Equity and the Broadway League have been in negotiations since January 22, 2024, and the current agreement expired on February 11.
Performers share concerns over benefits, health and safety as they work to form a union.
Most of the amusement park's other workers have already unionized.
Adam Hefner had recently graduated high school and was looking for a job when their sister, who was working in Disneyland Resort’s food and beverage department, alerted them to an opportunity.
Performers who help bring Disney’s beloved characters to life at its Southern California theme parks filed a petition Wednesday to form a labor union.
Disneyland employees who perform as many of the theme park’s beloved characters have filed to have a vote on whether to join the Actors’ Equity Association, which represents live performers all over the country, from actors on Broadway to strippers in Los Angeles.
The ritual of the Legacy Robe has been a tradition that takes place on opening night on the stage of every Broadway musical that has a chorus.
After strippers at Star Garden, a topless dive bar in North Hollywood, won the right to unionize last year, the club’s owner agreed to reopen the club, hire back dancers he had fired, and run the club as it had been before the labor dispute.
The Chicago Area Theatre Contract affects 21 professional Chicago-area theatres.
Actors’ Equity will hand out leaflets outside a workshop of the Broadway-bound Smash musical this week, “warning of the possibility of a strike” in light of ongoing negotiations with the Broadway League regarding compensation for work on shows in development.
