Allegro

Currently Browsing: June, 2000

52-Week Season, Work Relief Provisions, Are Highlights
In the early morning hours of May 2, after a marathon 15½-hour negotiating session interrupted only by a performance of Das Rheingold, negotiators for Local 802 and the Metropolitan Opera Association reached tentative agreement on a new five-year contract. The

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Raising Area Standards
Joe Eisman
Local 802’s campaign to raise area standards in the club date field took an important step forward on May 5, when New York City Swing became a signatory to the Single Engagement Club Date Agreement. The agency signed on after

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Chris Seymour
The musicians who play for the School of American Ballet’s annual Spring Workshop have won a first contract that raises performance pay 44 percent over four years, hikes rehearsal pay 35 percent, increases pension two percentage points and institutes health

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AFL-CIO President John J. Sweeney, in a letter dated April 14, announced the appointment of Local 802 President Bill Moriarity to the labor federation’s New Alliance Drafting Committee. The New Alliance, a plan for strengthening local and state labor organizations,

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Musicians At Work
Joy Portugal
“Musicians at Work” usually features photographs of 802 members in performance. But teaching is an important aspect of many musicians’ work lives – and growing numbers of Local 802 members are engaged in a unique academic program that is helping

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Jazz in the Schools?
Erwin L. Price
Local 802’s Jazz Advisory Committee has made a proposal to the New York City Board of Education for a comprehensive series of coordinated jazz concerts to take place during the school year of 2000-01. Discussions were held with former Chancellor

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Strategic Planning Process Gets Under Way
Bill Moriarity
In my report last November, I mentioned that the local was beginning a process of long-term strategic planning. It is to be hoped that this will give us a better understanding of our place in the entertainment industry and the

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Viewpoints
Over the last few years Local 802’s Recording Department has been receiving information and complaints from musicians engaged for recordings and films that some companies and producers have requested the musicians to sign waivers and/or releases for publicity purposes. Often

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Viewpoints
Tim Dubnau
Local 79 of the Laborers’ Union has been getting a lot of attention recently, after installing huge helium rats in front of nonunion job sites. The rats say it all. Nonunion contractors now worry that their job will be visited

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A MORE DEMOCRATIC ELECTION PROCESS To the Editor: It appears that member Jack Gale’s argument against the most recent bylaw proposal of members Martin Agee, Laura Oatts and Juliette Haffner is that most union members aren’t current enough on the

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Submitted for Consideration at the Next Membership Meeting
The following resolution has been submitted for consideration at the membership meeting to be held Tuesday, June 20, at 3 p.m. in the Local 802 Club Room: WHEREAS the membership of Local 802 should have maximum flexibility in choosing its

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Guest Commentary
Last year the AFL-CIO launched “Seven Days in June” to increase public awareness of the “secret war” against workers who seek to join a union, and to lay the groundwork for badly needed labor law reform. This year “Seven Days

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Judy West
NYS LEGISLATIVE PASSES BUDGET On May 4 the New York State Legislature passed a $77.5 billion budget for 2000-2001, 5.6 percent higher than last year’s budget. Highlights include: Income limits for coverage under the Elderly Pharmaceutical Insurance Coverage (EPIC) program

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SAG & AFTRA STRIKE ADVERTISING INDUSTRY More than 500 commercial producers have signed interim agreements with the Screen Actors Guild and the Television and Radio Artists, since 135,000 members of the two unions went out on strike against the advertising

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Actors Federal Credit Union has announced plans to install three new ATMs in Manhattan, bringing the number of machines available to AFCU members to five. The three newest machines will be located inside McDonald’s restaurants located at Times Square at

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by Daniel Mark Epstein, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999, 438 pages, $27 hardcover
Bill Crow
Mr. Epstein gives us a well researched and insightful biography of Nat Cole, whose successful career as a popular singer somewhat overshadowed his contribution to the jazz world. During his early years as an entertainer, Cole’s piano playing became a

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A Tutorial For Musicians
Ellen Kelly, MS CCC-A, Clinical Audiologist
In last month’s Allegro, audiologist Ellen Kelly outlined some of the factors that put music professionals at particular risk of hearing loss. This tutorial provides more specifics about various forms of hearing protection. How does overexposure to sound affect your

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Musicians' Assistance Program
Jackelyn Frost, CSW
Most people’s feelings and thoughts about themselves fluctuate somewhat, based on their daily experiences. How you did in your latest audition, how your employer treats you, ups and downs in a romantic relationship – all can have a temporary impact

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Robert E. Bates – Organ Danny Deane – Saxophone Sidney Elrod – Saxophone Manny Fiddler – Violin Sidney Goldsmith – Violin/Piano/Woodwinds Irving Gross – Piano Jonah Jones – Trumpet Ed McCurdy – Guitar Paul H. McDonough – Piano Carl H.

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April 11, 2000 -- April 25, 2000
TUESDAY, APRIL 11, 2000 Meeting called to order at 11:25 a.m. Present: President Moriarity, Recording Vice-President Price, Financial Vice-President Landolfi, Executive Board members Blumenthal, Crow, Gale, Giannini, Hafemeister, Rosen, Shankin, Simon and Weiss, Controller Bogert, Assistant to the President Dennison,

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Bill Crow
Oscar Peterson told this story on a Jazz Cruise last year, and a friend of Marshall McDonald’s brother in New Orleans passed it along to him: On a Norman Granz Jazz at the Philharmonic tour, most of the musicians would

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