Alamo Drafthouse Staff at New York Theaters Join Colorado Location in Going on Strike

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The move marks an escalation in labor unrest over a round of layoffs that Alamo Drafthouse conducted nationwide in early 2025.

By Katie Kilkenny February 14, 2025 1:58pm


Moviegoers watch a film at an Alamo Drafthouse on June 13, 2024, in Austin, Texas. Brandon Bell/Getty Images

Employees at two unionized Alamo Drafthouse theaters in New York have joined their colleagues in Colorado in making good on a threat to strike.

Staffers at the chain’s lower Manhattan and downtown Brooklyn theaters in New York have begun withholding their labor in protest over layoffs they claim violated labor law, following a similar walkout at the Sloans Lake location in Colorado earlier Friday. The move means that all three unionized Alamo Drafthouses, out of 42 theaters nationwide, are now on strike.

The work stoppage in Sloans Lake will go on until further notice, according to Communications Workers of America Local 7777, which represents the workers and claimed that the cuts were made not out of financial need and violated “status quo labor protections and good faith bargaining practices.”

“This is not the Alamo Drafthouse we have supported and built over the years. This is Sony, their new corporate owner pulling the strings, attempting to silence our collective voice and strip us of our power. But we refuse to be silent, and we refuse to be powerless,” said union bargaining committee member Josh Reitze in a statement.

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