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Location > Networking > Forum > Agency licensing back on the Equity/Bectu agenda - with a vengeance!
| Topic: Agency licensing back on the Equity/Bectu agenda - with a vengeance! | ||
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| According to 'The Stage' today: "Unions Bectu and Equity are to jointly lobby the new Conservative/Liberal Democrat government for the reintroduction of a licensing regime covering entertainment agencies. "Each organisation's ruling bodies - the Equity council and Bectu's National Executive Committee - has recently agreed to work together to campaign for a “new set of innovative regulations” aimed at ensuring agencies working in the entertainment industry have to be licensed to operate, in a bid to crack down on rogue agents. "Agency licensing was abolished in 1994, with both unions repeatedly stating since then that, with no regime in place, performers are being abused by rogue agents, particularly in relation to up-front fees. "Their concerns were heightened earlier this year after it emerged that proposed legislation unveiled last November by the previous Labour government and intended to target companies which continue to charge performers up front, are unlikely to be a priority for the new coalition government. "Now, both unions have agreed a motion put forward to their ruling bodies by Clive Hurst, who is both an Equity councillor and member of Bectu's Film Artistes' Association committee, which called on them to work together to lobby the new government for a new licensing regime." For the full report, click: http://www.thestage.co.uk/news/newsstory.php/28255/unions-to-lobby-government-demanding-agency **:^)) | ||
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| Posted : 19/05/10 | |
| all power to you clive ...keep up the good fight ... Every time your name crops up in campaigning issues I feel more and more guilty with my lack of participation ... Anyway enoughs enough you have finally inspired me to get involved ... First step attend the next local equity branch meet (shamefully it will be my first attendance).. | |
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| Posted : 20/05/10 | |
| Well done Aidan... It's at times like this I really feel the time and effort, is well spent! :) ;) | |
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