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chicafrom3Yeah, this is more strike news. But it's not WGA strike news.
Today (Saturday, November 10th), Local One -- the Broadway stagehands' union -- went on strike. Broadway, in other words, is going dark. Their last contract expired mid-summer and they've been working without one since; negotiations went sour, and they threatened strike about a month ago. But the proper steps weren't taken or something, so they tried negotiations again -- but when that didn't go anywhere, they went on strike starting today.
I've been reading links since I got out of the fastest dry tech ever, but I'm still not totally clear on what the issues are. Unsurprisingly there isn't as much information out there on the L1 strike as there is on the WGA strike...but it looks like it has to do with hiring requirements, pay rates, that sort of thing. The companies want to renegotiate to get rid of some rules that they think are pointless (like needing to hire a fly operator for every show regardless of whether a fly is being used) and the stagehands don't want to give up the little bit of job security they have without getting something in return.
As a stage tech, it no doubt fails to surprise you that I support the strike.
Variety's coverage of the strike
Deadline Hollywood Daily's coverage of the strike
NY Times' coverage of the strike
Local One's official website
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ohnotheydidnt talks strike
Playbill.com's coverage of the strike
Shows running and not running
...I promise, non-strike-news post coming later today.
Today (Saturday, November 10th), Local One -- the Broadway stagehands' union -- went on strike. Broadway, in other words, is going dark. Their last contract expired mid-summer and they've been working without one since; negotiations went sour, and they threatened strike about a month ago. But the proper steps weren't taken or something, so they tried negotiations again -- but when that didn't go anywhere, they went on strike starting today.
I've been reading links since I got out of the fastest dry tech ever, but I'm still not totally clear on what the issues are. Unsurprisingly there isn't as much information out there on the L1 strike as there is on the WGA strike...but it looks like it has to do with hiring requirements, pay rates, that sort of thing. The companies want to renegotiate to get rid of some rules that they think are pointless (like needing to hire a fly operator for every show regardless of whether a fly is being used) and the stagehands don't want to give up the little bit of job security they have without getting something in return.
As a stage tech, it no doubt fails to surprise you that I support the strike.
Variety's coverage of the strike
Deadline Hollywood Daily's coverage of the strike
NY Times' coverage of the strike
Local One's official website
ohnotheydidnt talks strikePlaybill.com's coverage of the strike
Shows running and not running
...I promise, non-strike-news post coming later today.