Month: August 2025

Membership Meeting Scheduled New Forms/Contracts Please note that the AFM has updated the LS-1 local engagement contract form. If you are using this form, please contact us to make sure you have the new form. The AFM has also raised the minimum rate for Limited Pressing recordings to $60 per hour. If you are planning READ MORE

We are making progress on the appeal of a Palm Beach Opera musician dismissed for musical causes. We have a tentative date for a appeals committee hearing in August and hopefully this will be resolved soon. Tenure language in our contracts protects musicians from unfair dismissals and the appeals process allows each musician to “have READ MORE

Fred’s Nightmare Gig The call came in the middle of the off-season. Fred, (not his real name) a member of our Local, was having a slow couple of weeks. The contractor told him that the show, a Broadway-style musical, was not a Union gig, but it offered four weeks of work. Fred didn’t like the READ MORE

SAG-AFTRA members have ratified an Interactive Media Agreement, ending an almost year-long strike. The agreement with Activision, Disney, Electronic Arts, WB Games, and others increases pay by 15 percent immediately, with additional increases of three percent in each of the second, third, and fourth years. There will also be increases in pension benefits. The companies READ MORE

Governor DeSantis has used his veto power to cut nearly $6 million from the state budget for Florida’s public radio and TV stations. Each of the state’s radio stations will lose about $100,000 and each TV station will lose about $370,000. Miami-Dade county mayor Daniella Levine Cava has proposed cutting $12.8 million from the county READ MORE

New, Reinstated, and Resigned members for July 2025: New Members: Reinstated Members:none Resigned Members: none Deceased Members: none