Local Report Instructions and Sample:
Please include the following information in your report to the
conference:
1. Local
2. Delegate Name
3. Demographics: number of members, number of paid full-time/part-time
officers/staff, type of work under contract, number of collective bargaining agreements
(specify)
4. Year in review: Include notable events: contract negotiations,
grievances, organizing, recruitment, freelance support, alliances, etc.
See Sample Report Below:
Local 655 SOCO Report, June 2023
Jeffrey Apana, Delegate
204 members
2 part-time paid officers
2 cbas (Palm Beach Opera, Broadway Across America)
no full-time musical employment: ,musicians are all freelancers, with
Miami City Ballet (xx services), Palm Beach Opera (xx services), and
Broadway Across America being the major work under contract, with a
small number of reported AFM recording sessions
Year in Review
Contract negotiations with Palm Beach Opera are proceeding slowly.
Their first offer included many damaging proposals, most of which have
been withdrawn, but we are still far apart on financials.
After maintaining our membership rolls during the pandemic, we are
again seeing declines. Surprisingly, we did not lose too many members
during the pandemic. We are back to our usual losses, but this time
they are not accompanied by new members replacing them; where we
usually have 2 or 3 musicians joining each month, we are down to one
every few months.
This is an election year for us, and there are questions about whether
we will have sufficient candidates to fill all offices. Our president
would like to retire, but we have not found someone willing to run in
his place.
Work dues income has returned to pre-pandemic levels, but the majority
of musicians on the few AFM recording session report forms we receive
are not members. We suspect that there is much more recording work
being done in Miami that is not being reported, but have no way to
determine the extent of unreported sessions.
While some of the orchestras have raised wages since the pandemic,
several have had wages frozen for years, and we continue to fight to
keep Salute to Vienna and Bocelli tours under contract and paying scale.