Broadway actors preparing to strike over union negotiations | Broadway
Broadway actors, according to their unions, theater participation approaches the most intense season as a strike that will close 32 stage production is preparing to leave the stage.
Actors, a union representing the existing 900 Broadway artists and stage manager, said that Equity has not yet reached an agreement with Broadway League, a trade association representing theater owners, producers and operators. Although the three -year contract ended on September 28, negotiations continue.
The main issue in bargaining is Health Services and Broadway League’s contribution to the Association’s Health Fund.
Equality of the actors, Executive Director and Chief Director Al Vincent JR, said that the Union wanted Broadway to increase his contributions to the health fund, which is expected to be released from the employers of Broadway until May.
Although Vincent’s contribution ratio, smaller regional theaters in Kansas and Idaho often pay more, it has not changed for more than a decade.
Brooke Shields, the president of the actors, said, “It is not only reasonable and necessary to pay our employers to look at our bodies and their fair shares for our health insurance.
“This is not only mathematics. There is no Broadway show without healthy Broadway actors and stage managers. And there are no safe workplaces and healthy actors and stage managers without stable health insurance.”
Broadway League made a statement stating that he had continued to work for an agreement.
“We all want to continue Broadway’s spell for our audience, B Broadway said in a statement to League Reuters. “Broadway shows, players, crews, and Broadway from all over the world to experience a fair agreement for millions of people who come to experience a fair agreement with actors continue to negotiate.”
Other sectors of the entertainment industry, Hollywood actors and authors wandered in 2023 with the unrest of labor, because they fought for better compensation during the TV period and prevented the use of artificial intelligence. Video game actors organized a almost year strike because they wanted to protect against the use of artificial intelligence.
Stage actors gave the bargaining committee the authority to call strikes. On Friday, the union began to deliver “strike pledge cards ve at the stage gate and asked artists and stage managers to strike a strike.
Disney’s King of Aslan King of the community and Nala and Sarabi, which coincided with Kayin Secret, during the performance of 2022 Achilles tendon to tear and had to go on stage by the stage partner, he said. He received long physical therapy to help him return to the stage to repair the injury. Although the compensation of the workers met most of their medical expenses, acupuncture relied on the health services of the union to pay other treatments.
“This was three years ago, and so far, I need other procedures and more physical therapy under the worker comp. “For artists and stage managers in this sector where your work is dangerous … Without really good health insurance, it’s hard to do our work.”
The stock strike of the last major actors was in 1968, when a three -day dispute closed 19 Broadway shows. New York Mayor intervened and helped both sides to enter an agreement.
