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Record pay rises, building solidarity across our movement, fighting against structural discrimination, & for our planet: that’s the union we’re building.
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Angry about the treatment of
@EquityUK
members on Cinderella?
We’re protesting at the Gillian Lynne theatre at 2.30.
Retweet, share & join us.
✊🎭✊
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It is an overwhelming honour to be elected General Secretary of
@EquityUK
.
I promise to be radical. I promise to be pragmatic. I promise to listen.
I won’t let you down.
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For
@EquityUK
members to find out about closure by press release is unacceptable.
I’ve written to ALW to express our anger at this callous attack on the dignity of the Cinderella company
We’re in touch with the Deps & will be looking at how to respond
They must be compensated.
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Evidence, if ever it were needed, that
@mrjamesob
has neither the basic analysis nor moral calibre to even pose as a public intellectual.
"Why does Israel have to play by the rules that Hamas holds in complete contempt, when the stakes involve civilians from both sides?"
@mrjamesob
wrestles with the argument that Israel is expected to adhere to standards that their attackers don't.
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If the full audience isn’t back, the full workforce won’t be back.
This news makes clear that all
@EquityUK
members need income support, or we’ll lose diverse talent from theatre & variety.
I hope
@OliverDowden
will meet with me soon & support our union’s four pillar plan.
🎭 News
Indoor Performances with socially distanced audiences will be permitted from this weekend
Another important step on the recovery of the arts, helped by our £1.57bn rescue package
This Government is
#HereForCulture
@ace_national
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Solidarity with all in Southwark who stood up to stop vicious & inhumane deportation of our neighbours yesterday.
We do this because we’re teachers & trades unionists, not in spite of it.
✊
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🚨BIG NEWS🚨
Our agreement is the UK-wide standard for performers, stage management, & creative team on funded work.
✂️Despite govt cuts,
@EquityUK
won:
⬆️10% weekly pay
⬆️20% daily pay & allowances
⬆️30% touring allowance
⬆️250%+ relocation
🏡Producers responsible for digs
EQUITY WIN: Equity and Independent Theatre Council agree pay rises and major improvements to working conditions for performers, stage managers & creatives.
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The scenes at Clapham make me feel physically sick.
The Police are institutionally rotten.
None of us are safe until the whole institution is replaced- starting with Cressida Dick & Priti Patel.
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🚨
#PantoParade
🚨
✊Tomorrow pantomime dames & creative workers are marching through London to protest the lack of meaningful govt support✊
@OliverDowden
- will you join us at Parliament Square and talk to our members?
@EquityUK
@bectu
@ExcludedUK
#WeMakeEvents
🎭👯♀️🧞♂️🧚👸🎭
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40% of
@EquityUK
members received not a penny- they’re self-employed.
Tonight, 100% are left ignored, forgotten and unmentioned.
Following the PM’s announcement on further restrictions across the country we have decided to extended the furlough scheme for a further month covering 80% of employees’ wages.
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Hi Nadine,
Your government made it a requirement for the elderly to pay a licence? Until 2018 they were paid for...?
You might want to edit that tweet.
If you want to talk about a new model of funding,
@EquityUK
has a lot of ideas. Hopefully you’re not still to busy to meet!
This licence fee announcement will be the last. The days of the elderly being threatened with prison sentences and bailiffs knocking on doors, are over.
Time now to discuss and debate new ways of funding, supporting and selling great British content.
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Well it’s beautiful, comrades…
Presenting
@EquityUK
’s new National banner!
Ready to set off on the
#WeDemandBetter
march with
@The_TUC
✊🚩✊
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A massive thank-you to everyone who’s sent congratulations on social media, email, phone, carrier pigeon.
I don’t know where or how to start with the thank-yous - but I’ve read every message, like and retweet.
I’m so lucky to be part of this movement- I won’t let you down!
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🪂 For freelancers, the income support parachute always had holes. Now, the parachute’s gone.
