www.local802afm.org ASSOCIATED MUSICIANS OF GREATER NEW YORK AllegroSeptember 2011 Vol 111, No. 8 PHOTO: C. CROFT PHOTO: WALTER KARLING WALTER PHOTO: ‘Follies’ revival on Broadway does it right, with a 28-piece orchestra and no cuts list! That’s a… BIG SOUND n YOUR UNION STAFF NOVEM- UNION CALENDAR LOCAL 802 berSEPT. 2010 2011 Send information to Mikael Elsila at OFFICERS UNION REPS AND ORGANIZERS [email protected] Tino Gagliardi, President Claudia Copeland (Theatre) John O’Connor, Recording Vice President Bob Cranshaw (Jazz consultant) Thomas Olcott, Financial Vice President Karen Fisher (Concert) Marisa Friedman (Theatre, Teaching artists) EXECUTIVE BOARD JAZZ JAM lead to meaningful paid work. This event is free Shane Gasteyer (Organizing) Bud Burridge, Bettina Covo, Patricia There is a jazz jam on most Mondays at Local 802, and is sponsored by the Actors Work Program. Dougherty, Martha Hyde, Gail Kruvand, Bob Pawlo (Electronic media) from 7 to 9:30 p.m. Upcoming dates include Sept. Thursday, Sept. 22 at 5:30 p.m. in the Local 802 Maxine Roach, Andy Schwartz, Clint Richard Schilio (Club dates, Hotels) 12, Sept. 19 and Sept. 26. For more information, Sharman David Sheldon (Electronic media) club room. call Joe Petrucelli at the Jazz Foundation of Peter Voccola (Long Island) TRIAL BOARD America at (212) 245-3999, ext. 10, or e-mail Joe@ THEATRE COMMITTEE Todd Weeks (Jazz) Roger Blanc, Sara Cutler, Tony Gorruso, JazzFoundation.org. The Theatre Committee meets on Sept. 7 and Eugene Moye, Marilyn Reynolds, SICK PaY & HOSPITALIZATION FUND/ Sept. 21 at 5 p.m. in the Executive Board Room. Madelyn Rubinstein, Steve Shulman, HEALTH BENEFITS FUND CLOSED ON SEPT. 5 For more information, contact Mary Donovan Bob Suttmann, Dan Willis ADMINISTRATOR Local 802 is closed on Sept. 5 for Labor Day. at [email protected] or (212) 245- Gloria McCormick DELEGATES TO AFM CONVENTION 4802, ext. 156. Bud Burridge, Gail Kruvand, Eugene NEW MEMBER ORIENTATION ALLEGRO ANd 802 NOTES The union’s monthly orientation session for new Moye, Tom Olcott, Andy Schwartz FREE HEARING TEST Mikael Elsila (Editor, Advertising members occurs this month on Thursday, Sept. DELEGATES TO NEW YORK CITY Manager and Graphic Designer) 15 at 11 a.m. and again at 6 p.m. Both sessions are Protect those ears! Our next free hearing test CENTRAL LABOR COUNCIL takes place on Tuesday, Sept. 20. A professional Allegro redesign (2011) by Tony Sutton, in the Executive Board room. John O’Connor, Tom Olcott audiologist will check your ears and create a NDA Inc., www.newsdesign.net DELEGATES TO NEW YORK STATE AFL-CIO MAKE VOLUNTEERING WORK FOR YOU baseline measurement for you. Reservations Martha Hyde, John O’Connor HEADQUARTERS: 322 West 48th Street, Fellow artists will describe how volunteering has are required. 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DELEGATE TO UNITED HEBREW TRADES Phone: (212) 245-4802 Andy Schwartz Web site: www.Local802afm.org SUPERVISING OFFICERS LONG ISLAND OFFICE: 54 Sunnyside Tino Gagliardi: Radio City, Lincoln Blvd., Plainview, NY 11803 Center Orchestras, Theatres Thomas Olcott: Single Engagement (516) 576-9436 Concerts, Symphony, Opera, Ballet, OFFICE HOURS: Daily 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Music Performance Fund except Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays John O’Connor: Organizing, Electronic DUES WINDOW closes at 3 p.m. Media, Club Dates, Hotels, Nightclubs, CHECKS WINDOW closes at 4:30 p.m. (6 Jazz and Latin p.m. on Wednesdays) AssISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT AND SUPERVISOR OF THE THEATRE DEPARTMENT ALLEGRO (ISSN 0002-5704) is published Mary Donovan monthly, except for a single summer issue, at an annual subscription rate of $25 for AssISTANT TO THE FINANCIAL VICE PRESIDENT non-members in the U.S. and $30 out of Frances McDonald country, by Local 802, Associated Musicians DIRECTOR OF ORGANIZING AND of Greater New York, 322 West 48th Street, SUPERVISOR OF CLUB DATES New York, NY 10036. 