By Doug Cunningham

Broadway producers are trying to cut jobs from IATSE Local One and its costing tens of millions of dollars as the stagehands' strike continues. Union spokesman Bruce Cohen.

[Cohen]: “They really think that they can pay less for stage labor than they have in the past. And you really just can’t have a middle class life in the metropolitan area and then find that your employer wants to cut in the neighborhood of 38 percent from your workforce.”

Cohen says producers got greedy and ended talks Sunday but the union is ready to resume talks at any time.

[Cohen2]: “Broadway is a billion dollar a year industry. We’re simply not in a place where we’re going to accept wage cuts so that producers can have more money in their wallets.”

New York City’s Central Labor Council is in solidarity with the strike, as is Musicians Local 802. Mary Landolfi, President of Local 802, says Broadway producers are making record profits year after year and the musicians union is standing with the stagehands just as the stagehands stood with the musicians during their strike.