📈
@RishiSunak
: abandoning artists means they can’t be there to power economic recovery.
🥊
@EquityUK
won’t stop fighting to get freelance support amended & extended- for all our sakes
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The West End win in figures:
1️⃣6️⃣% rise in pay over 2️⃣4️⃣ months
👯♂️32-42% rise in swing, understudy & dance captain pay
🗓️5 day rehearsal week pilot
8️⃣5️⃣%
@EquityUK
membership
8️⃣0️⃣% turnout to vote
9️⃣4️⃣% vote to accept
✊
& that’s not all… 1/2
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100% of
@EquityUK
members pay tax
40% got no Income Support to date
20% of profit is the best anyone can claim
#WinterEconomyPlan
isn’t a support package, it’s a slap in the face.
Join us
@bectu
@ExcludedUK
on 30th September to tell the govt directly:
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Everyone’s weight & shape will have changed as we survived COVID- physically and mentally.
If you’re an
@EquityUK
member returning to work to no support or unacceptable comments about your fitness, size or body let us know.
Our members are artists not machines
✅ 🎭👯♀️🕺🏻🎧
❌🤖
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Delighted to see
@AngelaRayner
in one of the most highly unionised industries in the UK.
Over 90% of opera artists are members of
@EquityUK
, & Glyndebourne is on a solid union agreement.
If the labour movement is on stage, why shouldn’t it be in the audience?
✊🎼✊🌹✊
Dominic Raab won’t approve but I did indeed go the opera last week (it cost me £62).
Tom Eisner, a working-class lad from Buxton near where I grew up kindly invited me. He’s been playing violin at Glyndebourne for 36 years.
Never let anyone tell you you’re not good enough. 🎻
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I’m the first out LGBT General Secretary of
@EquityUK
& any major UK union.
The hate shown in that misappropriation of the pride flag didn’t start, & won’t end, with the LGBT community.
It will end when we all consistently oppose wanton hate against anyone by anyone.
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✊5 weeks ago:
@EquityUK
demands 4 Pillars to save our industry
🤔2 weeks ago: a £1.56 billion package for arts & culture announced
📅 Now: STILL nothing on👏what👏that👏means👏
@OliverDowden
you can’t have dates without these details. Make this the week you share them.
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For 5,500 Cineworld workers this is plain offensive.
For nearly 100,000
@EquityUK
&
@bectu
members it’s tone deaf.
🎥 Support your cinema
Last week I went to an independent cinema that we are supporting through our £1.5bn
#CultureRecoveryFund
🗣Cinemas are open
👍They are taking every step to keep everyone safe
👉 So please support your local cinema by visiting
#HereForCulture
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This week, a number of people face commented on my greying hair- no doubt a result of the pandemic.
But I just got ID’ed in TESCO. So take *that* 2020.
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British & EU live performance unions met the Commission repeatedly since 2016. We won this commitment.
Our govt assured us they’d accept it to.
We now know years of work by
@EquityUK
@WeAreTheMU
@bectu
@FIA_actors
was reduced to nought by Downing St.
🖊
Protect Creative Workers following the UK's exit from the EU (Westminster MPs)
equity.eaction.org.uk
EXCLUSIVE: UK ‘rejected offer’ of visa-free tours by musicians in EU, despite blaming Brussels for permit blow
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I never use nuclear weapons. Let’s scrap those too.
🚀
I pay the BBC licence fee and these are the only services I ever use. Good value for money...?🤷🏻♀️
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When I was elected GS, I promised
@EquityUK
would back members to make real change
Industrial relations are constructive, but nothing is off the table to win big change on work, rest, & pay
Like our West End membership, I will
#StandUpFor17
✊🎭✊
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As a Catholic, a trades unionist, & a friend,
@DawnHFoster
was an inspiration.
She took the reigns of
@EquityUK
’s communications last year when I & our members needed her most.
I’ll miss her wit, her faith, & her friendship.
Requiescat in Pace.
