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VOL. 69, NO. 16 Since 1952 • Serving the highly skilled men and women in Michigan’s building trade unions 65 Cents August 7, 2020 SHORT For now, Michigan is CUTS an island in a swamp created by COVID-19 UIA getting up to By Marty Mulcahy speed on claims Editor The pandemic ‘and THE 1,150 “COVID-19 crushes con- resulting recession LANSING – The Michigan MEGAWATT struction starts in most metro ar- Unemployment Agency is Blue Water eas during first-half 2020,” reads have wreaked havoc on crawling out of its hole and Energy Center the headline of the quarterly re- U.S. building markets’ catching up on claims. going up on the port on the status of U.S. con- The news service MIRS re- grounds of DTE struction from Dodge Data and struction starts in April as eco- ported July 24 that the agency Energy’s Belle Analytics. nomic activity virtually shut has caught up on jobless ben- River Power That headline is both accu- down and local restrictions on efit claims filed before June 1. Plant in St. Clair rate and inadequate – because it’s construction took effect,” Dodge That’s after the agency an- County is of a also impossible to encapsulate in said on July 22. “Construction re- nounced on July 6 it had met its super-efficient, a few words the incredible roller- sumed in some areas in May al- July 4 goal “to make a determi- natural-gas- coaster that the U.S. construction lowing starts to post a mild gain nation on all currently eligible, fired combined industry has been riding before (Continued on Page 3) certifying unpaid claims that cycle design that and after the pandemic started were filed before May 1.” will emit 70 shutting down many jobsites in The great disruption to the percent less March. And this year Michigan Labor gags state’s economy caused by the carbon dioxide, has had a lower low – and a COVID-19 pandemic led to about 99 percent less higher high – than just about any 2.1 million in unemployment nitrous and other state. And right now we’re on GOP’s claims from March 15 through sulfur, and use riding pretty high, but again, it’s July, with more than $15 billion 99 percent less a roller coaster. in benefits paid to more than 2 water than a The latest numbers from relief bill million workers. Michigan’s coal-burner. Dodge paint an overall gloomy WASHINGTON, D.C. – Or- maximum unemployment benefit picture for construction, reflect- ganized labor really, really doesn’t is $362 per week, and jobless Photo credits: ing prospects for the greater like the Republican Senate’s plan workers received an additional Kiewit, economy. Michigan has been one to support the nation’s workers DTE Energy $600 weekly federal unemploy- of the few bright spots on the map and sustain the U.S. economy ment benefit that ended July 25 for construction activity after the during the COVID-19 pandemic. under the original federal six-week COVID-related con- Senate Majority Leader CARES Act. Trades put a charge in DTE’s struction shutdown ended in the Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on July The Unemployment state, reducing construction ac- 28 unveiled the GOP’s $1 trillion Agency said 97.2 percent of po- tivity by as much as 81 percent relief plan for the U.S. economy. tentially eligible, certifying Blue Water Energy Center and likely creating a lot of pent- Labor leaders panned it for being claimants have received or are up demand. While the heightened too late to keep federal jobless approved for benefits. Of the re- By Marty Mulcahy building the Blue Water Energy “There’s a lot to be done, activity isn’t likely to last in benefits flowing without interrup- maining unpaid claimants, most Editor Center was approaching 40 per- but so far everybody here has Michigan, it has been stronger tion, while offering a paltrier ben- are flagged for potential impos- EAST CHINA TWP. – In a cent completion in early July, with stuck with it, buckled down and than expected. efit package than the Democrats’ tor fraud. The UIA said last weird, turbulent year, 1 million man-hours worked. is doing a lot of hard work, and “The full force of the pan- plan and zero help for budgets of month that less than 34,000 un- Michigan’s largest ongoing Significant work on DTE we have managed to minimize demic bore down on U.S. con- (Continued on Page 3) paid claims had yet to be re- construction project is proceed- Energy’s natural gas-fueled, com- the COVID impact,” said solved and were being held for ing safely, on schedule, and bined-cycle power plant began Kiewit Project Manager Casey ‘Inequality grows and wages stagnate’ additional identity verification with a lot of quality work. with pilings in October 2018. The Williams. “It looks like we’re set while about 15,000 unpaid Under Kiewit Engineering plant is being erected on the to hit a lot of important mile- claims are held pending adjudi- (MI) Co., the project’s engineer- grounds of the utility’s existing stones in the next six months.” U.S. labor law needs cation for other reasons. ing, construction, and procure- Belle River Power Plant in St. Clair Despite a six-week shut- “The UIA remains commit- ment manager, progress on County. (Continued on Page 2) ted to quickly processing to start working for claims. While there is only small percentage of eligible workers who have yet to be paid, we workers, study says know that is no consolation to By Marty Mulcahy farmworkers, domestic workers, the thousands of claimants who Editor and independent contractors are frustrated, desperate and U.S. labor law, much of which who are currently excluded from owed the benefits they were was adopted in the 1930s and federal union rights. promised,” said UIA Director updated in the 1940s, is badly “Protecting the right to col- Steve Gray, who had previously skewered against workers and lective bargaining is key to solv- apologized for the UIA’s slow many aspects – especially union ing the crisis of economic inequal- response to the rush of claims, election procedures – are desper- ity,” said Gordon Lafer, professor which was unprecedented. “We ately in need of reform. at the University of Oregon’s La- will not rest until the claims back- A new report for the labor- bor Education and Research Cen- log is eliminated and all eligible backed Economic Policy Institute ter and co-author of the report. Michigan workers get every (EPI) describes how employers “When workers have the ability single dollar they are entitled “routinely threaten, intimidate, to bargain collectively with their to.” and harass workers to stop them employers, the division of corpo- Ouch: COVID leaves from exercising their right to col- rate profits is more equally shared lective bargaining.” between employees, manage- state in deep rut The report, issued July 23, ment, and shareholders. When Despite the relative calls on Congress to reform fed- workers can’t exercise this right - strength of the state’s construc- eral labor laws, including by pass- as is often the case – inequality tion industry, Michigan ranks DTE ENERGY’S $1 billion Blue Water Energy project going up in St. Clair County will provide ing and enacting the Protecting grows and wages stagnate.” third among the states for “fis- power for 850,000 homes beginning in 2022. The project is being managed by Kiewit Engineering the Right to Organize (PRO) Act The report details common cal shock” caused by the (MI) Co. and extending labor rights to employer tactics that often turn COVID-19 pandemic. overwhelming support for unions Of course, the entire nation at the outset of a campaign into a has experienced some effect “no” vote just weeks later, includ- from the pandemic, which has Trades may not like the hand dealt by ‘Green New Deal’ ing: closed schools and businesses, By Mark Gruenberg Trades Unions commissioned says. That’s not the case with wind nities in oil and gas are higher.” •Forcing employees to attend generally disrupted our way of PAI Staff Writer Construction Job Quality Across and solar, though, McGarvey adds. He added: “Energy construc- daily anti-union meetings where life and caused the infection of WASHINGTON (PAI) – U.S. Energy Industries, and “We have to make sure” the tion workers find better wages and pro-union workers have no right nearly 2.4 million Americans and Building trades workers who toil posted it at www.nabtu.org. It re- wind and solar project construc- benefits in oil and gas than in the to present alternative views and claimed more than 153,000 lives. on constructing energy facilities ports gas and oil pipeline con- tion jobs “are middle-class fam- renewable sector, with longer can be fired on the spot if they But some states have been believe their jobs building oil and struction jobs “are one of the big- ily-sustaining jobs, and right now, construction times. They also ask a question. hit harder than others by the natural gas pipelines last longer gest opportunities for our mem- they’re not,” McGarvey told the find once projects are built, solar •Plastering the workplace pandemic – and Michigan is and give them higher pay than bers to maintain their position in July 17 telephone press confer- and wind projects need far less with anti-union posters, banners, among them. jobs building wind farms and so- the middle class,” NABTU Presi- ence on the studies. “What makes maintenance and far fewer work- and looping video ads – and de- “Due to the abrupt shut- lar panel arrays, a new survey of dent Sean McGarvey says. these good jobs is the training ers for that task.” nying pro-union employees ac- down of their economies, states 1,619 workers and accompanying The oil and gas jobs are espe- and the money, which our mem- One reason workers favor cess to any of these media. were left with a sudden shock analysis shows. cially valuable economically to bers gain through registered ap- fossil fuel construction jobs is it •Instructing managers to tell to their revenue streams as with- North America’s Building workers in the trades, the study prenticeships, and the opportu- (Continued on Page 13) (Continued on Page 13) holding tax from employers was not collected, sales tax revenue fell as spending decreased, and other taxes and receipts were flat We have liftoff... space launch site picked in U.P. or negative in growth,” said the By Marty Mulcahy, Editor report, issued in July by the MARQUETTE – Michigan may be jumping into the modern-day space industry. Council of State Governments. In an era when private space travel is becoming increasingly common, the Michi- Michigan received the low- gan Aerospace Manufacturers Association on July 23 announced that a vertical est score in four of five catego- rocket space launch site has been chosen on land just north of the city. Several ries, including “revenue short- months ago the group announced that Oscoda-Wurtsmith Airport outside of Oscoda fall,” “Medicaid increase,” “eco- in the Lower Peninsula was chosen as the top candidate for a horizontal spaceport. nomic risk,” and “pension reli- Conducted by spaceport consultants BRPH and Kimley-Horn, the site-selection ance on financial market re- process has been a year-long effort. Sites were ranked based on several factors, turns.” including existing commercial and public infrastructure, geographic and terrestrial mapping, living standards and workforce development. Operations in the U.P. are Quotable expected to begin by early 2025. The site selections follow the state Legislature’s June 2019 appropriation of $2 million to assess the feasibility of developing one or “The truth is incontrovert- more low-orbit launch sites in Michigan. ible. Malice may attack it, ig- “Michigan has a real opportunity to support a space-based ecosystem,” said norance may deride it, but in Gavin Brown, executive director of MAMA. “The Marquette location will be a critical THE MICHIGAN AEROSPACE Manufacturers Association announced the chosen place- the end, there it is.” component, bringing low-earth orbit vertical launch capabilities to the state to meet ment of a vertical launch site north of Marquette on the shores of Lake Superior, shown –Sir Winston Churchill the domestic and global demand. By integrating sophisticated infrastructure with in this rendering. The process of securing funding for the project will take place after a 1874-1965 (Continued on Page 5) feasibility study process has been completed. 2 THE BUILDING TRADESMAN August 7, 2020 DTE’s Blue Water Energy Center Viewpoints (Continued from Page 1) MW Blue Water Energy Center down at the plant beginning in will provide power for 850,000 March due to the COVID-19 cri- homes. The facility’s technology sis, Williams said the “commit- will provide more flexibility, allow- Trump vs. workers ment and hard work” by site sub- ing the utility to start the plant Donald Trump campaigned as an insurgent outside of the contractors and building trades up in less than an hour to meet political establishment who would restore the long-neglected union workers, as well as strict the needs of the grid – about 50 working class. That was a lie. As president, he’s turned his back safety protocols, is keeping the times faster than a coal-fired plant. on working people, governing instead as a lackey for billionaires, project on the original schedule From an environmental CEOs, and corporations. Even during a public health and eco- of completion for the spring of standpoint, the natural gas-fired nomic crisis, Trump has left working people in the dust. 2022. plant will emit 70 percent less car- Consider his signature tax law, sold as a benefit to working The Blue Water Energy Cen- bon dioxide, 99 percent less ni- people. More than 60 percent of its benefits have gone to people ter, says DTE Energy, is expected trous and sulfur, and use 99 per- in the top 20 percent of the income ladder. In 2018, for the first time to be the most fuel-efficient cent less water than a coal- in American history, billionaires paid a lower tax rate than the power plant in Michigan. It will burner. working class. run on natural gas and use com- According to GE, a com- Trump said every worker would get a $4,000 raise, but noth- bined-cycle technology that cap- bined-cycle plant uses a gas tur- ing trickled down. Instead, corporations spent their tax savings tures waste heat to produce ad- bine to burn fuel, and the turbine buying back shares of their own stock, boosting executive bo- ditional electricity. The plant will compresses air and mixes it with nuses and doing nothing for workers. To make matters worse, emit 70 percent less carbon diox- fuel that is heated to a very high some of the richest corporations are paying nothing in federal ide and will be 40 percent more temperature. The hot air-fuel mix- income taxes, despite making billions in profits. efficient than the three coal-fired ture moves through the gas tur- Meanwhile, Trump’s corporate lobbyists and industry shills plants DTE plans to retire by 2022 bine blades, making them spin. have systematically dismantled worker protections – rolling – including the St. Clair Power The fast-spinning turbine drives back child labor protections, undoing worker safeguards from Plant that’s directly west of the a generator that converts a por- exposure to cancerous radiation, gutting measures that shield new combined cycle plant. tion of the spinning energy into workers from wage theft, and eliminating overtime for 8 million In 2017 “DTE first an- electricity. workers. nounced a broad sustainability Then, a heat recovery steam Trump has even asked the Supreme Court to take away the initiative to reduce carbon emis- generator (HRSG) captures ex- health insurance of 23 million American workers by invalidating sions by more than 80 percent haust heat from the gas turbine the Affordable Care Act – in the middle of a global health crisis, and do it in a way that maintains that would otherwise escape no less! If Trump gets his way, protections for people with pre- affordability and reliability for our through the exhaust stack. The existing conditions will be eliminated. customers,” said Gerry Ander- HRSG creates steam from the gas Oh, and remember his promise to rein in drug prices so son, then chairman and CEO, AT WORK AT DTE ENERGY’S Blue Water Energy Center in St. turbine exhaust heat and deliv- working people can afford the meds they need? Well, forget it. DTE Energy. “In fact, we’re al- Clair County is Jim Maxson. Photo credit: Kiewit/DTE Energy ers it to the steam turbine, which Remdesivir, a drug to reduce the severity of COVID-19, from ready doing it. Since 2009 we delivers additional electricity. pharma giant Gilead, was developed with $70 million of tax- have driven investments of more out the combustion turbine and said. The equipment, including Always looming in the back- payer funding, yet Trump is letting the company charge $3,000 than $2.5 billion in renewable en- heat recovery steam generator an 800,000-pound generator, was ground at the plant – and in ev- per treatment. And he is omitting pricing protections from fed- ergy with more investments com- systems. They’re building a new brought in via an existing on-site ery corner of society – is the eral contracts to develop drugs for Covid-19 – making it likely ing. But as we continue to retire switchyard and transmission line rail spur, plus boat and truck. The COVID-19 pandemic. Williams that life-saving treatments and vaccines will be out of reach for coal-fired power plants – all of to connect to the grid. All the rail link in particular, helped avoid said Kiewit and DTE developed people in need. them by 2040 – we need to major electrical enclosures have the closure of local roads and the protocols to approach and plan Donald Trump doesn’t give a fig for working-class Ameri- complement wind farms and so- been set, and electricians are pull- movement of existing power the work to create a safe envi- cans. He even wants to end the extra unemployment benefits that lar arrays with high reliability as- ing wire and performing termina- lines. ronment, as well as require the countless Americans are depending on to get through this crisis. sets. As we Michiganders know tions. The site’s administration Another challenge was work- use of face masks, employ social So whose side is Trump really on? well, the wind doesn’t always building is also going up – ing with the soil at the site. The distancing and enhanced hy- Well, here’s a clue: Tucked away on page 203 of the COVID blow, and the sun doesn’t always among a myriad of other tasks. new plant is being erected on giene. The project will peak in the stimulus package backed by Trump, is an obscure provision that shine in our beautiful state. The combined cycle plant former brownfield land that was next month or so with about 650 delivers a whopping $135 billion in tax breaks to millionaire real “And that’s why we need technology and hardware are used as a disposal site for dirt. tradespeople on site. estate developers and hedge fund managers. One real estate ty- natural gas-fueled plants like the “fairly new to Michigan,” Will- Ground conditions necessitated “I’ve been impressed with coon who stands to profit handsomely from the provision is none Blue Water Energy Center. When iams said, and the plant has re- the driving of 1,600 W-shaped the Michigan building trades,” other than the president’s son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared it begins operations in 2022, it quired the importation and set- piles, 160 feet deep. Fortunately, Williams said. “Together with Kushner. will represent our single largest ting of some extremely heavy Williams said during the con- DTE we have tried to cherry-pick In total, the cash secretly spent on tax cuts for millionaires in step in reducing carbon emis- equipment, with the main hard- struction of the foundations best practices in dealing with the COVID-19 package is more than three times as much money as sions to date.” ware manufactured by General there was “very little under- COVID, and we have set a ‘no- was included for emergency housing and food relief. Williams said there’s a lot Electric. “There are some heavy, ground” expected or found – body gets hurt atmosphere.’ Kushner isn’t the only Trump insider getting paid off during going on at the site of the com- long and awkward pieces that we which is not always the case From the first meeting with the the pandemic. Forty lobbyists with ties to Donald Trump have bined-cycle plant, which is cor- had to figure out how to get to when building on the grounds of business agents and workers, helped clients secure more than $10 billion in federal COVID aid. doned off from the existing plant the site, and fortunately, we have older power plants. they have really embraced the And if Trump succeeds in getting the Supreme Court to repeal the by a fence and separate en- passed that process,” Williams DTE Energy said the 1,150 culture.” Affordable Care Act, the richest 0.1 percent of Americans will get trances. an average additional tax cut of $198,000 each per year. He said earlier this month Donald Trump is no working-class champion. He’s a corpo- that the building trades and their rate con man – the culmination of a rigged-for-the-rich system employers are continuing to build Greed is the other virus that’s shafting working Americans at every turn. By Jim Hightower billions of dollars of their own salary to an employee support Robert Reich “Mix a little foolishness The holy mantra of health cash reserves. fund. Magnanimous? Deceptive Professor, University of California-Berkeley with your prudence: It's good to professionals was coined about But hold your nose, for it is more like it. Former U.S. Secretary of Labor be silly at the right moment.” 2,500 years ago by the Greek phy- gets much stinkier. The trick is that a CEO’s “sal- –Horace (65 BC - 8 BC) The Building Tradesman welcomes your letters to the editor. We sician Hippocrates: “Do no The bailout was intended to ary” is a miniscule part of total reserve the right to edit for clarity and to shorten them. Please “Do not accustom yourself harm.” keep hospital workers on the job. pay. Hazen’s annual bonus, stock Of course, that was before Yet the wealthiest chains have hit payouts, and other compensa- sign the letter and include a way to contact you. to use big words for little mat- ters.” corporate healthcare took charge nurses, janitors, and other cru- tion will raise his actual pay to How to contact us – and asserted cial frontline staffers with layoffs, almost $27 million. By mail: Building Tradesman Editor –Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784) a new guid- pay cuts, and deadly shortages So his donation is less than 1640 Porter St. Detroit, MI 48216 ing ethic: of protective gear. 1 percent of his pay, and he al- e-mail: [email protected] “Slow down and enjoy life. “Jack up For example, HCA, the $36- most certainly will write that off It's not only the scenery you miss profits.” billion a-year health care behemoth his income taxes. That means we by going too fast - you also miss Putting this that’s wallowing in profits, taxpayers – including the nurses the sense of where you are go- in practice, snatched a billion-dollar taxpayer and others he’s knocking down ing and why.” America’s bailout for itself, then demanded – not only underwrite his fat take- – Eddie Cantor (1892 - 1964) largest and hospital staffers accept wage home pay, but we also subsidize richest hos- freezes and the elimination of com- his face-saving philanthropic “Isn't it good just to be alive pital chains rushed to the front pany pension payments… or have gimmick. on a day like this? I pity the of the COVID-19 bailout line this thousands of jobs eliminated. What we have here is a rag- Follow us people who aren't born yet for spring to pull $15 billion from the However, in a public show ing virus of executive suite greed The Michigan Building and Construction Trades missing it.” government’s emergency fund. of compassion, HCA’s chief ex- doing deeper damage to our so- They pocketed the taxpayers’ ecutive Samuel Hazen donated ciety than COVID-19 ever could. Council – L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942) money despite sitting on tens of two months of his $1.4 million (via www.otherwords.org) Building Michigan: August 7, 2020 THE BUILDING TRADESMAN 3 AC Spark Plugs For now, Michigan is an island in History in the making By Marty Mulcahy a swamp created by COVID-19 (Continued from Page 1) between June 2019 and June 2020, and Ann Arbor and Saginaw were over the month. Advances con- despite widespread increases among those tied at No. 15. Not far tinued in June. However, the from May to June. In contrast, behind tied at No. 34 were Niles/ damage to commercial and multi- before COVID-19 hit, construc- Benton Harbor, Flint and Lansing, family construction during the tion employment had increased all up 12 percent for the month. first half of the year was pal- in 61 percent of U.S. metro areas Michigan construction this pable.” Dodge added: “The in February 2020 vs. February year has been boosted by an COVID-19 pandemic and result- 2019. outage at the Fermi II Nuclear ing recession have wreaked “It’s troubling to see con- Power Plant near Monroe, major havoc on U.S. building markets.” struction employment lagging automotive projects for Fiat- Dodge said during the year-ago levels in most locations, Chrysler in the Detroit area, a course of the first half of the year, in spite of a strong rebound in new power plant in St. Clair compared to the same period in May and June,” said Ken County, a new hospital and 2019, among the top 10 U.S. metro Simonson, the association’s power plant in the Lansing area, areas, commercial and multifamily chief economist. “Those gains among other major projects construction starts slid 21 percent were not enough to erase the huge around the state. They were all and only one metro area (Phoenix- losses in March and April. Many ongoing when COVID hit. Mesa- Scottsdale, Ariz.) posted an indicators since the employment “The COVID-19 pandemic increase (+82 percent). data were collected in mid-June and recession have devastated In the same time period, suggest construction employment most local construction markets,” among the second-tier (ranked will soon decline, or stagnate at said Richard Branch, chief econo- 11-20 by population) metro areas, best, in much of the country.” mist for Dodge Data & Analytics. commercial and multifamily starts In Michigan, areas outside “Across the board, building plummeted 25 percent, Dodge of Detroit, fortunately, also con- projects have been halted or de- said, “with just one metro area tinue to be an outlier in construc- layed with virtually no sector im- posting an increase.” That one tion employment compared to the mune from damage. Construction metro area would be the 20th- rest of the nation, landing four starts have begun to increase ranked Detroit metro area, which “metropolitan” areas among the from their April lows and there is saw commercial buildings and top 10 in the U.S. for putting cautious optimism that as the FLINT’S AC Spark Plug plant on Industrial Avenue is shown in an undated photo after much expansion. multifamily housing starts jump building trades workers to work. year progresses construction The original factory is in the center portion on the left (west) side of the photo. Expansions were built a nation-leading 96 percent vs. Monroe was tops in the na- markets around the country will to the north and south of the original structure, and also on the east side of Industrial Avenue. During the same time period in 2019. tion among geographical “metro- begin a modest recovery. World War II this was AC Spark Plug's main manufacturing plant. Many of the products it supplied for Remarkably, every other top- politan” jurisdictions in the U.S., “However, the recent accel- the war effort were built here. In 1975 the plant was closed and subsequently razed. Photo credit: 20 major metropolitan area in the for employment gains from May eration of COVID-19 cases in the General Motors nation was negative in the com- to June 2020, up 31 percent. “De- South and West as well as the up- At the turn of the last cen- mercial and multifamily construc- troit- Dearborn- Livonia” and coming expiration of expanded un- tury, the budding automobile in- tion sector, with the worst being “Warren- Troy- Farmington employment insurance benefits dustry was producing cars that the Nashville, Tenn. area dropping Hills” were among the regional (from the CARES Act) puts the re- were comprised of about 1,500 45 percent and the Washington designations tied at No. 2 (both covery at significant risk and parts. D.C. area falling 42 percent. up 24 percent during that month. could undermine the construc- Of course, some of those Separately, the Associated Bay City was No. 10 on the list, tion sector’s ability to grow.” components were more impor- General Contractors of America tant than others in the operation reports a similar scenario in the of a vehicle. Spark plugs, for ex- area of U.S. construction employ- Labor gags on GOP’s ample, were indispensable to the ment, and as they reported a operation of an internal combus- month prior, several Michigan tion engine – and the essential metropolitan areas are continu- pandemic relief bill nature of those metal and ceramic ing to be strong employers of (Continued from Page 1) objects helped employ tens of thou- building trades workers. financially devastated states. It also introduces a solution in need of sands of workers in Flint over the The AGC reported its analy- a problem, in the form of the elimination of workers’ ability to take course of the last century. sis of Bureau of Labor Statistics THIS IS THE FIRST AC Spark Plug building, shown in 1909 on COVID-related legal action against employers. Flint is known as the birth- (BLS) numbers on July 29 and Industrial Avenue in Flint. Photo credit: Buick City Blogspot The Democratic House adopted a $3 trillion “HEROES” plan on place of General Motors, but it found that construction employ- May 15 that would have extended the $600 per week federal jobless was also home to the AC Spark as originally built was a tiny spark plugs used to fire the sec- ment decreased in 225, or 62 per- compensation (vs. $200 per week offered by the GOP) and offered Plug Co., manufacturer of spark 33,000 square feet. A second ond and third stages of the Sat- cent, out of 358 U.S. metro areas significant financial help to states, among other benefits. plugs and a whole line of other building was added at the site in urn V rocket that took Neil “For months,” said AFL-CIO President Rich Trumka, “Senate automotive components – and 1915, adding 18,000 square feet, Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has been dragging his feet, refusing when needed, war materiel. and in 1918 more buildings were Mike Collins to the moon. AC and The to acknowledge America’s public health and economic crises. More than “AC Spark Plug has been constructed, creating 88,000 GM also had a major hand in de- 150,000 Americans have died from COVID-19, and millions of working referred to as ‘one of the most square feet. signing the buggy that astro- Building people have lost their livelihoods because of the pandemic. iconic auto parts names in his- AC Spark Plug got more nauts drove on the moon. “And after weeks of being on vacation, McConnell unveiled a tory,’ and is a big part of Flint’s room in 1925 when it acquired AC Spark Plug’s division Tradesman weak piece of legislation that cuts unemployment benefits, fails to and General Motors’ past,” new space to manufacture goods was merged with GM’s United make the necessary investments in our vital public services and our ISSN-007-3717 wrote Cheryl Dennison for in the former J. Dallas Dort auto Delco division in 1974, forming infrastructure, and fails to create an emergency temporary standard MyCityMag. “The manufactur- plant, where car production AC-Delco. GM demolished its is the Official Publication of to protect front-line workers. ing facility underwent many halted in 1924. original Industrial Avenue facil- the Michigan Building and “The labor movement has been saying since May that passing name changes over the years, “The Flint factories extended ity in 1975, with operations mov- Construction Trades Council the HEROES Act isn’t a choice, it’s a necessity. With the future of originally called Champion Ig- from Dort Highway, along Robert ing to the seven plants that made Patrick Devlin America hanging in the balance, the stakes could not be higher.” nition after its founder, Albert T. Longway Blvd. to Center Rd., up the Dort Highway works. Last Secretary-Treasurer Economist Heidi Shierholz of the labor-backed Economic Policy Champion (hence ‘AC’). GM and the operations survived many known as Flint Delphi East, the Steve Claywell Institute said on July 30 that the GOP’s $400 cut in benefits “ is not purchased it in 1909 and in highs and lows,” said My CityMag. factories continued to produce President just cruel, it’s terrible economics. These benefits are supporting a 1922, it became AC Spark Plug “In its heyday, AC employed as numerous automotive compo- huge amount of spending by people who would otherwise have to Company.” (The competing many as 14,000 workers.” nents. In 2006, AC Spark Plug cut back dramatically. The spending made possible by the $400 that Champion Spark Plug brand, “The name of the division is closed its doors and in 2013, the Senate wants to cut is supporting 3.4 million jobs. If you cut the which Albert had been involved AC Spark Plug, but it is obvi- Flint Delphi East (Plant 43) $400, you cut those jobs.” in starting, had previously been ous... that it made more than ceased operations and relocated Shierholz the last week of July “was the 19th week in a row that trademarked and its owners de- spark plugs,” said AC Spark the bulk of its work to Mexico. The Building Tradesman is unemployment claims have been more than twice the worst week of manded control of the name). Plug Division of GMC in World Champion earned a place in the Great Recession.” Credit for the invention of War Two. “In 1919 AC Spark the Automotive Hall of Fame in published bi-weekly (every other Friday) by the Michigan McConnell released the plan knowing he did not have the full sup- the first spark plug goes to Plug added speedometers to its 1977 having “ignited the auto- port of the Republican caucus in the Senate – a number of whom have Building and Construction American Edmond Burger, who product line. In 1925 it added motive industry with his innova- said the initial $1 trillion relief package adopted months ago was suffi- built such a device in 1839. But air cleaners, and in 1926 oil fil- tive products,” the Hall said. Fur- Trades Council, Detroit office. cient. McConnell said he hopes that in the next two weeks the Senate Burger didn’t get a patent on his ters and gas filters started com- ther, the Hall said “Champion’s 1640 Porter St., Detroit, MI will be able to get the next coronavirus relief bill to the House. spark plug, and the internal ing off its assembly lines. These spark plugs were designed to 48216 “Republicans have put forward a framework that would do huge combustion engine was barely in were followed in 1927 by me- shield the center electrode from Printed at Grand Blanc Printing, amounts of good for huge numbers of American families,” McConnell developmental stages at the time. chanical fuel pumps, ammeters, grounding against metal and were a union shop said. “If Democrats ever come to the table, we’ll be able to bridge our “So documented history oil and temperature gauges, and more resilient against moisture Periodical mail postage paid differences and make a law.” points to Sir Oliver Lodge of En- tachometers. In 1928 the divi- and engine heat. His products be- at Detroit, MI and additional Many Republicans and chambers of commerce have argued that gland, whose sons parlayed the sion began the manufacture of came wildly successful....” mailing offices. an extension of the $600 per week benefit is a deterrent to workers “Lodge Igniter” into a profitable complete instrument panels and In August 2015, returning to work. That’s not necessarily so, said the Wall Street company founded in 1903,” says crankcase breathers. Fast for- Champion’s contributions to the POSTMASTER send postage returns to: Journal on July 29. “Many economists who have studied the ben- E3’s History-Making Spark ward to 1975 and past many other auto industry and the community efits say they so far don’t see evidence in labor market data that the The Building Tradesman Plugs. “The next year, Albert new products, and AC Spark Plug was enshrined, with the unveil- payments are affecting the rate at which people are returning to work Champion, a world renowned bi- Division began producing the cata- ing of a life-size bronze statue 1640 Porter St. during the pandemic,” the article said. cycle and motorcycle racer who lytic converters that were in- in downtown Flint. Detroit, MI 48216 Also included in the GOP bill, said EPI President Thea Lee, is a made extra cash by handcrafting stalled on all General Motors pas- Champion enjoyed racing, Phone: (313) 961-3800 provision that grants “legal immunity to employers who fail to pro- spark plugs and selling them to senger cars and some light especially motorcycyles, and he Fax: (313) 961-2467 tect their workers, a blatant example of Senate Republicans exploiting friends, moved from France to trucks. New products were intro- won his first event, the 160-mile Union members with address the coronavirus crisis to forward a long-standing agenda aimed at Flint, Michigan and founded duced during its entire life cycle.” Paris-Roubaix event in 1899. changes are asked to contact shielding corporations from legal liability. To be clear, removing legal Champion Ignition Co. Investor During World War II the “But Flint’s not a cycling their local union. accountability from businesses would jeopardize the health and safety drama left Champion jobless, but plants manufactured a dizzying city,” wrote Peter Joffre Nye for Editor/Photographer of workers and consumers and threaten the economic recovery.” he soon found himself appointed array of other products to help Velo News. “The statue has to McConnell said the legal immunity provision is a must have in president of the AC Spark Plug win the war, including Sperry do with Champion’s contribu- Marty Mulcahy E-mail: the final legislation, and is a response to an “epidemic” of COVID- Co. formed with backing from Automatic Pilots, bombsights, tions to the automotive industry. related lawsuits by American workers, but Politico reported on July 27 buildingtradesman@ Buick Motor Co.” torpedo directors, flaming arres- You’ve seen his name on Cham- that “data suggests that coronavirus-related litigation isn’t very conta- The AC Spark Plug Co. was tors, switches, bearings, and pion spark plugs and his initials ameritech.net gious.” Politico said of the 3,727 coronavirus-related cases that have founded in Flint on Oct. 26, 1908 Browning 50-caliber machine in General Motors’ AC Delco di- Advertising Director been filed since March, just 185, or less than 5 percent, “fall into the by Champion and William C. guns, just to name a few. vision. His products even pow- Joe Hoshaw personal injury category that McConnell describes – plaintiffs claim- Durant, who founded General AC Spark Plugs not only ig- ered Charles Lindbergh’s Spirit E-mail: [email protected] ing fear of exposure, potential exposure or exposure to Covid-19, Motors Corp. the same year. nited the engines of GM ve- of St. Louis flight across the At- according to an analysis by the American Association for Justice.” Originally, Champion was lo- hicles, they rode along with avia- lantic and into history. Yeah, (734) 558-6955 Subscription Rate $15 annually LA Times business columnist Matt Rosendale wrote, “in plain cated in a Buick building. In trix Amelia Earhart. The amazing guy.” English, the Republicans are proposing to eviscerate almost all work- (group rate for unions) 1909, AC Spark Plug became a company’s engineers helped Albert Champion, only 49, place protections at the moment when the threat to workers’ health division of the General Motors NASA develop the inertial guid- died Oct. 27, 1927 of a heart at- Visit our website: may be its highest in a century.” Co. and the company started ance systems for the entire tack just five months after www.michiganbuildingtrades.org working out of a new factory. Apollo program, with AC igniter Lindbergh’s flight. “A.H. Goss, secretary of the A woman awakens during father... caught us in the back Buick Motor Co.of Flint,” said a the night to find that her hus- Just joking seat of my car?” local publication in February band is not in dear?” she whispers as she “Yes, I remember,” says 1909, “has announced that work their bed. steps into the room. “Why are the wife, lowering herself has begun upon a factory build- She puts on you down here at this time of into a chair beside him. ing for the Champion Ignition Co. her robe and goes night?” The husband continues, at Harriet Street and Industrial downstairs to look The husband looks up, “Do “Do you remember when he Avenue. The building will be uni- for him. you remember 20 years ago shoved a shotgun in my face form in appearance with those of She finds when we were dating, and you and said, ‘Either you marry the Buick concern and the him sitting at the kitchen were only 17?” he asks sol- my daughter, or I will send Weston-Mott Co. The concern is table with a cup of coffee in emnly. The wife is touched, you to jail for 20 years!’ ” affiliated with the Buick Co. and front of him. He appears deep thinking her husband is having “Of course, I remember will manufacture all kinds of elec- in thought, just staring at the a caring and sensitive moment. that too,” she replies softly. trical equipment, especially elec- THIS IS THE ORIGINAL Champion spark plug plant at Industrial wall. She watches as he wipes “Yes, I do,” she replies. He wipes another tear trical ignition devices. A large Avenue and Harriet Street in Flint, MI after the addition of 18,000 a tear from his eye and takes The husband pauses. The from his cheek, blows his number of men will be employed.” square feet in 1915. Albert Champion came to Flint in 1908, and a sip of coffee. words are not coming easily. nose, sobs and wails, “I The Industrial Avenue plant tens of thousands of workers earned a living there because of him. “What’s the matter, “Do you remember when your would have gotten out today!” 4 THE BUILDING TRADESMAN August 7, 2020 Pipe Fitters Plumbers, Local Pipe Fitters, 636 Service Technicians, Local 370 Local 357 Local 190 Gas Distribution Pipe Fitters Local 636 Plumbers, Plumbers & DETROIT – There will be No Plumbers and Pipe Fitters 190 PHONE: 734-426-3700 August Union Meeting. Pipe Fitters & ANN ARBOR – UNION TRAINING CENTER IS Pipe Fitters The Hall will be Re-Opening MEETING: The next regular OPENED BACK UP TO MEM- Plumbers, Pipe on July 13, 2020 to all foot traffic. HVAC Service union meeting is scheduled for BERS WISHING TO UPDATE Plumbers & Pipe Fitters 370 Masks are REQUIRED. Dues Monday, Aug. 10 at 6:00 p.m. at ANY CERTIFICATIONS, LI- FLINT – The next Member- Fitters & HVAC payments or SUB transactions Plumbers, Pipefitters & HVAC 7920 Jackson Road, Ann Arbor, CENSES OR QUALIFICATIONS. ship Meeting scheduled for Au- can still be done via email or by Service Local 357 MI. This meeting will take place PLEASE NOTE: We are fol- gust has been canceled due to the Service phone. SUB email is mapril KALAMAZOO – UNION outside under a large tent. Mem- lowing the State and CDC guide- Governor’s order banning inside @pipefitters636.org MEETING: The next regular bers are urged to attend and take lines. You must wear a face mask gatherings of more than 10 people. Local 111 The Annual Pipefitters 636 Union Meeting will be held on an active part in the proceedings. inside the building. Please note that we have Picnic has been cancelled due to Tuesday, August 11th at 6:30 pm. MASKS MUST BE WORN Lead/Asbestos/Bloodborne moved to our new Union Hall/ Plumbers and Pipe Fitters 111 Covid-19. This meeting will be held OUT- WHEN ENTERING THE UNION Pathogens Training (4 hours): Training Center located at 2151 UPPER PENINSULA – Both The Labor Day Parade has SIDE on the east end of the hall HALL BUILDING AND TRAIN- Monday, Oct. 5 at 5 p.m. This is W. Thompson Rd. Fenton MI. and the Escanaba and Marquette been cancelled due to Covid-19. in front of the roll up doors. You ING CENTER DUE TO THE EX- an in-person class, at the Training will no longer be at our Pierson halls have been closed to walk-in The Leadership of Local 636 will need to bring your own chair ECUTIVE ORDER. Center. To register for this class Rd. location. members until further notice. is doing their best to balance the and adhere to the current social UNION HALL CLOSING contract Retha, 734-426-3700. Local 370 2020 Golf outing Please call either hall for any concerns of our members in re- distancing rules. This meeting is FOR AN UP COMING HOLI- First Aid/CPR Training (4 will be held Saturday, Aug. 22 at assistance you may need. gards to their health with the con- weather dependent. DAY: Our office will be closing hours): Monday, Oct. 19 at 5 p.m. Flushing Valley Golf course in Congratulations on 1st place cerns of the health of our Union, MEDICAL CLAIMS IS- at 12 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 4 and This is an in-person class, at the Flushing. 9 am Shotgun Start. finish at the 35th annual UP Build- Trust Funds and Industry. We SUES: As a member, TIC Interna- will be closed all day on Mon- Training Center. To register The price is $70 a man. $280 per ing Trades Council Golf outing; encourage everyone to fill calls tional provides a dedicated team day, Sept. 7 to observe Labor Day. please contact Retha, 734-426- team. Price includes 18 holes with Jason Feathers, Kirk Millette, as we are receiving for jobs where of member advocates to assist Wishing you and your family a 3700. cart, lunch at the turn, Refresh- Dan Soderman & Alec all the OSHA regulations work- with the resolution of any and all happy and safe holiday. WELDING LAB: Will start ments, Door prizes and Dinner. Stop Wandahsaga. ing safely are being followed. medical claims issues. If at any MICHIGAN GAS DISTRI- back up by appointment only. It by the hall and get the signup sheet Thank you to the member- These jobs must be filled. If time you experience an issue with BUTION – E-Mail address: will run Tuesday, Wednesday and with all the information. We are ship for your patience during this the hours are not worked by our your claims being processed and Please contact the union hall 734- Thursday from 4:30 p.m. to 8:30 limited to 38 teams so sign up process due to the current situa- members they will be worked by paid correctly, please contact TIC 424-0962 or Pat Duffy 734-368- p.m.. LIMITED TO SEVEN PAR- early if you want to play tion of the COVID-19 mandates Travelers, which doesn’t help our international at 1-888-281-3461. If 4423 to make sure we have a cur- TICIPANTS. Call Andy Fielder, Upcoming Night Classes: of gatherings. Any questions Union or our Trust Funds as the you are not satisfied with the ser- rent e-mail address. at the Training Center to be added Call Kaytlin to sign up. please call Business Manager, money is sent to the Traveler’s vice you have received, please OFFICE HOURS: Effective to the list on a daily basis, 734- CPR/ First Aid classes. Dean Gutzman and stay safe. Home Local. In situations where call me, Ken Willcutt at (269) 569- Monday, Feb. 3, the Union Hall 426-3700. Weld test days are de- Wednesday Sept. 9 & Thursday Training/Apprenticeship a member doesn’t have COVID, 3492. office hours are as follows: Mon- termined as participants show Sept. 10th @ 4pm. News: Notice to members and isn’t caring for someone with WEBSITE INFORMATION day – Friday: 7:30 a.m. until 12:00 they have the skills. Rigging Class: Sept. 15, apprentices: Jesse Harvala is COVID or eligible under any of – FRINGES – TIC: Check out the p.m. and 1:00 p.m. until 4:30 p.m. ASSE BACKFLOW RE- through Oct. 22nd, Every Tues- stepping down as training coor- the other relaxed rules of the State website at www.ualocal357.com The office will be closed CERTIFICATION (8 HRS): This day and Thursday @ 4:30pm dinator and the JATC committee of MI regarding unemployment and the FACEBOOK Page @ daily from 12 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. class begins, Tuesday, Aug. 4 All Committee and Board has chosen John Antoncew as his benefits; we ask that you to take www.facebook.com/UALocal 2020 - MICHIGAN LI- and Wednesday, Aug. 5 at 5 p.m. meetings are cancelled until fur- replacement. John Antoncew will available work, and it is your 357/. You should sign up for CENSE RENEWAL: Plumbing This is an in-person class at the ther notice. begin his new duties August 1st, choice if you do not, but please access to your fringe reporting license renewals are done training center. Reminders are Local 370 office hours 2020. Jesse will be staying on as understand SUB benefits will not done by TIC via the Union online ONLY!!! For detailed in- being mailed out for this, so 7:30am – 4:30pm. a part-time instructor. Local 111 be paid in these instances where website. To gain access, click on structions and requirements, check you mail and RSVP. Sub/Sick checks will be pro- and the JATC would like to thank Traveler fitters are dispatched. the Members Access Your Infor- please visit: www.michigan.gov/ ASSE BACKFLOW cessed 8:00am – 11:30 am and Jesse for his time as coordinator Also it is your responsibil- mation Here, then click on TIC bcc. Feel free to stop into the TESTER CERTIFICATION (40 1:30pm – 4:15pm daily. and welcome John to his new ity as a member to report when International Corporation and Union hall and pick up a copy of HRS): This class starts Tuesday, Sub Pay: Remember to position. you return to work not the con- then Register. the instructions. Aug. 18 and runs for five weeks qualify for sub pay when you are Local 111 JATC has can- tractors. So please call the Hall This is where you will type UA LOCAL 190 WEBSITE: on Tuesday and Wednesday, from laid off, you must sign the out of celled all Apprenticeship classes and speak to the Business Agent in your Name, Email Address, UA www.ua190.org Current members 5-9 p.m. This is an in-person class work list. You can also collect including open welding at the on dispatch to report your return Card # and Create your own pass- will be able to log into the “Mem- at the training center. CLASS SIZE when you are on Jury Duty and training center until further no- to work date. word. Once you have completed bers Only” section using your last IS LIMITED TO EIGHT. Please miss work. If you are traveling, tice, with the exception of Med CJ Harrison would like all our all the information – click on the name and UA card number. contact Retha to register for this call Karla to see if you need to Gas and Backflow, they are on as members to know that she is still LARGE REGISTER button that is NEW ON THE WEBSITE: class, 734-426-3700. make sub-fund self-payments. scheduled. Please contact Train- available by phone during these surrounded by a Blue Box. Your Members can now view and sign ASSE BACKFLOW RE- All members were sent a Sub-Pay ing Coordinator, Jesse Harvala uncertain times, she is working User Access will be granted the up for job calls. The same proce- CERTIFICATION (8 HRS): This manual in 2018. If you did not with any questions you may from home doing phone confer- next business day. dure will be used as the call-in class starts Tuesday, Sept. 22 and receive one, please call TIC at have. ences which is still beneficial to To access your account, line. If you are laid off or go back Wednesday, Sept. 23 at 5 p.m. (517) 321-7502 and ask for the 370 Reminder: It is your respon- all our members and their fami- once it is set up, all you need to to work, there are forms available This is an in-person class at the Sub Pay Fund Summary Plan De- sibility to call the hall as soon as lies. You can contact her @ 313- do is access the Membership to fill out on the website that will training center. Please check your scription (SPD) you get laid off, the day you call 580-6887 Button again – type in your email inform the hall. certifications for the expiration Attendance award drawing in is the date that you are placed The Retiree Association address and password – and all CREDIT CARD MACHINE: date. A mailing will be sent out. for membership meeting informa- on the Out of Work List, if you Meeting for the month of July your information will be pre- You now have the ability to pay Please contact Retha to register tion. Members present must have do not call in you will not be re- and all other Retiree Meetings sented. your union dues or purchase mer- for this class, 734-426-3700. dues paid to date to claim award. ferred to work. moving forward, have been can- As a member via the website, chandise by credit card or debit MED GAS INSTALLER Monthly award is $150. Important Information: celled until further notice. The you will be able to keep track of card. We accept Visa, MasterCard AND BRAZER CERTIFICA- Attention All Active Mem- Contact the hall with any election has also been postponed all your hours and receive an e- and Discover. A surcharge of TION (40 HRS): This class bers in Good Standing The Joint changes with any of the follow- until further notice. – President mail when hours are posted to 3.99% is added to your card on starts Tuesday, Aug.18 and runs Apprentice and Training Commit- ing: E-Mail, address, phone num- David Evans your account. This is very im- the transaction amount. We will for five weeks on Tuesday and tee voted to reimburse any active ber, a new birth, marriage, divorce, Any member that is Retir- portant as it is up to you to keep then mail you your dues receipt Thursday, from 5-9 p.m. This is member of Local 370 that takes or death. For those of you who ing contact Benesys @ 248-813- up to date on the hours being paid and credit charge slip. an online class, ran through and passes any training, testing have an email address that we do 9800 for your Retirement paper- on your behalf by ANY CON- LAID OFF OR BACK TO ZOOM and BLACKBOARD. or certification that may be re- not yet have on record, please work or if you want to meet with TRACTORS. WORK – IMPORTANT RE- You must have a reliable internet quired to perform their work. This call and give it to April or Ann. the Financial Secretary Trea- CHANGE OF STATUS: If MINDER TO ALL MEMBERS: connection and a computer to be includes Rigging, Med-Gas, Back Reminder to Welders/Weld- surer, please give him a 7 to 10 you have a change of status (for All members who get laid off or in this class. Members wishing flow or any work-related training ing Forms: The UA Welder day notice so that he can get all example: married, divorced, re- report back to work please imme- to be in this class must notify the or certification expense. Mem- Qualification Continuity Report of your paperwork in order. married, birth, death, workers diately contact Karen (734) 424- training center no later than Aug. bers will be reimbursed after suc- forms are available on our New Quarterly ending Sep- comp, address change, etc.) 0962 Ext. #210, to report the last 11, so we can get you enrolled in cessful completion and verifica- website under Training or at the tember 30, 2020 UA Password is: please call TIC at the phone num- day in which you worked or to Blackboard. Brazing practice and tion of the cost. Lost wages will hall. Certifications expire every 6 ESSENTIAL ber above and Lori at the Union report the day you went back to the tests for this certification will not be covered by the JATC. months and it is YOUR responsi- Dues: If you do not pay your Hall. It is very important that we work. PLEASE NOTE: Members be at the training center Plumbing license renewal is still bility to get your welding forms Dues by the end of each quarter. keep all our records up to date. can now go to the website under MED GAS INSTALLER UP- the responsibility of the member. turned in on time. After 2 quarters go unpaid you There seems to be a continu- “members only” and fill out a DATE (8 HRS): This class starts If you have any questions, please 2020 Upgrade Certification will then be Expelled and have to ing problem regarding notifica- “back to work” form or “laid off” Wednesday, Sept. 23 (online) and contact local 370 JATC. Class Schedule has been posted be Re-Initiated and pay a $200 tion of divorces. Note that you, form. Thursday, Sept. 24 (in-person) at Mobile App. Our mobile app. to Local 111 web-site (lu111.com). Re-Initiation fee. the member, will be responsible INFORMATION - FRINGE 5 p.m. Classwork is done online, is now available for download on Please update all Non-UA Defined Contribution Pen- for any bills incurred and paid BENEFIT OFFICE: via ZOOM and BLACKBOARD your cell phone. Go to the app certifications (Plumbing License, sion Plan: For those members on claims of an ex-spouse or de- VISION PROGRAM – on Wednesday and test is in-per- store and search UA Local 370. MUST, OSHA-30 etc.) by send- who use the Voice Response Unit, pendents. (See Pages 6 and 27 EYEMED – IMPORTANT IN- son at the Training Center on Download the app and sign in. ing a copy of your certification VRU to obtain balance informa- in the Summary Plan Description FORMATION: EyeMed benefit Thursday. Reminders are being You can read the latest Building to the Union Hall tion and transfers funds in your Booklet for clarification) Time cards are not necessary to access mailed out for those who will be Trades article, see upcoming 2020 BTA Class Schedule Defined Contribution Pension, limits apply for reporting status benefits, however, you may print expiring prior to the next up-date meeting dates, or pay your dues. has been posted to Local 111 the number has changed. The changes so let the hall know a card from the EyeMed website. class. Please contact Retha to reg- This is a work in progress, and web-site (lu111.com). new number for the VRU is 877- ASAP! Vision providers should be pro- ister for this class, 734-426-3700. we will add more content to the Check your dues records! 410-9984. Plan provider number MISCELLANEOUS: Con- vided the following information CONFINED SPACE (4 site as we move forward. You are assessed a $50 reinstate- is 7526. gratulations to the family of Cory at the time of the appointment; HRS): This class starts Monday, ALL GM Work requires ment once you become 3 months You can now login to your Chopp on the addition of a baby 1) Carrier Name -(EyeMed), 2) Aug. 17. CLASS SIZE IS LIM- Must Safety and Drug Testing: behind. You are automatically Defined Contribution account on girl, Madison. Member Name 3) Member ITED TO EIGHT. Please contact MUST safety modules are only expelled once you are over 6 the Local’s website. Just click on Congratulations to Brandon Birthdate Retha to register for this class 734- valid for 4 years. Call the hall to months behind. the “Defined Contribution login Arntz on his recent marriage. EyeMed Customer Service 426-3700 sign up for the MUSTBSAFE Safety Training on Local 111 here tab” and it will take you to Call: 888-581-3648 ICRA CERTIFICATION (16 .com website and complete all 18 Web Site: When taking the on- the BeneSys login page. The In Network Provider Listings HRS): ICRA stands for Infection safety modules. Members will not line safety training, go to our web Defined Contribution website is Local 636 cont’d Call: 866-804-0982 Control Risk Assessment. This be eligible to work at any GM site site ua111.com and click on Safety www.yourplanaccess.com/ covery from substance abuse and EyeMed Website: is an ASSE certification, that is until all 18 modules are complete Links. Members must take these benesys. addiction meets the second and www.eyemed.com more in-depth than the Infection and are current on their drug test. safety trainings for each site to all inquiries. fourth Tuesday of each month at NEW BLUE CROSS BLUE Control University certification If your drug test is expired you work at each mill. Please take note Are you “Work Ready”? 