Educate Working Below the Fissure: An Homage to David Weil 1 Apr 20223 Apr 2022 Article by Allana; Painting by AngeliquePublished April 2022 If I could invite one famous person, living or dead, to a dinner party, I’d invite David Weil. Administrator of the Wage…
Connect… Positive Change-Making with Outside Reinforcements 1 Apr 2022 By Allana; Photo by RolandoPublished April 2022 Too often workers are held in place by the fear of retaliation. The employer doesn’t have to do or say anything to get…
Educate… Top 6 Employer Must-Provides that You’ve Never Received 5 Jan 202222 Jan 2022 By AllanaPublished October 2021 Have you ever been trained on using a fire extinguisher? Shown a plan, much less trained, for an emergency at work? Your US employer is required…
Connect An (Email) Conversation with the Founders of the Costume Collective and Next Stage 5 Jan 202228 Feb 2022 By GaeaPublished January 2022 The Twin Cities is home to a rich, deep, and vibrant community of theaters, theater artists, and technicians. We are also home to a lot of single…
Connect… Are We Ready to Strike? (It’s More Than Signs) 5 Jan 2022 By Roger and AllanaPublished January 2022 Special thanks to Kyle Beebe, Bob Hazzard, Dhyana Colony Smith, Gary Edwards, Paul Kaessinger, and Carmen Jones for their help in brainstorming this article.…
Connect… What Happened to Save Our Stages? 5 Oct 2021 By GaeaPublished October 2021 Way back a dozen years ago at the beginning of the pandemic, a lot of folks in the industry organized around #SaveOurStages. In the Twin Cities,…
Educate Union FAQs: Strike! Picket! Banner! 5 Oct 20215 Oct 2021 By BillPublished October 2021 I was a freshman trying to get back to college after Christmas, heading to the Trailways Bus counter in Port Authority, NYC, when a man wearing…
Connect… MN Theatrical Designer Pay Resource 1 Jul 20213 Jul 2021 by Mary ShabaturaPublished July 2021 Are you getting compensated fairly? Pay transparency in the theatrical production community is vital in combating worker abuse and white supremacy in the industry. Thanks…
Connect… The Year of the Stage Manager and a Union Divided 31 Mar 20211 Apr 2021 By Sam Houkom Published April 2021 2020 was a year too hard to describe. On a global scale, what I want to write about may seem small and unimportant, but…