Labor Talks on Broadway
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Attorneys from the Broadway stagehands union and the group representing the theater producers met for more than six hours yesterday for an “off-the-record” meeting to “clear the air” and decide how to proceed after threats of a lockout over a contract dispute became apparent, a union source said. The theater group, League of American Theaters and Producers, also held an internal meeting yesterday to address the situation, a League source said.
Negotiations between the stagehands’ union, Local One, and the league hit an impasse Tuesday evening when both parties submitted final offers that the other rejected.
Both have said they hope to avoid either a lockout by the league or a strike by the union.
The stagehands have been working without a contract since July 31. The union and the league are at odds over whether stagehands should be paid for the work they do, as the league argues, or whether a theater can hire stagehands daily regardless of whether there is work available.