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General Membership Meeting & Musicians’ Club Annual Meeting: Jan. 27, 2020

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Open to all members in good standing. Food & refreshments will be served.

On the Agenda (subject to change):
* Presentation of 50-Year Pins
* Presentation by the LA County Federation of Labor
* Officer Reports
* Old and New Business

MEMBERS: Please join us for our next General Membership Meeting on Monday, Jan. 27. President John Acosta will provide an update on AB5, and we will hear a special presentation by the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor about the special report on Amazon released by Economic RoundTable. Called “Too Big to Govern: Public Balance Sheet for the World’s Largest Company,” the report’s findings show the significant negative impact Amazon has on working people and our communities.

Annual Meeting of the Musicians’ Club of Los Angeles
Immediately following Membership Meeting

All members of AFM Local 47 are members of the Musicians’ Club of L.A. Nine (9) members are needed to constitute a quorum for regular or special meetings of the Musicians’ Club of Los Angeles. Club Bylaws may be viewed in the members section at afm47.org.

Please review meeting policies here.

 

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November 2019 Overture Online: Giving Thanks and Giving Back

Inside This Issue:

#BandTogether Update

Musicians continue fight for a fair film/TV contract

Support the Butch Lewis Act

Act now to help save our pension

We Are California

25 Years Beyond Prop 187 – LA County Fed event Nov. 9

and more!

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Overture Online is optimized for reading via smartphone or tablet. For those without access to a smart device, issues may be viewed on a web browser here. Local 47 members may download archived pdf versions from the members section at afm47.org.

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Final Note: Tony Giaimo

Life Member. Saxophone
12/16/1927 – 9/24/2019

Tony Giaimo passed away on Sept. 24, 2019, at 91 years. He was a longtime member of the American Federation of Musicians Local 47. Tony was a singer, saxophonist, and a top-tier clarinetist.

He began studying music at the age of 10, and by the time he was 14 he was playing in Manhattan clubs, alongside the likes of a 16-year-old Tony Bennett. By 15 he was traveling the U.S. as a working musician. Continue reading →

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Final Note: Frank Amoss

Remembering Brother
J. Franklin Amoss,
Local 7 President Emeritus

It is with a very heavy heart that I let you know of the passing of our brother, Frank Amoss, on Saturday, October 5, 2019. Frank was a drummer and band leader. He was a Local 7 Trustee before he was elected as Vice President and eventually held the presidency of Local 7 for 20 years. Continue reading →

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Musicians Hold Live Street Performance Calling on Disney’s Dana Walden to Provide Fair Pay

Contract fight continues as film/TV studios refuse to pay musicians streaming residuals

LOS ANGELES, CA (Oct. 11, 2019) — Today musicians who score for television and films performed live music outside the Variety 2019 Power of Women luncheon calling on honoree Dana Walden, chairman of Disney Television Studios and ABC Entertainment, to pay musicians fairly for their work on streaming movies and TV shows. Continue reading →

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Non-Union Concert Alert: Shahkar Bineshpajooh

AFM members are advised that the Shahkar Bineshpajooh concert taking place at Microsoft Theater on Nov. 30, 2019 is a non-union engagement, with no protections for fair wages, health & welfare, pension, or other benefits that come with union contracts.

AFM Local 47 has been in discussions with Mr. Bineshpajooh and the venue to try and secure an appropriate AFM agreement. Unfortunately they have not agreed to sign a union contract. We recommend that AFM members not participate until such a contract is in place.

As professional musicians, we must take a stand against taking jobs at sub-standard rates far below what we deserve. We not only cheat ourselves by accepting such engagements, but we also cheat our colleagues by setting a precedent that it’s acceptable to undervalue us and our work. Any musician performing at a major venue like the Microsoft Theater deserves to earn a fair wage and benefits in line with industry standard.

If you are contacted to participate in this concert, please alert the President’s Office at 323.993.3181 or john.acosta@afm47.org. We want to make sure you are paid correctly and receive the proper benefits.

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Musicians #BandTogether at Kickoff Rallies in LA, NY in Contract Fight for New Media Residuals

Negotiations resume this month with film/TV producers  

OCTOBER 7, 2019 — Today members of the American Federation of Musicians rallied from coast to coast as part of the musicians’ national grassroots #BandTogether campaign calling on film and TV producers to offer a fair contract that includes streaming residuals. 

In Sherman Oaks, a large crowd gathered in the morning outside the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers headquarters, where bargaining resumed today, to perform live music and rally with leaders from entertainment unions including SAG-AFTRA and WGA West. In New York, a concurrent rally took place outside NBCUniversal headquarters at Rockefeller Center with Congressman Jerrold Nadler and AFM members. The rallies follow several public actions held in recent weeks in Nashville, New York and Los Angeles. Continue reading →

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Sweetwater: 50 Years After Woodstock

On Aug. 15, 1969, half a million people gathered upon on a dairy farm in Bethel near White Lake, New York for a three-day music festival that would come to define a generation.

Billed as “An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace and Music,” the epic event would later be known simply as Woodstock. Little did anyone imagine that it would become synonymous with the counterculture movement of the 1960s, and remains so five decades later. Continue reading →

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