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Workers Independent NewsBy Doug Cunningham
Take, take, take. That’s the corporate mantra in America from the auto shop floor at GM, Ford and Chrysler to the Broadway stage. Members of International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees are the latest to rise to defend families and their homes in the Broadway strike. Broadway producers want a 38 percent cut in jobs and wages even as the billion dollar a year industry profits. The Broadway stage workers pulled their picket line Monday so a benefit show for mentally challenged children could be staged at the Marriott Marquis Theater. But they want respect from theater producers and want to be treated honorably at the bargaining table. The producers have a $20 million fund raised from a surcharge on theater tickets to battle the union. The producers want to use as few workers as possible to stage their shows while the union wants to make sure the shows are professionally staged and staged safely with an adequate full staff.
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