July 2nd, 2009 The Committee
=DON’T FORGET THE JULY 27th GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING!=
I. COMPOSER SEMINAR
II. JOB OPPORTUNITY IN SANTA MONICA
III. COMMENTS: PRO AND CON
IV. CORRECTION FROM A YEARS OLD MAILING
V. EVENTS
Colleagues,
Mark your calendar NOW for the Monday, July 27 general meeting.
We need a quorum so we can raise:
–What’s up with the Referral Service and the backsliding of the RS Website?
–Why is the board stonewalling Studio 47
–Why does the Executive Board let the Secretary do so many Local 47
jurisdiction jobs? Who votes for it, what excuse can they offer?
–Is it true that leaders who use the rehearsal studios are penalized if
there’s a non-union member at the rehearsal? If yes, by what authority?
Are the President buddies getting a break on rehearsal use suspensions?
–At $90,000+ per year, why is President Trombetta still not showing up
to work on Wednesdays?
Unless enough of us show up for a quorum, we won’t be able to ask the
questions or get the answers.
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June 22nd, 2009 The Committee
=DON’T FORGET THE JULY 27th GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING!=
I. IRONIES
II. WEBSITE HOSTS AN ONGOING SPAT.
III. LETTER FROM LOCAL 47 MEMBER CHARLES FERNANDEZ
IV. COMMENTS
V. EVENTS
Colleagues,
Mark your calendar now for the Monday, July 27 general meeting.
We need a quorum so we can raise:
–What’s up with the Referral Service and the backsliding of the RS Website?
–Why is the board stonewalling Studio 47
–Why does the Executive Board let the Secretary do so many Local 47
jurisdiction jobs? Who votes for it, what excuse can they offer?
–Is it true that leaders who use the rehearsal studios are penalized if
there’s a non-union member at the rehearsal? If yes, by what authority?
Are the President buddies getting a break on rehearsal use suspensions?
–At $90,000+ per year, why is President Trombetta still not showing up
to work on Wednesdays?
Unless enough of us show up for a quorum, we won’t be able to ask the
questions or get the answers.
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I. IRONIES
We’ve gotten a report of a six hour demo session at Warner’s
last week. That a demo was done there is not unusual,
that it was done with the YOeist of the YO-cats (Those
who one of the COMMITTEE members calls the YO-YO’s as in -
what goes up, must come down)) was until recently, unusual.
So where’s the Irony?:
-It’s ironic that many or most of the players on that session
would have turned their noses up at a demo five years ago.
-It’s ironic that these are some of the same players who
used to call members who did demos “weekenders” or
“amateurs”.
-It’s ironic that it was their own leaders whose business
model drove so much work out of town that they find
themselves needing to do demo sessions.
- It’s ironic that we’ve been warning them for years what
their business practices would do, and it has happened just
as we said it would.
-It’s ironic that many of these players continue to demonize
those members and entities who warned them what would
happen (and continue to be proven right), while continuing
to blindly follow the leaders directly responsible for their loss
of work. We looked at their watch and told them what time
it was, their own leaders broke the watch.
So is it irony?,… or tragedy?,… or poetic justice?
It certainly is tragedy for those players who used to do those
sessions.
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June 17th, 2009 The Committee
=LOCAL 47 MEETING ON AUGUST 27th!=
I. RECORDING MUSICIANS FILE APPEAL
II. COMMENT ON THE FUTURE
III. FMA NEWSLETTER: GRAMMIES
IV. COMMENTS CONCERNING THE SECRETARY
V. MORE COMMENTS
VI. CONCERTS AND EVENTS
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Colleagues,
Mark your calendar now for the Monday, July 27 general meeting.
We need a quorum so we can raise:
–What’s up with the Referral Service and the backsliding of the RS Website?
–Why is the board stonewalling Studio 47
–Why does the Executive Board let the Secretary do so many Local 47
jurisdiction jobs? Who votes for it, what excuse can they offer?
–Is it true that leaders who use the rehearsal studios are penalized if
there’s a non-union member at the rehearsal? If yes, by what authority?
Are the President buddies getting a break on rehearsal use suspensions?
