Casa Bonita workers — both onstage and backstage — voted unanimously on Friday to unionize with Actors' Equity Association and The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees. A joint statement was sent by the two groups with employees wanting to make the workplace safer and address concerns over pay and communication between workers and management.
"I think that that the real union drive in earnest began around the end of April, beginning of May, because we'd had problems before, but there was just kind of an exacerbation with a particular management team that was just not present to even hear what we were saying," William 'Riley' Holmes, an actor at Casa Bonita, said. "We had issues and we were being ignored."
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