The union held a rally in Times Square Wednesday, with Actors’ Equity president Brooke Shields taking the stage alongside Equity executive director Al Vincent Jr, AFL-CIO president Liz Shuler and several other union leaders, in front of a rain-soaked crowd of various union members. Contract negotiations with the Broadway League, the trade association of producers and general managers, are scheduled to begin Monday.
“Those people who make these shows come to life eight times a week, they’re busting their ass for you. They really are,” Shields said at the rally of the union’s actors and stage managers.
“Every working person deserves a fair deal at work. We need reasonable schedules, protection when we get hurt,” Shields said, adding that she had torn her meniscus…
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