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Join us on Labor Day 2025: GO BIG OR GO HOME!

Labor Day 2025 promises to be the biggest, boldest Labor Day March in the nation. Simply put: GO BIG OR GO HOME!

  • Date: Monday, September 1
  • Meeting Point: 510 Broad Ave at East E St, Wilmington CA
  • Parking: available near Banning Park — free shuttles will be provided to parade start point
  • Parade: Begins at 10 a.m. sharp (plan arrival time accordingly)
  • Picnic & Entertainment: 11 a.m. at Banning Park – enjoy 40+ vendor booths of various unions and Labor organizations, a kid zone for children including face painting, popcorn, cotton candy, puppet show & book giveaway, and a lowrider car show!
  • Event End Time: 4 p.m.
  • View Labor Day 2025 Map & Logistics

This year, we are proud to welcome AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler, California Labor Federation President Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher, United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero, along with our own powerful local leaders. Their presence underscores the national spotlight on Los Angeles as we lead the way toward 2028 and beyond. Labor Day will not only be a march — it will be a message: Los Angeles labor is strong, united, and ready to lead.

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September 2024 Overture Online: We Are Labor

Inside This Issue:

  • COVER STORY: We Are Labor: Exploring Music’s Pivotal Role in the Labor Movement
  • Hollywood Union Labor Day Parade: Monday, September 2
  • Member Spotlight: Sheryl Crow
  • Next Local 47 Member Mingle: Friday, September 20
  • Joy Music House Score Production Workshop Celebrates Second Year
  • ‘Star Wars’ Meets NASA: Hollywood Studio Symphony ‘Across the Stars’
  • Entertainment Unions Featured at Burbank Media Industry Job Fair
  • Entertainment Unions Support Striking SAG-AFTRA Video Game Workers
  • Labor Stands With Animation During Contract Negotiations
  • Audition Notice: New West Symphony
 
and more!
 

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Musicians Join Health Care Workers at Labor Day Rally

Health care workers marched and rallied in Los Feliz on Labor Day to draw attention to what organizers say are long patient wait times, missed diagnosis, neglect and chronic understaffing in patient care.

A group of AFM Local 47 members and leadership joined in the event which included appearances by many dignitaries, including California State Senator Maria Elena Durazo and U.S. Representative Katie Porter. Continue reading →

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September 2023 Overture Online: Happy Labor Day

Inside This Issue:

  • ON THE COVER: Happy Labor Day!
  • SoCal Labor Celebrates National Day of Solidarity
  • Member Spotlight: Meredith Snow
  • Labor Day Rally 2023: Take a Stand for Healthcare Workers
  • Creative Artists are Rising Up… Musicians are Next!
  • Auditions: New West Symphony, Bay Philharmonic, Long Beach Symphony
 
and more!
 

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Musicians, actors & more come together at Labor Day celebration

More than 80 AFM Local 47 musicians marched in solidarity alongside friends from SAG-AFTRA, Actors’ Equity and many other local unions at the 40th annual Labor Day Parade at Banning Park on Monday.

Musicians proudly spent a day of solidarity with 3,000 members of the Southern California labor movement including actors, broadcasters, teachers, longshoremen, firefighters, teamsters, carpenters and more. Attendees of this year’s event, hosted by the Los Angeles/Long Beach Harbor Labor Coalition, also included Congressmembers Nanette Barragan and Gil Cisneros, and former U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis, who now serves as an L.A. County Supervisor.

We are all stronger together, and musicians appreciate the overwhelming solidarity and support shown by our union sisters and brothers for our #BandTogether campaign. Together, we win! 

View the photo gallery at bandtogetherafm.org

 

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September 2019 Overture Online: Labor Day History

Inside This Issue:

    • Labor Day – Celebrating the People Who Build America // Join us Sept. 2 at the Labor Day Parade!
    • #BandTogether – Musicians across the nation are banding together in new media contract campaign
    • Woodstock Turns 50 – A look back at a concert that changed a generation

and more!

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40th Annual Labor Day Parade

40th Annual Labor Day Parade
& Rally Picnic 

Monday, September 2, 10 am – 12 pm
401 E M St. Wilmington CA 90744 – map –
 
 

Please join AFM Local 47 at the Labor Day parade alongside SAG-AFTRA and many other unions! 

Musicians will be marching and performing at this annual celebration of labor. Help us to share our #BandTogether campaign and spread the word about musicians’ issues with the rest of the Southern California labor movement: actors, broadcasters, teachers, longshoremen, firefighters, carpenters and more.

Family, friends, kids and pets are welcome! Lots of food and festivities will be served free of charge at Banning Park at the end of the march at noon.

Please wear your Local 47 blue shirts and we’ll see you there!

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Labor Day Parade & Rally Picnic

Join with LA Labor at the

39th Annual Labor Day
Parade & Rally Picnic

Monday, September 3 @ 10am
Wilmington, CA

Join AFM Local 47 President John Acosta, Secretary/Treasurer Gary Lasley & additional union leaders and fellow members for the largest Labor Day parade event on the west coast!

Musicians will be meeting at 9 a.m. at 501 Broad Ave and will be marching with members and leaders of SAG-AFTRA. Come out and show your #unionpride!

Marching bands, union delegations and floats, classic cars and motorcycles will be marching north to Banning Park. The picnic and rally commences at noon. Bring the family and join with our union sisters and brothers for live music and free picnic.

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