The recent national AFL-CIO convention in Los Angeles highlighted many innovative ways that workers are organizing to improve their wages and working conditions. Among the groups that were featured was the Dancers’ Alliance, which won a landmark contract in 2012 for dancers in music videos.

The Alliance did so by working with SAG-AFTRA, the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. The Alliance has branches in Los Angeles, New York and Miami.

“2013 marks our efforts to organize around tours, hoping to gain the same union coverage we achieved with music videos in this currently non-union market,” the Alliance said.

Members make use of creative videos as an organizing tool.