welcoming the delegation and visitors to the conference #TUCYWC23
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We’re set up and ready to go for our Young Workers Conference #TUCYWC23
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Last night we and @EquityYMC got to chat with incredible new members and hear from
- 🔥@LDNRentersUnion & @ucu rep @CaoimheMMC
- 💥AND about campaigns within @EquityUK @AndrewLinnie, @danusiasamal & @JackieClune
#standupfor17
#YOUaretheunion
❤️Solidarity not charity❤️
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✊ See you all tomorrow for UNIONISE with @EquityYMC & @Equity4GND
💜 A free event for students, young workers and grads that #HeartUnions
📍 @newdiorama Feb 16 6.30pm
eventbrite.com/e/unionise-an…
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Join @EquityYMC & @Equity4GND for UNIONISE: an intro to your union for students, young creatives and grads💜 Free entry at New Diorama Theatre 6.30pm Feb 16th. Come for a drink and find out how @EquityUK can support you and get involved with #YourUnion
eventbrite.com/e/unionise-an…
