The Committee For A More Responsible Local 47

II. THE RMA NOW DOING SIDELINING?
II. PRESIDENT ESPINOSA IN DEPOSITIONS
III. SELECTIVE AUDITING OF SELAS? From FMA PRESIDENT LISA HALEY
IV. YOUR IDEAS, YOUR OPINIONS
V CONCERT ANNOUNCEMENT
VI. TRIVIA
VII. COMMENTS

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I. THE RMA ELITES NOW DOING SIDELINING?

A few weeks ago there were multiple days of sidelining for a major film.
Who was there? Sandy DeCrescent and Peter Rotter. A good number of RMA
elites were among the sideliners pretending to be an orchestra on the stage.

So now, with their recording work so affected, they make a move on the
sidelining jobs as well?

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Local 47 Colleagues,

There is so much going on concerning our Local and it’s future that it’s hard to know where to begin. The rank and file is facing attacks from outside and inside the Local. Please take the time to read the entire mailing. It is important you understand some of what’s going on.

This is a rather long edition, but the most important message from this mailing is to be at the April 23rd meeting at the Local. The voice of the rank and file membership is at stake.

THE COMMITTEE

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I. THE RESOLUTIONS
-Proxies are coming
-Resolution I – VOTE NO!
-Resolution II – VOTE NO!
-Resolution III – VOTE NO!
-Bait and Switch

II. THE GUILD
-Some questions
-Conflict of Interest

III. A MESSAGE TO THE NON-ELITE RMA
-Think about it!
-Don’t vote against your own best interests

PROXIES LASLEY AND SAZER THREATEN RANK AND FILE’S VOICE

I. THE RESOLUTIONS

The last time the Administration engineered a rise in the quorum to 100 what followed was over two years with NO MEETINGS, a rash of firings of the most valuable people for the rank and file membership and the gutting of rank and file member services unlike anything this local has seen in decades.

Last year, we fought back and regained our voice, lowering the quorum back to 50 and putting in a resolution guaranteeing the members voices will be heard by the board whether there is a quorum at a meeting or not.

The administration has fought every step of the way, and the RMA did not like their supremacy of control of the voices in our Local challenged.

Then came the last election and though a valiant effort was made to give our Local a new start with an administration not addled by special interests, some members of the RMA marched into the local as a unit and re-installed the same crew.

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I. MESSAGE FROM THE FMA
II. LETTER FROM NANCY LAWRENCE
III. TOWNHOUSE w/ADDED STUDIO SPACE AVAILABLE
IV. ROTARY CLUB COMPETITION INFORMATION
V. MEMBERS COMMENTS

Greetings Local 47 Colleagues,

The upcoming general membership meeting on April 23rd will be the most important meeting since we, the rank and file, lowered the quorum to 50. Gary Lasley from the Espinosa Slate (and currently standing in for Serena as Secretary), along with Marc Sazer, vice president of the RMA, have submitted resolutions to nullify every advance the membership has made to protect their voice. You can check them out in your current Overture.

A year ago it took an extraordinary effort and unprecedented turn-out of members at a regular membership meeting to undo the impossibly high (100) quorum number that had lead to not having membership meeting for over two years! Now Sazer and Lasley want to raise the quorum number not to 100, but to an outrageous 170! If this would happen it again would assure a virtual lockout of membership input at the Local.

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