[Fmpro] AFM Petition

[Christopher Alpiar]

Here is another petition by the AFL/CIO (which the AFM is part of). I  
thought to pass along the email sent to me:

Dear CHRISTOPHER KENNEDY ALPIAR,

AFM members performing in orchestras, theaters, motion pictures,  
jingles, and many other areas receive wages and pension and health  
care contributions as a result of their right to join a union that  
collectively bargains on their behalf.

Many other musicians would organize if the process was less  
contentious.  Instead, the exercising of one's right to organize in  
the workplace has become subject to numerous legal challenges that  
stall, and often defeat, the opportunity for musicians' to gain union  
representation and achieve tangible gains in their working lives.

The Employee Free Choice Act, supported by a bipartisan coalition in  
Congress, would level the playing field for musicians.  It would  
eliminate many of the roadblocks that currently impede musicians and  
would allow them to have greater access to a process that would  
provide them with fair representation in the workplace.

In response, the AFL-CIO has asked workers across the United States to  
support the Act by signing a petition that will be delivered to  
policymakers on Capitol Hill.  Your support will greatly enhance this  
drive for real and immediate change.  Recent research has shown that  
some 60 million U.S. workers would join a union if they could.  Please  
consider this opportunity to help those workers, many of whom are  
musicians, exercise their right to join a union.

Please click on this link to sign the AFL-CIO petition in support of  
the Act:http://www.unionvoice.org/campaign/efca_card_support

If you like to learn more about the Act, please follow this link to  
the AFL-CIO's information center: http://www.aflcio.org/joinaunion/voiceatwork/efca/

Sincerely,

Thomas F. Lee
President
AFM

Christopher Kennedy Alpiar
Cinematic Composer
937.294.0900 (Dayton Studio)
310.339.9603 (Los Angeles)
877.294.0912 (Toll Free)
www.alpiar.com