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Twelve years ago, the dancers of the American Ballet Theater left AGMA and formed their own independent union, the Independent Artists of America. Over the ensuing decade, AGMA has become known across the country for its outstanding representation of dancers. Likewise, the dancers of ABT fostered a change in the leadership of their own union and, this year, asked AGMA to help them renegotiate their collective bargaining agreement with ABT.
Over the past few months, a team of AGMA negotiators and a negotiating committee of ABT dancers that included the foremost dancers in the United States, have been negotiating with ABT’s management and on Monday, October 29th successfully reached a mutually-beneficial contract that will protect ABT’s dancers far into the future, while dramatically increasing their wages and benefits. |
