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Show Business Weekly: "Negotiations continued this week between the League of American Theatre and Producers and Local One of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees. At the heart of the talks is the producers’ desire to cut costs by limiting the number of stagehands hired per show. Currently, theaters are required to hire the same number of stagehands every day during a show’s set up, whether there is work for those employees to do or not. Theaters are also obligated to pay a stagehand for at least 3.5 hours per performance call, even if that stagehand doesn’t work that amount of time."