| re: MET OPERA Union says opera season may not happen unless management reinstates workers and acts fairly | |
| Posted by: NewtonUK 12:55 pm EST 02/21/21 | |
| In reply to: re: MET OPERA Union says opera season may not happen unless management reinstates workers and acts fairly - Singapore/Fling 07:35 pm EST 02/19/21 | |
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| I think we need to be fair, also, to leaders of large institutions. Besides running huge organizations and dealing with all the unions involved, they also have major responsibilities in fund-raising. Peter Gelb (whose tenure I do not think has been great) has a salary of $1.49 million a year, in an organization with an annual budget of about $310 million. Doing some follow up, he waived his salary for the duration of the pandemic, in April 2020. The head of MOMA earns $5.1 million out of a $267 million budget. The head of the Met Museum, on the other hand, earns $1.25 million of an annual budget of $491 million, while the head of the Whitney earnes $1.1 million of an $89 million budget. In our industry, Andre Bishopa (LCT) and Todd Haimes (Roundabout both earn around $1 million a year. Neither organization is even 10% as big or complex as the Met Opera or Met Museum of Art. Lynne Meadow & Barry Grove (MTC) both earn $600,000 plus (I have no idea what cuts, waivers any of the above have taken).. These are big complex jobs, responsible for earned and contributed income, programming, policies, union relations - so much. All large organizations, including Broadway, are looking for ways to reduce costs, at least over the next 24-36 months, when we are all trying to heal from the huge losses we have taken. The industry would love everyone to take some of the pain - but what is being heard, mostly, is pay us full everything or fuhgettabout it. That's nyt very responsible either. We're all in this together. We have to be in this together re getting out of it. | |
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