Are You “Pro”, Union?
Groucho Marx famously said, "I don't want to belong to any club that will accept people like me as a member." I tend to agree with that sentiment, and it's a good thing I do... because I don't think that the AMCL wants me very much at all. Although the actions of the AMCL Steering Committee—the eleven men who have taken it upon themselves to spearhead the effort to unionize composers in Los Angeles under the Teamsters Local 399 banner—have run a somewhat confusing gamut from ill-prepared to scatter-brained to misinformed to moderately victorious, one thing is particularly clear: The AMCL and the Teamsters Union have zero intentions of unionizing ALL composers. They only want the "working ones". If you are like me, you want to know "Why?". Let's talk it through and see if we can come to any conclusions...
Read MoreComposers Unionization: New Goals, New Focus
Tuesday night, April 19, 2010, the Association of Media Composers and Lyricists' (AMCL) presented their second public meeting concerning the effort to unionize composers and lyricists under the umbrella of the Teamsters Local 399.
Read MoreComposer Unionization: AMCL Announces Organizing Meeting in Los Angeles
The Association of Media Composers and Lyricists (AMCL) has announced its next organizing meeting on April 19, 2010, to update composers...
Read MoreAlan Elliott Resigns from AMCL Union Organizing Committee
This morning, a mass email went out to the mailing list of the Association of Composers and Lyricists announcing that the group’s...
Read MoreSCOREcast 25: Bruce Broughton
It's SCOREcast's Silver Anniversary, and we are celebrating BIG! In our 25th episode, Deane and Lee visit with ten-time Emmy Award-winning composer Bruce Broughton about the current union discussions and his role in the newly formed ad-hoc group, the Association of Media Composers and Lyricists (AMCL). Much, much more after the jump…
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