Labor Lines

From The Lion King to the Rockettes to Billy Joel at the Garden, these shows all have one thing in common:  their stage hands are members of a union. Get to know IATSE local 1. The union’s members move the sets, handle the sound and work the lights and make actors fly above the crowd while keeping performers, the audience and themselves safe in the process. Next we will learn about the “Workers’ Justice Project,” an organization devoted to mobilizing low wage migrant workers for better work conditions, with the assistance of Cornell.