Metropolitan Opera unions say they are being forced to strike
Deep salary cut demands, which its unions say are unjustified, and a company threat to close down are combining to force members of the 16 unions to plan to strike, if necessary.
"Death Blow to Jim Crow" comes highly recommended
At its peak, the National Negro Congress (NNC) included over 3,000 civic, religious, fraternal, labor and community organizations representing millions people.
U.K.: Performers condemn woes facing the entertainment arts
Stage and screen performers face funding cuts to the arts, chronic low pay and the dearth of black and ethnic minority representation.
Labor says "NO" to outsourcing of "Draft Day's" music
"Some people think music drops from heaven. But it doesn't. It takes talented union musicians to make music."
“Shoeleather History” brings rambunctious New England Wobblies to life
Generally speaking, grassroots labor movements, the Wobblies in particular, don't receive histories on a state-by-state basis.
Locked-out musicians "devastated" by director's resignation
MINNEAPOLIS (PAI) -- Musicians of the Minnesota Orchestra, locked out of their jobs for the past year, were devastated by the Oct. 1 resignation of its music director, Osmo Vänskä, who quit when management refused to end the lockout in time for rehearsals for a concert at Carnegie Hall.
Must-see film “Inequality For All” opens Sept. 27
The focus though is on the facts, such as the U.S. being the nearly most wealth-unequal country in the world.
Environment, unions, bluegrass, and metal: Panopticon’s “Kentucky”
Kentucky covers corporate greed, union busting, environmental abuse, and the bonds of workers and family - and those are just the main themes.
