Archives: November 2019
11/13/19 CORE Alliance Announces Teach-In on December 14
Have you waited months to be paid? Feel like you are not treated with respect on the job? Had your gig cancelled at the last minute and not get paid for it? Join with other workers to learn how to keep from being abused.
Join the CORE Alliance at a Teach-In As We Lift Our Voices Together for Workers’ Rights!
11/01/19 Official Business
Thank you to the sixteen members (a quorum) that attended the October 29 membership meeting. All of the proposed bylaw amendments were adopted. Updated bylaws will be available soon on the website and by contacting the office.
11/01/19 Last Month at the Local
Local 655 recently joined an alliance of labor and community organizations in Miami-Dade County. The alliance is working on a number of issues of importance to a number of different groups, one of which is wage theft.
11/01/19 Membership Benefits
What should you do when you get asked to play a gig?
If you are working under an AFM agreement, that agreement gives you a number of protections, including guaranteed minimum pay rates and timely payment of wages. But if you are working without the protection of an AFM agreement, or you do not know if there is an AFM agreement in place, there are a number of things you can do to protect yourself.
11/01/19 That Union Thing
Employees of the Miami Herald and el Nuevo Herald have announced that they plan to unionize through the NewsGuild, a division of the Communication Workers of America.
11/01/19 Local and Industry News
Full- and part-time employees of the city of Orlando will be paid at least $15 an hour by 2021.
