President's Report
… Southern Conference … I recently served as Vice-President of the Southern Conference at our annual meeting in Nashville. There were a number of new ideas and concepts presented this year, among them is a new program that will allow bandleader / contractors to file pension on their own behalf without having to incorporate. This should be helpful to all of our members as the inability of leaders to get their pension has been a stumbling block in getting them to file on behalf of the sidemen. There was also an interesting recording seminar chaired by Melissa Hamby Meyer from Local 257 in Nashville, along with Marycolette Hruskocy from the Pension Fund which introduced some ground-breaking ideas in terms of assisting Locals in cleaning up recording contracts that have problems. This new initiative brings the Pension Fund into the picture sooner in most cases where there are problems and Locals need more muscle in getting the record companies and producers to do the right thing.Write reply
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