With the Tony-winning Hadestown set to make its Washington D.C. debut at the Kennedy Center next week, stagehands at the celebrated venue have authorized a strike vote over what it calls “draconian” wage cuts, job eliminations and other proposed workplace changes.In a vote today, members of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees Local 22 gave its executive board the authority to call a strike and for members and supporters of the union to then set up picket lines outside the Kennedy Center.“A strike can be avoided and Hadestown can take the stage, said IATSE Local 22 President David McIntyre in a statement, “but that’s up to Kennedy Center’s managers.
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