www.local802afm.org associated musicians of greater new York AllegroMay 2011 Vol 111, No. 5 labor history month INSIDE THIS ISSUE: how the labor board can help if your boss is evil why you need to get more involved with the union union discipline: should local 802 be ‘gig cops’? when should local 802 get political? Cover image: A depiction of the Haymarket Massacre at which Chicago police fired on workers during a general strike for the eight-hour day. From the May 15, 1886 issue of Harper’s Weekly. n news & views labor History Month calendar LOCal 802 For a complete, downloadable calendar, see www.NewYorkLaborHistory.org oFFiCers UNioN reps ANd orgANizers BeNeFit CoNCert FeAtUriNg pete seeger tino gagliardi, President Claudia Copeland (Theatre) Fri., May 13, 8 p.M. Jay Blumenthal, Bob Cranshaw (Jazz consultant) pete Seeger, peter yarrow, Brooklyn Women’s Chorus, Elise Financial Vice President Bryant, Judy Gorman, Bev Grant & the Dissident Daugh- John o’Connor, Recording Vice President Karen Fisher (Concert) ters, Dave Lippman, George Mann, & the NyC Labor Marisa Friedman (Theatre, Teaching artists) Chorus will perform to raise money for labor singer anne exeCUtiVe BoArd Shane Gasteyer (Organizing) Feeney who is battling small-cell lung cancer. Martin Bud Burridge, Bettina Covo, Patricia Luther King, Jr. Labor Center auditorium, 310 West 43rd Bob Pawlo (Electronic media) Dougherty, Martha Hyde, Gail Kruvand, Street, NyC 10036. $25 suggested minimum (purchase Richard Schilio (Club dates, Hotels) tickets online through paypal at www.annefeeney.com) Tom Olcott, Maxine Roach, Andy David Sheldon (Electronic media) Schwartz, Clint Sharman lABor History BoAt toUrs! Peter Voccola (Long Island) Boat tour of Brooklyn triAl BoArd Todd Weeks (Jazz) TuES. May 24, 6:15 p.M. Roger Blanc, Sara Cutler, Tony Gorruso, Hidden Harbor Tour sails by the former Brooklyn Navy siCk Pay & HospitAlizAtioN FUNd/ yard, red Hook Container Terminal, atlantic Basin, & Eugene Moye, Marilyn Reynolds, HeAltH BeNeFits FUNd Erie Basin, home of Hughes Brothers Barges & reinauer Madelyn Rubinstein, Steve Shulman, Tugs. Bush Terminals. $29, Srs.: $22, Children: $15. AdMiNistrAtor Bob Suttmann, Dan Willis Embarking & debarking from pier 16, Fulton St., NyC Gloria McCormick 10038. 212.757.1600. www.workingharbor.com delegAtes to AFM CoNVeNtioN Allegro ANd 802 Notes Boat tour of Newark, New Jersey Bud Burridge, Gail Kruvand, Eugene Mikael Elsila (Editor, Advertising TuES., May 10, 6:15 p.M. Moye, Tom Olcott, Andy Schwartz Hidden Harbor Tour explores the Kill Van Kull, passing Manager and Graphic Designer) tug yards, oil docks & marine repair facilities, the delegAtes to NeW york City giant container ports of Newark Bay, port Newark & CeNtrAl lABor CoUNCil Allegro redesign (2011) by Tony Sutton, port Elizabeth, and the Military Ocean Terminal. $29; John O’Connor, Tom Olcott NDA Inc., www.newsdesign.net Srs.: $22; Children: $15. Embarking & debarking from JeWs ANd BAseBAll: AN AMeriCAN loVe story pier 16, Fulton St., NyC 10038. 212.757.1600. www. Narrated by dustin Hoffman delegAtes to NeW york stAte AFl-CIO HeAdQUARTERS: 322 West 48th street, workingharbor.com THurS., May 19, 6 – 9 p.M. Martha Hyde, John O’Connor New york, Ny 10036 Film screening/discussion with filmmaker peter Miller & tHe triANgle Sh­­irtwaist Factory Fire: sports columnist Dave Zirin. Contributions of Jewish major Phone: (212) 245-4802 oNe HUNdred yeArs AFter delegAte to UNited HeBreW trAdes leaguers are interwoven with stories of immigration, Web site: www.local802afm.org 528 LaGuarDia pLaCE, NyC 10012 assimilation, bigotry, heroism, the passing on of tradi- Andy Schwartz THrOuGH May 19 tions, & the shattering of stereotypes. Narrated by Dustin LONg islANd oFFiCe: 54 Sunnyside Tu., WED., Fri. NOON – 5 p.M., THurS. 2 – 7 p.M., Hoffman, interviews with al rosen, Kevin youkilis, & Hall sUperVisiNg oFFiCers Blvd., Plainview, NY 11803 SaT., SuN. 1 – 4 p.M. of Famer Sandy Koufax. Co-sponsored by New york Labor tino gagliardi: Draws on historical photographs, archives & artifacts to History association and Laborarts.org. FrEE! Nyu/KJCC Radio City, Lincoln (516) 576-9436 tell the story of the 1911 fire & a century of struggle by the Center Orchestras, Theatres screening room, 53 Washington Square South, NyC 10012. international Ladies Garment Workers union & progres- 212.998.2636. www.NewyorkLaborHistory.org. Jay Blumenthal: Single Engagement oFFiCe HoUrs: Daily 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. sive & radical reformers to improve working conditions in Concerts, Symphony, Opera, Ballet, except Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays the clothing shops. FrEE! 212.998.2630 dUes WiNdoW closes at 3 p.m. Music Performance Fund liViNg UNder tHe trees Eric Foner, author, “The Fiery Trial: abraham Lincoln and John o’Connor: Organizing, Electronic CHeCKS WiNdoW closes at 4:30 p.m. (6 aMEriCaN LaBOr MuSEuM american Slavery”; Khalil Gibran Muhammad, incoming Media, Club Dates, Hotels, Nightclubs, p.m. on Wednesdays) Botto HOuSE NaTiONaL MONuMENT Director, Schomburg Center for research in Black Culture. 