The league representing Broadway?s theater owners and producers and the union representing its stagehands announced a settlement last night, bringing to an end a strike that had shuttered most of Broadway for 19 days, disrupted the plans of thousands of theatergoers and cost the city tens of millions of dollars in lost revenues. The accord ended the second strike on Broadway in five years but the longest since a 25-day musicians? strike in 1975. A musicians? strike in 2003 lasted just four days. The announcement came around 10:30 last night, capping a third day of marathon negotiations, and was met by cheering stagehands, with nearly 100 gathering outside the law offices where the negotiations had been taking place.
See "Stagehands End Walkout on Broadway", Campbell Robertson, The New York Times, November 28, 2007