–At $90,000+ per year, why is President Trombetta still not showing up
to work on Wednesdays?
Unless enough of us show up for a quorum, we won’t be able to ask the
questions or get the answers.
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I. RECORDING MUSICIANS FILE APPEAL
As you should all remember, a few weeks ago the
recording musicians lawsuit was dismissed WITH
PREJUDICE.
On June 5, musicians David Parmeter, Anatoly Rosinsky
and Andrew Shulman (and funded by the rank and file
RMA membership through Fareplay) filed an appeal with
the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth
Circuit regarding their lawsuit against Local 47 and
the AFM.
To the RMA rank and file: You thought Rishik and
his handlers would give your money back to you?
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MEMBER COMMENT CONCERNING THE RECORDING LAWSUIT DISMISSAL
Wow this dismissal is a great judgment for the AFM.
I read it quickly and went snow blind from all the legalese.
A couple of things caught my eye
Page 15, line 13 Plaintiff Shulman & the RMA act jointly and had
correspondence with the AFM’s counsel on the same issue for a
period of time previous to the case being filed. Then when the case
is filed by 3 musicians they say that they are just three independent
members, not in behalf of the RMA. Technically correct, but the
previous correspondence tells the tale.
Page 17, line 11 Lewis Levy established as the recognized
counsel for Local 47. While, as printed in the RMA Directory,
he is also on the advisory board for the RMA, and was
their counsel for years.
Such an obvious conflict of interest.
This has been going on for years. Levy has been instructed by
the Executive Board to ‘direct’ the Election Board during an
election when the Executive Board members were partisan
political candidates running for office. And recently he represented
the Hearing Board when a charge was brought against his main
client, the Local 47 Executive Board. Imagine a judge hiring the
defense’s lawyer to guide the judge through a case!
How he keeps getting away with it is a mystery to me.
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June 9th, 2009 The Committee
I. MEMBER COMMENT ABOUT VIDEO GAMES
II. DAVID FINCK RESPONDS AGAIN
III. COMMENT FROM RICK BLANC
IV. OFFICER JURISDICTIONAL WORK CONTINUES
V. COMMENTS
VI. CONCERTS AND EVENTS
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I. MEMBER COMMENT ABOUT VIDEO GAMES AND LOCAL 47 SECRETARY
re: Leslie Lashinsky’s column (June 2009 Overture)
Ms. Lashinsky claims with no supported evidence that LA
has BY FAR the most recorded music for videogames. I am
sure Seattle, London and Prague would beg to differ. She
has no access to data from these locations nor from the
myriad of game publishers that create and distribute the
games. So she is either psychic, or engaging in hyperbole.
Also noteworthy is that while she begs for residuals and
re-use for the use of music in these games, she doesn’t
report:
1) the game designers themselves are work-for-hire and
receive no residuals.
2) the SAG actors who record the voice-overs for these
games receive no residuals.
3) the composers who write the music for these games
receive no residuals via ASCAP, BMI, or SESAC. And, the
AFM doesn’t represent composers.
I quote Mark Sazer, who is vice president of the RMA-LA:
Employment is actually half of what it was in 2007, and
declining. Annual AFM videogames wages - from everywhere,
all together - are less than a couple of weeks of film scoring.
may 30 2009
This quote seems to refute her commentary.
Also, regarding music recorded for videogames and the
possibility of it being re-used in a motion picture later:
I would like to see any examples where the music recorded
under a buyout agreement (or combined use) was used in
any other medium. Especially for motion pictures. It does
not work that way. Music is scored specifically to picture
and if producers wanted to use pre-existing music, they
have always had the choice to use music libraries. The option
is already there. It’s just not common in any case. If producers
did choose to use music that was originally designed for some
other medium, it disallows that music from award consideration
in most cases. That alone is a huge reason this is not a concern.
Does Ms. Lashinsky do any research? ever? Maybe interview a
few videogame composers and see what their takes are on
this issue. That is something I would like to see. Her opinion
alone is useless otherwise.
