Music industry workers protest Spotify exploitation in 31 cities around the world
- Workers in the music industry have staged protests at the doors of several Spotyfi venues around the world. Among other demands, they call on the company that has tripled its profits since the beginning of the pandemic to pay its due.
The Union of Musicians and Allied Workers (UNAW), within the “Justice at Spotify” campaign, held protests in 31 cities around the world on Monday at the gates of Spotyfire offices. Through the protests, they have demanded, among other things, that the company have more transparency in its business practices, that it withdraw lawsuits against several artists and that it set the payment rate of “one penny per reproduction”.
The Justice at Spotify campaign was launched in October 2020 and has since gathered around 28,000 artists and music industry workers. Pitchfork picked up the words of Mary Regalado, campaign organizer: “Spotify has mistreated music workers for a long time, but the pandemic has revealed this exploitation.” As he explained, since the beginning of the pandemic the company has tripled its value, while rates to pay artists have not increased. “Musicians from all over the world are currently unemployed and technological giants dominating the industry receive billions of euros. Musical work is a job, and we are asking that they pay us what is right for that work,” he stressed.
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