Friday, October 08, 2021
Kennedy Center Stagehands Vote to Authorize Strike
Playbill: After 16 months of negotiations, stagehands at Washington, D.C.'s John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts unanimously voted to authorize a strike October 7. The vote by the members of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees Local 22 gives the Local 22 executive board the authority to call a strike and for members and supporters of the union to set up picket lines outside the famed performing arts center.
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I do not care for how these articles center the Hadestown opening date as its introduction. This notion that “the show must go on” and the focus on “will the show open on time or will the strike delay it” is asinine. We are talking about workers’ safety and wellbeing. Whether they deserve a living wage and get the quality of life from knowing their schedule should not be weighed against whether or not a show opens on time. We as an industry are so entrenched in these arbitrary deadlines of opening night and it works to death because our schedules are so compact and there’s no room for error despite the fact that we are humans, and we should be allowed to make mistakes without having to pull double shifts and weekends call to get shows done by a specific deadline because that’s when the production manager wants to open.
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