Musicians To March Musically In Manhattan For Fair Live-TV Contract
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deadline.comDavid Robb Labor EditorMusicians will march musically and rally in Manhattan next week to demand a fair contract for the house bands that perform on live network TV shows.
The American Federation of Musicians said Monday’s protest is a call for the networks to return to the bargaining table “to create true pay parity and dismantle the structural racism that runs rampant in the television industry.”The rally will start at the Ed Sullivan Theater, and musicians will then march while playing instruments to 30 Rockefeller Plaza before heading over to ABC’s Times Square Studios.The union says the main issue in its stalled contract talks with ABC, CBS and NBC is “economic parity” with unions representing actors, writers and directors.
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