> Part of the job of Equity is to separate full-time professional actors for whom it is their livelihood, from novices who would work for less pay. I don't real

> Part of the job of Equity is to separate full-time professional actors for whom it is their livelihood, from novices who would work for less pay. I don't really know anything about stripping, but I had always thought of it more like a gig economy. Even if it is, "gig economy" doesn't make it amateur necessarily. That's simply the method of allocating work and organizing & timing pay. It really has no bearing on the financial significance of the work to the performer, or to their professionalism. It certainly benefits employers to conflate these; the idea that gig work is supplementary rather than primary is one of the main justifications they use to keep the pay low. If the union considers them full time professionals to their standards I trust their assessment.