4:30pm at the office of “Work SHIELD APP FOR YOUR that the University requires at must take one before you can be they are valid for 1 year. Have any of your safety modules Life Strategies” 26789 Woodward SMART DEVICE: Attention all their hospital and other medical dispatched to any GM work. Drug MSHA Training: The 2020 expired? Is your Drug Test cur- Avenue, Suite 3105, Huntington members you can download the facilities. Local 190 is working tests are only valid for 1 year. Call MSHA schedule is on our web rent? Check your report card at Woods 48070. Call 248-545-8301 free Blue Cross Blue Shield APP with the University to get the The hall and we will print you a site & our Facebook page. Call mustbsafe.org and if it is time for for details or any questions you on your smart device. This will ASSE 12000 (ICRA) into their drug test authorization form. Cindy at (906) 228-6450 to regis- renewal call the Training Center may have. allow you to see a copy of your specs as a pre-approved course. Our web site is up and run- ter. MSHA expires in one year. 248-585-0636 and they will regis- Also, a Relations/Divorce BCBS card, review your claims, If you are interested in this certi- ning. Check it out at ter you. Be “ready” when the Support Group meet on the sec- explanation of benefits and much fication, call Retha to be put on a ualocal370.org calls come in. Safety modules ond and fourth Thursday of the more. Download: BCBSM list. Once we have enough, we We are now able to accept Local 370, con’t and drug tests are paid for by the month at 6pm. REPRESENTATIVE FROM will reach back out to those inter- Visa, Master Card, Discover and must be paid in 3-month incre- Contractors Association. WHEN Worker Assistance Pro- FRINGE BENEFIT OFFICE: On ested with the dates of the class. American Express for window ments according to our bylaws. YOU STAY CURRENT WITH gram: Work Life Strategies, LLC the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Wednesday of APPRENTICES PLEASE dues. If you want to take advan- Dues will be accepted up to 6:45 YOUR SAFETY MODULES, are available to our members and each month a representative will NOTE: Make sure your e-mail tage of this service there will be a on union meeting nights. DRUG TEST AND FIRST AID, their families to provide personal be available to meet with mem- and phone number are updated $1 per month charge added to the Members wishing to take the YOU WILL QUALIFY FOR FU- counseling services and when bers from 9:00 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. at the training center. Please call monthly window dues fee and a U.A. welding certification test con- TURE BONUS PAYMENT’S. needed, referral to other profes- and 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the and dial EXT. 2 3% fee for all other transactions. tact business agent, Dan Gaudet Financial Planning: Call Ja- sionals. Call 248-545-8301 to talk union hall. Please feel free to RETIREE MEETINGS – Plumbing, Mechanical and for application and testing dates. son May at Morgan Stanley 248- to a counselor for issues relating come in for any information you SPADES and BREAKFAST Residential Code Books are now Local 370 ball caps and win- 258-1750 for assistance and con- to grief, alcohol and or drug ad- may need on Health and Welfare MEETINGS HAVE BEEN CAN- available at the hall. The books ter fleece caps are available at the sultation relating to your Defined diction, bankruptcy, financial funds, Met Life Insurance Poli- CELED UNTIL FURTHER NO- are $75.00 each. union offices. Ball caps $10.00 Contribution Investments. He management, marital, depression, cies and miscellaneous. TICE. Remember to keep your dues and fleece caps $5.00. Pocket Tee will help with a total financial plan legal and family counseling. MEDICARE: When you NOTIFICATIONS FOR THE current. Any member failing to shirts are available for $10 dol- if requested. Services are paid Consultations with Work Life become eligible for Medicare, BUILDING TRADESMAN PA- pay for 3 months shall stand sus- lars each. Hooded sweat shirts for by the Defined Contribution Strategies are a service paid for please contact Bernadette Maus PER: Please contact Karen pended, unable to vote for a pe- and long sleeve pocket tee shirts Pension Fund. by the Insurance Fund. Refer- at our Fringe Benefit office 1-888- Spearin at the union hall, (734) riod of 1 year or run for office for are available. The sweat shirts are Recovery Support Group: rals to outside professionals, if 390-7473. 424-0962 Ext #210, if you would a period of 2 years and subject to $30 and the long sleeve tee shirts Pipe Dreamers, a Peer Support needed, will be paid for accord- CLASS INFORMATION – like to put a special notification a $50.00 reinstatement fee. Dues are $15. Golf polo and golf wind Recovery group for ongoing re- ing to the current health care plan TRAINING CENTER- OFFICE in the paper. (Continued next column) shirts are available for $25. (Continued next column) benefits. August 7, 2020 THE BUILDING TRADESMAN 5 Local 174 Plumbers, Pipe Fitters & Service Trades

West Michigan Plumbers, Fit- in 2020. This program applies to Contact Info: Please make Local 671 ters & Service Trades Local 174 only the employer contribution sure we have your updated con- Meeting Notice: ALL IN- 401k and will begin April 20th, tact information. Check your info Plumbers & PERSON UNION MEETINGS 2020. You will receive an official on the website or by calling Cami AND RETIREE BREAKFASTS notice in the mail soon. at the Union office. Pipe Fitters ARE CANCELLED UNTIL FUR- Sub-Pay: The board of Retiree Breakfast: The sta- UA Local 671 THER NOTICE. We will continue trustees voted to temporarily tus of the August Retiree Break- MONROE – The next Regu- to do monthly virtual meetings raise the maximum sub pay credit fast is CANCELLED. If you are lar Union meeting is scheduled through the members only from $130 to $260 from March 23rd a retiree and in need of assistance for September 3rd at 7pm at the Facebook group the first Tues- until the end of April. To file for please contact the Local Union Union hall. The next Executive day of the month at 7pm. sub-pay, fill out a sub-pay form. Office. Board meeting is also scheduled Attention: This paper is to You can find a form on the mem- Metal Trades, Helpers, and for September 3rd at 5pm at the serve as the official notice to the bers only section of the website Trainees: Please remember that Union hall. I will get out a notice membership. under the “forms” tab on the left if you are working as a Metal to all members if we feel that it is Labor Day Events Can- hand side, or you can call the Trades, Helper, or Trainee your still unsafe to meet. We are ask- celled: Unfortunately, as we navi- Union office and we’ll mail or raises are based on the day you ing that only voting members at- gate these uncertain times the LPC email you some. Mail or fax the were first dispatched to work at tend the Union meetings until has decided to cancel the Wild completed form along with verifi- that classification. If you are not further notice. Please be prepared Game Dinner and the Labor Day cation that you received an un- sure of your dispatch date, please to social distance and wear a ANOTHER rendering of the Marquette space launch site. Parade for 2020. This was not employment payment to TIC. If contact the Union office. It is up mask during the meeting. There an easy decision, but with the you prefer to email the forms, to you to let the Union office will be masks available at the door. uncertainty of COVID-19 we as a please email them to Cami at know. Health and Welfare: We We have liftoff... committee feel it is the respon- [email protected] and she will Labor Councils: - Kent Ionia have a meeting scheduled for sible thing to do. Labor Fest in submit them to TIC. - 3rd Wednesday of the month / August 12th. At this meeting we Grand Rapids is also cancelled. PAC Cards: Since the elimi- Labor Temple 918 Benjamin / will be discussing and voting on space launch site Apprenticeship Application nation of prevailing wage, the 5:30pm potential changes to help save Information: West Michigan race to the bottom on wages and Lakeshore – 3rd Thursday of our fund some money. You can Plumbers, Fitters and Service benefits for publicly funded the month / CIO Hall 490 West- expect some substantial changes picked in U.P. Trades Local Union No.174 will projects has begun. Our political ern / 6pm to our Health Care plan due to be accepting applications for the focus over the years to come will All members are encouraged the rising cost and number of (Continued from Page 1) apprenticeship program. Please be electing people who support to become active in our area La- claims we have been experienc- first-rate human talent, Michigan can be one of the leaders in the apply in person at the Training prevailing wage and wage stan- bor Councils. Please contact a ing over the last couple of years. space industry.” Center located at 1008 O’Malley dards in general. In order to do Union Officer for details. Congratulations: I would The site north of Marquette is on a three-mile stretch of undevel- Dr. Coopersville, MI 49404 dur- that we need to raise our PAC FRINGE PLAN THIRD like to congratulate all the 2020 oped land along Lake Superior. Vertical rocket launches would lift ing the times and dates listed be- card participation. We currently PARTY ADMINISTRATOR: high school graduates. Good luck payloads like satellites into low-earth orbit, where they could be parked low. To be considered for entry have less than half of the local (TIC) on all your future endeavors. in an area above the Northern Hemisphere that’s less crowded than into the apprenticeship, an appli- contributing to our PAC. Your West Michigan Plumbers, JAC: We have completed the sites that are closer to the Equator. cant must provide a copy of his PAC contribution DOES NOT Fitters and Service Trades Local interview process and newly ac- “I’m pleased the Marquette area has been chosen as a vertical or her high school diploma or COME OFF YOUR CHECK. No.174 Fringe Benefit Funds cepted candidates will be notified space launch site and appreciate the comprehensive and thoughtful GED, a driver’s license or state When you sign the PAC card it 6525 Centurion Drive very soon. Current Apprentices: process that led to the selection,” said Rep. Sara Cambensy, who identification and take an en- allows us to move money from Lansing, MI 48917-9275 stay tuned for your 2020-2021 represents Michigan’s 109th District in the region. “This will help trance exam. The exam will be your working dues over to our (517) 321-7502 Phone school year class schedule and bring a new industry to the U.P. and to our state that will provide given at a time to be scheduled PAC. Please call Cami today and (855) 40-PLUMB Toll Free orientation information that will good-paying jobs to our residents.” after the application process. find out if you have current PAC (517) 321-7508 Fax also arrive soon. Please check Said state Sen. Ed McBroom, who represents the region’s 38th Minimum requirements also card on file. BENEFITS WEBSITE: your email for your school sched- District: “This announcement is a true win for the people of the U.P. include: Medicare Retirees: Effec- westmichiganplumbers.org is ule. We are very pleased that the U.P.’s many attributes were recognized A. Age. Eighteen (18) tive January 1st you are now en- the TIC website where you can Work Opportunities: There through the vetting process. The vertical spaceport could bring years of age prior to being regis- rolled in a Humana Medicare Ad- check your contributions and have been some travel opportu- quality job prospects to the region and highlight Michigan as a cen- tered in the JATC program. An vantage Plan administered by benefit information. Click on ben- nities available recently. Give ter for excellence and innovation.” applicant seventeen (17) years of Labor First. If you have any efit inquiry. Your username is Vinnie a shout if you are looking In February, the MAMA group picked the under-used Oscoda- age may apply, but before being questions about premium pay- your social security number. The for some work out of town. Wurtsmith Airport to handle the “horizontal launches,” so-called registered in the JATC program, ments contact TIC. All other password for first time users is Mobile App: Our Mobile because they involve the use of big jets to haul satellites into the sky, must provide proof that a gradu- questions should be directed to K4GHB39 (case sensitive). You App titled “UA Local 671” is where they would be released and launched into a low orbit. ation certificate or GED has been Labor First. will then be prompted to create a available in the App Store for I The former Wurtsmith Air Force Base was closed in 1993 after awarded. Short Term Disability: The permanent password. phone or Android. The Username decades of hosting a squadron of B-52 bombers. The airport received B. Physical. Applicants Local #174 Board of Trustees re- Forms: The forms for Dollar for Local 671 Members is your the highest ranking because of its runway infrastructure, business will be physically capable of per- cently voted to increase the Bank Reimbursement and Sub last name and your book number capacity, operational strength and safety track record. Licensing forming essential functions of the short-term disability amount from Pay are on the www.ua174.org (UA Card Number). The Pass- through the Federal Aviation Administration has begun for that site apprenticeship program, with or $300 per week to $400 per week. website under the Members Only word is your book number. Please with operations projected to begin in late 2023 or early 2024. without reasonable accommoda- This increase will be effective section and Forms and Links tab. download this app so you can keep An analysis to build a command and control center somewhere tion, and without posing a direct September 30th, 2019. Contract Requirements: up on current information that in Michigan is currently being conducted with an expected comple- threat to the health and safety of Local #174 Gear: We have Please remember Section 5.7 of the hall needs to get out. Re- tion date of November 2020. Construction-related expenditures were the individual or others. setup an online store with apparel our collective bargaining agree- cently, we have used it to send not disclosed by the group. In compliance with Section through Trophy House in ment states, “Persons called from out Covid-19 related news and The choice of Michigan as a site for space travel makes sense, 30.3(b) of Title 29, CFR part 30, as Muskegon. You can order and the unemployed list will report to insurance information; it is a great MAMA says, when you consider the extensive presence of the auto- amended May 12, 1978, the JATC pay online and either pick up the work with a UA/WMMCA issued way to get news out to the Mem- motive industry in the state and the increasing use of satellite-guided, commits to the following Equal merchandise or pay to have it drug card.” Section 18.5 states, bership fast. autonomous vehicles. Combined with the local engineering talent Opportunity Pledge: shipped. There is a link on our “…employees…shall be required In Closing: As most of you and the safety component of launching rockets over Lake Superior, “The recruitment, selection, website, ua174.org. You can also to maintain the following Safety know we are approaching elec- means “Michigan is uniquely positioned to take advantage of inte- employment, and training of ap- go to www.trophyhousebrands Training Certifications: First Aid/ tion time. Please make sure you grated space resources working collaboratively to serve industries prentices during their appren- .com/online-stores/local-174/ CPR, Bloodborne Pathogens and are registered to vote and you can like autonomous technology, automotive, communications, medical, ticeship, shall be without dis- to order. You can also find a link OSHA 10.” Please make sure you be expecting a phone call from education and first responders,” Brown said. crimination because of race, in the members Facebook group. are in compliance with our agree- myself or some of the officers to Citing Brown, the Detroit Free Press reported that as much as color, religion, national origin, They will print the apparel once ment. remind you to get out and VOTE. $1.2 billion should be secured for the entire project, thanks to interest or sex. The JATC will take affir- they receive twenty orders and Out of work list: Please re- Mike Jewell cell 419-262-8503 from several equity firms, and that fundraising would begin after a mative action to provide equal contact you once your order is member to call extension 17 when email: [email protected] feasibility process has been completed. opportunity in apprenticeship ready. you are laid off. You must call line Vinnie Fenech cell 734-693- and will operate the apprentice- Dispatch: We will be split- 17 to be put on the available to 4082 email: vinnie@ualo- ship program as required under ting up the dispatch responsibili- work list. When you leave a mes- cal671.com. Title 29 of the Code of Federal ties between the business agent sage, please speak clearly. Any SOCIAL SECURITY DISABILITY Regulations, Part 30, as and the assistant business man- member who goes to work with- amended.” ager positions. Each person will out a referral is in violation of our REPRESENTING BUILDING TRADES Application Times and be on dispatch for 2 weeks. There Collective Bargaining Agreement Dates. Applications will be ac- is a dispatch email: dispatch and Article XXXI of our Consti- BROTHERS & SISTERS OVER 25 YEARS cepted for two weeks beginning @ua174.org which both offices tution and By-Laws. Please con- August 17, 2020 through August have access to. There is a dis- tact the Union Hall to find out 28, 2020; Monday thru Friday, patch phone extension that will your position on the out of work BIESKE & ASSOCIATES from 8am – 12pm and 1pm – 5pm. switch between the two offices list. Many people are wrongly Apply in person at our Training depending on who is on dis- Union Hall extension num- rejected when they apply for Center located at 1008 O’Malley patch. The dispatch schedule for bers: Ryan Bennett Business Social Security Disability Dr., Coopersville, MI 49404. the next month will be as follows: Manager ext:12, Nathan Phillips Sprinkler Fitters Local 704 benefits. Money was taken out Please bring copies of your high •Jason Finch (231) 670-4482: Assistant Business Manager ext. DETROIT – The September of their paychecks for Social school diploma or GED and a valid 7/12/2020 to 7/26/2020 13, Jason Finch Business Agent 9th meeting has been cancelled Security taxes to ensure that driver’s license or state I.D. Cop- •Nathan Phillips (616) 916- ext.14, Chris Pelton Organizer due to Michigan’s Executive Or- they would receive disability ies will NOT be made for you, you 0667: 7/27/2020 to 8/10/2020 ext.15, Lisa Johnson Accounting der 2020-160. If there are any benefits if they could no longer MUST bring your own! New insurance carriers: Manager 11, Cami Burris Admin- changes, the Local will send out work full-time. Sadly, the VOTE: Mail ballots are go- Active and NON Medicare Retir- istrative Assistant ext. 10, Train- notifications. government denies approxi- ing out and the campaigning is ees ing Dept: Jeff Rumsey ext. 16, The Annual Labor Day Pa- mately 60% of those who apply ramping up. Remember in Michi- Aetna: (888)290-7241 Nicole Shumaker ext. 30. rade held in Detroit has been can- for disability benefits. gan you can now vote absentee Save-Rx: (800)228-3108 Training News: If you have celled because of COVID-19 con- Attorneys J.B. Bieske for no reason. You can apply for Medicare Retirees a certification that has expired in cerns. The AFL-CIO are research- and Jennifer Alfonsi have an absentee ballot and register to Labor First: (616) 345-0788 the last few months and have ing an alternative event to take 42 years combined experience vote at www.mvic.sos.state.