collective bargaining agreement

Eastern orchestras settle 40% rebate on musicians' salaries and union is sidelined

by Henri Drost
9 March 201229 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, MUSIC, OPERA

[recap] To avoid having to merge and to bring in an extra half a million each, the orchestras in Overijssel and Gelderland made very ambitious plans. Which bear striking similarities. Both orchestras requested and received money from the province, albeit much less than requested. In theory, this would compensate for the reduction in the state subsidy, but that provincial money is mainly meant to reform the organisation. However, it is not enough for that. Not by a long shot.

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Liverpool GGD saves millions on antidepressants thanks to local philharmonic

by Wijbrand Schaap
11 February 201230 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

It saves Liverpool's GGD millions on dispensing antidepressants. And it only costs them a tonne and a half. They spend that much hiring Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra musicians for workshops in addiction clinics. No idealistic preaching, then, as in the countless columns and reactions to Halbes' cultural cut, but hard pecunia and proven effects. In England,...

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Zijlstra's dangerous sentence

by Wijbrand Schaap
19 January 20128 July 2016
2 min read
ACTUAL

So it really is there. In the Explanatory statement by State Secretary for Culture Zijlstra on the final legislative amendment that makes the culture cut permanent:

"The cultural sector employs many part-timers. It is conceivable that they

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US states: dancer gets $150 for performing with tickets up to $100,000 and rebels

by one of our members
26 November 201129 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Her name is Sara Wookey and she is well known in the international dance world. When this choreographer and dancer with 16 years of experience was offered a chance to audition to perform in a renowned performance by world-renowned artist Marina Abramovich, she naturally seized it. She auditioned and passed the audition with six others, but not then...

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Distress call for theatre school Roosendaal at last minute, arts venue Veenendaal scrapped Discount news from all regions

by one of our members
9 November 20118 July 2016
9 min read
ACTUAL

(...) The Youth Theatre School Roosendaal received a project subsidy of 36,779 euros from the municipality in 2010 and 2011. The school also fulfils a regional function. Forty per cent of its 330 pupils come from the surrounding villages. The proposal is to end the subsidy from 1 January. It was only this week that this apparently dawned on Hofplein's management. Which immediately started a...

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Orchestra members fired without waiting pay? A new collective agreement could cause that

by one of our members
4 November 201129 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

On Thursday 27 October, FNV KIEM, the Nederlandse Toonkunstenaarsbond (Ntb) and NAPK sector orchestras discussed the terms of employment of musicians employed by the Randstedelijke and Regionale Orkesten that fall under the collective labour agreement Dutch Orchestras. Out of a total of 11 Dutch orchestras, nine are covered by this collective agreement. The orchestras of the Muziekcentrum van de Omroep and the...

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