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TV Musicians Demand Respect from the Networks

Audience members outside of “The Late Late Show With James Corden” taping at CBS Television Studios Dec. 6, 2017, support TV musicians and call on the networks to #RespectTheBand.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

December 7, 2017 – Musicians working on late-night, award, and other live television shows are calling on the networks to pay band members when they appear on YouTube and network websites.

“Other performers are all paid when Jimmy Kimmel Live! streams on YouTube or other online outlets, yet musicians are paid nothing. Musicians just want to be compensated for our likeness and our music,” said Cleto Escobedo III, Musical Director of Cleto and the Cletones. “I love Jimmy, the producers, and everyone we work with. We just need to make sure the networks treat us and ALL of our colleagues fairly.” Continue reading

Health care: Open Enrollment for 2018

This reminder is brought to you by RMALA:

Local 47 members – health care open enrollment is now on for both the Flex Plan and Local 47 Health Plan!

Please read any materials you have been sent by the plans, and contact them with your questions. The time to make your choices is now.

PacFed Benefit Administrators
818-243-0222 or 800-759-3132
musicians@pacfed.com

Entertainment Industry Flex Plan
323-993-8888 or 888-353-9401

Open enrollment has also begun for Covered California, and continues until January 31, 2018.
For questions about Covered California, their website is coveredca.com.

Pasadena Symphony Musicians Vote to Authorize Strike

Musicians of the Pasadena Symphony Orchestra in rehearsal Aug. 16, 2016.

LOS ANGELES (December 1, 2017) — Musicians of the Pasadena Symphony and POPS orchestras voted today by an overwhelming majority to authorize a strike, potentially halting concerts during the popular holiday season and into the New Year.

Musicians have been without a contract since September of 2015, when their last agreement expired. Ten years ago, when the orchestra faced financial uncertainty, the musicians did everything possible to ensure the orchestra’s survival: absorbing cost-saving cuts, forgoing raises for years, even playing without compensation. At the time, the Pasadena Symphony Association promised musicians that these cuts would be temporary. Current management has disavowed those commitments. Now, a decade after the crisis, Pasadena Symphony musicians have yet to reach an agreement that restores their generous concessions. Continue reading

December 2017 Overture Online: Happy Holidays!

Overture Online
December 2017

Happy Holidays!


Pasadena Symphony Votes to Authorize Strike
Orchestra continues fight for a fair contract

Two Legends, One Stage
Charles Fox and Paul Williams to be honored at ASMAC Golden Score Awards

AFM Local 47 Statement on Sexual Harassment in the Entertainment Industry
If you experience or witness something wrong, speak out

and more!

The Overture Online app is available FREE @ Apple App Store & Google Play:

  
Overture Online is optimized for reading via smartphone or tablet. For those without access to a smart device, this issue may be viewed on a web browser (must have flash enabled). Local 47 members may download archived pdf versions from the members section at afm47.org.

In Memoriam: December 2017

Paul Buckmaster
Member. Composer
6/13/1946 – 11/7/2017
Survived by child

Isabelle Daskoff
Life Member. Violin
6/4/1922 – 7/20/2017
Survived by niece & nephew

Jerry Lewis
Life Member. Drum Set
3/16/1926 – 8/20/2017
Survived by spouse & children

Alan W. Reinecke
Member. Timpani
2/6/1961 – 11/4/2017
Survived by spouse & parents

H&W: Eligibility & Enrollment Information

Professional Musicians, Local 47 and Employers’ Health & Welfare Fund

The Fund mailed Eligibility and Enrollment information to all eligible participants in mid-November. The enrollment materials advise each participant of the level at which they qualified (A, B or C).

The qualifying levels are as follows:

Level             Employer Contribution Amount
A                    $1,500 plus
B                    $1,200 to $1,499
C                    $800 to $1,199

In order to be covered by one of the Fund’s benefit plans, for the coverage year beginning January 1, 2018, you must (A) have accumulated a minimum of $800 in employer contributions, for covered work performed between October 3, 2016 through October 2, 2017, and (B) remit, to the Fund’s Administrative Office, a completed enrollment form along with the proper co-premium, no later than December 20, 2017. Continue reading

This #GivingTuesday help a musician in need

On this national day of generosity, help local musicians who have fallen on hard times to get back on their feet.

Please consider a donation to one of our worthy charitable causes:

The Music Fund of Los Angeles is a 501(c)3, charitable organization providing financial help to professional musicians, music students, and youth music programs in the Los Angeles area. Continue reading

Flex Plan: 2018 Open Enrollment

2018 Open Enrollment Starts 12/05/2017

Although you will not receive your Open Enrollment materials until Thanksgiving, you can view 2018 rate and benefit information. If you want to receive your Open Enrollment Information early, sign up for email delivery and you will receive the information about 7-10 days earlier, receive a discount on your administrative fees and help reduce a significant amount of paper waste.  Continue reading

Two Legends, One Stage: ASMAC Golden Score Awards 2017

AFM Local 47 Life Members Charles Fox and Paul Williams to be honored 

All Local 47 members receive special discount on tickets

Singer/songwriter/actor/voice actor PAUL WILLIAMS may be best-known to younger generations as “the Butcher” in this year’s summer blockbuster Baby Driver, or for his 2014 Grammy win for Album of the Year with Daft Punk. The American Society of Music Arrangers and Composers is proud to announce him as an honoree at the 2017 ASMAC Golden Score Awards, along with his Love Boat-theme collaborator, composer/arranger CHARLES FOX.

The event takes place Sunday, December 3, 2017, 5 p.m. at the Hilton Universal City Hotel. Continue reading