During a 1996 contract dispute, union musicians went on strike for 67 days, prompting the cancellations of 43 concerts and events.

On Tuesday night the union musicians will vote either to accept management's offer or to walk out the following day.

This time around, the battle was fought Off Broadway, where producers are not bound by any agreement but often do hire union musicians.

Most of the union musicians left the orchestra and were replaced by amateurs.

He was also a union musician, and once played backup saxophone for The Temptations.

The strike by union musicians was meant to force the record companies into paying royalties to their members.

Before he left Hollywood, he was a union musician, record producer, song writer and music publisher.

Virtually all union musicians could not make recordings during that period.

Beginning at midnight, July 31, no union musician could record for any record company.

The union musicians refused to perform in a commercial theater for lower non-union government wages.