Anonymous
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[Editor's note: Colleagues,
As the member makes clear above in excellent detail, the Local 47
Secretary is wrong and or/misinformed on many points. In the
same June Overture on page one, Linda Rapka has no problem
giving the fuller answer that our Local appears to have the bulk of
the UNION video game work. The Secretary missed out on
the UNION part of that statement, stating as fact that LA does
the majority of the Video Game work, period. It's misleading
and simply not true.
As the writer above makes clear, there are no back-end payments
for video games, never have been. His statements have been
confirmed to us by several VG composers. According to these
same video game composers, more of their work is done in
Seattle and San Francisco, and in some cases specifically refuse
to work in LA because of the remaining fear of another
Simpsons situation.]
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June 1st, 2009 The Committee
I. DAVID FINCK RESPONDS
II. DAVE POMEROY RESPONDS
III. COMMENTS
IV. CONCERTS AND EVENTS
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Below you will find responses to our previous mailing from David Finck
and Dave Pomeroy from New York and Nashville respectively.
I. DAVID FINCK RESPONDS
Dear Mr Committee, (or Ms. - I don’t know who you are- why don’t
you put your name on this?)
You must be a graduate student at Tom Lee University. You are
masterful at avoiding the tough questions. For starters, what do
you suggest we do about representing the card carrying members
who don’t play anything? Here in NY, two of them have snaked
their way onto the EB.
The sad truth for this administration is that we don’t have an industrial
union like the United Auto Workers. Musicians are hand picked;
Either by contractors or more often they are recommended by fellow
musicians. THAT is how work always was and always will be distributed.
And unfortunately, no matter how many low scale contracts the AFM
approves, it will never create more work for more players. The same
musicians will continue to get the calls — just for less money under
the new agreements. So who benefits here? Nobody calls the union
and asks for a union trumpet player who’s dues are paid up. Producers
and contractors want to use the best players they can get. Any good musician
knows this. Any good musician also knows what he or she is good and not
good at. I am an asset in some musical situations and a total liability in
others. And recording technique is a refined skill. Sure, anyone that has
a union card and can hold a musical instrument can also hold it in front
of a microphone. But what producer or composer wants that as a
prerequisite for recording on thier CD or soundtrack?
No fantasy here Mr. or Mrs. Committee-It is one of the hardest things for
musicians to face— ‘Is it my playing? Am I really as good as I think I am?
Gee, I have a union card! Doesn’t that mean I’m good enough to work under
the contracts?’ Of course the sad truth is: NO. IT DOESN’T MEAN ANYTHING!
And that my friend, has nothing to do with the RMA.
The RMA represents some musicians that are very good at what they do. And
frankly if all of those ‘YO CATS’ (as you call them) disappeared from LA, scoring
may not continue in the same way. Sorry to crash that possibility into your fantasy.
David Finck
New York
[Again Mr. Finck, living in New York, you have no clue how many great players
there are in Los Angeles. We live here, we DO know.
As for your complaint about card carrying members who don't play anything?
We agree.
Mr. Finck--- meet Sandy De Crescent,
a non-playing card carrying Local 47 member (Well, depending on the story
teller, she auditioned on either triangle or castanets.) who had a strangle
hold on big budget film recording for years. She controlled and was a driving force, for
good or ill, on 1000's of recording musicians' careers for the last few decades.
If not for her, your buddies may not have been able to have the monopoly they
enjoyed for decades,... and in many cases still do.]
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May 22nd, 2009 The Committee
I. SUMMARY JUDGEMENT AGAINST RECORDING MUSICIANS
II. LAWSUIT DISMISSAL LETTER FROM AFM PRESIDENT TOM LEE
III. FAREPLAY PUTS IN IT’S TWO CENTS - collected from RMA rank and file.
IV. STANLEY CLARKE AT ASMAC LUNCHEON, MAY 27th
V. COMMENTS
VI. CONCERTS AND EVENTS
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-CORRECTIONS-
-We were informed by an national AFM officer that President
Tom Lee, not Treasurer Sam Folio, was the writer of the
response to Dave Pomeroy’s letter of the last mailing. We
regret any confusion.
-As Mr. Pomeroy commented to us, After winning the presidency
of the Nashville Local he declined the RMA NASHVILLE presidency.
