Faculty Union Forming At Manhattan School of Music?

Manhattan School of Music teachers have begun organizing to form a union, arguing that “they are poorly paid, lack job security and have little say in how the school is run and no recourse for complaints. … The struggle has injected a dose of real-world politics into the melody-basted halls of the Manhattan School, one of the city’s top conservatories and the producer of legions of highly skilled singers, pianists, fiddlers and other performers.”