Our Votes Have Made Important Change for Musicians
Once again it is time to get out and vote with midterm elections happening TOMORROW, November 8. And it is
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Tell our Senators to support the PRO Act
I wanted to write today about the Protecting the Right to Organize Act, or PRO Act, which recently passed the
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State of the Union: Transitioning from Crisis to Progress
2021: A most important “Year in Review”. On January 1st of this year I wrote to you that we were
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Keeping the Family Together
I wanted to take a moment to recognize and thank you for the solidarity and sense of community that WILL
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We Are All In This Together – We Are The Union
It would be a gross understatement to say that this past year has not been a great one. This pandemic
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With this Holiday Season Comes the Promise of Tomorrow
Socially Distanced But Still Together The holiday season is now upon us again! While we look back on one of
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Your Vote May Never Have Been More Important, Seriously
Perhaps never before have the choices at the ballot box been more critical for musicians and all our Union brothers
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Keeping Our Local Strong in Hard Times
Our Union Sticking Together in the Pandemic: The Local Needs Your Support. Pay Dues if you Can — Call us
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The Local 72-147 Life Insurance Benefit
I want to write to you today about one of the benefits of your membership in our Local – the $2000 Death Benefit. We are one of the last of the AFM Locals that are still maintaining this type of benefit for our members. If you are still a member in good standing at the time of your death, all your beneficiary needs to do is provide us with an original of the death certificate, and we will take care of the rest. We have a Death Benefit Fund set up in our own Musicians Federal Credit Union to which we contribute periodically from the General Fund, so it is a self-funded benefit, not connected with any insurance company.
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Beginning a New Season of Music – Under the COVID-19 Pandemic.
It has been quite the summer for everyone, but especially so for musicians. With all the of the ups and downs, shutdowns and restarts, controversies over mask wearing, and a summer spike in infection – right here in North Texas – things have remained constant for musicians. As our work requires the gathering of our audiences (and for us too!) the reality is that we will not be able to return to work like normal as long as the Pandemic continues. After the shock of the shutdown last spring and finding an immediate response to it, this summer began the work for us forging a path FORWARD.
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