[Fmpro] New Era Scoring

[Rick Blanc]

 Quite right.  The RMALA's "Let them eat cake"
 attitude toward the majority of LA musicians,
 along with 47's draconian threats 
 toward musicians simply trying to make a living
 have produced resentment and further division.

 The 50K fine threat, whether implemented or not,
 is what caused me to decide to quit the union.
 I simply could not support these kinds of
 policies.

 And let's face it.  Some are moaning about
 "benefits."  The way markets work is when one
 gets paid a decent wage one goes shopping and
 buys the benefits one wants, in the form one
 wants.  Giving a worker a decent paycheck is not
 an abuse.  Denying that worker a decent
 paycheck IS an abuse.

 And let's not forget context.  Today maybe 50%
 of the world's population lives in abject
 poverty,  a dramatic improvement over the 99% or
 so a century ago.  Much, if not most, of this
 improvement is due to markets, which provide
 choices and jobs to consumers.

 Rick

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Mark Northam 
  To: fmpro at nxport.com 
  Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 12:05 AM
  Subject: Re: [Fmpro] New Era Scoring


  I agree, Mike. According to Greg Townley  of NES who's a scoring engineer,
  even IATSE, a much stronger union than the AFM, willingly allows its members
  to work nonunion work between union jobs, rather than using the threat of
  fines, etc to force them to go fi-core to avoid the fine threats.

  The $50,000 fine threat backfires and fuels NES and Eastern Europe
  recording...

  The mass cancellations on the Simpsons videogame sessions backfires and
  moves work out of LA...

  One of these days, the small group of highly paid recording musicians that
  is behind all of these stunts will realize they simply don't have the market
  share and leverage they think they have (and perhaps in reality used to
  have). There are way too many competitive options out there now, thanks in
  part to them. And beating up on Tom Lee for being more competitive is not
  going to change the realities of the marketplace.

  Maybe NES will become the "common enemy" and bring together the AFM and its
  renegade recording musician faction. Then again, it could just a easily fuel
  the growing chasm between Local 47 and the recording musicians who now run
  Local 47 and the AFM national. Either way, there are interesting times
  ahead..

  Best,

  Mark Northam


  On 9/27/07 11:48 PM, "Mike Vaccaro" <mike at mikevaccaro.com> wrote:

  > I wish someone could tell me who has been fined $50,000.00. Its a joke. And
  > the non union work goes on. It was much better when the AFM turned its back
  > on the dark dates before they started competing with them. Dark dates are
  > still a better way to go than Fi-Core. The union as always won't do
  > anything.
  > 
  > Just a thought.



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