Alamo Drafthouse employees are on strike, protesting the layoffs of 70 staff members at their Brooklyn and Manhattan theaters. The strike highlights grievances about handling severance negotiations and staffing issues. Workers argue the layoffs were unjustified, particularly after the recent expansion of the Downtown Brooklyn location, which saw an increase in screens but not staff. They demand the reinstatement of laid-off workers with back pay and a return to contract negotiations, emphasizing the need for more staffing instead of layoffs, which they claim was unprecedented under the new ownership by Sony Pictures Entertainment.
"We expect them to recognize their mistake and talk to us again about how to keep our workers afloat and their business afloat because I don't think that the business would be doing well, even if we hadn't gone on strike."
"It's totally necessary that we need more bodies, more people," he said, adding that Alamo cited a seasonal slowdown as the reason for the layoffs.
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