Union For Musicians Bashes Claim Of Offering R3500 For Artists When They Join

Union For Musicians Bashes Claim Of Offering R3500 For Artists When They Join. Trade Union for Musicians of South Africa has detached itself from a voice note that has been circulating.

Trade Union for Musicians of South Africa has detached itself from a voice note that has been circulating. In the voice note musicians were promised money if they became a member of the union. The union has bashed the claims made by the voice note.

The trade union says the voice note is an act of jealousy by attackers that are threatened by the union’s quickly increasing membership. Trade Union for Musicians South Africa says its getting near 2000 members. The voice note states that artists who make their money via creative arts to join the organisation so that they could get a minimum wage of R3500 as an advantage. The voice note came about after union for musicians sent a proposal wanting to music artists to get at least R3500 as a stipend from the Covid-19 relied fund which was turned down.

Trade Union for Musicians of South Africa’s interim secretary general Gabi Le Roux says they were not rattled by the voice note. The interim secretary general says that doesn’t acknowledge them sanctioning someone to get artists on the union’s behalf. “This was also brought to our attention by SAMIC. It is clear that Tumsa’s phenomenal growth is posing a threat to other organisations in the creative sector and they will resort to this sort of politicking to try and stem the flow of independent full-time music professionals towards Tumsa. As for any funding, you can ask any member of Tumsa who communicate with us every day, if we ever promised any one of them even one cent, other than to represent them to DSAC in an attempt to get them some Covid-19 Relief Funding,” says Gabi Le Roux.

by Alexandra Ramaite