According to the separate complaints filed in May, the Philharmonic suspended Wang and Muckey after the publication of a New York Magazine article in April, which mentioned the 2020 arbitration award. An arbitrator reinstated the duo after the musicians were terminated in 2018 over claims from years ago, according to court documents.
In his suit, Muckey said he was terminated when former Philharmonic probationary musician Cara Kizer’s allegations of sexual misconduct in 2010 reemerged. Muckey denied the allegations, according to his complaint.
Wang said he didn’t face the allegations connected with Kizer, according to his suit. According to a footnote in Wang’s complaint, “his termination and resulting arbitration principally concerned different events at a different time (several years before 2010).”
Both musicians accused the union of not taking steps to enforce the 2020 arbitration award when the plaintiffs were suspended. Wang and Muckey also alleged that the Philharmonic violated the arbitration award and the collective bargaining agreement.
