AFM Local 47 the proud winner of the following 2017 International Labor Communications Association Labor Media Awards:
Overture Magazine – 1st Place
Visual Communication Awards / Best Design
Overture Online App – 1st Place
Writing Awards / Best Electronic Content
The Local 47 Beat Email Newsletter – 2nd Place
General Excellence / Electronic Publication
Overture Online App – 3rd Place
General Excellence / Electronic Publication
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Please join us next week to hear from Lauren Perez-Rangel, Organizing Campaign Director for the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television Artists (SAG-AFTRA) as she speaks to us about her success in organizing for the labor movement.
What: Los Angeles Young Workers Committee Meeting
Who: Guest Speaker Lauren Perez-Rangel, SAG-AFTRA Organizing Campaign Director
When: Tuesday, September 26, 6pm
Where: The LA Fed, 2130 James M. Wood, Los Angeles CA 90006
Open to young workers 40 and under and young workers at heart. RSVP to layoungworkers@gmail.com.
Los Angeles musicians celebrated Emmy-nominated TV shows scored here in L.A. at the 5th annual Made In Hollywood Honors for Television. From left: Film Musicians Secondary Markets Fund Executive Director Kim Roberts Hedgpeth, AFM Local 47 Secretary/Treasurer Gary Lasley, violinist Elizabeth Hedman, and Recording Musicians Association Los Angeles President Steve Dress. (Photo by Linda A. Rapka/AFM Local 47)
The 5th annual Made In Hollywood Honors for Television event, held Sept. 12 at 1600 VINE, celebrated Emmy-nominated TV shows filmed in Los Angeles and throughout California. Continue reading
Company owned by Jennifer Walton required to comply with National Labor Relations Board settlement agreement
In May of 2017, AFM Local 47 filed an Unfair Labor Practice Charge against Instrumental Casting, LLC, owned by Jennifer Walton, for violations for federal labor laws. In its charge, Local 47 said that she forced musicians to disclose their union membership status and categorically denied employment to musicians who were members of the Union.
Faced with Local 47’s charge and an NLRB investigation, Instrumental Casting signed a settlement agreement with the NLRB that requires Instrumental Casting to post an official NLRB Notice on its website and at its office stating that musicians are free to advocate for better wages, benefits, and working conditions, and to join or form unions, and that Instrumental Casting will refrain from restricting those rights or discriminating against musicians that exercise them. Walton must also email this Notice to musicians to whom she sent casting calls. Continue reading
Overture Online
September 2017
Celebrating Lalo Schifrin: 85th Birthday Concert
Looking Ahead
Local 47 Executive Board adopts five-year Strategic Plan
Musicians Stage Free Concert to ‘Keep the Score in CA’
See what’s next for our Music Scoring Tax Credit bill AB 1300
In Memoriam: Glen Campbell
Remembering a music icon
Instrumental Casting Pledges to Not Violate Federal Labor Laws
Company owned by Jennifer Walton required to comply with National Labor Relations Board settlement agreement
and more!
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Life Member. Composer
8/13/1943 – 8/10/2017
Dell joined the Musicians Union in the early 1960s during his college years at Drake in his home state of Iowa. After receiving two degrees in music, he joined the NORAD military band where he met young musicians from L.A. who became his lifelong friends. Continue reading
Glen T. Campbell
Life Member. Guitar
4/22/1936 – 8/8/2017
Survived by spouse & children
Maurice Grants
Member. Cello
12/7/1960 – 8/21/2017
Survived by spouse
Ardell B. Hake
Life Member. Composer
8/13/1943 – 8/10/2017
Survived by spouse
Daniel J. Licht
Member. Guitar
3/13/1957 – 8/8/2017
Survived by child
Legendary composer, musician, conductor and six-time Oscar nominee Lalo Schifrin (“Mission: Impossible”) will celebrate his 85th birthday with a special concert in his honor Oct. 7 at the Alex Theatre in Glendale. Continue reading
“Keeping the Score in CA” kickoff concert & media event outside of Los Angeles City Hall on Aug. 19, 2017. (Photos: Linda A. Rapka)
“Momentum is strong, and we can’t let up now!” That was the dominant message on Saturday, Aug. 19 at the “Keeping the Score in CA” free concert and rally at city hall where a crowd of 150 gathered to hear music, politicians and union leaders push for the AB 1300, the music scoring tax credit that will help keep good jobs in California.
“When you look at the overall state budget, the value of retaining these jobs here is of significant state interest,” Assembly Majority Leader Ian Calderon (D-57th), told the crowd who gathered to hear performances by musicians including Rickey Minor (bandleader for the 69th Annual Emmy Awards whose credits also include “The Tonight Show” and “American Idol”) and Siddhartha Khosla (composer for NBC’s “This Is Us”).
Related: Variety – Musicians Union Members Stage Free Concert to Bring Scoring Jobs Back to L.A. Continue reading
L.A. musicians travel to ‘totality zone’ to experience full force of our nation’s first total eclipse in nearly 100 years
Marcy Vaj and Pam Gates
North America experienced its first total solar eclipse in nearly 100 years on Aug. 21, 2017. Its trajectory crossed the nation from the Pacific to the Atlantic, closely mirroring that of one in June 8, 1918, the last time North America experienced an eclipse in totality. Continue reading