Connect Why We Happy Hour 3 Jul 2020 by Allana and collective It started innocently-enough (as these things do) sometime in the Fall of 2015. In September, I shared a beer with Murnane; October beer with Murnane and…
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 Alone Together 3 Jul 2020 by Ursula and Andrea What is there to talk about these days? My thought was to write about the gremlins that stop us from working better; how we know we…
Connect We Have a Lot of Work to Do 13 Jun 20207 Jul 2020 We, the Technicians For Change Steering Committee, feel we need to own up. We recognize that we have perpetuated, even in ways we can’t fully understand, white fragility and supremacy in American…
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…
Connect A History of Women Joining IATSE Local 13, with Wendy Carr 1 Mar 20204 Mar 2020 By Wendy On August 26, 1970 the Women’s Strike for Equality took place to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the passing of the Nineteenth Amendment which earned women the right…
Connect… Theater Artist Leadership Coalition (TALC) and the Minnesota Theater Standards 1 Mar 2020 By Sam I attended a meeting Monday night, February 17th, 2020 held by the Theater Artist Leadership Coalition (TALC) led by Laura Stearns, Maria Asp, and Elena Gianetti. Expecting to…
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…
