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Equity Magazine Spring 2016 SPRING 2016 www.equity.org.uk New agreements in film and theatre Improved deal on audition expenses #BackTheBBC campaign news THE RISE OF UK FILM RIZ AHMED TALKS INDIE HITS AND UPCOMING BLOCKBUSTERS First Act Insurance presents... Key features include • • Competitive online quote and buy cover provided by HISCOX. • Annual or short period cover available. showtimeinsurance.co.uk Tel 020 8686 5050 Scan this QR code with your smartphone or tablet device to be taken directly there Where and when you need it! First Act Insurance* is the preferred insurance intermediary to *First Act Insurance is a trading name of Hencilla Canworth Ltd Authorised and Regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority under reference number 226263 Contents News 18> 04 New agreements launched 06 ENO must be saved Success stories 10 Audition expenses 12 BBC Three pay Cover story 08 Riz Ahmed on film Features 14 UK Film Agreement 18 Access to work 20 Commercial theatre 06> Campaigns 24 #BackTheBBC 26 Fighting the TU Bill Plus > 14 22 Member offers 30 Letters 08 32 Branch update 32 Star Wars: The Force FRONT OF HOUSE Awakens and Spectre, below, were made on Equity agreements PAY RISES IN NEW AGREEMENTS FOR FILM AND THEATRE SUCCESSFUL NEW DEALS DELIVER FEE RISES AND BETTER WORKING CONDITIONS. FILM AGREEMENT UNDERPINS UK MOVIE INDUSTRY AND COMMERCIAL THEATRE CONTRACT PROTECTS STAGE MANAGERS AND PERFORMERS EQUITY HAS RECENTLY concluded two successful agreements in the areas of cinema films and commercial theatre. Union questions Arts The new cinemas films agreement will see fees rise 12% by 2018 and, for the first time, the deal has provisions for performance capture Council funding decision work. Equity is one of the first unions to have negotiated terms for this increasingly significant area of performance. This reflects the EQUITY HAS ASKED leading work by the UK’s Imaginarium Arts Council England (ACE) Studios and various upcoming titles to justify its decision to award such as Tarzan and The Jungle Book £150,000 of public money to featuring central performance company You and Me Bum capture roles. Further news in film Bum Train (YMBBT), when concerns Equity’s ongoing audits professional performers to ACE CEO Darren Henley of the Hollywood Studios that are engaged on the project are asking for him to clarify why, part of enforcing our agreements. being asked to work for free. at a time of heightened As a consequence the union has This is a subsidy in addition government cuts, such a recovered more than $15 million for to tickets being sold on a large award had been made members over the past three years. commercial basis at rates to a company which does not Meanwhile the new commercial typical of a West End show. pay professional artists. Mr theatre agreement has been concluded YMBBT alerted artists to Henley explained the and this means that actors and stage the engagement by decision on the basis that: management working in commercial theatre advertising for dancers “YMBBT may attract the outside London are to get a pay rise of up to 13%. The union can through sites used by interest of professional celebrate the conclusion of a great deal with successes such as professionals to find actors, dancer and musicians providing proper terms for actor-musicians; standard forms to make professional work. Indeed, as you indicate in your letter buy-outs more accountable; regulations around call times in the high-quality presentations but they take part in the performance; improvements in differentials between eight and twelve require professional skills capacity of volunteers”. show weeks; and updated rules around auditions. and commitment in order to Find out more from Find out about the growth of UK film and our agreement on page 14 be viable. Equity sent a letter www.equity.or.guk/YMBBT Learn more about the new commercial theatre agreement on page 20 04 / SPRING 2016 www.equity.org.uk UPFRONT Christine Payne Sound advice General Secretary MEMBERS CAN EXPERIENCE DAMAGING LEVELS OF NOISE WHEN WORKING. HERE IS A RESOURCE THAT CAN HELP Equity agreements have been the bedrock of our industry since the union began 85 years ago – it’s ENTERTAINERS AND MUSICIANS are members’ involvement that will continue their success regularly exposed to potentially damaging levels of noise when working. This can be from amplifiers, PA systems, musical instruments and other sound A QUIET MILESTONE WAS PASSED far, the union has collected and distributed equipment. If unchecked, this can lead to long term last year. On 8 December 2015, your union more than £16m to performers, and as hearing damage for the artists concerned. Equity’s reached its 85th birthday without fanfare more films are being made under the new Variety, Circus and Entertainers