- Organizing Update: Please questions regarding recertifica- place instead. representing only Social Security disability clients. And they personally meet mi.us/avapplication contact Chris Pelton if you know tion, please contact the Training Reminder: Article V, Section with all clients and appear themself at all court hearings. Many large firms 401K Withdrawal: The re- of any jobsites with a non-union Office. Many certifications have 13 of Local 704’s Constitution, assign inexperienced attorneys to your case. And some of these firms are cently enacted CARES Act allows plumbing or mechanical contrac- extended grace periods on expi- By-Laws and Rules of Order. Any located thousands of miles away and only fly the attorney in the day of the the 401k Plan to adopt a special tor or if you are interested in ac- ration dates. project that falls into the jurisdic- court hearing. Attorneys Bieske and Alfonsi have vast experience before local in-service distribution for partici- tively assisting with our organiz- FIRST AID: First Aid/CPR/ tion of Local 704 shall be manned Michigan judges. pants who are diagnosed with ing efforts. There are plenty of BBP class will be the second by not less than two members. Attorneys Bieske and Alfonsi can often make a winning difference at the COVID-19, whose spouse or opportunities available, ranging Thursday of the month, from Any member violating this By- application stage. And, if an appeal is necessary they have won several child is diagnosed with COVID - from a one-day ride-along with a 5:00p-9:00p. The next classes will Law shall be brought before the hundred cases before a court date is even set. 19, or who are experiencing eco- Business Agent or Organizer all be held on Thursday, August 13 Executive Board for a trial and be Those denied can appeal on their own but statistics for many years reveal nomic hardship as a result of the the way up to full blown salting. and Thursday, September 10, subject to a fine. that those represented by attorneys win a much higher percentage of appeals. pandemic. This distribution can Dues: Please keep your 2020. NFPA All Access is available And attorneys who specialize in Social Security Disability cases win a much be up to $100k, is not subject to monthly window dues current. Due to the current indoor for all 704 members. Please con- higher percentage yet. the ordinary 10% excise tax, and You can find your dues balance social distancing restrictions, we tact the Local 704 Training Cen- In addition to practicing only Social Security disability law attorney the income tax from the distribu- on the website or by calling the are unable to start open welding. ter for username and password. Bieske has written a book for attorneys about the subject and has been tion can be spread out over a 3- Union office. Remember that if Please contact Jeff or Nicole Phone numbers to remember: interviewed on various television programs. Both attorney Bieske and Alfonsi year period. you are expelled from the UA that to sign up for classes or if you NASI is 1-800-638-2603 for infor- have also been interviewed on radio programs and have given speeches to Individuals receiving such a you are no longer eligible to at- have questions. Call the training mation regarding Health and many groups. distribution may also repay the tend Local Union events, such as office Welfare or Pension fund ques- Attorneys Bieske and Alfonsi offer free phone or office consultation. If distribution over 3-year period, in meetings, picnics, awards ban- @(616)837-0222 x16 (Jeff) / Nicole tions. they represent you, there will be no fee charged until after the case is which case they will not be sub- quets and Christmas parties. @(616)837-0222 x30. Continuing education wonwon. The fee is a percentage of retroactive benefits. ject to income tax on what they Jurisdiction: Remember to Or via text Jeff (231)923-8140 classes are being formed. Please Bieske and Alfonsi represent clients from all over the state of Michigan. repay. Unlike other hardships, always call into the local you are / Nicole (231)206-4213. reach out to the training center They maintains offices in Sterling Heights, Livonia, Southgate and Novi. Call 1-800-331-3530 this particular distribution only traveling to. Don’t rely on any- for further information or future them at 1-800-331-3530 for a free consultation if you have been denied, or requires that the member self-cer- one else to call in for you. They “I must create a system, or classes you would like to see if you are thinking of possibly applying for Social Security benefits. tify the need. The Fund is not will not get into trouble. It’s the be enslaved by another man's.” added. required to independently cor- member who is working in another –William Blake (1757 - 1827) A speedy recovery to all of •ONLY SOCIAL SECURITY DISABILITY CASES roborate the participant’s certifi- local who has not checked in that “Genius may have its limi- our sick and injured members. •WE WILL PERSONALLY REPRESENT YOU cation with medical documenta- gets into trouble. Please contact tations, but stupidity is not thus tion or other types of documen- Ryan Bennett if you see another •OUR FEE PAID AFTER YOU WIN handicapped.” “I am never afraid of what I tation. The distribution is a one- local’s contractors/members –Elbert Hubbard (1856 - know.” time event only and must be taken working in our jurisdiction. 1915) –Anna Sewell (1820 - 1878) www.ssdfighter.com 6 THE BUILDING TRADESMAN August 7, 2020 Plumbers The COVID virus is Local 98 here and it’s nasty –

Plumbers 98 new web page. A whole list of in- let’s act accordingly DETROIT - Membership of formation is now available to you Plumbers Local 98. under the member only section. Viewpoint Plumbers & Brothers and Sisters, Your You have to log in to the web I certainly do not have all the answers and I do believe the officers and I are in hope this let- page in order to have access to dismal daily news reports of the awful affects of this pandemic. Pipe Fitters ter finds you and your family that section. Thanks to the current arrogant people in power, who ignore scien- well. Until further notice, E-Board tific facts to gain some sort of power, I can only see more economic Local 85 We hope to have a Special meetings are slowly getting back downturns ahead. Many Americans are led to believe this virus is a Plumbers and Pipe Fitters 333 Called meeting sometime in Au- underway on the first Thursday hoax or will burn itself out in a short time. Either theory couldn’t be LANSING – August’s union gust. Please keep an eye out for of the month at 6:30 p.m. If you further from the truth. Plumbers and Steamfitters 85 meeting is CANCELLED. an email blast for further informa- need to contact or see the board The coronavirus has evolved from striking the old and sick to SAGINAW – All Union LOCAL 333 PLUMBERS & tion. All distributed allocations please call V.P. Jim Cools at 734- now having no concern of race, creed, or age. On the jobsite, if one Meetings are postponed until PIPEFITTERS GOLF OUTING are posted on our UA Local 98 307-9841. contractor’s representative or a worker believes this to be a hoax, further notice. Currently we have HELD IN AUGUST IS CAN- web page (UALocal98.com) and Please fill out SUB Apps elec- they can sicken or kill many people. Perhaps it will take the sickness canceled the July Meeting. We CELLED. went into effect the first week of tronically now. This can also be or death of a friend or family member before the doubters under- will make decisions on all future If you’re interested in taking June 2020. found on the web page under the stand the severity of this real-world event. meetings as we get closer. any classes please sign up Election information on who Benefits section. The new Out of I believe we must constantly reiterate to our trades people of The Annual Local 85 Picnic at www.ua333.org or call Trent or we are supporting and, most im- Work (OOW) list is also available the dangers of COVID-19 and point out mistakes that have been 2020 is cancelled. Diana at 517-323-0333. portantly, who will support us is at the top of the webpage, just recently allowed to happen on our job sites, putting workers in The Annual Local 85 Golf PLEASE NOTE FOR ALL now found under the “About” follow the instructions. If you’re danger. Maybe each week we can hold the job site talks at our sites Outing 2020 is cancelled. CERTIFICATIONS: Per the UA, section under “Political Action” still having unemployment issues between our general contractors our own contractors and trades- We encourage members to as of January 2019, all Braze and on our webpage. Click on the red call BAs Gary Glaser or Tom people – in a safer manner. Too often our tradespeople are being do as much of their business as Weld Certifications shall be up- “2020 Primary Election Endorse- McWilliams. asked to congregate during such meetings, and then sign off on they can by phone, email and fax. dated within 120 days of their ex- ment List” banner toward the top It’s that time again for your daily job site talk sheets – using the same pens and handling the We will adhere to social distanc- piration date, or you will lose your of the page. If the person is not a 2020 Plumbing License Re- same paperwork other have touched. ing practices. SUB checks will certifications. Check the date(s) labor-friendly candidate please newal, it MUST BE DONE For example, on one large project we have the blessing of up- continue to be mailed ONLY. We of your Certifications, if they do not vote for them. It’s not hard ONLINE ONLY! For detailed in- per management to address this issue by having our members call will be available by phone and have expired please contact Diana to look them up, trust me on this structions and requirements, out their names and having one person write down the person’s email anytime for your conve- at 517.323.0333. Though we send one. These days you cannot out- please visit www.michigan.gov/ name as having attending the meeting. nience. Please utilize the phone out everyone’s continuities to be run a camera. There is a big split bcc. Or call 98’s Training Center Currently some contractors, in an effort to provide water to the numbers and email addresses renewed; between contractors, in our area politics from the City and they will assist you. Any trades people on site, have multiple Igloo coolers filled with ice and listed below. changes in addresses and the of Detroit as well as the rest of Must/Most, Upgrades, Continu- water bottles floating in them touched by all other crafts – creating ALL NON-CRITICAL IN- Post Office, there is plenty of Wayne County, Oakland County, ities, or Letters of Certifications a petri dish for germs. These are just some examples of potentially TERACTIONS are cancelled un- room for error. Ultimately it is the and Macomb County. It appears will still be taken care of by Paul sickening mistakes that are being repeated on jobsites across Michi- til further notice. Please utilize member’s responsibility to make no one has a common goal but to Baker at 248-585-1435, or our Of- gan, and these practices must end. email and phone calls whenever sure their certification(s) are stay in power. ficers at 248-307-9800. Plus we all know examples of times when our fellow trades- possible. Below is a list of main current and updated. For example, State Rep. Joe We are looking for Residen- people or contractors are simply not wearing masks or not wearing contacts for the hall: Weld Test (Second Tuesday Tate is a representative in the city tial and Service Plumbers at this them properly, nor are they maintaining the proper social distanc- Justin Pomerville of the Month) Weld Test are of Detroit. He comes to our aid time. It will be a great chance to ing. We know from the occasional project shutdown, to workers Business Manager scheduled each month. (Unless on all issues. He now he has a expand and grow again as many being sent home to quarantine, to having our temperatures taken, (989) 799-5261 x 13 lack of participants) contested race due to greed of members are looking to retire. So, to the forms we have to sign to gain access to jobsites every day – [email protected] If your Med-Gas Installer is some sort. Rep. Tate had been if you know anyone working that this virus is real and a constant threat both to our health and Jamie Badour going to expire within the next few planning to donate his PAC Non-Union or is a past member livelihoods. The governor has already shut down construction ac- Business Agent months please sign up on our money to the House Democratic that may be interested in us, have tivity in Michigan earlier this year in an effort to slow the spread of (989) 799-5261 x 15 website to take the renewal class. Party, but now has to spend them call 98’s Organizer Rob the virus – if we continue to see lapses in vigilance in halting its [email protected] Med-Gas new certification: money to support his contested Moses on his cell phone at 248- spread it can happen again. Tim Danielak Please sign up online on our race. 763-2187. As one of my members has told me, “if we look insane beating Business Agent website or contact the training The same is happening in Don’t miss out on our agree- the drum of caution and telling everyone the sky is falling, just by (989) 799-5261 x 14 center. Oakland County as two good men ment with the Detroit Land Bank saving one life no matter what the cost – that should be good [email protected] We have long sleeve and from the same political party go Authority. Local 98 members can enough for anyone.” Clint Steele short sleeve t-shirts available. head to head. Local 98 is backing purchase homes or buildings in In Solidarity, I remain, Carlo Castiglione Business Agent Long sleeve are $25. And short Dave Coulter as he is the current the Land Banks Holdings for half Business Manager, Plumbers Local 98 (231) 499-7330 sleeve tees are $20. We have a holder of the Oakland County Ex- the list cost. Go to www. [email protected] large assortment of colors and ecutive office. He has proven to buildingdetroit.org to see what Bobby Anderson sizes. be a true Union supporter, get- this is about, or contact the hall GOP inaction means Organizer Sincere condolences to the ting the workers a great raise and for details. (989) 799-5261 x 12 family and friends of Jackson keeping AAA bond rating in the In Brotherhood, Carlo [email protected] member Richard Cummings who County as well. So don’t just Castiglione Business Manager millions fell off financial Kristin Tuthill passed away July 22, 2020 Rich- vote, spend a few minutes a re- Plumbers Local 98 Office Professional ard was a Master Plumber for search your candidates. I will try All Retiree Meetings are (989) 799-5261 x 11 over 40 years and a Life Member to put an update in here going cancelled. cliff after July 31 deadline [email protected] of our local. Our thoughts and forward until Election Day. Golf Outing. The Detroit By Mark Gruenberg want to provide any aid at all. Feather Reige prayer are with you. I am not sure when the last Plumbers Local 98 Scholarship PAI Staff Writer July 31 was the date of the Office Professional time this has happened, but if you Fund Golf outing will be held Sat- WASHINGTON (PAI) – Mil- last $600 weekly federal unem- (989) 799-5261 x 10 are unaware, the Labor Day Pa- urday, Aug. 8 at Oakridge/Marsh lions of people fell off a cliff – ployment check for the 13.18 mil- [email protected] Local 85 cont’d rade and Rally are cancelled this Oaks Golf Club. For tickets or financially and otherwise – after lion people – farm workers, The next Northern Meeting year due to COVID-19. sponsorship information call Jon Friday, July 31, when Senate Re- household help, actors, musi- is postponed until further notice. 90 Day Rule: The weeks Due to our compliance with DeRoo at the hall. publicans and GOP President cians, freelancers, “gig economy” Please check the ualocal85 you are claiming must be submit- Mayor Duggan’s STEP program, Workers Assistance Pro- Donald Trump were unable to workers and so-called “indepen- .org or our Facebook page for the ted within 90 days of the first we have been given access to free gram: I personally can’t tell you come to terms with themselves dent contractors” among them. most up-to-date information. Monday following the week in COVID-19 testing to all Local 98 how lucky we are to have Work much less House Democrats – After then, they get zip. The new website is up and which you are eligible to receive members at the old State Fair life Strategies, LLC. They are over a COVID-19 relief package. And since those workers running. Please check out a State benefit per the Plan Docu- Grounds on Woodward and 8 available to our members and The AFL-CIO, social welfare aren’t part of the regular state- www.ualocal85.org. Click on Lo- ments. Mile Road in Detroit. Prior to go- their families to provide personal groups and other organizations run jobless benefits system, that cal 85 Members to access mem- Taxes: There are no taxes ing you must call for an appoint- counseling services and, when are still lobbying hard and mar- effectively means no income at bers only information. Login in- taken out of SUB Fund Checks, ment at 313-230-0505. No doctor needed, referrals to profession- shalling public support, includ- all. formation is username: first ini- however they are taxable wages note is needed, but they will ask als in Recovery and Relation- ing through an online petition at Those workers and their tial with full last name. Password and you will receive a W-2 at the you for a code. Our code is ship/Divorce Support Groups/ www.actionnetwork.org/forms/ families “bought the groceries is 00 with your UA Card Number. end of the year. If you want taxes 289488PL. This is free with no Child Custody/Criminal De- heroesact make sure that disas- and paid the rent” with those If you should have any difficul- withheld from your SUB Fund copay required. fense. ter doesn’t happen. checks, AFL-CIO Policy Director ties logging in, please call Kristin Check, please indicate the dollar Our auto plants, as well as This program is not only for Whether the rest of the and chief economist Bill Spriggs or Feather at (989) 799-5261 ext. amount for Federal and State on construction sites, are up and medical and/or personal issues, Republicans will muster said in a roundtable zoom discus- 11 or 10. each SUB submittal. running again. If you are asked they also can steer you through enough courage to buck Ma- sion with reporters in early July. The new Facebook page is NOTE TO ALL MEMBERS: to do any pre-hire safety of any governmental resources with any jority Leader Mitch “Remove them, and it will be a live. If you are currently on the Address & Phone Update: type prior to entering the plant consumer rights or child disabil- McConnell, R-Ky., and Trump catastrophe.” Local Eighty-Five Facebook ac- Please call the Union Hall to up- on your own time, it is not ac- ity and much more. Please don’t is up in the air. Sen. Lindsey Those $600 checks also top count, invites were sent to have date any address or phone num- ceptable. You must be reimbursed hesitate to call C.J. Harrison at Graham, R-S.C., told Sunday off the states’ jobless benefits, you join the new site. UA Local ber changes at (989) 799-5261 ext. for your time. Contact the BA in Work Life Strategies at 313-580- television news shows that and in many cases – especially in 85 page is our public Facebook 10. your area if you have a problem. 