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Many of us standing together are more powerful than any one of us standing alone.
By standing together, we protect ourselves:
… with free, legally enforceable contracts backed by 70,000 members strong.
… by supporting an institution that finds and fights for the royalties and residuals owed us.
… by taking on powerful companies that would steal our recordings or try to replace us with AI.
… with a reporting system to protect us from unfair treatment and abuse on the job.
… with a multiemployer pension plan to provide for our later years.
… with insurance programs designed for musicians and working bands.
Unmasking the Excuses: When Your Anti-Musician Bingo Card Is Full
We’ve all been there: standing in a venue, exhausted after a great set, when the conversation about compensation takes a familiar, disheartening turn. As a working musician, chances are the Anti-Musician Bingo Card is a sobering collection of common, and often manipulative, objections employers and venue owners use to justify paying musicians less than their worth.
How many squares have you filled in your career?
Stand Up Together and Win Your Rights!
The Anti-Musician Bingo Card validates the shared struggles of musicians everywhere. It reminds us that these low-ball offers and excuses are not personal failures, but a widespread, systemic issue.
By joining together in a union, musicians move past the isolating experience of negotiation and replace fear with collective power. The goal is not to stop playing, but to ensure that when we do play, we are treated and paid like the essential professionals we are.