Morning Star.png Equity is an Organising Inspiration to Others ['Equity' is a trade union for actors] The Morning Star, London, 23 May 2016 Equity can show other unions how to organise freelancers in an increasingly insecure world of employment, the union's president said yesterday. Malcolm Sinclair, a stage and screen actor best known for his role in comedy drama Pie in the Sky, proclaimed that "neoliberal . 'private good, public bad' thinking has had its day - finally." He said Equity had long organised in the circumstances increasingly faced by other unions - organising workers without full-time contracts and in area-based branches rather than individual workplaces. "We should be an example to other trade unions because other trade unions are struggling - we are thriving," he said. But he said the union was more essential than ever because the acting profession was becoming "more and more of a jungle." In an address on Saturday, Equity general secretary Christine Payne branded the Trade Union Act a "most vicious attack" on working people. "Had that Bill - in full - been passed, our dispute at the English National Opera might have been much more difficult," she said. The ENO chorus settled for a compromise deal offered by bosses in March, having previously backed a strike overwhelmingly. From: http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-e5c1-Equity-an-organising-inspiration-t o-others#.V0KJ5fl9600 -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
