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June 2020 Overture Online: Safer At Work

Inside This Issue:

Safer At Work

What we’re doing to ensure musicians return to work safely and soon

Music Employment Town Hall

Friday, June 5th – Open to all Local 47 members

Member Spotlight

Jay Cohen first Local 47 live performer to return to work

and more!

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#AFM47 Spring playlist

Sound clips below. To hear the full playlist, click here to listen on Spotify.

Town Hall: Music Employment in the Age of COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic has devastated our musical community. We have lost friends and colleagues, and almost all of us have lost our work. Yet our future will arrive, and we need to do everything we can to ensure our health and safety when the opportunity to return to work together arrives.

Please join our distinguished panel on Friday, June 5, at 7 p.m. featuring guest speakers. We will cover a variety of topics including:

Whose job is it to keep us safe at work?
Who are the stakeholders and gatekeepers for deciding when we can go back?
What is our Local 47 doing?
And more…

Prepare your questions; we will be dedicating a substantial portion of the Town Hall to Q&A.

This Town Hall is open to all AFM Local 47 members. Registration is required. Link and password will be emailed upon membership verification.

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Safer at Work Update: Recommendations Adopted for Film/Television Music Scoring

Helping all of our musicians get back to work while protecting your health and safety continues to be our number one priority. AFM Local 47 has been working with adjacent unions, management, both the City and County of Los Angeles, infectious disease specialists, rank-and-file musicians and scoring stage crew, as well as gathering the growing body of scientific studies of safety for orchestral musicians being gathered both here and in Germany and Austria.

The Local 47 Executive Board has adopted a series of recommendations created by the Post Covid-19 Work Rules Working Group to ensure safe work environments for post-production music that can allow millions of dollars of wages to return to the thousands of musicians who provide the world-class scores for the projects that California and Hollywood depend upon. Continue reading →

Election Board and Salary Review Board 2020 election results

Congratulations to the newly elected members of our Election Board and Salary Review Board, nominated at our April 27, 2020 General Membership Meeting held via Zoom video conference. The Local 47 Election Board announces the following results of electronic voting held via ElectionBuddy: Continue reading →

Bugler Jay Cohen returns to work at Santa Anita Park

LA Times Sports Column by Bill Plaschke: “He plays alone to empty seats, but L.A.’s only working live musician has song of hope”

“Call to the Post” never sounded so sweet: Last week bugler Jay Cohen returned to work at the Santa Anita Park racetrack, the first AFM Local 47 member to file a live performance contract with the union amidst the Covid-19 pandemic.

We spoke with Jay after his first day back to work on Friday, May 15 about his experience returning to work with the new safety procedures in place. Continue reading →

A Message from President John Acosta: Safer at Work

Musicians have suffered deeply as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Helping us get back to work while protecting your health and safety is our number one priority. Several top-level processes have launched in an effort to provide a pathway to reopening for the entertainment industries, and we are working around the clock for you. In a major step that ensures musicians will have a clear voice, I am pleased to report that I have been appointed to Los Angeles County’s new Economic Resiliency Task Force as a member of the Film and Digital Media sector. We are also working with our entertainment industry union allies to develop health and safety standards that can be used throughout California, and throughout the country. Continue reading →

Score Study Master Class with Dr. Norman Ludwin: “Vertigo”

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May 2020 Overture Online: Alone Together During COVID-19

Inside This Issue:

Working Remotely?

Now More than Ever, Union Contracts Can Help

Filing for Unemployment

What You Need to Know

Pension Reform NOW!

Tell Congress to Protect our Pensions

and more!

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Notice From the Executive Board: Weekly Board Meetings Update

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Local 47 Executive Board has had to change the way it conducts its weekly meetings by transitioning from in-person meetings to holding them via video conference. Due to challenges in ensuring that only members would have access to these meetings, the Executive Board has determined that we are unable at this time to provide video access for members to observe meetings digitally. Any members with specific questions or issues are invited to contact the Secretary’s Office in order to be placed on the agenda. Additionally, Executive Board minutes are accessible to all members in the secure members-only section of our website at afm47.org.