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Currently Browsing: February, 2001

802 Preparing for Contract Negotiations
Joe Eisman
On Dec. 29 James Campagnola, the owner of Cal James Entertainment, signed with 802, agreeing to provide pension and health benefits for musicians who play for the agency. This is the latest achievement in the union’s ongoing campaign to win

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Music Teachers Win Recognition
Mikael Elsila
Twenty-one teachers and pianists at The Early Ear, Inc., won union representation on Dec. 15 when the employer agreed to card check recognition. This marks the third music school that Local 802 has organized, including the New School’s Jazz Department

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Don Batchelder
Musicians of the Westfield Orchestra entered the New Year working under a signed collective bargaining agreement – but it took tremendous determination and down-to-the-wire negotiating to get the agreement that is described in the following article, by committee member Don

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Len Leibowitz
The underlying causes of the current strike of Musicians’ Local 655 in South Florida against the theatrical producer SFX are very much the same as those that resulted in the recent strike of the Florida Philharmonic Orchestra. In the years

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Heather Beaudoin
Unemployment insurance has provided hundreds of Local 802 members with financial assistance during slow work periods. Eligible New Yorkers can receive unemployment benefits for 26 weeks – which has been an enormous help to many club date musicians when business

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In Brief
MANHATTAN PLAZA IS ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS Manhattan Plaza is now accepting requests for applications from non-elderly persons who currently reside in substandard housing within the boundaries of Community Board 4, and from people 62 and older who live within those boundaries.

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New Term of Office Presents Significant Challenges
Bill Moriarity
January 1 marked the beginning of a new three-year term of office for this administration, a period which promises some of the most difficult challenges the union has yet faced. A term of this length, of course, allows most of

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Tina Hafemeister
The Executive Board is now in the midst of a strategic planning process, which was outlined in some detail by President Moriarity in last June’s “President’s Report” (click here for column). We have reviewed the union’s substantial achievements over the

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Local 802 asks musicians to contact the New Organizing Department if you work for Ken James, or you know someone who does. Help the union raise area standards in New York City. Call Joe Eisman at (212) 245-4802, ext. 191.

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AN INVITATION FROM THE RECORDING ACADEMY To the Members of Local 802: The New York Chapter of the Recording Academy® is pleased to make a special offer to the members of Local 802 to become members of the Academy at

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Guest Commentary
Charles E. Schumer, U.S. Senator
On Nov. 7, my wife and I arrived at our polling place in Brooklyn at 7:30 a.m. We waited in line for over 30 minutes. I entered the voting booth shortly after eight, accompanied by my eleven-year-old daughter. I cast

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Heather Beaudoin
NEW TENANT “OMNIBUS” BILL DHCR FINAL REGULATIONS FIGHTING TOWARDS A LIVING WAGE COALITION FOR A MEDICAID BUY-IN LOBBIES PATAKI NEW TENANT “OMNIBUS” BILL The New York City Comptroller’s office has created a Tenant Legislative Advisory Committee that has drafted an

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JERRY KRAVAT As part of the grievance against Jerry Kravat Entertainment Services, Inc. for failure to file all engagements of the Eddy Davis Band at the Carlyle Hotel form April 1997 through May 2000, Local 802 has collected more than

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Member To Member
Tim Ouimette
As union members, we all know the sting of slight and not-so-slight injustices in our jobs, be it “can you stay for another half-hour?” (for free) or “how about if you overdub that?” (in lieu of another player) – and

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Member To Member
During his school years my younger son, Donnie, a talented, spirited kid, was also an athlete with incredible potential. His mother and I had bitterly divorced while he was still very young and, behind all the pain and confusion, I

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Dec. 19 was the final Executive Board meeting attended by board member Abe Rosen, who did not run for re-election in the recent 802 elections. President Bill Moriarity presented him with a certificate of appreciation, in recognition of his many

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The Gospel Musicians Committee presented its annual Spotlight – a highlight of the holiday season – at the Local 802 Club Room on Dec. 15. The committee, which celebrated its 11th anniversary last year, is coordinated by 802 staff members

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Musicians' Assistance Program
Jackelyn S. Frost, CSW
Music groups often must cope with conflict among their members, or psychological difficulties experienced by individual members. Yet while musicians have devoted much time and energy to develop their creative talents as performers, and may also have developed a sophisticated

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African American History Month
Drummer Eddie Locke has worked with some of the giants of the music world – including tenor saxophonist Coleman Hawkins and trumpeter Roy Eldridge. Prominent in New York’s jazz scene since the 1950s, he continues to perform and tour and,

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Robert Allen – Piano/Conductor Philip Ambrosino – Drums Robert G. Arnell – Clarinet Horace K. Brown – Piano Anthony F. Bua – Trumpet Ben Caruso – Drums Sidney Cohen – Drums Gizella (Tenzer) Ehrenwerth – Violin Margaret Graves – Violin

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December 5, 2000 -- January 2, 2001
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2000 Meeting called to order at 11:25 a.m. Present: President Moriarity, Recording Vice-President Price, Financial Vice-President Hafemeister, Executive Board members Blumenthal, Crow, Gale, Giannini, Reynolds, Rosen, Shankin and Simon, Controller Bogert, Assistant to the President Dennison, Jazz

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Bill Crow
I’ve been working for a while with Nick DiVito’s jazz trio in an east side club that, about a year ago, had to be divided in half because of the city’s campaign against “adult entertainment.” The club’s main attraction is

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