The RMA Nashville president is Mike Brignardello.
His full comment will be featured in the next mailing.
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I. SUMMARY JUDGEMENT AGAINST RECORDING MUSICIANS
As we informed you yesterday, the recording musicians and their
puppet masters lost every aspect of their lawsuit against the AFM in
a summary judgement by United States District Judge Margaret
Morrow.
Here is the text of the summary judgement:
IT IS ORDERED AND ADJUDGED that
1. The action be, and it hereby is, dismissed in its entirety against defendant
AFM with prejudice;
2. The action be, and it hereby is, dismissed in its entirety against defendant
Local 47 with prejudice;
3. The cross-claim for interpleader filed by Local 47 against AFM and the
counterclaim for interpleader filed by Local 47 against plaintiffs be, and they
Case 2:07-cv-07225-MMM-SS Document 133 Filed 05/21/2009 Page 1 of 2 2
hereby are, dismissed in their entirety with prejudice;
4. The obligation of Local 47 to deposit, pursuant to the stipulation approved
by the court on May 16, 2008 [Docket No. 54], amounts it collects that are
designated “Federation Work Dues” is terminated;
5. The Clerk of the Court shall release all funds deposited by Local 47 into the
court’s registry, with appropriate interest, to AFM; and
6. AFM and Local 47 recover their costs of suit herein.
DATED: May 21, 2009
MARGARET M. MORROW
UNITED STATES DISTRICT J
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May 18th, 2009 The Committee
I. A PHRASE WE THOUGHT WE’D NEVER UTTER
II. IEB ADOPTS NEW VIDEO GAME AGREEMENT
III. CALIFORNIA PHILHARMONIC WORKING THE PROBLEMS
IV. COMMENTS
V. CONCERTS AND EVENTS
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I. A PHRASE WE THOUGHT WE’D NEVER UTTER
…. and that phrase is “Bravo, Board!”
Why?
Secretary-Treasurer Lashinsky has continued to try to take
work in the jurisdiction away from rank and file members,
trying to relabel or reword the requests to look like she’s
“donating” something. (See the May 2009 Board Minutes,
page 26, column 3). Another bassoonist deserves to do
that work and be paid for it.
Where does the “Bravo” come in? Our board has begun acting
as her conscience and refuse her requests to play jobs in the
jurisdiction.
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May 13th, 2009 The Committee
I. DAVE POMEROY BEGINS JOB AS RMALA SURROGATE
II. MAGIC MOUNTAIN SITUATION
III. MORE SCORING IN SAN FRANCISCO
IV. COMMENTS
V. CONCERTS AND EVENTS
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I. DAVE POMEROY BEGINS JOB AS RMALA SURROGATE
New Nashville Local President (and RMA Nashville President)
Dave Pomeroy has begun his job as surrogate for RMALA
and/or RMA International Officers as the real, usual architects
try to keep a low profile.
His letter below concerns the Video Game Agreement. How
many video games are done in Nashville?
Below his letter is a reply from AFM Secretary Treasurer
Sam Folio, someone who actually does know the score,
and then one from us.
———–
Letter from Dave Pomeroy
Hello everyone. Local 257 President Dave Pomeroy here. I have
been watching the ongoing dialogue regarding the recently
adopted AFM Videogame Agreement with great interest and
much concern. In my role as RMA International Videogame
Committee chair, I was among those who have been asking
for the AFM to reach consensus since November 2006 and create
one Agreement that we can ALL get behind. Unfortunately, this
is not what has happened.
A combination of the AFM’s unwillingness to listen to anyone
perceived as being critical of the current administration, a lack
of respect for due process and the empowering of those who are
not doing the work to make and influence decisions has led to
this precarious position we are in. All that I, as an individual AFM
member and a recording musician, have ever asked for was to
have the knowledge and experience of those who do work in the
recording industry utilized and acknowledged in a meaningful
fashion by the leaders of the AFM. This has not happened either.