We are immensely saddened to announce that our dear friend
@DawnHFoster
died suddenly at home this week, related to her long-term illness. I, and I know many of you, loved her deeply, and it is a terrible loss.
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Today, I’m launching my campaign for General Secretary of
@EquityUK
.
It’s a turbulent time, but I want to start a hopeful conversation about a radical future for our industry.
Find out more at:
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Any crisis for the creative industries is, at its heart, a crisis for
@EquityUK
members.
Me on
@SkyNews
today 👇
✊🎭👯♂️👯♀️🎭✊
'They have simply been cut adrift'.
General secretary of Equity, Paul Fleming, says he is seeing many people within the theatre industry leave their careers because they have felt "abandoned" by the government during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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🎥 💥WE WON💥📺
✊
@EquityUK
has secured proper insurance cover for older actors in TV & film. It’s not perfect, & the fight against age discrimination goes on- but we all need a victory at the minute!✊
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Protect the NHS by funding it properly.
Protect the economy with sector specific support.
Protect society with adequate freelance support.
Not a word on these things tonight, & no action on them since March.
@EquityUK
members are still on the first lockdown. It’s a disgrace.
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#MusicalsTheGreatestShow
can only happen because of the performers, stage management, & creative team.
They face a crisis- 40% have had no furlough or SEISS at all.
Stand with
@EquityUK
to protect these amazing artists- & proud working people. ✊🎭✊
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💥I cannot emphasise how big this is for
@EquityUK
members.💥
Brave members stood up to the biggest panto producer & won- exposing their ‘chilling’ tactics.
@XRoadsPantos
need to come to the table & get a union agreement. We won’t stop until they do.
✊🎭✊
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📣Friday’s NPO funding announcement was an economically illiterate assault on the workforce, the industry, & free speech- wherever you live.
💪
@EquityUK
is preparing action to correct
@ace_national
’s misleading levelling up narrative.
💥Here’s why: please RT!
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Solidarity with
@WesStreeting
- bullied at work for trade union activities.
The Movement stands with
@RMTunion
✊
Well…
“Starmer ally Wes Streeting ‘sorry’ for backing union over rail strikes”
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Angela Lansbury may have been a dame but she was always a comrade.
On hearing I was a
@FaradayLabour
councillor in Walworth- where her grandfather stood to be MP in 1885- she made it clear she was as radical as her family.
A lifelong
@EquityUK
member, may she rest in peace.
✊
My favorite fact about Angela Lansbury is that during her MURDER SHE WROTE era she made it a practice to hire guest actors of the golden age that had aged out of the game because it allowed them to earn the union points they needed for insurance, pensions, etc.
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🚨BREAKING🚨
Legendary
@EquityUK
Dep
@AnnaJaneCasey
on why she’s decided to
#StandUpFor17
on
@BBCNews
this eve…
✊🎭✊
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I know we all love a bit of
@EquityUK
history… well look what we uncovered.
They date from the campaign to expand a West End closed shop in the 1930s- & hint at how brave
@EquityWomen
led the charge.
Soon to be conserved & on display!
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In no other industry else does the workforce bear the cost of recruiting.
@EquityUK
members are beginning a fight to end the
#TaxOnHope
🚨UPDATE: Spotlight🚨
Following our November Council meeting Equity’s new policy on Spotlight and casting directories has been announced
Check our website for full details ⬇️:
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An excellent reflection on the state of
@UKLabour
today.
If unchecked by unions, the left, & party democracy, we’re heading for a nasty, intellectually bereft, underwhelming Labour govt.
Solidarity with
@MayorJD
. ✊
Notes on a scandal: this is how Starmer’s bullies took out Jamie Driscoll – and why it matters
My column, drawing on exclusive evidence that led to the block on the metro mayor
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As MPs debate COVID restrictions with no support for theatre,
@NadineDorries
has refused to meet with me as
@EquityUK
GS to get the views of our members in theatres, pubs, and clubs.
