Manhattan School of Music Faculty to Unionize?

I thought this was a rather interesting article: faculty members from the Manhattan School of Music are attempting to unionize in order to secure health insurance and job security. The story depicts the school as marginalizing certain faculty members without giving any reason and offering no recourse.

Now, I know that there is a rift between those for and against unions in our class, so I thought it would be interesting to throw out there. Is the school taking advantage of faculty that may not know all that they need to know to negotiate a contract with all the terms they really need? Is the faculty blaming the school while not taking advantage of the resources they have available and jumping on the unionization ship too early and without enough information about the consequences? Is the school really stealing students from the more expensive faculty members and giving it to the younger faculty to save money and then spending it all on the president's penthouse?

I would love to continue to hear about this as it develops!

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Leslie Fay