A union with a vision leads with transparency, accountability, democracy, justice, and strength. The leaders of the VPU caucus believe that our values are best accentuated by the action we […]

VPU believes that organizing is “method, not magic” and therefore teachable. Our plan for education looks to restart successes of leadership development like the AFL-CIO Organizing Institute collaboration and also […]

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The decline of the AFM is not new. It is not because of the COVID pandemic, and it is far more precipitous than the overall decrease in union membership in the United States and Canada (the U.S. being far more to blame) since the 1980s. Our decline is directly related to a barrage of ULPs in the 1970s, regarding the AFM running essentially closed shops at clubs, followed by a 2nd Circuit Court ruling that overturned NLRB v. Hilton and established that club musicians are employees of the bandleader, not of the club.