NEW $100/WEEK UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFIT FOR MIXED EARNERS. YOU MAY BE ELIGIBLE.

The Mixed Earner Unemployment Compensation benefit is designed to provide financial assistance to gig workers, freelancers, and other self-employed individuals who receive artificially low unemployment benefits due to part of their income coming from W-2 wages. Many professional musicians are mixed earners — those who earn income both as employees and freelancers — deserve support […]

The Time is Now: Pension Relief is “Closest in Years to Becoming a Reality”

From the Editor: For many years, our pension fund has been facing terrible choices in its effort to ensure its life and future. All the while, we have been working hard for legislative solutions, and have been making progress in an uphill battle. Due to years of painstaking persistence, pension relief — as AFM President […]

Dallas Opera Cancels Spring Productions Due to COVID, Musician Salaries Continue

On Wednesday, The Dallas Opera announced  that its planned opera productions to begin March and extend through April 2021 would be cancelled due to the peak levels of COVID infection we are now experiencing. The safety of the company’s artists, musicians, patrons and staff was a prime consideration in the decision. In November 2020 the […]