Hopefully this from the BBC will mean she reconsiders.
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I have this afternoon authorised a series of strikes & other action at the English National Opera.
Cuts in pay, job losses- it’s shows who the bosses think opera is for.
@EquityUK
is clear: opera is for everyone, & the workplace must be open to all.
#FairWageOnStage
💥The turnout among ENO chorus members was 94.11%
💥100% voted ‘yes’ to take action short of a strike
💥100% voted ’yes’ to full strike action
Read the full story:
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A massive shoutout to all
@EquityUK
stage management members on SM Day.
Theatres may be dark, but
@EquitySM
has never been stronger & we’ve more SM Deps than ever before.
Our union wouldn’t be as strong without you- & as GS I’ll make sure you’re at its heart.
✊
#StageMgrs20
✊
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I started working
@EquityUK
10 years ago today...
The hair is greyer but I couldn’t be prouder to serve *the* greatest union in the movement.
✊🎭🎬🎤🩰🎪🎧✊
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He needs to meet the unions.
Prime minister Boris Johnson has committed to meeting with MPs over the need for a creative visa arrangement with the EU, amid growing pressure for the government to resolve bureaucratic barriers to touring in Europe
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A year today I was elected GS of
@EquityUK
- the greatest union in the movement.
It’s been quite a year, but I’m so so proud of what our council, staff, activists & members have achieved.
😅✊
It is an overwhelming honour to be elected General Secretary of
@EquityUK
.
I promise to be radical. I promise to be pragmatic. I promise to listen.
I won’t let you down.
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I’m really pleased to have reached this agreement with the
@NationalTheatre
on behalf of
@EquityUK
.
Getting our members & industry through this crisis means more digital exploitation, but not without reference to the artists who make it.
#EquityGenSec
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I’ll be on
@RMTunion
’s picket lines with
@EquityUK
members tomorrow.
They’ve always stood with us, so we’ll always stand with them.
✊🚂✊🎭✊
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When theatre workers are worried about feeding their families, this is crass to the extreme.
Extend the SEISS. Close the loopholes. You’ve got 4 days.
#EquityGenSec
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Significant underinvestment in public transport.
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No
@OliverDowden
, we need cash.
💪Workforce support
👨👩👧👦A safe opening subsidy
💷 Mothballing costs
You might be happy to destroy theatre, film, TV & variety, dithering over a free market fantasy- but
@EquityUK
members won’t.
🎭🎥👯♀️🎤🎬🎪🤹🏽♀️
I want to get performers back performing
🗣It is clear we need greater flexibility to overcome some of the very specific & practical obstacles to the return of live performance
So I’m convening medical & arts experts to work through these for theatre, choirs & orchestras
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This sensationalist headline is beneath
@DailyMirror
, &
@AngelaRayner
too
The £144k is paid to an agency- the voice artist is likely getting 10-20p a word
This work will take significant time, be used by HMRC for years, & likely be an
@EquityUK
member’s main income for a decade
Government blows £144,000 on professional voice artist for tax helpline
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As a working class actor/entertainer Les has always fought for justice in his industry & beyond
His incredulity at Hancock’s success comes from unshakeable belief that behaving morally results in reward
Never change
@LesDennis
.
@EquityUK
& the world need your outlook right now!
I’ve had a lot of abuse re my post about
#imaceleb
Lots of people calling me a has been and an ex celebrity. Like me those people are entitled to their opinions. I try not to criticise here and I considered deleting the tweet but I stand by it. I won’t be posting about the final
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👏 The right approach from Nica; &
@EquityUK
will support work starting safely, on solid agreements. 👏
✋BUT✋
🤔 If govt shared the risk now borne by big producers & our members...
🎭 there’d be art & entertainment for taxpayers, & a major area of the economy stabilised. 💷
Nica Burns: “Like all businesses, we looked at our business strategy post Oct when the furlough scheme ends. We looked at the financial and human cost of large-scale redundancies. We preferred to put the potential redundancy monies towards employment rather than unemployment.”
