Month: February 2025

This is a reminder that if you have not yet paid your 2025 annual dues, you are now late and are subject to a $5 late fee. Please contact the office if you have questions! A quorum of members attended our January membership meeting and elected Richard Bravo as Director to fill the remaining term READ MORE

Negotiations with Broadway Across America continue. The committee will be meeting in early February to review the latest counteroffer from management. We are working towards making wages more competitive with other local organizations and have made great progress toward that end. A quorum of members attended our January membership meeting. Richard Bravo, who previously served READ MORE

Recording New Use Means New Money Most musicians know about the applicable session fees and benefits. Some know about the Special Payments Fund. Few know about the New Use of their recordings in an industry that generates millions of new dollars each year for musicians. New Use is defined as any use of a recording READ MORE

Some Amazon workers walked off the job during the holiday rush to protest unfair treatment. During the holidays, the workers are forced to work mandatory overtime, and recordable injuries are double the national average. Workers in Staten Island also authorized a strike to pressure Amazon to recognize the union and begin bargaining a contract. The READ MORE

Wicked has become the first show on Broadway to gross over $5 million in one week. For the last week of 2024, the show earned $5,037,392. Lion King took second place that week with $4.2 million in receipts. Wallethub has ranked Florida as the second-least affordable state in the U.S. That is an improvement from READ MORE