NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- Striking stagehands and theater producers traded accusations but not
much else as the work stoppage that has shut down more than two dozen
Broadway plays and musicals entered its third day Monday.
1010 WINS Audio: Glenn Schuck Reports
James J. Claffey Jr., president of Local One, fired the first salvo
Sunday, declaring that the stagehands would remain off the job until
producers started acting "honorably'' at the negotiating table.
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Speaking at a somber news conference, Claffey said the League of
Theatres and Producers needs to make a "constructive'' adjustment to
its counter offers.
"We want respect at the table,'' he said. "If there's no respect, they
will not see Local One at the table. The lack of respect is something
we are not going to deal with.''
Shot back Charlotte St. Martin, the league's executive director: Local
One "left the negotiating table and abruptly went on the picket line.''
She said the union "refused to budge on nearly every issue, protecting
wasteful, costly and indefensible rules that are embedded like dead
weights in contracts so obscure and old that no one truly remembers
how, when or why they were introduced. The union wants you to believe
they are the victims, the little guys.''
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