As President of Local 257, this past March 23 I attended the Leadership
Music Digital Summit here in Nashville. Steve Schnur from EA was a
panelist at a Videogame seminar and once again said that he would
gladly pay up to 4 times scale if the music was unencumbered. This
statement was also made by Mr Schnur in the AFM Videogame report
of 2004. So here we are 5 years after his initial statement and now we
have unilaterally offered the VG industry a “combined use” rate of
$75./hour, where as long as it is released in a videogame initially,
music “can be used in any new medium with no additional payment
obligations”. What happened? This is a loophole of gigantic proportions
that many of us, people who actually work in the recording business,
also have gone on record as being against. In this Agreement, there is a
vague reference to “songs as such term is understood within the music
publishing industry” which should be paid “if used in any way not in
conjunction with the game.” Does also this apply to instrumental music?
This kind of shoddy language does make this clear. Soundtrack Albums
and Digital Downloads are also excluded from ANY additional payment -
EVER! Why would we voluntarily make such an offer? As EA has announced
a record label and movie division in the past 18 months, one would think
that we would be trying to avoid any cross platform loopholes. Once again,
we have not.
This Agreement practically begs these companies to exploit our work in
way that havent even been devised yet and we will be powerless to stop
them. Why, after more than 2 years, this document would suddenly and
secretly be approved in an IEB conference call, without the meaningful
input of those who it affects, especially while we are in the middle of Film
negotiations, is beyond my understanding. In the first round of those
negotiations, Vide ogames were referenced a number of times and I believe
it is foolish to think that they will not take notice of this and that it will
have a negative impact on our negotiations. Local 257 cannot endorse
this in any way and I urge the IEB to reconsider this decision before it
is too late.
The reason that so many different elements of the RMA community
weighed in on this, both as individuals and in groups is simple. It is
because for the past few years AFM Leadership has consistently refused
to interact with Phil Ayling, the President of RMA International. This is at
the root of many of our problems and has made forward motion
impossible. A Union is the sum of its parts - ALL its parts. I represent a
very wide cross section of Nashville musicians, and I give all of them, not
just those who agree with me, the respect and attention they deserve to
the best of my ability. How can we possibly move forward and most
importantly, offer a united front in negotiations when we continue to
bicker and fight amongst ourselves? This has gone on for far too long,
and I urge everyone who reads this to reach out to one another and
create a meaningful dialogue before it is too late. There is not a moment
to lose, and we must at all cost overcome our personal differences and
get back to business while there is still something left to save. Long Live
the AFM!
In Unity,
Dave Pomeroy
President, Nashville Association of Musicians
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Rebuttal from AFM Secretary Treasurer Sam Folio
RMC and AFM Video Game Agreement/FINAL 032509
Unfortunately, Dave Pomeroy has again missed the boat in this matter.
He assured the AFM in June 2008 that the video game agreement that
the RMA promulgated and presented to the IEB had input from New York,
Los Angeles and Nashville RMA chapters. But now some chapters of the
RMA, even though they had input into the RMA proposal, claim they had
no input into the process that concluded with the video game agreement
recently adopted by the IEB. From this confusion, it appears that RMA
chapters are going to have to decide whether they wish to provide input
through the RMA International or direct to the IEB. The IEB took Pomeroy
at his word that no RMA chapters had any additional input the IEB should
consider when making a decision.
In Pomeroy’s diatribe below he makes wild irrelevant excuses as to
why the AFM leadership modified his proposal (or the RMA proposal).
This is nothing more than political bellowing that he has recklessly
inserted into this discussion in hopes that sensationalizing this topic
will somehow force people to conform to his fantasy. A big dose of
reality - not public invectives against individuals - will better serve
and support a rational approach to a discussion of issues. And by
the way, Pomeroy, who represents himself as Chair of the RMA Video
Game Committee has provided no evidence that he has ever played
on a video game recording session. Nashville has had only one
video game recording completed in its jurisdiction in the past 5 years
(or maybe even longer) as far as we know. So Pomeroy as Chair of the
RMA Video Game Committee speaks about an industry in which he
has no experience or expertise.
The RMA represents its members while the IEB represents all recording
musicians in the AFM without regard to RMA membership. Therefore,
the IEB is held to a much higher standard than the RMA and is required
to take a broader view of the video game business than the RMA is
able to. The IEB spoke with industry leaders. It received input from local
officers around the US and Canada as well as many RMA members who
disagree with their leadership. The Federation received information
from those who chose not to be members of the RMA. Information from
composers was sought as well as contractors and production companies.
