Stagehand Union Files Suit In Fashion Week Dispute

by Justin Fenner | 6:00 pm, August 21st, 2010

 

Fashion Week‘s move from Bryant Park to Lincoln Center was supposed to mark a fresh start for the event, but a labor union dispute might make the move a little more challenging than had been anticipated.

Earlier in the week, NY1 reported that the management at Lincoln Center is having a disagreement with the stagehand union that handles events there.

The union, Local One, has agreements to handle events inside Lincoln Center. Fashion Week organizers planned events in the center’s plaza and in nearby Damrosch Park, and the union thinks it should get the contracts to set up those events, too. Lincoln Center and IMG were said to be trying to resolve the dispute.

But the disagreement might not be coming to the resolution many people had hoped for. Today, NY1 learned from union sources that Local One’s lawyers have been instructed to file suit to make sure that “any potential picket lines would be close to the actual fashion shows and not down the block or around the corner.”

So unless the union and the organizers can come to some sort of agreement, Anna Wintour and company are going to have to walk through throngs of people with picket signs to get into this year’s spring shows.

[Via NY1]
[Image via Nils Olander]

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