NYCO Joins the War on Musicians

H/T La Cieca. AGMA reports that NYCO is "proposing" the following:


NYCO PROPOSALS

• Eliminate all health insurance.
• Eliminate ‘contract year’.
• Eliminate all employment guarantees.
• Eliminate weekly artists.
• All employment to be on a per-performance basis.
• Eliminate re-engagement rights.
• Eliminate tenure.
• Eliminate minimum staffing provisions.
• Eliminate paid time off.
• Eliminate vacation pay.
• Eliminate travel time.
• Eliminate all references to New York State Theater.
• Eliminate releases and leaves of absence.
• Freeze severance pay. Payable only to people who resign now.
• Allow non-AGMA singers, not covered by contract.
• Eliminate dancers from contract.
• Eliminate production staff numbers and guarantees.

What's left after that? A pickup organization, not an opera company.