Member Benefits

Annual Dues Again??  Why should you send in those annual dues checks...

Symphonic Musicians

  • Are you working under the Boca Pops or Florida Philharmonic CBAs that we just helped negotiate on your behalf?

  • Did we just fight a grievance for one of your colleagues?

Recording Musicians

  • Are you receiving new use or reuse checks for that recording you did a couple of years ago?

  • Have we negotiated with more signatories and helped you to get more of your recording dates on an AFM contract?

Casual Musicians

  • Have we gotten more of your gigs to make contributions into the AFM Employers’ Pension Fund (or are you collecting from the AFM-EPF?)?

  • Are you using the Credit Union that we recently affiliated with?

  • Do you have instrument insurance through us?

  • Did you play an MPTF gig this year?

  • Did we list you in the Referral program?

  • Did we get you extra money because that casual date you did was videotaped?

Leaders...are you Incorporated?

A number of you are incorporated for your own reasons, but you may not be aware that by being incorporated, you can pay pension to yourself in addition to the other musicians that work on engagements with you.

Any leader can file pension for the musicians that work for them simply by filling out a pension participation agreement. If incorporated, the corporation (John Doe, Inc.) pays your (John Doe, bandleader) pension contribution.

In addition, we have a number of computer programs that can assist leaders in preparing contracts, payrolls, and the appropriate pension contribution forms. These all help to shorten the time and effort required of leaders and hopefully will encourage you to file more jobs.

We will continue to work along these lines, as well as to hold regular meetings with leaders (which we’ve already begun) to encourage you to file more jobs and take advantage of the great pension fund we have. We will continue our efforts to make the excuses for not filing go away...if you would like more information, call us. We’re here to help!

Of Flowers and Scholarships...

Did you know that the Union Plus Credit Card offers scholarships to union members and their families? To date, over $790,000 has been distributed.

And did you know that you can get a 15% discount by ordering flowers through the Union Member Flower Service? Call (888) 667-7779 (manned 24 hours a day) for more information.

To get more information about the Union Plus Credit Card, call (800) 622-2580.
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