US EditionBroadway actors and producers reach tentative labor deal, but musicians still threaten a strike
Actors' Equity Association reached a three-year tentative deal preserving healthcare funds and improving scheduling while musicians' union continues strike negotiations, Local 802 president said.
- After marathon negotiations ending at 6 a.m., Actors' Equity Association and the Broadway League reached a tentative agreement, averting an immediate actors' strike.
- Negotiations began on Aug. 25 and paused before resuming on Oct. 8 with a mediator, as a stalemate over healthcare and an expired contract set the stage for strike threats.
- Actors' Equity Association pressed Broadway League producers to pay 0.21% of weekly grosses for healthcare, while nearly 3,000 actors and stage managers, including Darren Criss and Brooke Shields, backed the union.
- Local 802 President Robert Suttmann said musicians remain in talks and that "everything remains on the table," while Actors' Equity Association said it would honor Local 802 picket lines.
- The deal now goes to the Equity Board for a vote and member ratification, and a failed ratification or musicians' strike would affect the 32 Broadway League theaters.
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