Allegro

Currently Browsing: January, 2002

New School Jazz Program
Natasha Jackson
Local 802 has negotiated its second collective bargaining agreement with the Jazz and Contemporary Music Program at the New School University and, as this issue went to press, faculty members were voting on whether to ratify it. The first contract,

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Phono Agreement
The AFM and representatives of the phono industry reached agreement on a new three-year collective bargaining agreement on Nov. 9. It was the second of the Federation’s national agreements to be negotiated during the current three-year bargaining cycle. The agreement

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Mary Donovan
On Jan. 28, Local 802 is scheduled to begin talks with the Off-Broadway League of Theatres and Producers. The goal is to negotiate an industry-wide agreement that sets standards for wages, benefits and working conditions in the Off-Broadway arena. The

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Dance Theatre of Harlem has paid its 60 musicians more than $100,000 in wages and benefits for a week of performances that had been past due since early October. The payment came after Local 802 filed a grievance, reported the

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Local 802 Needs You! JOIN the Local 802 activists’ network, an organization devoted to building a stronger, more effective union for all musicians For details, call (212) 245-4802, ext. 143, or contact an Executive Board Member A wise man once

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Heather Beaudoin
The New York City Mayor’s race surprised most political pundits when Michael Bloomberg won against Public Advocate Mark Green in this year’s general election. Bloomberg won 719,819 votes, or 50 percent, to Green’s 676,560 votes, or 47 percent. The remaining

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Elevating the visibility of Broadway theatre orchestras will be a major goal of Local 802 in the coming year. The effort was launched in December, with a “Season’s Greeting” card from Broadway orchestras distributed throughout the theatre district during the

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The Power of Music
Bill Moriarity
Over the past several years much has been written and discussed about the power music has to affect our physical and mental processes. Most of the discussion has centered around the education system – but in the days following Sept.

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Guest Commentary
Denis M. Hughes, President, New York State AFL-CIO
The assault on the World Trade Center killed thousands of innocent people, injured hundreds more, and unalterably changed the lives of millions. While the attacks on Sept. 11 have affected all Americans in one way, shape or form, they were

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Musicians' Assistance Program
Jackelyn Frost, CSW
During the holidays, it’s easy to get caught up in the spirit of the season and spend beyond your means. That is especially true this year, since work in the music business – as well as in survival jobs –

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A HOLIDAY SEASON OF CONSCIENCE Hundreds of students marched down Fifth Avenue on Dec. 5, through throngs of holiday shoppers, in a candlelight march to end child labor and sweatshop abuses. It was the fifth annual Holiday Season of Conscience,

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Schedule of Public Programs for 2002
The Metro New York Labor Communications Council, of which Allegro is a member, is planning a series of public programs. Local 802 members are invited to attend. “Oh Say Can You See: The Ethics of Reporting in a Time of

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Actor's Federal Credit Union
Although it’s not possible for every credit union member to have a personal ATM, Actors Federal Credit Union comes close – with one ATM for every 250 members. As 2001 drew to a close, AFCU had more than 50 ATMs

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OPPOSED TO EMERGENCY POWERS To the editor: The most recent Members Newsletter includes an article entitled “Are Emergency Powers Needed?” in which the Executive Board laments the fact that, after the events of Sept. 11, it was unable to lower

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Heather Beaudoin
AFL-CIO URGES MORE MEMBERS, MORE VOTERS COBRA BILL CONTINUES TO BUILD SUPPORT FULL $20 BILLION IN SEPT. 11 AID IS SOUGHT HAVE MUSICAL INSTRUMENT, WILL TRAVEL AFL-CIO URGES MORE MEMBERS, MORE VOTERS AFL-CIO President John Sweeney urged union leaders to

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OFF-BROADWAY Summer of ’42: Local 802 has negotiated a two-year agreement with Summer of ’42, LP, Mitchell Maxwell, Producer, for six musicians who are performing in a run-out presentation of this musical at Stamford’s Rich Forum Theatre and returning to

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Max Ausfresser – Drums Ralph Burns – Piano/Composer Leonard Calderon – Drums/Arranger/Copyist Harold R. Coletta – Violin Joseph Conte – Violin/Conductor Adolph M. De Optatis – Piano Tommy Flanagan – Piano David “Panama” Francis – Drums Winston Grennan – Drums

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October 23, 2001 -- November 27, 2001
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2001 Meeting called to order at 11:30 a.m. Present: Recording Vice-President Price, Executive Board members Blumenthal, Gale, Giannini, Reynolds, Rohdin, Shankin and Weiss, Controller Bogert. President Moriarity excused to attend AFM-EP Fund meeting. Financial Vice-President Hafemeister excused

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October 9, 2001
Members of the CAC: Voted unanimously to approve a grant of $5,000 for the Henry Street Chamber Opera’s 2002 opera production budget, for a production which will employ 33 musicians working under union contracts. The funds will go toward music

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Bill Crow
Frad Garner is translating Baron Timme Rosenkrantz’s memoir of Harlem, written in German, into English. Rosenkrantz was a good friend of Louis Armstrong, and included this story: Arthur Jackson once told of how Louis had been to a little late-night

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