Academy helped buy its boss a new home. She left in under 6 years.
The Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York on Nov. 2, 2019. In an effort to lure a new top leader in 2015, the academy provided its incoming president with a $968,000 bonus to help buy an apartment. Emily Gilbert/The New York Times.
by Robin Pogrebin
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- One of the perks of leading premier cultural institutions, besides the substantial salaries, is the use of elegant apartments, which are often owned by arts organizations and passed from one top executive to the next.
But the Brooklyn Academy of Music took it a step further in 2015 when Katy Clark became its president. The organization gave its new leader nearly half the purchase price of a $1.9 million, three-bedroom prewar home overlooking Prospect Park that she could call her own.
Seeking higher pay, career advancement and better protection from the COVID-19 pandemic, cannabis workers from Chicago to Springfield have begun to unionize, planting a seed that could reshape the fast-growing marijuana labor landscape.
That incident, we ve moved on from it, Nichols said. We don t even speak about it.
Nichols, who was brought on as an assistant during the 2017-18 season, has stepped in as the Lions interim coach. The 1995 Roosevelt graduate shares a close relationship with Moore, and even though his brother can t be on the sidelines with him, Nichols has vowed to do everything he can to steer the team in the right direction.
So far, so good.
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ROBERT CHANNICK
Chicago Tribune
The Illinois weed industry, fresh off surpassing $1 billion in revenue during its first year of recreational marijuana sales, may already be facing its âNorma Raeâ moment of union awakening.
Seeking higher pay, career advancement and better protection from the COVID-19 pandemic, cannabis workers from Chicago to Springfield have begun to unionize, planting a seed that could reshape the fast-growing marijuana labor landscape.
âThe industry has unfortunately just provided jobs, and not the well-paying careers that we all thought cannabis was going to generate,â said Moises Zavala, director of organizing at Local 881 of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, which is representing cannabis workers in Illinois.