Overview
- Local 802 AFM says it will strike immediately if no new contract is reached by Thursday morning following the October 22 mediation session.
- Mediated talks with the Broadway League are scheduled to restart Wednesday, with the union publicly setting an urgent deadline for a resolution.
- Actors' Equity Association has a tentative three-year Production Contract with the League after marathon mediation, pending member ratification.
- Local 802 is pressing for increased wages, higher health-care contributions, and stronger employment and income security in a new standard contract.
- A musicians’ strike would shutter most Broadway musicals, with Ragtime exempt under a separate not-for-profit contract, and the union reports a 98% strike-authorization vote.