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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 months without a paycheck wore on, Joel Noyes, a 41-year-old cellist with the Metropolitan Opera, rea...

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 revolutionary socialist, Tate was a leading organizer of the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign, worked for Russel...

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 union operator, Tops Friendly Markets with a totally non-union operator the Golub Corporation. "UFCW L...

Converting subscribers to digital is critical for Northeast Ohio newspapers David Kordalski/Crain's 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 of advertising from newspapers would continue in 2021. So far, Northeast Ohio's newspapers have met...

Met Opera's 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 borrowing. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File) (Copyright 2020 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.) ...