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Let’s stop talking about “opportunities” for artists & talk about *work*
That work is underpaid. Everywhere. At every career stage.
For good bosses to step up they must:
1: Only work with producers using
@EquityUK
agreements
2. Push their peers to negotiate minimums 🆙not ⬇️
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By ‘almost alone’, do you mean with 100s of producers & venues of every type and scale...
...& 100,000+
@EquityUK
@WeAreTheMU
@ISM_music
@bectu
deps, activists & members...
...& campaign groups galore...
...then fair comment I guess 🤷🏻♂️
Most of us have barely slept since March
Andrew Lloyd Webber is almost alone in his quest to bring back theatre. Why does he bother? ‘The trouble is I’m a fighter,’ he tells
@andrewbillen
#AndrewLloydWebber
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🇬🇧 self employed taxpayers:
*6 months*
Political parties should not make the furlough scheme the yardstick of government success.
@EquityUK
members need plans for immediate support, & commitment to a permanent minimum income guarantee for artists.
Length of furlough scheme by country
🇩🇪 24 months
🇫🇷 24 months
🇦🇺 12 months
🇮🇪 12 months
🇬🇧 8 months
Other governments know that millions of workers still need targeted help to get through this crisis.
Our government thinks it knows better.
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Christine & I think
@EquityUK
members have waited long enough for detail on
@OliverDowden
&
@RishiSunak
’s £1.57 billion - but we need every member to help get us heard.
Add your voice using our standard letter to write to your MP too:
✊🤹🎬🎤🎭🩰🎪🎧✊
Equity General Secretary Christine Payne & General Secretary Elect Paul W Fleming have written to
@RishiSunak
&
@OliverDowden
to demand clarification on how the arts rescue package will support creative workers. Read the full letter & write to your MP:
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Tonight I’m on
@BBCFrontRow
this evening talking about
@EquityUK
’s groundbreaking
#EthicalAI
campaign…
… & likely about unethical behaviour from theatre producers too.
Tune in at 7.15pm
✊🎭✊🤖✊
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.
@EquityUK
members would get back to work tomorrow if they could do it safely, in a viable industry. But they can’t. They can’t earn now.
There’s been 3 months to review the scheme & there’s 10 days left.
Our members aren’t workshy- is
@RishiSunak
?
#EquityGenSec
Q: There are thousands of self-employed freelancers from a huge variety of backgrounds working in theatre, which as a sector has no hope of reopening in June. Are you going to extend the SEISS to October in line with the furlough scheme?
#AskRishi
-
@vikkistone
A:
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🗳
#EquityGenSec
ballots arrive this week!
I’m backed by:
🎭
@EquityUK
Council
🤹♂️100+ members
🎬Chair/Branch Sec from most UK branches
💃Majority of committee chairs- inc all Equality Committees
Full manifesto here: !
Top 3️⃣ Priorities here⬇️
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40% of
@EquityUK
members got *nothing* from furlough/SEISS
40% of rescue fund is *unspent*
What more evidence is there that this isn’t fit for purpose?
Producers have to praise the fund in order to benefit, but the union’s voice is unbought & unbossed.
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Two years ago today I was elected
@EquityUK
General Secretary
A year ago, my friend & comrade Dawn Foster died
Today, it’s Equity’s first time
@DurhamGala
It’s superb reminder that in joy & sorrow what matters most is keeping the movement moving, organising, & winning.
✊✊✊
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Enormous congratulations to
@LyndaRooke
&
@JackieClune
on being elected
@EquityUK
’s Vice Presidents!
They join me,
@MaureenBeattie2
& Bryn Evans in an officer team who’ll fight for our members through COVID & beyond.
✊🎭✊🎥✊📺✊🎤✊🎧✊
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🍝 When the govt lets children go hungry, communities & councils step in.
📚When libraries close volunteers step in.
🎭When arts funding stops,
@EquityUK
members step in.
