| Description | Series of articles about the role and aims of Equity, its challenge to the Inland Revenue over actors self-employed status, the restrictions of American and British actors working in one another's countries, its dispute with advertisers over the use of non Equity perfomrers, its objection to the removal of Equity-only clauses in casting agreements, its work on low pay, PAYE, and trade union legislation requiring the post of the general secretary of Equity to be appointed by ballot, its opposition to Government plans to challenge working practises within the entertainments industry, its policy on apartheid in South Africa, its refusal to allow the use of Equity contracts for tours of South Africa and a successful High Court challenge to the ban with the High Court ruling that instruction was not within Equity's rules, controversy over Equity president Derek Bond's acting visit to South Africa, and his subsequent resignation, discussion of Equity's role to look after members professional interests and whether it should also be a political body, ending Equity's quota system for new union members and the impact of The Employment Bill outlawing pre-entry closed shops. |