6887 for an appointment. half the GOP senators don’t GOP-run and Sunbelt states – it’s account. UA Local 85 Members Beneficiary Cards: Please If you are not supplied with Out of Work List Changes/ a big “top.” At least 17.189 mil- Group is our new members only call the Union Hall for any personal protection equipment SUB Pay. All working members Local 98, con’t lion people get those top-off Facebook. On this page, we will changes in beneficiary informa- (PPE) or feel the job is not prop- will be required to complete a SUB checks, too, the latest Labor De- have important messages and re- tion at (989) 799-5261 ext. 10. erly addressing safety issues, you application within 48 hours of next WELDING Tests will be Sat- partment report shows. minders specific to our member- Email Addresses: Please have the right to call your agent their lay-off online or in person urday, September 12, 2020. You The House rode to the res- ship. Please like both and let us email [email protected] to and leave the job. If you are still to ensure placement on the Out must call to schedule your weld- cue, or so it thought, by pass- know what you think. update email addresses. worried of retaliation by the of Work List. If you are out of ing tests at least 3 days prior to ing the $3 trillion Health and GOD BLESS ORGA- Website Address: Please owner, we have established an work due to Disability or Work- the class. The next BRAZING Economic Recovery Omnibus NIZED LABOR AND THE LA- visit www.ualocal85.org. anonymous safety hotline call in ers Compensation, please contact Cert Sessions will be Friday, Sep- Emergency Solutions (Heroes) BOR MOVEMENT! Insurance: When you are number for U.A. locals 98 & 636 Jon DeRoo first at 248-762-9238, tember 11, 2020. Please note: All Act, HR6800, months ago. One Training Center News: working out of another Local’s members and our Contractors to then BeneSys at 248-813-9800 to members must be dressed appro- key provision would extend Congratulations: to our jurisdiction it may take up to 90 investigate any lack of protection verify your continued Insurance priately to be in the shop area. those checks through January newest Journeymen Steve Allen days for your Insurance and or wrong doing by the owners we eligibility. 2020 Course Hour reim- 31. and Dylan Miller. Pension to be reciprocated back all work for. That number is 313- TRAINING CENTER NEWS bursement forms are now avail- But McConnell deep- The UA Local 85 JATC also to Local 85, which may cause 340-7339. Phone # 248-585-1435 able at the Training Center. You sixed HR6800 and Trump’s held interviews for a new Service problems with your Health In- I believe I must constantly Check out The Training must have 8 hours (approved Office of Management and Instructor. Congratulations and surance. reiterate the dangers of this dis- Center’s website www.Plumbers hours credited may vary from ac- Budget demands he veto it. welcome to Jason Boensch, I am ALWAYS SAVE YOUR ease to all of us as tradesmen. We 98tc.org tual hours attended) of verifiable OMB alleges the bill “is more certain you will be an asset to the CHECK STUBS and fax them in have seen small mistakes that can The Apprenticeship Appli- approved classes/training from concerned with delivering on Service Training Program. to the hall at 989-791-3468 with evolve into serious situations or cation process is closed until fur- January 1 - December 31, 2020 to long-standing and partisan SUB Fund: the local you are working out of missed time, there is no set pat- ther notice. be eligible for the $80.00 reim- ideological wish lists” than Print Unemployment Pay- indicated. We will fax them down tern as it has gone from a killer of As the COVID-19 restric- bursement. fighting the virus. ment History located underneath to BeneSys to keep your Insur- the old and weak to now having tions begin to relax the Training OSHA Training - OSHA 10, Failure to pass the Heroes the Certification Tab when logged ance up to date. no concern to age, health, race, Center is open and slowly return- available as on an online class for Act as is would make the curtail- into your MiWAM account. RETIREE LUNCHEON: All or creed. Please take caution and ing to normal operations. Please $25 at www.careersafeonline.com ment of income only one of the Deadline for submittals is Noon retirees’ luncheons are post- watch out for each other. call Paul Baker at 248-585-1435 This OSHA 10 class is not affili- problems facing most Americans. on Thursday in order to receive a poned until further notice. Please The Union Hall is now open ext. 123 if you have any questions. ated with the UA or our Training Homelessness, even more rapid check that Friday. Checks will be check the ualocal85.org or only to essential foot traffic, as ASSE Backflow Tester Re- Center. OSHA 10 and 30 Hour spread of the coronavirus, an end mailed out on Friday. No in per- Facebook for all up to date infor- the parking lot is being redone. Certification exams are sched- Training is also offered online to countless essential social ser- son pickups allowed. If a holiday mation. Please use the West entrance, uled quarterly. Please be sure to through the MUST website. Go vices and skyrocketing bills for falls on a Friday, checks will be CONDOLENCES: We ex- until further notice. Masks and check your expiration date, it is to www.mustonline.org. **Be everything from water to electric- issued on Thursday and deadline tend our condolences to the fam- gloves are required. You need to now required that you complete sure to take the Construction ity and gas are among the poten- will be moved up to Wednesday ily of Gary Brandon who passed make an appointment to visit. your update class prior to your Safety courses; not the General tial catastrophes that could hit by noon. away on July 7, 2020. Temperatures will be taken and a expiration. For those who are eli- Industry courses. millions. Where to submit docu- We extend our condolences questionnaire must be filled out gible, please call the Training It is each member’s indi- In addition, the collapse of ments: Address: UA Local Union to the family of Stanley McCallum when you arrive. Center to register and pre-pay by vidual responsibility to keep all state economies, closure of hos- 85 SUB, P.O. Box 6547, Saginaw, who passed away on July 17, Although the Union Hall check only before the deadline their Certifications current. pitals, shuttering of public school MI 48608 Fax: (989) 791-3468 2020. and our Training Center have September 25, 2020. The next If the person you are trying systems, a chaotic November Email: [email protected] Remember, you all are essen- been shut down to all unneces- scheduled recertification class is to reach at the Training Center is election that that has nothing in SUB Application for Ben- tial to me. sary foot traffic, that does not October 27 & 28, 2020. unavailable, please leave a mes- common with what one should efits: Must be on file in order to Justin M. Pomerville mean the officers cannot be If your brazing or welding sage to ensure we can return your see in a democracy and more receive SUB Check. Available at Business Manager/ reached or center cannot be used. certs are ready to expire, call to call. We attempt to return all mes- could become part of the new re- the Hall. Financial Secretary In the meantime, any pertinent schedule an appointment. The sages by the end of the business ality in America if HR6800 is not (Continued next column) Local Union 85 information can be found on our (Continued next column) day. enacted. August 7, 2020 THE BUILDING TRADESMAN 7

Local 169 Heat and Heat and Boilermakers Frost Frost Abatement Insulators Insulators Boilermakers Local 169 Workers ALLEN PARK – The union meeting will be held in Area One Local 47 Local 25 Regional on Friday, August 14, 2020 at 8pm at the union hall – 1755 Fairlane Local 207 Dr, Allen Park, MI 48101. Heat and Frost Insulators & Al- Heat & Frost Insulators Local 25 The Fall 2020 Advance- lied Workers Local 47 SOUTHFIELD– REMINDER: We Abatement Workers Local 207 ments meetings have been sched- LANSING - The Union Meet- continue to be under the direc- TAYLOR – Work is improv- uled as fol- ing originally scheduled for Au- tive of the International Union ing slowly but not near the rate lows: gust 14, 2020 has been cancelled and pursuant to that directive, that was anticipated. Covid still Areas One & due to the current Covid-19 pan- the AUGUST 2020 UNION has us under restraint for now. Three – Mon- demic. MEETING has been cancelled. When you do return to work, fol- day, August To combat and limit the Continue to monitor the low all required Covid guidelines 17, 2020 from spread of Covid-19, Local 47 en- Facebook page for updates. that may be in place for certain 2pm-7pm courages all members to continue APRIL PER CAPITA: The sites. Remember to call in if you (Upon arrival, to work safe, and if you feel sick required Per Capita payment for are unemployed for help with fu- you will be di- contact a doctor immediately. any member ture placement. rected to your Any retirees wanting to go working less Updated, work- testing room, to work, please call the office. than 32 hours in ing telephone BOB or asked to The Funds Trustees have the month of numbers are HUTSELL wait in your waived the 79-hour rule. April 2020 has necessary to car until space Remember that all Union been waived. help you with is available) at the Union hall, Meetings have been suspended Any payments work placement. 1755 Fairlane Dr, Allen Park, MI AT WORK at the DTE Energy Blue Water Energy project in St. until further notice. already made to Do not get 48101 Clair County is Dylan Dyer. Photo credit: Kiewit/DTE Energy The International Union is the Union Of- caught without Area Two – Tuesday, August requesting all the names of past CURT fice will be re- DAN the necessary 18, 2020 at 5pm at the Spring Lake and present members that are Vet- turned. current job site Holiday Inn, 940 W Savidge St, Data shows economy tanked by McGLONE SOMENAUER erans of the Armed Forces. This APPAREL credentials, al- Spring Lake, MI 49456 list will be going back to our char- New Local 25 apparel is available though several Area Four– Wednesday, one-third in second quarter of year ter in 1937. We need the name, at the Union Hall. New items in- state agencies have relaxed re- August 19, 2020 at 5pm at the Op- By Mark Gruenberg, PAI Staff Writer registration number, military clude: knit hats and beanies, new newal requirements due to the erators Local 324, 802 Robert WASHINGTON (PAI) – The economy tanked in the second quar- branch and dates served. Please hi-vis short and long sleeved t- pandemic. Hupy Drive, Gladstone, MI 49837 ter of 2020, from April through June, government data shows, as U.S. call the office for more informa- shirts and hi-vis hoodies. Apparel The General Office has not The Area Three picnic has gross domestic product – the sum total of all goods and services – tion. can be viewed on the Facebook yet lifted the ban on Union Meet- been scheduled for Saturday, declined by 32.9 percent at an annual rate. All members should have page. ing and Elections. Our current August 29, 2020 at 12PM at the And it could have been worse, even the Commerce Department’s received a letter from our Inter- EMPLOYEMNT CHANGES: election process is still on hold Bay City State Park – Shelter Bureau of Economic Analysis, which released those numbers, says. national regarding the Asbestos All employment changes; hire, until an ok is given to proceed. Number Three. Camping is avail- Federal checks to workers, both the $1,200 check when the crash Exposure Scientific Study. For lay off, fire, shop change, disabil- All members will be notified by able, as well as a beach, and play began, and $600 weekly jobless aid on top of state unemployment more information on how to par- ity, etc. must be called into the mail when the election can re- area. Contact Scott Ivey with any benefits, propped the economy up, BEA explained. ticipate in this study, please con- Union Hall. The only way to sume. questions. Subject to change due Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., wants to knock tact Business Manager Patrick guarantee you are on the out of After a wage re-opener ne- to Covid-19. that prop out, cutting the $600 to $200. Half of his ruling Republicans Welch at the main Local 47 Office work list and your employment gotiation meeting for the remain- The union hall accepts Visa, want to reduce it to zero. Succeeding in those aims would only make number: 517-708-0665 records remains current and cor- ing 3 years of our contract, an MasterCard, and Discover. Pay- things much worse. Per the Rules and Proce- rect is to call the Office – (248) agreement was reached. The Ex- ments can be made both at the How much worse? For comparison, BEA’s historical statistics dures: 352-1850. ecutive Committee met by con- hall and over the phone. add that in the worst year of the Great Depression, 1932, the economy Members must notify the LAY OFF/HIRE: Please be ference call to review the offer of OSHA 10 and OSHA 30 shrank by 12.9 percent. office within 24 hours of being reminded, all members shall no- $2.50, $1.65, & 1.65 with $1.30 per safety training can now be taken The day before BEA’s release, the AFL-CIO used the gloomy laid off or charges may be tify the Business Manager within year for the trainee classification. online. Please visit our website outlook to once again lobby for the House-passed Heroes Act placed. forty-eight hours after accepting After consideration, the offer was – www.boilermakerslocal169.com (HR6800). It would extend the federal $600 weekly jobless aid checks, Members must notify the a job or upon termination of em- approved. It was made known the - for more information. now sent to at least 30 million unemployed workers through January office before ANY overtime is ployment. Failure to report will Welfare Fund needed a $1.00 in- Retired member, Terry 31. They’re scheduled to end July 31. worked. result in an automatic fifty dollar crease. Therefore, the Committee Dewyer, passed away on July 19, “After months of sitting on his hands, McConnell has finally Contracts are available at the fine. allocated the increase as follows: 2020 and retired member, Duane released a proposal for COVID-19 relief. The package is called the Union Office or at the Union S.U.B. FUND: Please be re- Journeyman $1.50 on check with Kraai, passed away on July 25, Heals Act, but unfortunately this poorly named bill will heal nothing Meeting upon request. minded, in order to receive a $1.00 to the Welfare Plan. Trainee: 2020. Our thoughts and prayers and will only hurt working people and our families,” federation Presi- OSHA 10: Local 47 will be S.U.B. Fund check on Friday, all $0.30 on check with $1.00 to the go out to their family and friends dent Richard Trumka said. offering OSHA 10 to any Active paperwork must be submitted to Welfare Plan. New rates go into during this incredibly difficult McConnell’s “relief package…is $2 trillion short and 73 days Member who is not current with the Office no later than 2:00 p.m. effect on Monday, August 3rd, time. late. The bill drastically reduces the $600 in weekly unemployment the program. The course is done on Thursday. 2020. benefits that thousands of America’s families are relying on right online, so if you wish to take the SUB FUND TIME LIMITA- UPCOMING ASBESTOS “The difference between the now.” The fed provided a toll-free number to call senators: 866-832- course please contact the Local TION: Please be reminded, per TRAINING CLASSES: Asbes- right word and the almost right 1560. Union office with your email ad- the Plan Document: Each time a tos Supervisor Refresher > Sat- word is the difference between “And during a time when millions of working people are without dress and we will be more than participant receives a State Un- urday, August 29th, 2020 lightning and a lightning bug.” a job, health care or retirement security, the package also includes a happy to set it up for you. If you employment check, he/she must Check with the Office to –Mark Twain (1835 - 1910) bill from” Utah Republican “Sen. Mitt Romney that fast-tracks Social do not have a computer at home, mail or deliver the receipt, check ensure the classes will occur as Security and Medicare cuts,” Trumka warned. you are welcome to come to the stub, or a copy of the check to scheduled. “The desire to take medicine The 2020 BEA statistics reflect the mass closures needed to Local Union Office to take the the Administrator’s office within — All classes will be held at is perhaps the greatest feature combat “community spread” of the coronavirus – closures also re- course. thirty (30) days of receipt of said Local 207’s office @ 26453 which distinguishes man from flected in continual increases in jobless claims from unemployed To ensure all Active Mem- State Unemployment check. Northline in Taylor. animals.” workers. bers and Retirees are receiving Any request for a benefit pay- — Classes begin promptly at –Sir William Osler (1849 - The Bureau of Labor Statistics provides those numbers, and it their Robo calls please make sure ment past the thirty (30) days will 8AM and end at 4PM, followed 1919) reported that in the week ending July 25, 1,205,871 people applied for you have not blocked the follow- be denied per the Plan Document. by a Lead Awareness Update. regular state-provided jobless benefits and another 829,697 sought ing number: (804) 441-8365. There BENESYS: When calling the If you are due to expire and “The world is wide, and I federal-only $600 weekly unemployment aid. Since the pandemic- are several members who have Fund Office, Benesys, please be need one of these refreshers now, will not waste my life in friction caused crash began on March 13, an official total of 30,202,498 work- the number blocked and therefore sure to get the name of the per- please call the Taylor Office (1- when it could be turned into mo- ers have sought jobless benefits, combining both types, BLS added. are not receiving the Robo Calls. son providing you information. 800-207-5622) to register. mentum.” Add in jobless people who can’t claim benefits, have had them These calls are only used for Im- Lately, we have been experienc- —Class sizes are being lim- –Frances Willard (1839 - denied, who are still waiting for their first checks due to creaky state portant Notifications from the ing some incorrect information ited due to state guidelines cur- 1898) jobless systems, plus the seven million unemployed before the Local Union Business Manager being provided to our members. rently in place. coronavirus crash began, and the total rises above 50 million. “Be very circumspect in the and Funeral Notifications. If you In order to make sure the correct BE SAFE, WEAR YOUR The $600 checks are especially vital to “gig economy” workers, choice of thy company. In the are not receiving these calls, information is provided, it helps MASKS, & FOLLOW THE SO- farm workers, home health care workers, so-called “independent con- society of thine equals thou shalt please contact the Local Union to have a name so the Union Of- CIAL DISTANCING GUIDELINES! tractors” and other workers the regular state-run jobless benefits enjoy more pleasure; in the soci- Office and we will double check fice can call Benesys, correct the system doesn’t cover. ety of thy superiors thou shalt to make sure we have the correct person providing incorrect infor- “It makes you feel very vir- They also lessened the impact of the April-June crash, BEA’s find more profit. To be the best in number in the system or if you mation and find out why they are tuous when you forgive people, statement said. It explained that a key part of the economy, personal the company is the way to grow may have blocked the number. providing our members with in- doesn't it?” income, rose, on an annual basis, only because “government trans- worse.” Local 47 has been receiving correct information. –L. M. Montgomery (1874 - fer receipts”– i.e. the initial $1,200 checks after the crash began and – Francis Quarles (1592 - a lot of returned mail from our SICK AND INJURED: Please 1942) the $600 weekly benefits since then – “more than accounted for” 1644) members. We ask that if you have keep all our sick and injured mem- “To invent, you need a good declines due to lost jobs. a change of address or phone bers in your thoughts and imagination and a pile of junk.” “Do not speak of your hap- “GDP collapsed faster in the second quarter of 2020 than it has number to please call the Local prayers. –Thomas A. Edison (1847 - piness to one less fortunate than in any other recorded quarter of U.S. history. Congress needs to Union Office right away so we 1931) yourself.” restore the extra $600 in unemployment insurance and provide large- can update your information –Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD) scale, flexible aid to state and local governments,” the Economic throughout our system, TIC’s, Local 47 cont’d “If you cannot lift the load Policy Institute tweeted. and the with the International. It until these items are sent to TIC. off another's back, do not walk “To play it safe is not to “We are in a historic economic crisis with no end in sight – now is very important to make sure Please call TIC immediately at away. Try to lighten it.” play.” is not the time to slash additional unemployment benefits by $400 a your contact information is al- (800) 323-8079 and get the above- –Frank Tyger –Robert Altman (1925 - 2007) week,” Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., tweeted in reply. ways update with Local 47. mentioned forms into the fund Anyone interested in joining ASAP and you will be reinstated the newly formed Breath Of Life retroactively Committee is asked to please call Remember that Auto and the Local Union Office. Motorcycle accidents are not Pension and Health Welfare: covered by our plan. Auto and Larry Tolbert (269-345-8944) Motorcycle accidents should be Allied Workers’ Local 47 Fringe covered by your personal Auto Benefit Funds Insurance policy. 