Three Weeks Into Strike, Broadway Stagehands, Producers Resume Talks
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As the Broadway strike enters its third week, negotiations between the stagehands’ union, Local One, and the theater producers’ league will focus on stagehands’ wages and the producers’ contributions to the union’s health and pension benefits, according to a source close to the negotiations. When talks prematurely ended two weekends ago, the parties had nearly reached an unspecified agreement about work rules, which was one of the main disagreements going into the negotiations.
The union’s international president, Thomas Short, will not be at the negotiating table for this round, which started Sunday morning, in a move that will make it a “more direct negotiation,” the source said. Of the union’s 2,000 active members, only between 350 and 500 work on the Broadway shows.
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