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Currently Browsing: November, 2003

Chalk up another victory for teachers. Despite efforts to thwart them, teaching artists at the Metropolitan Opera Guild have won the right to organize. The National Labor Relations Board ruled on Sept. 22 that Guild teaching artists were employees –

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David Lennon
Orchestras filing for bankruptcy. Underpaid musicians. Poorly managed symphonies. The problems of playing classical music are many – and they’re not new, either. The International Conference of Symphony and Opera Musicians – ICSOM – was established in 1962 to fight

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802's Contracts Inspire Others to Organize
Joel Schlemowitz
In 1998, jazz instructors at the New School won their first union contract with Local 802. Two years later, the New School’s Guitar Study Center followed suit. Inspired by their experiences, other faculty at the New School are fighting to

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Marc Ribot
Although it has received almost no coverage in the U.S., the largest collective action by performing artists at least since the AFM recording strike of the 1940’s is going on now in France. Freelance musicians, artists and technicians have united

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Live Music Takes Center Stage: Broadway Musicians Serve Up Outdoor Concerts
Bill Moriarity
As you may recall, in the almost two years leading up to the past Broadway negotiations, Local 802 engaged in a public relations campaign built around the theme of live music. A series of radio ads was created, read both

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Guest Commentary
Bob Hayes and Ben Peck
A core group in the House of Representatives no longer wants Medicare to run as a government program that guarantees a set of health benefits at a known price. Instead, they want to establish a government-financed voucher system in which

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Local 802 Legal Corner
Harvey S. Mars, Esq.
Local 802 Counsel
Leibowitz & Mars LLP
Click here for Part I and Part II There are several published decisions involving employment discrimination claims brought by professional musicians which serve as interesting illustrations of the principles of employment law set forth in my last article. In this

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Dozens of musicians from Broadway volunteered to present free concerts on the TKTS island (Duffy Square) at 46th Street and Broadway, on Sept. 21 and Oct. 2. The events were organized by the union’s Public Relations Subcommittee of the Broadway

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Lifestyle Notes
Dr. Diane Gioia-Bargonetti
We all know about SARS, but that is only the latest in a long list of viral-based diseases that have affected the human race. Others include the common cold, flu, warts, measles, bronchitis, chickenpox, mononucleosis, mumps, shingles, sore throat, hepatitis,

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The Musicians’ Voice is an open forum for discussion about the state of union affairs. Please keep all letters to 300 words and send them to Allegro, c/o Local 802, 322 West 48th Street, New York, NY 10036, or e-mail

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Heather Beaudoin
ON ELECTION DAY, CHECK OUT THE FINE PRINT Local 802 urges members to consider ballot proposals On Nov. 4, besides electing candidates, voters will decide on six proposals. The union is particularly concerned with questions 3, 4, 5 and 6,

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VIRTUAL ORCHESTRA PICKETED Musicians, actors and stagehands picketed a nonunion touring company’s production of “Miss Saigon” that played Sept. 23-28 in Boston. The show, produced by Big League Theatricals, utilized a virtual orchestra with a few nonunion musicians filling out

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JILLBERN MUSIC The Executive Board has approved – and the bandmembers of Jillbern Music have ratified – a successor agreement with owner Herb Bernstein. Improvements over the previous agreement include a scale increase to $185 from $175 for up to

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Ralph Adler – Viola Florence Anderson – Organ/Composer Rudolph Bennett – Piano/Conductor Constance Betsch – Piano William A. Caiazza – Trombone/Euphonium Victor Caplain – Piano Jerry Citron – Piano Francesca Corsi – Harp Sebastian Fucci – Drums Herbert Garber –

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July 22, 2003 -- August 5, 2003
TUESDAY, JULY 22, 2003 Meeting called to order at 12:15 p.m. Present: President Moriarity, Recording Vice-President Price, Financial Vice-President Hafemeister, Executive Board members Crow, Gale, Giannini, Landolfi, Reynolds, Rohdin, Shankin and Weiss, Controller Bogert, Assistant to the President Dennison. President

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Bill Crow
Chris Kimball is a drummer from the Pacific Northwest and the son of my old friend the late Ken Kimball, pianist and teacher. Chris was looking for a way to raise money for the International Rotary Club’s Polio Plus program.

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