The IEB was also cognizant of the fact that much of the video games work
was heading to Seattle and foreign shores and that musicians in Canada
and the US were experiencing less and less work. So the Federation spoke
with a very broad group of individuals associated with the video game
business and utilized the information from the RMA as well as all of the
other sources and made an informed decision that it believes has a much
greater chance to gain work for members of the AFM.
To that end, everyone should understand that it is the job of local officers
and the IEB to organize work. Business models change over the years and
this must be taken into consideration when going after work. It appears
all too frequently that some individuals are more interested in preserving
work for themselves than expanding work opportunities for others. The
IEB is committed to preserving current jobs and organizing more work
opportunities. Pomeroy, as the President of Local 257 will now have to
confront that reality. Is he going to preserve work for a smaller amount of
his members or is he going to work on behalf of all of the members of
local 257 and go after video game or film work that could be done in
Nashville? Or is he going to sit passively by and watch work that could be
done in Nashville leave for Europe? Or perhaps he will just continue to
use public forums to defend his inability to broaden his scope
and actually work on expanding job opportunities for the musicians in
local 257 which is what he was elected to do.
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April 30th, 2009 The Committee
I. NO APRIL GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING
II. PHILHARMONIC PRINCIPAL TROMBONIST STEVEN WITZER PASSES AWAY
III. MESSAGE FROM LOS ANGELES FMA PRESIDENT LISA HALEY
VI. TWO QOUTES FROM LOCAL #300, Merrimack Valley Musicians Newsletter
V. COMMENTS
VI. CONCERTS
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I. NO APRIL GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING
Attendance levels usually reserved for the July meeting
occurred last Monday, April 27.
There were about as many rank and file members as
their were board members.
From the board we observed: President Trombetta; VP
John Acosta; Secretary Lashinsky; Boards members: Gary
Lasley, Paul Castillo, Greg Huckins and Don Muggeridge;
as well as Local 47 Counsel Lewis Levy.
There were no members of the trial board in attendance,
nor board members Bonnie Janofsky, Lisa Terry, Pam
Gates or Judy Chilnik.
The number of Rank and FIle members there was
approximately six.
The membership has for the most part lost faith in our
Local and those who run it. It was that loss of faith (And
the need to pay their mortgages without fear of fines)
that caused a number of our members to select Fi-Core
Status.
The Studio has been long delayed, the referral service
website seems to be back-sliding, with members of
the Referral Service website committee complaining
that unless they stay on top of the Local, the work on
the website seems to stop.
We need a proactive membership to make or keep our
Local moving in the right direction.
THE COMMITTEE
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April 21st, 2009 The Committee
I. NEXT GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING
II. FEATURED MEMBERS COMMENT RE: ROTTER
III. ORCHESTRA NEWS and others quick news
IV. ROOM MONITORS GONE WILD/SETTING UP THEIR EXCUSES
V. COMMENTS
VI. CONCERTS
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I. NEXT GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING
Colleagues,
The next Local 47 General Membership meeting
will take place on April 27, 2009 at 7 pm.
The meeting will take place at the Local.
Please use your voice, be there!
THE COMMITTEE
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II. FEATURED MEMBER COMMENT
The comments below represent the uncensored views
of the readers and not necessarily those of the
COMMITTEE.
Re: ROTTER
Obviously many of the RMA insiders and the people
on his most favored list have no intention of making
Peter live up to the AFM rules with regard to canceled
or changed sessions. I don’t know the man but, I know
he’s taking over where Sandy left off… MONOPOLIZING
the film contracting in Local 47. She still controls the
work. One of your readers suggested that Sandy
wouldn’t let the produces get away with this sort of
thing. Perhaps that because her previous boss Bobby
Helfer had integrity ad respected the rules. However,
SHE now makes the rules and the RMA goes along.
Many of the members don’t know the history of how
she rose to power to corner & control the film recording
industry in LA. She also had much to do with creating
the RMA.
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