Actors’ Equity has changed tactics in its fight for unionization of a Waitress tour and is now vowing to take on more of the Broadway touring industry.
On Thursday, the union withdrew its election petition with the National Labor Relations Board, in which the union sought to represent members of a non-Equity touring production of Waitress. Instead, Actors’ Equity has filed a grievance against NAMCO, the production company behind Waitress on Broadway, which takes aim at the producing structure that allows a union and a non-union touring production of the show to run at the same time.
“They should all be union,” said Actors’ Equity executive director Alvin Vincent, Jr. “So we’ll go after those who want to abuse that system of engaging with lower labor costs to the detriment of the artists.”
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