Almost a year after a near-unanimous vote to unionize, workers at the off-Broadway Atlantic Theater Company unanimously authorized a strike over the weekend as frustrations over a delayed first contract reached a boiling point.
Employees at the theater voted 129-1 to unionize with the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees last February, becoming the first group of workers from a major off-Broadway theater to join IATSE, which represents hundreds of thousands of production workers across the country. But theater management has been slow to bargain and has hired “union busting lawyers,” the union’s international president, Matthew Loeb, said at a crowded rally Jan 6 in Chelsea.
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