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The president of the international stagehands union officially authorized a Broadway strike Thursday but declined to set a date for it, the union said.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg has offered to help get stalled labor negotiations between Broadway stagehands and theater producers back on track, but feels "at least for the next month or so, there is no danger of a work stoppage or lockout on Broadway."
Broadway producers say they will impose some of the terms of their latest contract offer on the stagehands' union Monday, a move that could increase the possibility of a work stoppage shutting down most Broadway theaters during the busy fall season.
The two sides may not be talking in the tense labor negotiations between Broadway producers and Local One, the stagehands' union, but shows will go on this weekend as scheduled.
Stagehands and producers negotiated until nearly midnight Friday, hoping to resolve contract issues that could shut down much of Broadway just as the fall theater season gets under way.
I have learned that last week Jeffrey Katzenberg secretly tried and failed to work out a compromise that would have brought both the WGA and the AMPTP back to the bargaining table. It was an effort that was laudable.
After six hard years of war, the United States is awakening to the idea that "soft power" is a better way to regain influence and clout in a world bubbling with instability.
Dec. 7, 2007 | The latest National Intelligence Estimate on Iran's nuclear program raises questions once again about the Bush administration's veracity in describing a nuclear threat.
Once the actual bargaining begins, there's usually a lot of posturing and waiting around. The two sides can spend hours talking face-to-face and exchanging documents that bolster their arguments, but more often half the people are twiddling their thumbs.
Hollywood remained on the edge of its collective seat Monday amid hopes for a possible end to the writers strike.
"BAGHDAD — Iran and the United States have agreed to meet soon for a fourth round of talks on Iraqi security, underscoring what Iraqi officials say is growing, if grudging, cooperation between the two adversaries.
"WASHINGTON — Iran appears to have stopped shipping the deadliest type of weapons used against U.S.
The dealership experience can be extremely stressful, but it doesn't have to be. You could know everything there is to know about the cars you're considering, but that's only a fraction of the buying process.
"Americans are concerned about Iran's nuclear program but split on whether the United States should take military action to shut it down if diplomatic efforts fail, according to a USA Today/Gallup Poll released on Monday."
For more than five months the United States has been trying to orchestrate a political transition in Pakistan that would manage to somehow keep Gen. Pervez Musharraf in power without making a mockery of President Bush's promotion of democracy in the Muslim world.
THE idea was first mooted at a meeting near Mérida last March between Mexico's president, Felipe Calderón, and George Bush. Months of negotiations culminated in weeks of leaks, mainly from American officials.
PARIS, Oct. 23 — Hours before Iran's new chief nuclear negotiator made his international debut in Rome, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made clear today that there was no room for negotiation on the country's nuclear program.
After weeks of intense negotiating between theater owners and stagehands, Broadway is bracing for a work stoppage.
Two senior Israeli politicians, including the prime minister's closest ally, talked openly yesterday about dividing Jerusalem, signaling a possible shift in Israeli opinion about one of the Middle East's most contentious issues.
....A confidant of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Monday that his government would support a division of Jerusalem, which is reportedly a key component of an Israeli-Palestinian declaration to be made at a U.S.-sponsored Mideast peace conference next month....
Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni made progress in her push for broader ties with the Arab world Tuesday, meeting with Qatari and Omani leaders during her visit to the United Nations
Images of war dominate news of Afghanistan: another soldier's death, the fear-filled faces of Taliban hostages.
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas have been meeting regularly in recent months with the aim of drafting the principles of a permanent agreement before the US-brokered conference of Mideast nations, which is scheduled to take place in Washington thi …
Excerpt re: the concept of "sustained good governance": Too much emphasis has been placed on brokering negotiations between the Israelis and the Palestinians — negotiations that bring up the same issues again and again.
Excerpt: The popular Islamist-jihadist forum www.alhesbah.org, hosted by RealWebHost in Texas, U.S., recently posted an anonymously written document from 2003 titled "The Excellent Summary of the Rules of the Art of Kidnapping Americans."
The United States hopes a meeting between the U.S.
800 coal miners with the EPMU have been engaged in industrial action since Monday June 25th after negotiations in their multi-employer pay agreement (meca) broke down earlier this month.
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