The legal arguments are likely to take up our thoughts for some time to come, and we can expect many analyses of the document, what it means in terms of the strategy in the campaign for ensure the safety of the Equity Waiver scene. I have been gnashing my teeth at the maladroit, arrogant behavior on the part of AEA, which is often so tonally deaf to the community it serves, it would almost be impossible to parody. In the Union’s eyes, however, as soon as they eliminated the 99-Seat Plan, the Settlement Agreement and its Review Committee went up in flames with it. The brief was filed but not served on the Union in the hope that the mere filing would bring AEA to the negotiating table, which is what the Review Committee (established in the 1989 Settlement Agreement - the result of the last time AEA members took their own Union to court) had been trying to do for months. At last, the first step in actually taking on the Union has taken place. District Court by Pro99-Seat Union Plaintiffs against their own Union, Actors’ Equity Association and its Executive Director, Mary McColl. For our local theater scene, the huge event of the week was the release late Saturday evening of the Complaint filed with the U.S.
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