Klarinet Archive - Posting 000043.txt from 2003/10

From: ormondtoby@-----.net (Ormondtoby Montoya)
Subj: RE: [kl] Symphony on Strike!
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 21:07:46 -0400

> Though I understand that pay cuts are
> undesirable, I think it's kinda corny
> that people are stirring up dust over this when
> they actually have jobs in today's piss poor
> economy... They should be thankful enough
> for that, but they're on strike anyway.

Bryan, the article doesn't say what they were earning before the
proposed pay cut. A friend of mine once told me what she earned in an
orchestra with a collapsing schedule ad failing finances, and I felt
that she should've quit *before* the pay cut that doomed her. The
argument that "You could be worse off" mean much if you're *already* in
a desperate situation.

It's always sad when a musical organization can't pay a full salary, and
some people *are* willing / able to work in the public interest without
receiving the salary that their work merits; but that's a different
topic all together.

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