Tuesday, November 03, 2009
Union Plays Supporting Role in Carnegie Stagehands’ Pay
NYTimes.com: "Some of the highest-paid people at Carnegie Hall will never have their names on the big posters outside or sit in its executive suites or stand next to famous conductors. They are members of Carnegie’s permanent stage crew, the self-effacing men in dark suits who glide out to tote a podium, shift a music stand and make sure that concerts start on time, or at all."
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This article appears to be biased less against the stage hands than the Bloomberg article from last week. One point that is mentioned in this article which I think is not brought out enough is that Carnegie Hall would be paying the same amount for stagehand labor if they had more full-time employees. This means that the Carnegie stagehands get paid so much because they are doing the jobs of multiple people. Even though this article compares the average wages earned by the Carnegie stagehands compared to the Lincoln Center stagehands, I would think a more interesting comparison would be average dollars per hour of stagehand work, which would probably show the two venues spending about the same amount of money per man-hour, so the only difference would be that Carnegie spreads it over fewer staff members.
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