Looks like Broadway producers in New York are heading for a battle with stagehands that may ultimately end up getting ugly. I respect stagehands a great deal, but there is a lot of waste in old school, outdated contractual arrangements that call for laborers to be paid while standing around. In Coral Springs, all the stagehands work for Professional Facilities Management (PFM), the company that runs the 1471-seat theater. There is no contract. There is no IATSE arrangement, and the situation works well.


http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/26/theater/26hand.html