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Performances of Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas resumed today at 11 A.M. after a Manhattan judge ordered its stagehands back to work from a strike that has left Broadway dark.
The show is strictly a holiday affair, with performances set to end January 6. Producers cited a special contract between the show and Jujamcyn Theaters, and argued that the stagehands couldn’t strike. They have also sued the strikers for $35 million.
But this is just a single victory for producers, who are still losing millions in revenue from the strike that centers on how many stagehands a show must hire. While the stagehands union is certainly not the blue collar, middle American union that most of us think of when we hear “organized labor,” this is an interesting case. To some, the efforts by the union to require that producers hire more stagehands than they feel is necessary is indicative of how unions hinder business.
But to others, millionaire producers depriving stagehands of their jobs is Scrooge-like.
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