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BULLETIN

TO: All ATPAM Members

FROM: Gordon G. Forbes

DATE: Friday, March 7, 2003

RE: Local 802/League Strike

At 4:30 p.m. today the ATPAM Board of Governors met in emergency executive session to discuss the strike and await word from Local 1 and Actors' Equity about their position on honoring the picket lines. At 5:00 p.m. ATPAM was informed by Local 1 that they would walk off the job at 6:00 p.m. and that Equity would honor the picket lines as well. ATPAM also received a call from International Representative Brian Lawlor on behalf of International President Short reminding ATPAM that we have a contract with the League that includes a no-strike, no-lock out clause.

ATPAM is not ordering members not to cross the Local 802 picket lines. However, individual members may, on their own initiative refuse to cross the picket line if they do not feel safe doing so. Members should be aware, however, that engaging in a sympathy strike could lead to dismissal and such dismissal would likely be upheld by an arbitrator.

The union will keep you informed as new developments occur. I have enclosed a copy of the press release.

FOR RELEASE FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 5:00 PM PLEASE

B'way Stagehand Support Musicians

NEW YORK, March 7 (5:00 PM) - Members of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employes (IATSE), AFL-CIO, Local One, the Broadway's stagehands' union, will honor the picket lines of the American Federation of Musician, Local 802, who struck the League of American Theaters and Producers today.

The union's executive committee voted at 3:49 PM. Friday to support the musicians and recommend to his membership that if the musicians' union is still manning picket lines in front of Broadway's 18 musical theaters tonight, Local One members may honor those lines.

"Honoring the line is for the good of the industry and our membership," said Local One president Edward McConway. "Even though we are concerned about the theater-going public, the state of our industry and our city, we are a union and union supports a union picket line. It's a issue of conscience.."

Local One, the 2,752-member union representing the stagehands on Broadway and in major performance venues such as Radio City Music Hall, Madison Square Garden, Lincoln Center, The Metropolitan Opera, and Carnegie Hall, as well as network and local television stations

Note: Employes, not Employees, 'cause that's how we spelt it in 1886 when we were organized.