Broadway Talks Break Up Without a Deal

After 13 hours of negotiations overnight, talks between Broadway theater owners and producers and striking stagehands broke off today without a deal, and no new talks were scheduled, said Bruce Cohen, a spokesman for the union.

Negotiators had held a long negotiating session starting on midmorning Sunday, their first talks in a week. That session lasted nearly 20 hours, ending at daybreak. But people involved in the talks said that while progress was being made, it was slow and incremental.

The two sides have come to an agreement on the rules that apply to the load-in, the costly and often lengthy period when productions are moved into theaters. But they were still bargaining over the rules governing rehearsals and other kinds of work calls for productions that are up and running. Wage increases, usually one of the final issues in a labor negotiation, have yet to be seriously discussed, people involved in the talks said.

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(Via NYT)