Our next branch meeting Tuesday 18th November 2025 at 7:30pm. Zoom Only. We will be talking about AI with guest speaker Liam Budd our Equity Industrial Official, Streaming Platforms. Check your mail for the Zoom link sent out 11/11/20205.

Our next branch meeting Tuesday 18th November 2025 at 7:30pm. Zoom Only. We will be talking about AI with guest speaker Liam Budd our Equity Industrial Official, Streaming Platforms. Check your mail for the Zoom link sent out 11/11/20205.

Walk with the Women of Walsall. Unity walk. Stop the Hate. Sunday 6th November 3pm - Sister Dora Bridge, Walsall WS1 1LG

Walk with the Women of Walsall. Unity walk. Stop the Hate. Sunday 6th November 3pm - Sister Dora Bridge, Walsall WS1 1LG

Next BWM Branch Meeting Tuesday 21st October 2025 7:30pm in the Artist Lounge at @ Birmingham Hippodrome Guest speaker is Leah Swain-Heath, a young Brummie actor, writer, presenter, founder of the Sisters of the Screen community and two time Royal Television Society award winner.

Next BWM Branch Meeting Tuesday 21st October 2025 7:30pm in the Artist Lounge at @ Birmingham Hippodrome Guest speaker is Leah Swain-Heath, a young Brummie actor, writer, presenter, founder of the Sisters of the Screen community and two time Royal Television Society award winner.

It's on a Thursday as requested!! Next Equity Birmingham & West Midlands Branch @equitybwm.bsky.social meeting Thursday 18th September 2025 at 7:30pm in the Lloyds Room of the Hippodrome. If you can't make it to the room email with zoom link sent today.

It appears we need to share this again... #ECHR #Bravermam #Reform

It's on a Thursday as requested!! Next Equity Birmingham & West Midlands Branch @equitybwm.bsky.social meeting Thursday 18th September 2025 at 7:30pm in the Lloyds Room of the Hippodrome. If you can't make it to the room email with zoom link sent today.

We don't mean to brag but not only is the NW Drag Network taking Manchester by storm but @equityuk.bsky.social membership is also up and MOST IMPORTANTLY Equity is now a fashion statement on Canal Street - performers are wearing our socks in support of their union! Check out these hot models! 🔥🔥

Excited to be representing @equityuk.bsky.social at the Girls in Dance Festival 2025 in Birmingham.

Excited to be representing @equityuk.bsky.social at the Girls in Dance Festival 2025 in Birmingham.

📰EQUITY NEWS: Equity has recommended to DCMS that Arts Council England (ACE) introduce a network of national theatres across England. Check out the full story below tinyurl.com/EquityACErecs 👇

Nothing rotten in the state of Denmark when it comes to this – just a level-headed policy that gives people ownership over what is rightfully theirs 👏 It’s a huge achievement and something similar here would go a long way to ensure Equity members have the protection they need! tinyurl.com/v9vftvfw

📣Standing room only to save Square Chapel for the people! Over 2,000 have signed the petition, and last night’s packed meeting proved it: Halifax won’t let this vital arts space go without a fight. ✊ Sign the petition now: tinyurl.com/SaveSquareChapel #SaveSquareChapel

Results of the Equity Committee Elections 2025 are in 🗳️ Check them out live on our website: tinyurl.com/EquityCommitteeResults25 Congratulations to everyone who won. A huge thank you to everyone who has completed their term and to everyone who stood.

🚎Well done Liverpool 👏👏👏 First coach booked. Is your area organising travel to #Megapicket II? Let us know and how many are coming, via [email protected] Build the pickets 🪧 #StrikeMap

This is terrific news for those who’ve never seen @TheBearFX and a fascinating new development in the TV landscape in the UK. The key question remains: how can local British stories that don’t sell globally still find funding to be made end up on these platforms too?

It's a special moment when a co-operator, as a Minister of State, gets to introduce new legislation that fulfils such an important priority of our movement. Here's our Chair, Jim McMahon, on why today's English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill is so crucial. It's why we're in politics.

We're breaking down the barriers to community ownership. With the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill, local sports facilities will be automatically registered as assets of community value in a first-of-its-kind new arrangement. Catch up with Emma Foody MP 👇

BREAKING: Cambridge Shakespeare Festival has agreed to pay its performers following a campaign led by Equity activists Festival committed to negotiations with us for a union agreement 🙌 www.equity.org.uk/news/2025/ca...

📢🗣️SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT Join @redrunswick.bsky.social at #Megapicket2 on 25 July as @bma.org.uk resident doctors begin their own action. Tell strikers you are coming: bit.ly/RSVPMegapicketII 5 sites. One Day! #StrikeMap #Birmingham #BrumBinStrike #BirminghamBinStrike #Solidarity

Attacking workers has consequences Angela Rayner. #WriteToRayner here: bit.ly/WriteToRayner #BirminghamBinStrike #BrumBinStrike #StrikeMap

Too hot? It's only going to get hotter 🥵 14-20 July is #HeatStrike week of action. Record your workplace temperature & use our heat mitigation checklist to make sure venues are suitably adapted for high heat Order a thermometer & use the checklist 👇 tinyurl.com/2H2WEquity

These videos explaining the work of @equityuk.bsky.social are excellent filming Equity members who are active in our trade union. Getting involved know what's going on be an activist. Demand better in film and TV. Don't be a passive member of your union it's all of us!

