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The Met Opera’s Musicians, Unpaid Since April, Are Struggling About 40 percent of the players have left the New York area, and a tenth have retired. Now the Met is seeking long-term pay cuts, and offering them partial pay if they come to the bargaining table. The musicians in the Metropolitan Opera’s orchestra, seen here at a rehearsal in 2017, have not been paid for nearly a year. Credit...Karsten Moran for The New York Times Published March 15, 2021Updated March 17, 2021 As the m...

March 5, 2021 —  Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from Canadian Dimension — Born poor on Belfast’s Shankill Road in the midst of the Great Depression was certainly no entré to a life that would cross paths with Bertrand Russell, Vanessa Redgrave, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Simone de Beauvoir. Ernest (Ernie) Tate would nevertheless work closely with luminaries such as these and many others who, like him, opposed the war in Vietnam in the 1960s. A lifelong revolut...

Statement from UFCW Local One Regarding Tops Friendly Markets Merging with The Golub Corporation Operators of Price Chopper Supermarkets and Market 32 News provided by Share this article Share this article ORISKANY, N.Y., Feb. 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- UFCW Local One was informed earlier this morning that Buffalo NY based Tops Friendly Markets is merging with the Schenectady NY based The Golub Corporation operators of Price Chopper Supermarkets and Market 32.  This is a marriage of a totally un...

Converting subscribers to digital is critical for Northeast Ohio newspapers David Kordalski/Crains Cleveland Business 1801 Superior Ave was once the home of The Plain Dealer, but now houses Advance Ohio. In mid-December, the sales insert that had been regularly stuffed in the Sunday Plain Dealer carried the announcement that, beginning Jan. 31, the ad was "moving online" and would no longer appear in the PD and other newspapers around the country. It was a sign that the nearly two-decade drain ...

Met Operas revenue drops, breaks even with gifts, borrowing Ronald Blum Updated:  Tags:  FILE - This March 12, 2020 file photo shows people by the fountain at Josie Robertson Plaza in front of The Metropolitan Opera house at Lincoln Center in New York. The Metropolitan Operas operating revenue dropped by $25 million to $150 million in the fiscal year ending July 31, a season shortened due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, but the company avoided an operating loss with its fundraising and bor...

Ronald Blum FILE - This March 12, 2020 file photo shows people by the fountain at Josie Robertson Plaza in front of The Metropolitan Opera house at Lincoln Center in New York. The Metropolitan Opera’s operating revenue dropped by $25 million to $150 million in the fiscal year ending July 31, a season shortened due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, but the company avoided an operating loss with its fundraising and borrowing. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File) Januar...

Met Opera locks out stagehands while New York Philharmonic musicians take major pay cuts Two of the best known musical organizations in the US and worldwide have stepped up their efforts to make the musicians and staff pay for the unprecedented crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Metropolitan Opera in New York announced a lockout of the opera’s stagehands, members of Local One of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, as of midnight on Monday. The opera has been dem...

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Or vladimir putin. if it was vladimir putin, what would they have been discussing tonight? >> well, i think there are two alternatives. one is that the president tried to place the call and the other is that putin placed the call. if putin placed the call, i would say that would be a sign that putin is looking for some wiggle room to walk this back. this is in some ways and not with exact parallels, putins lockerbie. that is to say, a movement he has supported, weapons he has provided and skille...

Provided and skilled operatives he has infiltrated into ukraine who were responsible, most likely, for a terrible tragedy and for the widening of this conflict and the making of an international conflict from what had been an internal scene, a local one. so i think if putin wants to walk it back, this is the time, at breakfast time very early in the morning, to have that conversation with the president. if its the president calling him, its another sign. its a sign that the president is ratcheti...