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Plus, we’re going to arbitration this month with ‘Priscilla,’ and much more… HIS HAS BEEN a long, hot sum- general’s office. needs a leader who can build up the mer in more ways than one and The question arises: If NYCO is leav- opera, not destroy it. So far, Mr. Steel there’s plenty to report. First, PRESIdeNT’S ing Lincoln Center, is it still entitled has shown no vision or even the abil- Tsome good news: in early Au- to this money? We say no, and we are ity to bring NYCO back as an impor- gust, we achieved a new agreement REPORT asking the attorney general to make a tant main-stage opera company in New with the Metropolitan Opera. determination. York City. Even up to the last minute, we weren’t TITINO GAGLIARDI In any case, there is a larger story sure that Met Opera management was here. RADIO CITY going to settle with us. We were prepar- One function of unions that is often On Aug. 5th, negotiations with the ing to take our message to the street understated is our ability to push em- Radio City Music Hall concluded, and [email protected] and begin picket lines and demonstra- ployers – often kicking and screaming – not without some fanfare. tions. But thanks to the support of all into doing the right thing for their own Needless to say, these talks went con- our brother and sister unions, Local business, despite themselves. siderably more smoothly than in 2005. 802 was able to apply pressure on Met City Opera to leave Lincoln Center and In other words, we can sometimes Nonetheless, there were moments that management to arrive at an agreement. become a different kind of arts pre- save employers from their own bad tried the patience of the union. A special thank you to President senter. We think this is a short-sighted decisions. That’s what we’re trying to In the end, a deal was made based on James J. Claffey of the stagehands’ move that will hurt audiences as well do here. the construct of the existing agreement union (IATSE Local 1) for his ongoing as our members. The opera will lose Let me end by saying very clearly: (the continuation of yearly auditions) support and for helping Local 802 in the prestige of being a Lincoln Center we think that NYCO Executive Direc- with wage increases over five years, communicating with all the IATSE orchestra, and, once lost, this prestige tor George Steel should reverse his an adjustment of health benefit con- unions that work in the opera house. may never be recovered. decision to leave Lincoln Center. But tributions for split-chair holders and I am truly grateful to the Met Opera More than that, the opera is threat- if he doesn’t, then he must go. NYCO an additional media fee if Radio City committee, all the musicians of the Met ening to turn the orchestra into a free- Orchestra, and Met orchestra commit- lance ensemble instead of a rostered tee counsel Mel Schwarzwald. one with guaranteed work. Obviously, It was the expertise of those leading this alarms and disturbs us. these negotiations that enabled the We believe that NYCO’s downhill union to get the best possible agree- slide is due to bad management. We ment for the sake of all the musicians are not alone in this assessment. Over working at the Met. the summer, the New York Times pub- Another major component of these lished an editorial in which the editors negotiations was the involvement of wrote, “The New York City Opera can George Cohen, the director of the Fed- no longer afford to be what it once was, eral Mediation and Conciliation Ser- and the overwhelming reason is bad vice. management.” Director Cohen came in at the 11th NYCO is legally required to bargain hour when talks were stalled and we with us over the effects of this move.