🛑 This isn’t a political blunder, it’s a plan to replace subsidy with charity. We must say no.🛑 1/2
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Our comrades at
@NEUnion
&
@unisontheunion
don’t just protect our kids & our NHS- they stand with
@EquityUK
to defend our industries & members.
@MaureenBeattie2
& I urge every
@EquityUK
member to
#MakeSchoolsSafe
Sign:
✊🧑🏽🏫🎭🎪🎬🎤👨🏼⚕️✊
Equity President
@MaureenBeattie2
& General Secretary
@paulwfleming
are appealing to our members to stand in solidarity with education unions ✊ 🎓 🍎
Read their statement and sign a petition calling for schools to return only when it is safe to do so 👉
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Our members face low pay in every industry, every day.
The
@RMTunion
fight for the rail network we deserve is a battle we all need them to win.
Yesterday,
@EquityUK
Council unanimously agreed to show our solidarity with a donation to
@RMTunion
strike fund.
✊🎭✊🚂✊
Mick Lynch sums it up.
Equity members will be affected by these strikes, but we know where the blame truly lies.
We're united in solidarity with
@RMTLondon
wherever the fight against bad bosses exists.
Your struggle is our struggle.
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Paul O’Grady may have called his relationship with
@EquityUK
‘f****ng complex’ but he was often Dep: including on the biggest collapsed tour of the last decade.
In October he told me he loved seeing Equity ‘being shaken up’; back to the radicalism of Marie Lloyd
RIP
✊🎭✊💃✊
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Following my letter to
@HENLEYDARREN
this morning, it is positive that
@ace_national
are amending their guidance.
Not the power of my pen, but 50,000
@EquityUK
members standing up to censorship.
Any update should fully involve the relevant arts unions.
1/7 We are deeply concerned that Arts Council England’s new guidance for funded organisations will censure the freedom of expression of arts institutions and gag artists, especially those working in the activist or political space.
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🚨PETITION🚨
@GavinWilliamson
must reconsider devastating cuts to higher education in creative subjects.
🖊 SIGN the
@Public_Campaign
petition here:
✊Thanks to
@EquityUK
members
@exitthelemming
,
@MPeakeOfficial
&
@WeAreTheMU
for shouting so loud.
In new government plans, funding for creative and performative arts subjects in higher education will be cut by 50%.
Today Equity General Secretary
@paulwfleming
has written to
@GavinWilliamson
and urged them to reconsider.
Read the letter at
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Appalling news for
@EquityUK
members.
How can selling our industries’ infrastructure possibly be a priority for the government in the middle of the cost of living crisis?
We’ll fight this every step of the way.
Breaking.
Channel 4 internal email from Alex Mahon says Government will announce proposal to privatise the broadcaster.
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So, on noticing that all the coolest General Secretaries have masks (take note
@DrJoGrady
😉) legendary
@EquityDance
activist
@garethmole
made me an
@EquityUK
proto-type!
Thoughts?! I think it’s fetching with a
@theatre_support
tshirt!
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40% of
@EquityUK
’s 47,000 members got no furlough and no SEISS.
@JohnMcDonnellMP
demanded a better scheme from the start.
Govt refused on grounds of‘risk of fraud’.
But £4billion *was* fraudulently claimed by organisations- now written off.
One rule for us; one rule for them.
In 2020 within weeks of Sunak’s Covid grants & loans scheme I asked Sunak what anti fraud measures were in place as I was worried about fraud. The result of lack of firm & fast action means over £4 billion is now being written off but no minister resigns.
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Catching up with the ultimate
@UnionDrip
, founding member of
@EquityUK
, Sir Laurence Olivier.
Personally, I think the crown is a bit much.
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Through
@EquityUK
negotiations, 24 West End shows opened, with 6 to follow
3 now suspended for one reason: unworkable govt policy
We averted losing our agreement, & are securing pay for some on suspension, including Cinders
Our industry is at risk, & it’s
@OliverDowden
’s fault
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I’m afraid that the exploitative digs touring model is, indeed, no longer viable.
