Dear Local 47 Colleagues,
Plan now to attend the Monday, April 24th membership meeting at 7 pm. Please be there no later than 6:45.
There is a resolution at the meeting to LOWER the quorum back to 50. BE THERE AND MAKE IT HAPPEN! Read the details yourself on page 9 (not 13 as is printed) of the April overture.
Never before has a quorum been so crucial. This very well could be a meeting that is absolutely pivotal to our future.
Our local is under assault by the very people elected to protect it. Using a change in the quorum THEY engineered, they have be able to run unchecked for over 2 years and used that time to dismantle services and fire people vital to the freelance, live and orchestral members.
Those who ran Studio 47, The CD/Video Area and the Referral service have all been fired.
-Barbara Markey –15-year employee – CD/Video services – GONE
-Errol Henry – 9 year employee – Referral Service – GONE
-Vince Tividad –Studio 47 – GONE
Each of the three service areas listed above were a full time jobs, but are now being covered by one person. While they give lip service to us about all the good things to come, we’ve heard this all before, and we don’t buy it.
Others have been fired who work on behalf of the live and freelance players. Still others have been threatened with cut hours and fear for their jobs. This while the local has three million in the bank!
If it’s not in the interest of the full-time recording musicians they want it GONE!
Officers will point with pride to the new rehearsal rooms as evidence of their caring about the live players. Right. They build rehearsal room for musicians that AREN’T SOUNDPROOFED! If it’s for the live players it’s done on the cheap or thrown in the dumpster.
ACT NOW WHILE THERE’S STILL A LOCAL TO SAVE!
BE AT THE APRIL 24th MEETING! BE EARLY! BRING 3 people with you!
SHOW THEM THIS IS OUR LOCAL! BE AT THE MEETING MONDAY, APRIL 24th!