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@umaw.bsky.social
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UMAW is a 501(c)(4) member-led advocacy group committed to organizing music workers to create a more just music industry, and to join with other workers in the struggle for a better society.

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UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Cowardly behavior from Ed Sheeran, his team, the venues, and the AEG promoter.
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UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Via @404media.co
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UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
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UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
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UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Go to weareumaw.org/raise-the-bar and sign on your venue, join our artist petition, or use our template to send an email and ask venues in your community to Raise the Bar.
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Raise The Bar — United Musicians and Allied Workers
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UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
We're creating a directory of venues that agree to these standards. Many venues across the country have already signed on, but we need your help to make sure these practices become the baseline standard for venues everywhere.
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UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Today UMAW officially launches our Raise the Bar campaign, our effort to establish baseline standards for artist treatment. We call on all venues to commit to these four standards: 1. No Merch Cuts 2. No Pay to Play 3. No Door Polling 4. Contract Transparency
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UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Deezer has debuted an AI music detector that works across all DSPs, not just theirs. Via @musically.com
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UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
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UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
We need to hold the major labels and their AI partners accountable!
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UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
We need the Living Wage for Musicians Act now!! Musicians deserve fair wages and dignity in our work.
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UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
This comes not long after Spotify demonetized any song with less than 1k streams per year — aka 80% of the songs on the platform. Spotify continues to harm small artists and ignore calls to remove AI music and pay their artists fairly.
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UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Spotify’s new “fix” for the flood of AI songs taking over the platform is a verification badge for human artists. This badge is ONLY available to artists with over 10,000 monthly listeners for three consecutive months.
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UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Spotify has released a Wrapped-style look back at your listening history in honor of their 20th anniversary of paying their artists poverty wages
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UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
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UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
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UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
weareumaw.org/membership
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UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
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UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
The Living Wage for Musicians Act would create a new, additional royalty that is ONLY available to human artists. No AI music is eligible for the royalty. Support the LWMA here: weareumaw.org/make-streaming-pay
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Make Streaming Pay - United Musicians and Allied Workers — United Musicians and Allied Workers
United Musicians and Allied Workers celebrates the introduction of the Living Wage for Musicians Act – led by Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Jamaal Bowman – to Congress. By creating a new streaming royalty, ...
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UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
AI slop-makers are uploading staggering amounts of AI-generated songs to streaming services. This dilutes the royalty pool, increases fraud and impersonation, and harms real human artists. We need REAL protections against AI!
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UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
www.them.us/story/jim-do...
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MSG Security Allegedly Tracked a Trans Woman’s Movements, Including Bathroom Breaks, Down to the Second
A bomshell report in Wired details an extensive use of the venue’s facial recognition system.
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UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
MSG has been surveilling its attendees in “excessive and intrusive ways” since 2018. This panopticon-level surveillance endangers fans, artists, and music workers alike— especially when that surveillance is targeted. Via Them
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UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
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UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Statement from UMAW in @pitchfork.com as Ticketmaster-Live Nation is found to be an illegal monopoly
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UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
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UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
No one needs this! Reject AI! Join UMAW!
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UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
What a fucking nightmare. The current music industry only serves the billionaires and tech bros. Musicians and music workers can take back the power from these massive corporations if we ORGANIZE!
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UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
via @deadline.com
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UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
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UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Just visibility is not enough — we must build a music industry that uplifts and supports all people and all workers, including our trans comrades. We can build it together!
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UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Today is Trans Day of Visibility. We are indebted to the trans musicians & music workers who have fought for trans rights for years, and who have revolutionized and expanded the music industry. Bring a trans artist on tour! Hire a trans music worker! Support your trans peers!
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UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Tell Congress to pass the LWMA: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
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Tell Congress to pass the Living Wage for Musicians Act! Spotify and other music streaming services must pay artists fairly.
Musicians create the enormous wealth that streaming companies like Spotify generate for their CEOs and the major record record labels year after year. But while the rich keep getting richer in the mus...
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UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Suno is producing 7M AI songs per day. Streaming services are being flooded with AI slop, diluting the revenue pool and further decreasing payouts for artists. We need the Living Wage for Musicians Act! The new, additional LWMA royalty would only be available to human musicians.
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UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Mikey Shulman wants producers and songwriters to use his exploitative AI tools so badly that he’s trying to convince everyone they already are. Resist AI in music! Don’t give in to these hacks!
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UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
meme via @mattxiv.bsky.social
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UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Do AI music companies next!!!
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UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Lorde has exited her 17-year long contract with Universal. A 12-year-old child should not have to decide if she wants to enter into a multi-decade record contract, especially with a major label known for predatory deals.
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UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Image via the ISM
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UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
We need IMMEDIATE PROTECTIONS for artists against AI!
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UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
RSVP for free entry: actionnetwork.org/events/umaws...
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UMAW'S FAIR PAY AT SXSW 2026 PROTEST SHOW
FREE WITH RSVP ON THIS PAGE. Join UMAW to again tell SXSW: Fair pay and no warmongers! Artists at this year's show: Viva Palestina Orchestra Jack Powers Touch Girl Apple Blossom Witches Exist ...
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UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
TONIGHT! See you at Hole in the Wall at 8pm for the Fair Pay and No Warmongers at SXSW show 💪
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UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
TODAY! See you at 11am 💪
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Joey La Neve DeFrancesco @joeyquits.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Spotify's new CEO Gustav Söderström is giving a keynote address at SXSW tomorrow. @umaw.bsky.social will be holding a picket outside.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Internal messages from Live Nation reveal two execs talking about "robbing [fans] blind." “These people are so stupid. I almost feel bad taking advantage of them," one says. That man is now the head of ticketing for the unit responsible for Live Nation's 150 amphitheaters.
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Live Nation Can ‘Gouge’ Fans on Fees, Ticketing Executives Boast
Two Live Nation Entertainment Inc. executives bragged about the high fees the company charges fans at its venues, joking in internal messages that the company is “robbing them blind” and that “these p...
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UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
If you’re in Austin this week, join us for the NO WARMONGERS IN MUSIC rally outside of the new Spotify CEO’s SXSW keynote address. 3/13 at 11am. Spotify must cut ties with war profiteers and end their complicity with Israeli apartheid and genocide!
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UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
We need the LWMA now! We can do better than mealy-mouthed excuses and settling for the way things are. We can build a fairer and more just music industry! Join UMAW and let’s build it together 💪
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UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Spotify prides themselves on transparency, but their “transparency” is meaningless if it doesn’t answer the real questions and enact meaningful change. Why is Spotify engaging in war profiteering? Why won’t they pay artists fairly?
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UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Spotify has faced backlash for running ICE recruitment ads and IDF recruitment ads. They’ve been added to the BDS consumer boycott target list. They’ve been called out, over and over again, for the poverty wages they pay the majority of their artists.
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UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
The Living Wage for Musicians Act would create a new, additional royalty that goes DIRECTLY to artists. Our aim is a penny per stream — TRIPLE what Spotify currently pays. It would be the largest material gain for artists since the beginning of the streaming era.
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