In addition to imposing the term on Friday, Federal District Judge Sterling Johnson Jr. of Brooklyn ordered the floor clerk, Frank Furino, 50, of Port Washington, N.Y., to pay $150,000 in restitution, according to court records.
The union decided to call a vote because producers have been contemplating a plan to impose the terms of a new contract on the stagehands.
Most sovereign bonds issued in the past decade include "collective-action clauses", which impose the terms of a restructuring on all creditors if a supermajority of bondholders accepts.
Greece will try to impose the terms on all investors by writing collective-action clauses into the contracts of its old bonds.
Over the weekend, the company announced that it would try to impose the terms of its last contract offer on the engineers, a bid to force them back to work that the union insisted would not shake its resolve.
In Britain, the insolvency law is not so much the attraction as the reliable "scheme of arrangement" process under English corporate law, which can be used to impose the terms of a workout on dissenting creditors.
According to Local 2, last October the AFL-CIO imposed the terms of their proposal on employees ― a step it can legally take if the two sides have reached an impasse in bargaining.
With 52-year-old Howell already serving 21 years after pleading guilty to the crimes last year, Justice Anthony Hart, at Belfast crown court, imposed the term that Stewart, Howell's former lover, must spend behind bars.
Judge Fisher said he was imposing the jail terms reluctantly.
