Working with other unions

Posted on April 7, 2008

Why doesn’t Equity work more closely with other trade unions in this country and with unions from America and overseas?

Equity was a founder member of the Federation of Entertainment Unions along with the Musicians Union, BECTU, Writers Guild of Great Britain, National Union of Journalists and the Professional Footballers Association. Representatives from the constituent members of FEU attend meetings with Broadcasters, OFCOM and government agencies on a regular basis to ensure that the issues of concern to its members are always on the agenda.

Equity was also a founding partner of the International Federation of Actors in 1952. FIA (www.fia-actors.com) is an international non-governmental organisation representing performer’s trade unions, guilds and associations around the world. It voices the professional concerns and interests of actors in film, TV, radio, theatre and live performance, broadcast professionals, dancers, singers, variety and circus artists amongst others. Equity is an active member of FIA and has recently instigated a number of meetings with our US and Canadian sister Unions SAG, AFTRA and ACTRA to address the impact of the emerging technologies on performers. In many cases, Equity is leading the way in those discussions.

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