IATSE President Meets With Kennedy Center Workers Affected by Trump Turmoil, Urges Productions Not to ‘Walk Away’
“They leave behind critical opportunities for skilled middle-class workers to earn livings" the union said on Thursday The post IATSE President Meets With Kennedy Center Workers Affected by Trump Turmoil, Urges Productions Not to ‘Walk Away’ appeared first on TheWrap.
Matthew D. Loeb, president of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, met this week with union members who work at the Kennedy Center and who face financial uncertainty as a result of more than a dozen show cancellations made in protest of Donald Trump’s takeover of the performing arts complex’s board.
“Behind-the-scenes workers need to feed our families and have neither participated in any decisions relating to booked content, nor have we considered social issues as a matter of whether we service a production in the history of our relationship at the Kennedy Center,” Loeb said in a statement.
