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So far, UMAW has organized campaigns to call Congress to extend unemployment benefits, established multiple subcommittees on issues ranging from accountability in classical music to police abolition, and protested at Spotify offices worldwide, in a highly publicized event that prompted the company to start publicly breaking down streaming payouts. In May 2020, the Union of Musicians and Allied Workers launched in response to insufficient government aid for artists who lost work due to the pandemic hundreds of independent musicians signed a letter to Congress with a list of urgent demands. 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 industry have come to embrace collective action against the forces working against them.

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. 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. 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. Please contact your employer’s Human Resources office for more information.The music industry, at just about every level below the C-suite, has had enough.

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