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Currently Browsing: January, 2000

Attendance Requirements Sparked Two-Week Lockout
Bill Dennison
Members of the New York City Ballet Orchestra voted 43 to 19 on Dec. 7 to ratify a new contract, ending a two-week lockout by Ballet management. While the settlement put the orchestra back in the pit, the lockout has

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Joe Eisman
Management of the Westfield Symphony Orchestra (WSO) signed a recognition agreement with Local 802 on Nov. 20, responding to musicians’ overwhelming desire to be represented by the union. The agreement requires the symphony to negotiate with 802 over wages, hours,

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Ads Promote New York as Film Recording Venue
The creative talent of New York recording musicians was promoted in a full-page ad that appeared in the Hollywood Reporter on Nov. 5. It was an initiative of the New York chapter of the Recording Musicians Association – which, with

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Union Launches Member Education Program
On Nov. 18, musicians from a number of fields took part in a member education program Local 802 has just initiated to raise members’ awareness of how unions operate, and develop greater support for organizing. The first MEMO training session

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802 Seeking to Involve More Members in Political Action
With this issue, Local 802 begins the second year of a two-year political action campaign. Its goals are to strengthen our political action fund, TEMPO 802, and to involve more of our members in political action. We made an excellent

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President's Report
Bill Moriarity
The two-week work stoppage at the New York City Ballet has ended and The Nutcracker is once again being performed with a live orchestra. From all reports, the audience greeted the orchestra’s return with great warmth – and we were

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The Musicians’ Voice is an open forum for discussion about the state of union affairs. Please keep all letters to 500 words and send them to Allegro, c/o Local 802, 322 West 48th Street, New York, NY 10036. A VALUABLE

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Judy West
OSHA PROPOSES ERGONOMIC STANDARD The Occupational Safety and Health Administration took a major step in the direction of protecting workers from musculoskeletal disorders when it published the text of a proposed ergonomics standard on Nov. 23. The official unveiling of

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David Bacon
Those who marched or stood or sat in the streets of Seattle this week made history, and they knew it. And like the great marches against the Vietnam war, or the first sit-ins in the South in the late ’50s,

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Tom Barone – Violin Lester Bowie – Trumpet/Flugelhorn Herbert Daner – Saxophone LaNoue Davenport – Recorder Artie Fields – Saxophone Floyd Bernard Ford I – Composer/Arranger/Conductor Earl B. Freeman – Violin Felix Galimir – Violin Jacob Glick – Viola Jan

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Musician' Assistance Program
Jackelyn Frost, CSW
No doubt you have spent countless hours practicing your music, honing your skills as a musician. But music skills alone are usually not enough to make you a successful musician. Many other factors contribute to success, including people skills and

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October 26, 1999 -- November 29, 1999
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1999 Meeting called to order at 11:30 a.m. Present: President Moriarity, Recording Vice-President Price, Financial Vice-President Landolfi, Executive Board members Blumenthal, Crow, Giannini, Hafemeister and Rosen, Controller Bogert, Assistant to the President Dennison, Jazz Advisory Committee Liaison

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Bill Crow
Here we are in the Y2K already! I started this column at the beginning of 1983, and haven’t run out of stories yet. Every time my collection of items looks like it’s running on empty, a few more phone calls,

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