Wednesday, January 15, 2025
Crew Members at Major Off-Broadway Theater Go On Strike
www.hollywoodreporter.com: Crew members at the Atlantic Theater Company, a major Off-Broadway theater, have gone on strike after contract negotiations fell apart.
As a result of the strike, announced Sunday, the theater has postponed its productions of Grief Camp and I’m Assuming You Know David Greenspan. The strike comes after crew members voted to unionize with IATSE in February 2024, with concerns about healthcare and job security, amid a bigger Off-Broadway push.
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It's sad to know that crew members still aren't getting the fair compensation they deserve, but It's good to see that they are ready to stand up for themselves and that IATSE and AEA and ready to back them. Because they have to go on strike, Atlantic will almost certainly lose more money than if they had simply negotiated fairly in the first place. They miss out on ticket sales by having to postpone, and they also get bad publicity. Hopefully the show can resume very soon.
I think it's good that strikes still happen every so often so that companies aren't as quick to neglect their workers. The workers deserve rights and the theater needs to remember that they can't do anything without those workers. I hope this situation gets sorted out shortly, and the workers get fair payment.
It is still crazy to me that there are a lot of non-unions crews working on Broadway or Off-Broadway because I feel like at this point, it almost seems like predatory behavior from the theatre and corporations that are not providing their workers with what they need. It is not like they cannot afford these things or I don’t know, maybe they can’t but I feel like it is long overdue to provide your workers with what they need in order for the show to go on and to have happy workers. I wonder if it is because shows are a lot more gig based and crews can go with shows but if they are crews that work in house, I don’t see why they wouldn’t be provided with basic things such as insurance. It is also shocking to me that the theatre thinks it can just throw money on the issue to solve it instead of making actual changes and communicate in good faith with the union and its workers.
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