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Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 8:17 am
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There's a thread that was talking about how much money you usually get paid for gigs, and while reading it this question came up-but I didn't want to hijack the other guys thread. Sooo, I'll ask here- I now am a full time on staff Music Director for my church, so this is moot for me;but back in the day when I was a gigging musician, I was a member of the local Musician's Union- you had to be if you wanted to get work anywhere decent. The union pretty much set the standard pricing per hour per musician- now I'm talking 30 years ago- I was travelling pretty much through the 70's until 1979. What is the deal today? Do you belong to a Musician's Union or not- do you have to these days or are they obsolete? Just thought this might be an interesting subject.
Oh yeah and whats the Best union ever??? (sorry, just kidding! :lol: )

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Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 8:32 am
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I've done a few "union gigs" around NY. I don't know what type of venues you're more interested in, but here's the scoop on local 802, of which I'm a card holding member of in NY :


http://www.local802afm.org/frames/fs_wage.htm

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