The early-year slowdown at the box office brought an unpleasant surprise for workers at Alamo Drafthouse: nationwide layoffs. But unionized employees at three of the dine-in chains theaters in Colorado and New York pushed back.
This week, workers at the Alamo location in Sloans Lake, Colorado who are unionized with the Communication Workers of America Local 7777, authorized a strike in response to an unspecified number of layoffs across the chain’s 35 locations last month. They joined Alamo workers at the chain’s locations in Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn, who are unionized with United Auto Workers Local 2179, who filed unfair labor practice charges with the National Labor Relations Board against the chain and Sony Pictures Entertainment, which acquired Alamo last year.