Committee are and pretty much business as usual. agreement more payments due to publicising a great source of information on the The business, however, has changed performers are being received. subject. This is to be found on the website greatly since 1930. The early pioneers such This magazine is full of examples of www.soundadvice.info and includes advice as Dame May Whitty, Robert Donat and where the union’s negotiated agreements compiled by the Health and Safety Executive in Margaretta Scott signed the following have been improved and are a firm conjunction with Equity and other interested declaration: “We, the undersigned, hereby foundation on which our members (and industry parties. There is guidance on the pledge ourselves that we will not enter into their agents) can be paid for the work you maximum recommended time for regular levels any engagements with theatre managers on do. Is it easy? No. And in order to make of exposure and about products that can be conditions which would deny our right to sure we are properly representing how the purchased to protect hearing. refuse to work with non-members of business is changing it is vital that members Equity”. This is the pledge this union was get involved – on our committees and on founded on long before a closed shop was the Council. You had your chance to stand formally established. They protected the for the committees last year and this year profession with the tools available to them will be your chance to stand – and vote for in the era in which they lived. – the Equity Council and President. The Those protections were further leaders of your union. developed over the decades until the 1990s, The employers, government and when the ability to have a closed shop was funders say they are committed to removed by the UK government and there improving diversity on our stages, screens is no possibility of this being restored. and airwaves. Over the next few years they Today, Equity has no role in determining will be monitoring and measuring who is who is engaged or who members work engaged and, in some cases, the type of with. While we always attempt to persuade role they are engaged in. Equity needs to engagers to use Equity members, who by reflect the diversity of the workforce and definition are professionals, the union all voices need to be involved to make sure A Panto survey? cannot advise members to refuse to work the knowledge and experience of members with non-members of the union. However, holds those commitments to account. Oh yes it is! what we can do is encourage non-members While Equity’s agreements are to join the union, especially when they are generally negotiated without recourse to PLEASE TAKE THE TIME TO FILL IN OUR working on an Equity-negotiated contract industrial action, members must have the SURVEY ON WORKING IN PANTOMIMES and therefore getting the benefits of the right to take such action. The Trade work the union has done – and you the Union Bill threatens the fundamental members have paid for in your subscriptions. right to strike as well as imposes huge new EVERY YEAR, EQUITY STAFF GIVE As a trade union we can still influence red tape on unions. From 8–14 February a great amount of support to members needing the terms on which engagements take the TUC will run a special week of activity help while working on pantomimes. place, the wages and conditions and many to showcase the amazing work that trade For many, panto jobs are a very positive other factors. We do this through collective unions do. Anything you can do to experience, but in some cases members face bargaining. Our collective agreements are support Equity and all trade unions serious problems. the bedrock of Equity and must never be during that week in particular will be very The union is determined to make sure the taken for granted. But for the support of much appreciated. classic British panto tradition is not undermined many members working in feature films in Finally, this year will determine the by poor working practices. The first step is our 2002, including Alan Rickman and other future of the BBC. All the entertainment survey of the experiences of Equity members members of the cast of a Harry Potter film, unions are behind the Love It or Lose It who have recently worked on a panto, so if you we would not have achieved a film campaign. We all have a part to play in were in a panto in 2015/16 – whether it was a agreement that provided for ongoing-use this – the Brighton & Sussex General major theatre production, or a small-scale tour fee payments. This meant that, from Branch even took to the streets! Please – please take a few minutes to fill in the survey 2002, for the first time performers had think about what you can do, look out for and make sure your voice is heard.
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