...for striking!
First the taxi drivers, now stagehands and TV writers. Pretty soon, there will be no work done in this city by anyone. I hope the corner coffee guys don't get fed up with unfair labor practices.
A friend of mine was visiting for the weekend, so I decided to take her to the one place all tourists want to visit when they're in New York: Broadway.
Fortunately, with the stagehands on strike, we didn't have to see any boring plays. Instead, we got to experience the fun of a real, honest to goodness labor dispute. There was much sign-holding, circle-walking, and scowling. Also, opression by The Man.
The interesting things is that many stagehands get significant breaks throughout their work day. This could be as much as 3 hours of time off during a typical shift. Since all the stagehands had to picket for their entire shifts, the strike, in many cases, meant more time on the job than work would have.
Not only is that ironic, but it kind of works against them at the negotiating table.
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