Educate… Get a Will. Get a Will. Get a Will. 3 Jul 20207 Jul 2020 By Elizabeth Please listen to me and get your affairs in order before it’s too late.Get a will! We are an incredible community. So many of us consider each other…
Connect… COVID-19 Resources 19 Mar 20207 Jul 2020 Unemployment W2 Workers - sign up for unemployment (Minnesota link). Waiting could mean lower benefits. Apply online and keep trying as they are experiencing a high volume of applicants. You…
Educate Gig Tracking 1 Mar 20204 Mar 2020 By Roger Until 2011, I was a single-employer worker with one income plus my spouse’s. The recession of 2011 changed all that. Lacking other options, I returned to stagehand work…
Educate Better for Employees? – A Brief Primer on Social Security 1 Mar 2020 By Ray and Paul A recent stagehand discussion on Facebook inspired this piece. In a discussion about Social Security: Put bluntly: this is completely wrong, as we'll see below. One…
Educate… Having an Effective Talk About Inappropriate Behavior 2 Dec 2019 By Roger with help by Allana I confess I am self-conscious while writing tonight. You see, I’m not an expert or a trained professional at dealing with other people and…
Educate… Union FAQs: Grievances 2 Dec 20192 Dec 2019 By Carrie In our March newsletter, we answered some FAQs about unions and union membership. This month we hope to answer questions about another union related topic: grievances. What is…
Educate Right-to-Work Laws 1 Sep 201914 Sep 2019 By RayPhoto credit: Allana What are right-to-work laws? Right-to-work laws do not actually grant a right for anyone to work at any particular job, or for any particular employer. They…
Educate Is my Internship Legal? 1 Sep 201917 May 2020 By Jake A staple of the entertainment industry (and non-profit organizations generally) for the last several decades, the unpaid internship was recently litigated in numerous lawsuits and found to be,…
Educate… Sleepless in Theatre 1 Sep 20191 Sep 2019 By Angelique and Leazah We work in an industry that does not always have normal business hours. We care deeply about the art we are creating, and long hours are…
