Message from Bob Edwards
| Flash! | National | December 2009 |
 | This message from AFTRA National First Vice President and award-winning broadcast journalist, Bob Edwards, is the first in a series of communications you will receive once a month during the coming year from each your 12 elected national officers. Dear AFTRA Member: As the year draws to a close, and we look ahead to 2010, we stand together at the crossroads of opportunity. |
Starting early next year, AFTRA members will come together in wages and working conditions meetings around the country to discuss our experiences working in both traditional and digital media in virtually every sector of our industries. The information we share with each other will help shape the proposals we will bring to the bargaining table to enhance our wages, benefits and working conditions. In fact, through our internal organizing program rolling out now in Locals like Cleveland, Miami, Pittsburgh, Tri-State, Twin Cities and Washington-Baltimore, and coming soon to more AFTRA Locals, we’re already doing important work to strengthen AFTRA from within.
A thriving America depends on a diverse and prosperous union workforce. In the entertainment and news media, AFTRA members are that workforce: actors, journalists, singers, dancers, announcers, hosts, comedians, disc jockeys and many others who work in television, radio, cable, sound recordings, music videos, commercials, audiobooks, non-broadcast industrials, video games, the Internet and other digital media.
Through our union work, whether in a union meeting or on the job at the studio, on the set or in the booth, AFTRA members have a real chance – and a responsibility – to inform, educate and entertain our listeners and viewers, and in doing so, enrich the American labor movement and culture as a whole.
Your Winter 2009 issue of AFTRA magazine is on its way to your mailbox now. In this issue, you’ll find a review of AFTRA members’ recent work, including our efforts to increase diversity and equal employment opportunities across all categories of AFTRA members’ work, a first-person account from our colleague broadcast pioneer and union activist Belva Davis and a detailed description of the terms of our new AFTRA Interactive Media Agreement, among other news.
On behalf of your elected AFTRA national officers and the AFTRA National Board of Directors I wish you and your family a very happy holiday season and a prosperous new year.
In solidarity,
Bob Edwards
First National Vice President
AFTRA, AFL-CIO
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