American Guild of Variety Artists (AGVA) is a U.S. entertainment union that represents live performers. AGVA jurisdiction includes some stage productions, dance productions, variety shows, touring productions, and theme parks. There is some overlap between the jurisdictions of AGVA and Actors' Equity Association. The Actors Equity Association (commonly simply Equity) is the trade union of American theatrical performers and stage managers. ...
Mailing address: AGVA, 184 Fifth Ave., 6th fl., New York, NY 10010.
AGVA challenged the propriety of the exercise of jurisdiction by this court in three affirmative defenses in its answer relating to the question of exhaustion of administrative remedies.
Margaret Carlson of AAA that AGVA proposed to have the ballots mailed for the election on August 2 and 3 and that the deadline for receipt of ballots and tallying votes was September 11.
AGVA was plainly aware that although there were 95 candidates who filed acceptances, these candidates had aligned themselves with one of the three slates, and campaign literature would be sent out on behalf of a slate rather than an individual candidate to the AGVA membership which approached 14,000.