Equity (trade union)

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Equity

Founded	1930
Country	United Kingdom
Affiliation	TUC, STUC
Key people	Christine Payne, general secretary Harry Landis, president
Office location	London
Website	www.equity.org.uk

Equity (formerly the British Actors' Equity Association) is the actors' trade union in the United Kingdom. It was formed in 1930 by a group of West End performers. The members of the union have the greatest range of fees of any union in the UK. Equity was the last of the closed shop types. As this was made illegal in 1981[1], however, it is no longer a requirement for every paid British professional actor to be a member of Equity. [2] [3] Equity is the British counterpart of several American unions, including Actors' Equity Association, the Screen Actors Guild, and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.

General Secretaries

• 1932:
• 1930s: David Henley
• 1940: Llewellyn Rees
• 1946:
• Gordon Sandison
• Gerald Croasdell
• 1970s: Peter Plouviez
• 1991: Ian McGarry
• 2005: Christine Payne

Presidents

• 1932: Godfrey Seymour Tearle
• 1940: Lewis Thomas Casson
• 1945:
• 1949: Felix Aylmer
• 1969:
• 1973: André Morell
• 1974:
• 1984: Derek Bond
• 1986:
• 2000: Harry Landis

References

External links

Organized Labour Portal

• Equity official site.