@EquityUK
isn’t demanding a magic wand, just a clear plan to transition tours off antiquated accommodation.
✊🎭✊🏠✊
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That’s what global solidarity looks like.
Victory to
@sagaftra
.
Equity and SAG-AFTRA have this evening released a joint statement following the announcement of US industrial action below.
Our solidarity statement and full advice to members can be read here:
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My statement on behalf of
@EquityUK
on
#SecondLockdown
.
It’s a message of anger for the self employed, demands for our industry, & solidarity with all working people.
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When capital is global; labour must be too
🎬Great to have spent a week in LA
sharing
@EquityUK
’s experiences, solidarity, & agendas with negotiators
@sagaftra
@WGAWest
&
@ACTRAnational
in LA.
When one entertainment union wins we all do✊
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Stephen Sondheim is an incomparable force in art. He has given so much to
@EquityUK
members both individually & as a collective.
May he rest in peace.
✊🎭✊
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We want a transition as successful as Opera North or Birmingham Royal Ballet. This ain’t it.
The voice of the workforce & unions are absent from this proposal, a proposal which hurts art, artists, & audiences.
Blind welcoming of this vapid plan shows contempt for our workforce.
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Arts ministers have told me that they understand
@EquityUK
members’ need money more than bosses & buildings. Even the producers agree.
Was Nadine kicked out of that Whatsapp group too?
🤦🏻♂️
I know theatres are facing challenges due to Omicron. The Culture Recovery Fund remains open, and is available for theatres - of any type - to apply for emergency resource support funding should they need it. Details here:
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In recent years,
@EquityUK
has prepared for the events of the last week.
Theatre & variety members should be clear: the mourning period & funeral are not force majeure
In most instances, artists should be paid for work if it’s cancelled
Full details👇
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So
@EquityUK
’s new banner got A LOT of attention on Saturday!
It’s an incredible piece of art made by the amazing
@durhambanners
but people want to know a lot about the members & events depicted - as well as its symbolism - so here’s a fun Sunday 🧵!
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Well it’s beautiful, comrades…
Presenting
@EquityUK
’s new National banner!
Ready to set off on the
#WeDemandBetter
march with
@The_TUC
✊🚩✊
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Trans performers’ rights to work are not up for debate. Full. Stop.
🏳️⚧️
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Today’s
@ace_national
announcement is nakedly political.
Seeing funding pour away from producers using collective agreements in favour of vanity projects is an affront to the creative workforce.
@EquityUK
members should not pay the price of this broken funding settlement. 1/2
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Well speaking at
@eiecampaign
in Liverpool this evening was an experience.
There’s no doubt that we’ve had enough.
There’s no doubt that this is the start of something big.
Massive thanks to
@IanByrneMP
for being the host with the most.
✊🎭✊🤹✊🎬✊
Liverpool says
#EnoughlsEnough
!
St. George’s Hall rammed to capacity with thousands demanding action on the cost-of-living crisis.
We’re not going to take it lying down. We’re going to fight 👊
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Our railways are politically controlled & publicly funded.
The only reason for privatisation is greed.
REVEALED - The Government has confirmed that it meets ‘at least weekly’ with representatives of the rail companies to ‘discuss industrial relations’.
It is clear that the Government is in control of the National Rail Dispute and is pulling the strings. 🧵
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🚩Today’s the day!🚩
Join
@EquityUK
&
@The_TUC
:
📍At Portland Place at 10.30am (pics will follow for exact whereabouts!)
👀For a HUGE reveal on arrival
📣Speeches at Parliament Sq from 1pm- I’m up at 2.30!
🗣 Reply below if you’re coming!
#WeDemandBetter
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New profile pic from
@TolpuddleFest
with the beautiful new
@EquityUK
banner…
🥰🥰🥰
📸 by
@thomasgreenwood
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