Broadway Negotiations at a Standstill

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From Todays NY Times:

After two and a half months of sometimes contentious contract negotiations, the organization representing most of Broadway’s producers and theater owners and the union representing stagehands are at an impasse, bringing most of Broadway to the brink of a shutdown.

At 7 p.m. yesterday, the League of American Theaters and Producers put what it called its final offer on the table; three hours later, Local One, the stagehands’ union, gave the league a final offer in response.

In a statement, Charlotte St. Martin, the executive director of the league, said the response “made no progress on any of the issues we have identified as crucial to these negotiations. In fact, the union’s offer has made the situation worse for all productions.”

The announcement of a final offer is one of the last steps before a bargaining group can call a work stoppage, which, in this case, would mean the theater owners’ locking out the stagehands and leaving most Broadway theaters dark. As of now, there are no more negotiating sessions scheduled, and a lockout is highly likely.

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Ouch. Does one get one's money back if this happens on our precious first preview?

*starts humming Miami 2017*

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of course.

I'm not worried about it yet. I mostly put this up for people who were planning trips later. As the article mentions if they really want to apply torque to the producers they will go out during the holidays.

let's see what happens.

sometimes this sort of thing is just a tactic to get them to realize the union is serious and will walk out--sort of a battle of the press.

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See my previous post in Rock n Roll New York bound -

RnR is a Lincoln Center Theatre production and so will not be affected even if there happens to be a walkout.

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