Newsletter Archives: April 2016
Membership Meeting
- Date: Thursday, May 19, 2016
- Time: 10 AM
- Location: Artserve, 1350 East Sunrise Blvd., Fort Lauderdale
east of I95 on Sunrise Blvd, in the Ft. Lauderdale branch of the Broward Library, next to Holiday Park
Wage Scale Increase
Please remember that the wage scales will increase on June 1, 2016. Please consult your wage scale booklet, the members' section of the website, or contact the Local if you need more information.
2015 Financial Reports
2015 Local 655 financial reports are now available in the members' section of the website: http://www.afm655.org/members/financialreports.php
This past March we began preparations for attendance at the
AFM's 100th convention, which will take place this June.
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A report by the Center for American Progress states that 35 percent of the
decline of the middle class in the past 30 years is due to the decline of labor unions. The report notes that union-induced wage increases spill over to nonunion workers. The report also notes that union advocacy also produces economic and social policies that benefit the middle class. According to the Pew Research Center, the number of adults in the middle class has fallen from 61 percent in 1971 to just 50 percent in 2014.
According to the National Endowment for the Arts and the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, the
arts and culture contributed $704.2 billion to the economy in 2013, or 4.23 percent of the GDP.
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