[Borges]

All film and T.V. actors in film and TV are union. They can’t work otherwise. With stage acting you can still get by without being a member of Equity (stage actors union).

[re_nortex]

I'm familiar with the rules in a closed shop state. Almost 40 years ago, I was forced to join a union in Pennsylvania in order to work. I -- a newbie at plant -- then led a crusade to bust the union along with other Conservatives and Christians who hated Big Labor thuggery as much as I. The joy was sublime when the NLRB election was held and we -- albeit narrowly -- broke the stranglehold imposed by unions goons.

Productivity increased and profits rose as the outmoded union workrules and regulations were tossed overboard. And those profits did trickle down to us in the form of a fatter paycheck. The deadwood fatherbeddding "workers" were all fired, some of whom had more than 30 years of "service" with the company. Yes, I'll confess to a great measure of glee when those grizzled old unionistas were escorted out the door. So much for their precious thug-protected seniority and tenure.

I hate all unions...government or otherwise. I also despise the minimum wage but that's a topic for a whole 'nother thread when I lambast the vile Frances Perkins of the New Deal era. She, as much as anyone, is why America's economy is not the juggernaut it rightfully ought to be.