Artists 4 Workers Choice
A new Web site that debuts today features 47 award-winning actors touting the merits of the Employee Free Choice Act. The site -- artists4workerschoice.org -- includes a video of the performers, all union members, explaining their support for the bill, known as "card check."
"This is not a red state issue. Or a blue state issue," the actors say in the video. "It's a workers' issue. ... Please join me, and working people everywhere in supporting a real change in labor law because it's time the economy worked for everyone."
The video was developed by Actors' Equity Association; the American Federation of Musicians; the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA); the Directors Guild of America (DGA); International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Moving Picture Technicians, Artists and Allied Crafts of the United States, Its Territories and Canada (IATSE); Screen Actors Guild (SAG); Writers Guild of America, East; Writers Guild of America, West; and the AFL-CIO.
The full list of participants is available after the jump.
(JENNIFER SKALKA)
The full list of participants is: F. Murray Abraham, Polly Ad ams, David Alan Basche, P.J. Benjamin, Amy Brenneman, Kate Burton, Gabrielle Carteris, James Cromwell, Stephanie D'Abruzzo, John Cunningham, Emilio Delgado, Andre De Shields, Kevin Dobson, Mike Farrell, Sam Freed, Ed Fry, Jason George, Nancy Giles, Elliott Gould, Holter Graham, Valerie Harper, Don Hastings, Gregory Jbara, Anne-Marie Johnson, S. Marc Jordan, Kevin Kilner, Michele Lee, Kate Linder, James Lurie, Richard Masur, Anne Meara, Esai Morales, Robert Newman, Kathleen Noone, Nancy Opel, Robert Pine, Roberta Reardon, Sam Robards, Alan Rosenberg, Ned Schmidtke, Charles Shaughnessy, Chris Shiflett, Kate Shindle, Connie Stevens, Jerry Stiller, Paul F. Tompkins and Mark Zimmerman.