13 month update: The Electric - Awaiting listing appeal outcome & @flatpack continue the feasibility study 43-45 Station Street - Listing application submitted The Crown - 🤷🏼‍♂️ we're hearing Toyoko Inns are, after 10yrs, preparing a planning application but for who knows what!

SCOTRAIL ROW: Equity official, Liam Budd, speaks to Sky News about Gayanne Potter, professional voiceover artist and Equity member, who reports that she has found herself becoming the voice of ScotRail’s new controversial AI train announcement system - without her consent. #StopAIstealingtheshow

Voting is now open in the Equity Committee Elections 2025! This is the FIRST TIME EVER that all 16 of these committees are contested. Support your union by voting wherever you are eligible to do so. Equity members, check your inbox for an email from UK Engage. Voting closes 12 Noon on 4 July.

"It’s very clear: if you want to use this work, there’s a perfect path to using it. But nobody is using it...They have broken the law. They have stolen our members’ work." If you read one thing today, make it this straight talking interview with Paul W Fleming and @politicshome.bsky.social 🔽

📰 EQUITY NEWS: "Leicester Square has lost its vibrancy" Equity welcomes appeal against busking ban Full story 👉 tinyurl.com/EquityBBappeal

Listen to #GayannePotter and @Equityuk.bsky.social's Gen Sec #PaulFleming talk about the case, and #ScotRail & @readspeaker.com's unethical use of AI and Gayanne's voice, with @rosatkins.bsky.social on #TheMediaShow here (23mins in): www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... #StopAIStealingTheShow

Equity General Secretary Paul W Fleming joined BBC Radio 4's The Media Show to discuss the story of Gayanne Potter - the Equity member who became the voice of ScotRail’s AI system without her consent. 📢 Want the full story? Hit the link: tinyurl.com/EquityNewsGPAI

Equity is delighted to have the unanimous support of @tuc.org.uk Disabled Workers' Conference for our emergency motion calling for the support for the vital #TakingThePIP campaign Find out more this important campaign at: ow.ly/QarC50W4gFE Full story: ow.ly/u3nC50W4gFF

Remember Nick Clegg? The ex-Deputy Prime Minister and former Meta exec recently said that asking creators for consent to use their work to train AI models would “kill the AI industry” Meanwhile, generative AI is already hurting creative workers in the UK...

Loving the vibe at @tuc.org.uk Disabled Workers Conference. So mutually supportive, respectful & such passionate speeches. Here’s the @wearethemu.bsky.social delegation. (That’s half of me on the right.)

Equity members were at the heart of a new AI report launched at @sxsw.com London this week which set out key policy recommendations for the GenAI age. 👀Find out what Equity had to say about "industrial-scale theft" and the key findings from the report tinyurl.com/EquityNewsSXSW #SXSW2025

To make sure you're kept up to date with events like this and the latest from @equityuk.bsky.social in Games, make sure you're signed up to the Games Network: actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-u...

These videos explaining the work of @equityuk.bsky.social are excellent filming Equity members who are active in our trade union. Getting involved know what's going on be an activist. Demand better in film and TV. Don't be a passive member of your union it's all of us!

Prospect has long been lobbying the government to resolve restriction of movement for touring professionals in the creative industries. Ahead of the UK-EU summit we need urgent action to remove barriers to touring across the EU.

❗ Stop AI stealing our music! We're outside Parliament with musicians, music creators and @ukmusic.bsky.social supporting amendments to the Data (Use and Access) Bill that would increase transparency in relation to training AI models 🧵👇

Plans to crack down on street performance in Birmingham’s city centre have been criticised by Equity and the Musicians’ Union, which warn the move will "hollow out" the city’s already ailing local culture sector 👇

Birmingham council has proposed a Public Space Protection Order effectively banning all busking & street entertainment in the city centre This would decimate the local arts scene of a city that has already cut all its art funding ❗👇 Respond to the consultation by Sunday 25 May midnight

Wrestlers - we are in your corner! Join us at the next Equity Wrestlers' Network meeting, in person in London or on Zoom. Register to attend here: www.equity.org.uk/get-involved/events/wrestlers-network-meeting Equity members and non members welcome 🤼‍♂️ #wrestlers #wrestling

Working class representation in the creative industries is at the lowest level in a decade. The Equity Class Network Manifesto is a blueprint for change, setting out demands for industry & government - from free childcare to making class a protected characteristic www.equity.org.uk/campaigns-po...

Just brilliant to have had an almost 100% Midlands cast and creative team on this Birmingham Old Rep production. We absolutely have to celebrate that with a fantastic panel of great actors who live in our region.

@equityuk.bsky.social @equitybwm.bsky.social Please spread the word and send a post card in #Solidarity #Birmingham #BirminghamBinStrike ✊🏼

Our Next Meeting Tuesday 20th May 7:30 Hippodrome. For the Guest Speaker spot we will be joined by cast members of the Birmingham production of the Wizard Of Oz, Denise Pitter, Julie Baker and Jaiden Tsang who will be talking about working on the production and a Q&A. Not to be missed!

DEMANDING BETTER IN FILM AND TV🎥📺 We’re negotiating with indie film and TV bosses to get a better deal for performers including higher pay and royalties, protections from #AI, no more last minute #selftapes and fairer contracts. Find out more: tinyurl.com/PACTEquity

Our @equitybwm.bsky.social and @equityuk.bsky.social stand in #solidarity with #BirminghamBinWorkers #BirmingamBinStrikers ✊🏼