NEW YORK – A union representing 2,200 stagehands is threatening to put on a show of its own when Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week opens at Lincoln Center next month.
The union’s leader said Tuesday that its members may picket the twice-yearly event that draws many of the world’s top designers.
Local 1 of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees has a contract that covers the various theaters at Lincoln Center. The contract does not explicitly include Lincoln Center’s Damrosch Park, where Fashion Week will pitch its tents starting Sept. 9.
Union spokesman Bruce Cohen said that Local 1 has, however, a right to work Fashion Week. I