This, then, is one of the major ways COVID-induced streaming changed performing arts union agreements:
By focusing on the most important aspects of union protection and service to members, in order to provide these services across a wide variety of performance opportunities, unions are now more powerful in the abstract: due to their ability to make more events union, allow more constituents to work more with more protections, and prove that they are willing to work in the best financial interests of their constituents.