Broadway Strike Talks Continue Into The Night - 11/27/07

By Doug Cunningham

Talks in the Broadway stagehands' strike continued into the night Monday. Bruce Cohen, a spokesman for the union, says some progress had been made. Broadway producers want to cut the number of workers and hours of work to stage their plays. The stagehands' union says the cuts amount to a 38 percent reduction in wages and work. The strike is over two weeks old and is costing millions of dollars a day in lost business revenue. This is the first Broadway strike in the history of IATSE Local One, the union representing the stagehands.