The usual way to handle this is to have a single work queue and protect it from overflow and underflow. Something like this (where I have left off the "pthread_" prefixes).
If you want the main thread to distribute work to the other two, then wait until both threads have completed their work before moving on, you might be able to accomplish this with a barrier.
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