83 NOrwood ST., HaLEDON, NJ 07508 panelists discuss court decisions after 1883 — ending black Jazz and Latin ALLEGRO (ISSN 0002-5704) is published WED. – SaT. 1 – 4 p.M. Or By appOintment. progress made after the Civil War — & how Jim Crow monthly, except for a single summer issue, photographs & narrative panels by David Bacon chronicle policies came to be. $20. New york Society for Ethical CoNtroller conditions of California farmworker communities -- show- Culture, 2 West 64 St., NyC 10023. 212.485.9205. www. Ira Goldman at an annual subscription rate of $25 for ing situations of extreme poverty, but also farmworkers nyhistory.org non-members in the U.S. and $30 out of questioning unfair work conditions, working for better AssistANt to tHe presideNt ANd country, by Local 802, Associated Musicians housing & making critical decisions about their com- tHe lABor History oF pAtersoN, NeW Jersey sUperVisor oF tHe tHeAtre depArtMeNt munity. $5. Srs.: $3; Children under 12: free. 973.595.7953. WED., May 11, 9 a.M. – 1 p.M. of Greater New York, 322 West 48th Street, www.labormuseum.org Bus tour of paterson’s historic sites with actor Napoleon N. Mary Donovan New York, NY 10036. Periodicals postage Zivkovic as guide to the city’s labor & immigrant history paid at New York, NY and additional HArleM postCArds through music, oral history, & literature. $75. includes Assistant to tHe FinanciAl ViCe presideNt THE STuDiO MuSEuM iN HarLEM lunch under the grape arbor. american Labor Museum/ Frances McDonald offices (USPS #013-880). Copyright 2011. 144 West 125 ST. NyC 10027 Botto House National Monument. 83 Norwood St., Hale- POSTMASTER: Send address changes to THrOuGH JuNE 26 don, NJ 07508. 973.595.7953. [email protected]. direCtor oF orgANiziNg ANd ALLEGRO, Local 802, 322 West 48th Street, Throughout the 20th century, Harlem has been a beacon sUperVisor oF ClUB dAtes of african-american history & culture. postcard images HoW tHe CiVil war CreAted A NAtioN New York, NY 10036. TuES., May 17, 6:30 p.M. Michael Donovan show the apollo Theater, abyssinian Baptist Church, & Malcolm X Corner (125th St. & 7th ave.) Contemporary Book signing. author David Goldfield discusses NyC Allegro is printed at Webb Communications, during the Civil War — economic boom, impact of irish sUperVisor oF eleCtroNiC MediA artists Matthew Day Jackson, Jeanne Moutoussamy- a union shop. ashe, Demetrius Oliver & Hank Willis Thomas reflect on immigration on union sentiment in the city, & response serViCes ANd AdMiNistrAtor oF Harlem. $7; Srs., Students: $3; under 12: free. to the 1863 draft riot. $20; Students, Srs.: $15. Lower East MUsiC prepArAtioN to reach Allegro: (646) 765-9663 or Side Tenement Museum. 108 Orchard St., NyC 10002. Steve Danenberg [email protected] or iNHereNtly UNequal: tHe BetrAyAl oF Equal 212.982.8420. www.tenement.org. Allegro, Local 802, 322 West 48th Street, rigHts By tHe sUpreMe CoUrt, 1865-1903 THurS., May 26, 6:30 p.M. For more events and to get a New York, NY 10036 Speakers: Lawrence Goldstone, author, “Dark Bargain: complete, downloadable calendar, see Slavery, profits, and the Struggle for the Constitution”; www.NewYorkLaborHistory.org 2 Allegro | May 2011 n news & views order before June 30th and receive a 10% discount Call or use coupon code “ALLEGRO” May 2011 | Allegro 3 n news & views standing strong together Musicians win agreements in Stamford and Detroit et’s stArt WitH some good news this month. We have an agreement with the Stamford president’s LSymphony and we were able to avoid a strike. The memorandum was report still being prepared as Allegro went to press, so we’ll report on the details next titiNo gAgliArdi month. Thanks to our hardworking and courageous Stamford musicians’ committee as well as to Financial Vice [email protected] President Jay Blumenthal. More good news: the Detroit Sym- phony Orchestra is back – with a union contract in place. There were many of you make unreasonable demands, we us who believed that DSO management have no choice but to fight back. had intended to bust the union com- pletely. Thankfully, musicians fought Union finances were strong in 2010 back with a highly successful cam- In this issue of Allegro, we print the paign. I can tell you that the AFM was audited financial reports for the cal- involved both up front and behind the endar year Jan. 1 thru Dec. 31, 2010 scenes helping the orchestra’s deeply as well as the official reports from committed musicians. This is a victory the financial vice president and the for all of us. Thanks to the Local 802 controller. members who supported this effort. I’m happy to tell you that the union’s And thanks to the audiences in Detroit finances were strong in 2010. We real- who came through for the musicians. ized a gain of almost a half million dol- In the end, Detroit musicians succeed- lars and came in under budget, in wel- ed in fighting back a real union-busting come contrast to the loss of $180,000 effort.