6525 Centurion Drive, Lansing, Members having questions MI 48917-9275 regarding Pension and Welfare Toll Free: (800) 323-8079 Fund please contact TIC Interna- Telephone: (517) 321-7502 tional at the numbers below or log Fax Number: (517) 321-7508 onto their Website: www. Larry Tolbert will be avail- heatfrostlocal47benefits.org: able via phone to answer any Please complete and return questions regarding Pension, the working spousal forms to TIC. Welfare and Vacation Funds. JATC Coordinator Phil Larry is the Secretary for the Pen- Wilson (616-466-8736) sion, Welfare, Vacation and Spe- Applications are open for cial Benefits and can be reached the Apprenticeship Program. Call by phone at (269) 345-8944, or by the Union Office. mail at: P.O. Box 19541, Good and Welfare: Local 47 Kalamazoo, MI 49019. sends our Condolences to the To all active members, if you Family and Friends of Raymond have not sent in your Coordina- McWilliams. tion of Benefits Form, your Spou- sal Form, or your Birth Certifi- “Experience is a good cates for your Children, no one school, but the fees are high.” will be covered on our insurance –Heinrich Heine (1797 - (Continued next column) 1856) 8 THE BUILDING TRADESMAN August 7, 2020 IBEW IBEW Local 498 LOCAL 58 “Powering Northern Michigan Since 1949” IBEW Local 498 Please visit the State of MI TRAVERSE CITY – Meet- website or visit your local Secre- IBEW Local 58 IBEW Local 252 ings. tary of State office to get regis- IBEW DETROIT – The next Regular Membership Meeting will be Au- ANN ARBOR – LOCAL 252 Regular E Board- will be tered to vote in the upcoming pri- gust 18, 2020 at 6:30 PM at the Union Hall. Social Distancing and UNION MEETING: August 12, held on Wednesday, August 12th, mary elections and general elec- Local 131 Masks will be required. 2020 union meeting will be held 2020 at 5:30 pm, in person meet- tions in November. Serving Southwest Michigan The Electrical Industry Training Center is offering Continuing outside, please bring a lawn chair. ing. Website – The new website Since 1916 Education classes. Please check them out at http:// Mask and social distancing will MEETING -The next regular is up and running. Please take a www.detroiteitc.org/continuing-education/. be required. meeting is scheduled to be held look and let us know what you IBEW Local 131 We will start to cancel classes if they don’t meet the minimum LOCAL 252 ANNUAL PIC- on Wednesday, August 12th, think. Pay Pal is up and running KALAMAZOO – The next enrollment requirements, or more hopefully we will order books for NIC: The Local’s Annual Picnic 2020 at 7:00 p.m. on the website. There should be Executive Board meeting will be those of you who’ve signed up. Members on the Storm Book must is cancelled this year due to Ex- JATC First Aid/CPR – The no reason for late dues now. August 17th, 2020 at 5 p.m. The secure their training through the Continuing Education Program of- ecutive Orders related to the pan- Traverse City JATC will be pro- Thanks to George for getting this next Women in the Trades Meet- fered by the school. If you need assistance in registering for a class demic. viding First Aid/CPR/AED Train- done for the membership!!!! ing will be August 18th, at 6 p.m. please call the Training Center at 586-751-6600. UNION DUES FOR 2020: ing on Tuesday the 11th of Au- Email – Please get an email Due to the Governor’s cur- Local 58 Dues Information: Dues are due by the first day of the Effective January 1, 2020 union gust at 5:30 P.M. This class sizes address to the hall so we can get rent executive order, we ask that quarter. You can now pay your dues with an APP. Go to Apple/ dues for “A” members will be is limited based on current Covid info out easier and faster, thanks. those coming to the Local Union Google Play and download the IBEW 58 APP. In the APP go to My $119.25 per quarter. Union dues 19 rules. Call the hall to sign up. You can email your address to the to conduct business, please wear Profile, My Member Tools and that’s where you find the information for “BA” members will be $61.80 If we need to, we will add more hall at [email protected] . Please a face covering. to pay. You can also pay by phone with credit/debit or mail a check. per quarter. classes as needed. Our cards are put your name in the subject. Work Outlook: The work At this time we are not taking cash transactions. Dues for the quarter TRAINING CLASSES good for 2 years, so please check Contracts - We have up- outlook is strong. We expect to are $124.50 without PAC and $128.50 with PAC. 2020: ALL CLASSES ARE CAN- your card or call the hall to see if dated Inside Wireman Contracts have a busier than usual summer Local No. 58 Benevolent Fund: The next Benevolent Fund meet- CELLED UNTIL FURTHER NO- you are due. available at the hall. continuing into the winter. If you ing will be Tuesday, September 8, 2020 5:00 pm. TICE. Covid 19 office hours- For Dues Increase 2020 – The are aware of interested electri- Members of the Community Service Committee: The next meet- CREDIT CARDS: The Lo- your information the hall is open union dues will increase $1.00 a cians, working in our jurisdiction, ing will be Tuesday, August 11, 2020 at 5:00 PM. Every member is cal is now accepting credit cards to limited walk in traffic. To fol- month. Effective Jan. 2020 the please have them visit invited to attend and to bring their ideas about our Local’s involve- to pay union dues. We accept low state guidelines there is a 6- new rate will be $140.10 per quar- www.poweringkalamazoo.com or ment in our communities. Visa, Master Card, American Ex- foot distance rule in effect, so if ter. call the office. Members of the Entertainment Committee: The next meeting press and Discover. There is a fee there is more than 1 person at a Resale Items – We have The LMCC has launched a will be directly after the Community Service meeting. The Entertain- of 3.5% to use your card. time in the hallway outside of Local 498 Beanie Hats for resale new website www.powering ment Committee has decided to cancel the Annual Family Picnic for M.U.S.T DRUG TESTING: Caroline’s window the second and T-shirts. Stop in to get yours kalamazoo.com. This website will 2020 based on health concerns caused by the COVID 19 pandemic. Please make sure your MUST person should wait outside or in today! Proud Union Home signs be used to highlight local signa- Hopefully, the Annual 58 Family Picnic will be held next year on Au- drug testing is current as you the meeting room until their turn are in and available at the hall. tory contractors and used as an gust 7, 2021. cannot work on a U of M project at the window. Masks are avail- Free to members in good stand- organizing tool. EWMC of Southeastern MI – Thank you to all of those who are or several other projects in the able at the hall for personal use ing. Follow us on Facebook attending our Zoom meetings as we continue to navigate through jurisdiction without being cur- as well as hand sanitizer and Meeting Cookouts- cook out @poweringkalamazoo, Twitter these unprecedented times. rent. Local 252 has a zero toler- cleaning supplies to be able to and drawings will be suspended @PoweringKzoo, Instagram The next meeting of the chapter will be on Monday, Aug. 17, ance for alcohol or drug use. sanitize the restroom after you until further notice. @powering kalamazoo, and 2020 at 5:30pm. Please make sure your cell phone number and your ERTS: Please make sure that use it if needed. Volunteer – We will need LinkedIn @poweringkalamazoo. email address are up to date. The meeting information will be sent out you are signed up in the Elec- So far Local 498 has not seen people to volunteer for events Please feel free to share the wage as soon as available. tronic Reciprocity Transfer Sys- any confirmed cases with mem- coming up. Contact the hall and calculator feature of this site. As we enter this election season we will be participating where tem. You must be signed up in bers that I know of and it would let George know. If you believe we do not have needed to try to get candidates who have our best interests as their ERTS before working outside of be nice to keep it that way. For Scholarship – Past charter your email address or correct agenda elected to office. Also, please submit your census data and Local 252’s jurisdiction or your extended stays or business needs member Brother Bob Dost has a cell phone number, please email encourage others to do the same. We do not want our community to benefits will not be transferred at the hall you will be asked to fill scholarship ‘Robert Paul Dost Christine at cbohms@ibew be underrepresented for the next TEN YEARS. back. out a health questionnaire and Scholarship Endowment’ for High 131.com The Electrical Workers Minority Caucus (E.W.M.C) is delighted Local 252 Website & App: take a temperature reading just School seniors in the 5-county Dues pricing – The price of to invite you to our national webinar series “The War on Workers: The Local’s website www.ibew like apprentices do for class or area around Traverse City. To dues for 2019 is $39/month. The Coronavirus Style.” This webinar is presented by Mark McDermott, 252.org is up and running. There applicants do for interviews, access it go to www.gtrcf.org/ price for dues in 2020 will increase an economic justice and labor educator who has been working for is also a Local 252 App available again to try and follow State of scholarships/ . Local 498 Union to $40/month. If you’re unsure economic, racial, and social justice for many years. Brother McDermott to download. Search “IBEW 252” MI safety guidelines. members’ children get preference about your balance, please call is a long-time ally of the EWMC, and we are incredibly pleased to be in the app store. You must create Picnic – this summer the pic- to the endowment. A huge thank the Hall for the exact amount or working together. Mark and our EWMC co-host will present an inter- a new login and password to ac- nic will be cancelled due to the you in Memory of Bob Dost for email Christine. If your dues ticket active experience by engaging you through various features of Zoom cess the Members Only section. Covid 19 pandemic. It was a diffi- his generosity and being a great reads paid through, July 2020 technology. We want to create a dialogue despite the challenges of Your login for the old website is cult decision to make but for the union member. your dues are not current; please social distancing and virtual presentations. More information can be no longer valid. safety of the members and their Service Pins – Service Pins call the Hall. found on the website at www.ibew-ewmc.com. Please continue to Aflac Insurance: Aflac has families the entertainment com- are still available at the union hall We have finalized our auto- stay safe at work, home, and in the community. #ibewstrong teamed up with the IBEW to of- mittee decided to postpone it for those members who have not mated dues reminders, these re- The RENEW Committee meeting will be on Tuesday, August fer its members Aflac benefits at until next year. Please stay tuned received them. Stop by and get minders will be sent ahead of pos- 25, 2020 at 5:00 PM. a reduced rate. Contact Repre- for further information about the yours today! sible late dues. You may receive The Safety Committee meeting will be on Monday, August 10, sentative Lisa Enerson for infor- annual Christmas party in No- Made in America Websites a message via text or email if you 2020 at 5:30 PM. mation about Accident, Cancer, vember and the Santa Party for – www.theunionbootpro.com - have not tendered your most cur- The Veterans Committee will now be meeting monthly immedi- Critical Care, Dental and Vision the kids, hopefully we will be 100% American made/union rent I.O. Dues payments. ately after the Safety committee meeting on the 2nd Monday of each insurance from Aflac. Phone back to normal enough to have made. Union member discounts Life events happen, and month. number: (517) 306-0144. these 2 events. 27% off. Use this code when or- we’d always like to make sure you The Political Action Committee (PAC) meetings are held at 5:00 AT&T Discount: Union PAYPAL – PAY PAL is now dering. Be0498mD or order toll have updated beneficiary forms. PM on the 1st Wednesday of each month. members can save up to 15% on up and running!!! Please look into free 1-800-723-5384. If you’re questioning whether Local 58’s Women’s Committee – With the union hall being the monthly service charges of setting up a personal PayPal ac- Email Addresses - Any mem- yours is up to date, stop on down closed all in person meetings has been postponed We will continue qualified wireless plans, or unlim- count. The Pay Pal option to use ber that would like to have Local to the Hall to get new forms. having our regular monthly meetings on ZOOM as needed. Please ited calling for $15/mo. for AT&T for paying your dues is “pay 498 forward communication to If you’re interested in receiv- watch for emails with further updates and hopefully we will be meet- Wireless Home Phone plans. Visit someone you trust,” if a different them from the International, Lo- ing updates from the Hall, please ing in person soon. UnionPlus.org/ATT with dis- option is used it will deduct the cal 498, AFL-CIO or the Building email Christine at cbohms@ibew Help Wanted – The Women’s Committee will be keeping the bid count code 4924966. credit card fees out of what is Trades, to help stay informed to 131.com to get your email address process open for caterers, photographers, band/deejay and other CONDOLENCES: The Lo- sent to the local for your dues. current events, politics, con- added. vendors for the ARC Awards until we have a new date. cal sends our sincere condo- This leaves your dues short as tracts, work, etc. Please call or Retirements: Congratula- If you know of vendors interested you can contact Angela Panicucci lences to Brother Robert Twichell we are a not for profit business email your current email address tions to the following retiring @ 586-291-8014 or Diana Wright @ 734-934-9029 for further informa- for the recent passing of his and have no way to absorb those to Local 498 at [email protected] members: Adrian DiVisser, July tion. We are also looking for a few good sisters to continue on with mother. costs. If you need help with this Thank you! 2020. Michael Chaddock, May our newsletter and articles. If you have any experience or affinity for Retiree’s Breakfast: The you can email George Shumar at Important numbers for you 2020. John Magnan Jr., May 2020. writing please reach out. retirees’ breakfast is cancelled [email protected] Also to write in your address book: Robert S. Davis, June 2020. Roger If there are any retirees that need help with getting groceries or until further notice. keep in mind that George is now MEEHP (Health) 1-855-633- Clark, March 2020. Patrick Klocke, other essentials during this pandemic, please reach out, we are here NOTICE TO RETIREES: If on a furlough/lay off to address 4584 or 1-517-321-7502 Fax# 1- May 2020. Keith Moore, April for you. You can email us.Email us at: your 50-year commemorative Covid 19 requirements and is 517-321-7508 2020. 58Womenscommittee@ibew local58.org. Follow us on Instagram watch stops working for any rea- NOT drawing a paycheck, so MEEPP (MI Pension) 1-517- Condolences: With a heavy @ibewomen58; Check us out on Facebook. son please contact the Union please be mindful of using his 321-7502 heart, Local 131 would like to an- IBEW Local 58 Retirees Association: Board meetings and Lun- Hall. Do not attempt to have it time. (New address Michigan Pen- nounce the following members cheons have been cancelled, until further notice. When luncheons serviced yourself. Election of Officers – We sion and Health Plan) passing, Brother Dale Bothwell resume, due to increasing prices, the cost will be $20.00 per person. DUES PAYMENTS – Please held the July 8th meeting and TIC International Corpora- passed away on April 23, 2020. Please keep your contact information and email address updated with look at your dues receipt. If your swore in all of the new officers tion, 6525 Centurion Drive, Lan- Brother Charles Krull passed the Union hall and the Retirees’ Association. dues paid through date shows 6/ for the local. I would like to thank sing, MI 48917 away on May 3, 2020. Brother Send your email address to [email protected]. IF you 2020, your dues are not current. all of the outgoing officers for NEBF 1-301-556-4300 John Ingram passed May 2020. haven’t paid your 2020 dues yet, please send them to Ray Owen, 428 “A” members pay $119.25 per donating their time in helping NEAP 1-301-556-4300 Brother Josh Batten passed away Welch Road, Northville MI 48167. Those in arrears will be receiving quarter for 2020. “BA” members make this local operate. IO Pension 1-202-833-7000 on July 24th, 2020. reminder postcards. The 2020 Retirees Fall Bus trip to Charleston, SC pay $61.80 per quarter for 2020. JB Webb East and West- At DUES RATES. Jan 1, 2020 - All Memorials and full obitu- has been postponed until next year. All deposits have been refunded. Please mail your check to 7920 last report, everyone who was off $1.00/month increase New Rate aries can be viewed on the We look forward to traveling again in September 2021. We will be Jackson Rd., Ann Arbor, MI work due to the pandemic is now $140.10/Quarter website under the Memorials Tab. gathering together again when things have settled down into the 48103. Your third quarter dues back. Negotiations will be com- Info Updates – Any member FROM THE APPRENTICE- new normal. Consider dropping a note or making a call to a fellow (July through Sept.) are due now. ing up in March for the West side with a new address, phone num- SHIP: Drug Test Renewals. retiree’s association member, we all could use a bit of socializing Payments for third quarter agreement, if you have any ideas ber, email address, etc. should Please keep track of your drug during this time of Social Distancing. Stay safe and healthy! dues will be accepted no later than for negotiations, now is the time contact Local 498 with these test expiration date through Be sure to keep the Union Hall updated with any changes to 11:30 A.M. on Tuesday, Septem- to start thinking about them. We changes. www.safe2work4you.com. It is your phone number, address, and email. ber 30, 2020. will have several meetings be- Please remember it is your re- your responsibility to stay cur- As of 06/30/2020, the following members have lapsed member- tween now and then to discuss sponsibility to pay your dues on rent on your drug test. Please ship. If you wish to obtain membership, please contact the Union “We learn from experience any options the membership time. contact Nicole (269) 388-4434 to Hall to speak to a Business Agent: Acevedo Jr, Edwin; Barnes, Jermaine that men never learn anything would want to have considered. Remember to check the hall get your authorization form A.; Beresford, Joseph P.; Campbell, Allan J.; Codron, John C.; Deal, from experience.” Election year for state and recorder at night after 4:00pm for printed for you to pick up. If Christopher C.; Dobbs, Kurt B.; Fileccia Jr, Frank; Fornalewicz, –George Bernard Shaw (1856 federal elections- This is an im- any jobs that might be available. you don’t want to come to the Michael; Gean, Kevin; Hadden, Dale E.; Hall, Joshua D.; Hardy, Andre - 1950) portant year for local, state and 231-943-4980 ext. 3# Hall to pick it up, please email F.; Johnson, Margaret A.; Kennedy, Kevin D.; Kirby, Philip D.; Moylan, national elections as well as our Nicole and request your form to Kenneth R; Offutt, Ryan M.; Panicucci, Matthew A.; Rider, Lawrence “Things won are done; joy's local union elections, it is impor- BUILDERS LICENSE TRAINING be emailed to you. nwolf@ W.; Rowe, Skitch; Schroeder, Adam C.; Slater, Tranette M.; Strugala, soul lies in the doing.” tant for your voice to be heard in MIDDLETON ibew131.com. Paul R.; Teschendorf, Jacob N.; Tomlinson, Luke A.; Tumminello, –William Shakespeare (1564 all of these elections to support Real Estate Training Inc. - 1616) 901 Tower Drive, Suite 120 Organizing: As much tech- Vincent J.; Tyler, Eric M.; Ware, Richard S.; Wilson, Patrick A.; organized labor. The State of MI Troy, MI 48098 nology as we use to track non- Woznick, Dean T.; Zapinski, Scott M.; Zemke, John P. “Much of the social history now has absentee voting for ev- www.middletontraining.com union electricians in our jurisdic- IBEW Pension: Congratulations to the following members who of the Western world over the eryone that is a registered voter. 