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Members of its United States editorial, design, engineering, and support staff have organized with the Office and Professional Employees International Union ....
The music industry, at just about every level below the C-suite, has had enough. The recording business is still haunted by its 2000s slump, which resulted from a rapid decrease in physical and digital unit sales as well as the fallout from multiple economic recessions. Yet it’s largely recovered from those lows: The industry has been consistently profitable as a whole since 2014, thanks primarily to streaming and, in part, still-growing vinyl sales. But both artists and label staffers have time and again made clear that the industry’s newfound wealth is not trickling down to most of them; unjust label deals and the complicated mechanics of streaming finances have excluded them from this economic turnaround. And, after experiencing decades of career precarity while falling back on a fragile safety net, receiving little to no government support, and facing relentless deprivation due to the pandemic-induced economic crash, musicians and music workers in all sectors of the in ....
At a time when independent labels are battling for market share with major-label consolidation and do-it-yourself distribution alike, the day-to-day employees at one of the biggest U.S. indies are now fighting for changes in the workplace. In late March, around 85 staffers across various positions and locations at Secretly Groupâthe label family that includes Secretly Canadian, Jagjaguwar, Dead Oceans, Numero Group, and Ghostly Internationalâannounced that they were forming the Secretly Group Union. (Secretly artists, such as Angel Olsen, Phoebe Bridgers, Japanese Breakfast, Bon Iver, and Jamila Woods, are not in the union, though some have voicedtheirsupportpublicly.) The workers said they unionized for fair pay, better work-life balance, and structures to improve diversity. Two days later, the labelâs leadership applauded the effort as âa positive step for our company and the industry writ large,â suggesting that both parties might be able to bypass the ....