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Off-Broadway Workers Threaten Strike – LaborPress

Atlantic Theater Company workers in Chelsea, Manhattan, are threatening to strike if they don’t reach a deal on a first contract. They unionized with the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) last Feb. They are the first group of workers from a major off-Broadway theater to join that union, but this hasn’t phased theater management. The union’s international president, Matthew Loeb, said union busting lawyers are now in the