248-885-8311 tion, often, our best resources are have been placed on International Pension: Stephen M. Balbaugh; past three decades has involved you the members. If you see a Lori Blakey; Micheal K. Hall; Robert Hamlin; Margaret Haske; Clyde replacing what worked with non-signatory in the area work- Jones; Lawrence E. Klein; Richard N. Koebel; James K. Lane; Peter what sounded good.” $$$ Top Prices Paid $$$ ing at a location, please let the Maniaci; William Remkus. –Thomas Sowell (1930 - ) ALL TYPES of NONFERROUS and FERROUS SCRAP METAL Hall know. Members who have Passed Away: Charles E. Cain, pension mem- • ALUMINUM • BRASS • COPPER • STAINLESS STEEL The Local LMCC is working ber; Ruth Parant, wife of pension member Roger Parant. We extend “Acceptance is such an im- • EXOTIC ALLOYS • CATALYTIC CONVERTERS towards holding a Virtual Job Fair, our sincere sympathy to the families on their loss. portant commodity, some have • CARBIDE • HIGH SPEED STEEL • AUTO RADIATORS on the HOPIN application. There called it "the first law of personal may be potential volunteer op- “Don't SAY things. What you ARE stands over you the while, growth.” COMMERCIAL CONTAINERIZED portunities running up to the job and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.” – Peter McWilliams RESIDENTIAL SERVICE fair for members to participate in. –Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882) INDUSTRIAL PICKUPS MONDAY-FRIDAY 8 A.M.-5 P.M. AVAILABLE If you are interested in volunteer- “Youth is a wonderful thing. SATURDAY 8A.M.-NOON ing, please contact Scott Bryer or “We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and What a crime to waste it on chil- Fritz Tull. although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply dren.” (248) 960-1200 Brian O’Donnell won, but exact their dues of work and self-denial, anxiety and dis- –George Bernard Shaw (1856 Business Manager/ couragement.” - 1950) MANN METALS CORP. Financial Secretary – L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942) 1011 DECKER ROAD • P.O. BOX 711 • WALLED LAKE 48390 August 7, 2020 THE BUILDING TRADESMAN 9

second Monday of each month the latest information, including and starts at 5 p.m. at the Hall. job postings. The Local 445 web Please make sure to wear your address is IBEW445.com. masks. Local 445 Picnic – After a The Executive Board meets great amount of thought, it has the fourth Monday of each month been decided to cancel the Local starting at 4:30 p.m. 445 Picnic. It was not an easy IBEW PLEASE HELP!! – Please thing to do, but we feel that it is Local 692 make sure you have updated the the most responsible action to IBEW Hall with your current address take. IBEW Local 692 and phone number. Also, if you There will be zoo tickets BAY CITY – Union Meeting. IBEW Local 948 Local 445 have had any life changes such available for pick up at the Hall. Due to the Labor Day holiday, the FLINT – Our August Union Local 275 as a marriage/divorce/new child, The Binder Park Zoo tickets will next regular membership meeting Meeting is cancelled. IBEW Local 445 please contact the Hall to ensure be good for September 11-13, will be Monday, September 14, Our August Executive Board IBEW Local 275 BATTLE CREEK – The Gen- your benefits are correct. 2020. If you would like tickets, 2020 at 7pm. Meeting will be held on Monday, COOPERSVILLE – Dear eral Membership Meeting is the Local Website – Please please contact the Hall (269) 964- Executive Board Meeting. August 24th, 2020 at 4:30 p.m. at Brothers and Sisters: The LMCC check the Local 445 website for 4545. The next E-board meeting will be the Union Hall. has approved the purchase of Monday, August 17, 2020 at 6pm. The September Retiree Club 500 IBEW 275/NECA facemasks Message from the Business Meeting will be held on Tuesday, to be given to the Members of Manager. It seems as though September 1st, 2020 at 9:00 a.m. the Local. We will send out noti- Covid-19 will never go away and at the Union Hall. fication when they will be avail- IBEW Local 557 the dark clouds continue to loom Please make sure you are able. over us all. Covid-19 has defi- registered to vote this year. The following Members are regarding work please feel free to no-fault insurance law changed nitely taken a toll on the work pic- https://mvic.sos.state.mi.us/ 3 or more months behind in dues: pass it along. He can be reached effective July 1. Notifications ture in Local 692. We need to be RegisterVoter Vern Brink, Shelley Cummings, IBEW Local 557 at 989-529-5943. were sent to each member from vigilant when fighting this glo- Don’t forget to check our Michael Demond, Tony Kilgo, SAGINAW – MONTHLY BOOK SIGNING – Out of the Michigan Electrical bal pandemic. It is our hope that website for new content. Be sure Avanti Lopez, John Miller, Steven MEETINGS- The August 4th work lists can be signed for other Employee’s Health Plan. This let- the wearing of masks will either to log in to see all the new con- Mutschler, Eric Quinn, Matt Regular Membership Meeting Locals through fax or email. This ter encouraged members to pur- stop or at least slow the spread tent. www.local948.com. Reiber, Jeremy Rinehart, Jeffrey was cancelled due to Governor is to continue to cut down on as chase unlimited PIP to ensure of this wretched virus. You can pay over the phone Stark. Whitmer’s issued EO 2020-160, many in-person transactions as proper protection for themselves Following the governor’s with debit or credit card. You can The JATC is looking for prohibiting indoor gathering of possible. Contact your home lo- and their family. The Health Plan orders, monthly membership also stop by the Hall during busi- volunteer retirees and laid off more than 10 people statewide. cal and request a correspondence will not offer Qualified Health meetings will continue to be held ness hours (7am-noon/ 1-4pm) Journeymen to help w/this Policies are ever-changing to be sent to the Local you are Coverage and therefore members outside, weather permitting. and pay by cash, check, debit or years’ apprenticeship classes. these days in regards to COVID- interested in signing. must purchase PIP coverage. You Masks will be required at all times credit card. Don’t wait till you While these will not be paid 19. It is unclear if State guidance EXECUTIVE BOARD should discuss PIP coverage and by anyone coming or going into owe a reinstatement fee (4 positions, we will offer volun- will allow for the September Mem- MEETING – The Local 557 Ex- other auto coverage with your the union hall. There will also be months behind). teer reward points to each re- bership Meeting. Please con- ecutive Board met on July 21st. auto carrier or agent. strict guidelines to adhere to with 2020 – Monthly Dues – Jour- tiree or JIW who would like to tinue to monitor emails and the With continued guidance from Help keep the cost of Health social distancing. Please do your neyman $43.70 a month – Ap- help. Please contact Dave Local’s Facebook page for up- the International Office, the E- Care down. Schedule your annual part brothers and sisters to pro- prentices, CE, Sound Tech $40.70 Kitchen, Apprenticeship Direc- dates. Everyone should con- Board has the power to take any physical with your doctor today tect each other. If we all do our a month tor if you would like to learn tinue to do their part to slow the action that would normally be ap- if you have not done so recently. own little part maybe life will re- 2019 – Monthly Dues – Jour- more. spread of the virus by practicing proved at a Local membership Registering on the Blue Cross/ turn to somewhat normal. Enjoy- neyman $42.70 a month – Ap- EWMC is having a can drive. proper social distancing and meeting. All operations are still on Blue Shield website is highly rec- ing high school sports, college prentices, CE, Sound Tech $39.70 You can drop off your empty wearing a mask in public to pro- track at the Hall and they have ommended. Please take the time football Saturday’s or even at- a month cans or donations here at the tect you and those around you. done a great job helping to guide to visit www.bcbsm.com. Upon tending an outdoor concert in the If you are unfamiliar with our Union Hall. All proceeds will go Proper PPE should be worn on the Local through these difficult registering you can take the Free fall will be our reward for doing referral procedure please refer to to relieve student lunch debt at job sites and safety policies times while we are unable to have Health Assessment test and find the right thing and looking out our website @ http://local948.org local schools. should be followed as well. Monthly meetings. The next E instant results that can lead to for each other. /job_referrals/ For now on, all resign re- UNION HALL OPERA- Board meeting will be Aug. 18th. living a healthy lifestyle. With regards to the referral Don’t forget after 3 turn- quest will be sent to gyonkers@ TIONS – The Union Hall contin- NEW WEBSITE -Local BLUE CROSS APP – Down- procedure, “dings” or “hits” for downs on the out of work list you ibew275.org. The procedures are ues to be open for in-person 557’s website recently received a load the Blue Cross/Blue Shield all calls began again on June 15. must come down to the Union Hall still the same. transactions. If you will be com- refresh but is still under con- of Michigan app for your We continue to have calls for to resign. Regular meetings for the ing into the Hall for business, a struction. There are still some smartphone. Search for manpower that have kept the out Gregory Remington EWMC and RENEW committees mask is mandatory due to the bugs to be worked out, so please “BCBSM” on the Google Play th of work list moving. With that Business Manager are every month on the 4 Tues- Governor’s Executive Order. I be patient as we work to make app or Apple store. Benefits to being said, make sure to continue E-mail and Re-signs: If the day @ 6:00pm at the Union Hall urge all that come in for in-per- improvements to the Local. utilizing the app include: instant to call the job line in the evening. Hall does not have your e-mail in Coopersville and/or via zoom. son transactions to also adhere 2020 ELECTION- The over- access to EOB’s, a virtual ID card The out of work list has been turn- address it would be a good idea Both of these are great ways to to social distancing and the utili- whelming majority of Local 557 on your phone, information on ing over regularly. to send us an e-mail to get involved with the local as well zation of the service window in is registered to vote. If you are deductibles, explanations of cov- Work Report. Work contin- [email protected] so we can as the community. the main entry way if you can. not registered you should do so erage and other helpful tips re- ues at both the Pincanna project add you to the e-mail list. This is Dues increase for the year Please try to take care of busi- immediately. The 2020 Election lated to your Health Care cover- and the Bay City Meijer’s re- a great way to keep up with the 2020 will be $1.00 per month ness remotely as much as pos- will impact us in so many aspects age. EOB’s can be downloaded model with both projects wrap- latest information on job calls and to $42.90 per month. Please sible to cut down on visitors to of our lives. As informed IBEW to smart phones or computers ping up in the next month. other information sent from the make adjustments when mak- the Hall. James Lamb is continu- members we cannot afford to sit and used to substantiate WEX The new Consumers Energy Hall. ing payments through mail ing organizing duties during at out this election. I strongly en- receipt requests. Service center in East Tawas has and automatic bank payments. this time as well and if you have courage all members to apply to WEX APP – Search for the ramped back up again along with any useful information for him vote via ABSENTEE BALLOT. “TIC HRA” app in Google or the Wind Farm project (ground- Local 692 cont’d Skip the long lines at the pre- Apple and download it today. ing and bonding) located near year. cinct in what is expected to be a Utilization of this app will give the Rosebush area. Clements Fringe Benefits: RE- record year for voter turnout. If you access to account balances, Electric has picked up work at the MINDER: if you have recently IBEW Local 665 you are working on the road or receipt reviews and submittals, H Hotel due to the May flooding. gotten married, divorced, had the possibility exists you may be barcode scanning for covered Work also continues on Augres children, etc. make sure your working on the road in Novem- items, other helpful services. and Midland Schools. Ted’s Elec- beneficiaries have been up- ber, this is a great way to ensure This is a great tool to accompany tric has work at the Bullock Creek dated accordingly. Beneficiary IBEW 665 you get your votes in. Informa- your Health Care benefits. Pardee - 01/31/202 – DB 307; Ri- Schools. forms can be obtained from the LANSING – LOCAL UNION tion for this is available at the JOB CALLS – Please stay chard Hersey – 04/15/2020 – DB Nelson has Sanford Merid- hall. ELECTION RESULTS – Union Hall as well as online un- vigilant checking the Job Line if 308; Charles Coil – 12/11/2019 – ian schools along with Akron REMINDER: If you contact President – Mike Smith; der the Secretary of State at you are seeking work. All work DB 309; Robert Bierwagen – 07/ Fairgrove Schools. Conti Electric the Health Plan Office about go- Vice-President – Vacant; www.michigan.gov/sos. calls for the day will be available 03/2020 – DB 310. along with Newkirk have work on ing on short term disability, it is Recording Secretary – We will no doubt need a great on the Job Line after 4:30 pm. IF CONTINUE TO STAY SAFE the Consumers Energy dams important for you to notify the Chris Laverdiere; many volunteers to help out with YOU ARE SEEKING WORK AND STAY HEALTHY! along the Ausable River. Newkirk Hall as well. A copy of your pa- Treasurer – Christopher various election related events this don’t forget to CALL (989) 781- also has a project about to begin perwork will need to be submit- Brown; year. If you are interested in help- 0516 option 3. at Bay City Powertrain. John’s ted to the Hall for your file. This Business Manager/Finan- “Don't be sweet, lest you be ing out please reach out and offer STAY CURRENT ON DUES Electric out of Alpena has been will also freeze your position on cial Secretary – Aaron eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you up your services. We cannot af- –Please check to see if you are cur- awarded the Alpena Library the out of work list. Pangborn; be spewed out.” ford to be inactive during the elec- rent. The Hall has the ability to ac- Project. Hardies Electric has a Organizing. Brothers and Executive Board – Roger –Jewish Proverb tion season this year. cept credit cards. The credit card nice project at Atlanta Schools. Sisters, as we slowly open the Cole; Benjamin Freeman; Ken “Iron rusts from disuse; stag- HEALTH CARE – The service can accept payments for Master Electric has been state back up amid a global pan- Kolp; Jaime Lugo; Avery Rogers; nant water loses its purity and Michigan Electrical Employee’s dues, merchandise, apprentice awarded the new Midland demic, getting out onto job sites Michael Scranton; and Carrie in cold weather becomes frozen; Health Plan has taken steps re- book payments and other pur- Costco. Calls have begun to come to make contact with unrepre- Talbott; even so does inaction sap the cently to cover 100% of the costs chases. There is a convenience fee in for this project. Countyline sented workers continues to be a Delegate to the Convention vigor of the mind.” related to testing for COVID-19. to use this service. Credit card pay- Power has picked up a sizeable struggle. However, we have made – Jonathan Burne. –Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - During this pandemic, remote ments to pay dues can also be ac- project in Midland Hospital, an- some great additions lately to We would also like to thank 1519) care is encouraged and Blue cepted over the phone to ensure other job at the Michigan State Local 692 through our organizing the following: Election Judge Cross members can call the 24- you stay current on your dues. Extension site, work at the old 4D campaign. Dale Goerge and the Election Of- “Fanaticism consists in re- Hour Nurse Line at 800-117- CONTACT NUMBERS- building under the Poseyville Sometimes it just takes one ficials: Blake Greiner, Dillion Hall, doubling your effort when you BLUE. You may also want to in- Michigan Electrical Employee bridge, Red Coats ball fields, and guy to jump from the merit shop Jen Feasal, James Pock II, Timo- have forgotten your aim.” quire if your primary care pro- Pension fund and Michigan Currie stadium due to the severe for his co-workers to see that they thy Daniels, Lindsey Gould, Dane –George Santayana (1863 - vider offers telemedicine. The Health Plan (517) 321- flooding in the Midland area. have been lied to for years from Songer and Mike Kruger. 1952) plan continues to meet regularly 7502 or (855) 633-4584. Fax (517) We anticipate more work at contractors. Our members are the The new officers will be “Spare no expense to save via teleconferences to stay on 321-7508, GM Powertrain beginning in the biggest tool we have when it sworn in at the next union meet- money on this one.” top of the pandemic and update website mielectricalhealth.org. near future. Work around the state comes to organizing. Talk to that ing on Monday August 17, 2020. – Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - coverage as necessary. Evan Allardyce, continues to be very hot in Ann neighbor or family friend that has We would like to thank all 1974) As you know, the Michigan Business Manager Arbor, Lansing and Detroit. been working non-union. Tell him those that ran for office and a big Please stay safe and look out or her about the benefits of the thank you for the outgoing offic- for your fellow brothers and sis- IBEW and what we have to offer. ers who served our local union ters. You, the membership, is the great- with integrity. Union Dues. Dues can be est tool this local has to build CPR/FIRST AID – Will be paid in person, via phone, by mail those relationships. held on Thursday August 20th at or automatic withdrawal from Please do not hesitate to the Union Hall. To register, con- your bank account. We also ac- reach out to me when you see a tact Sara at the LEJATC: 517-483- cept payments via credit/debit non-signatory contractor doing 9686. card. Please note to use the work in your neighborhood. OSHA 30 CLASS SCHED- credit card machine to process Our jurisdiction is huge and im- ULE – Classes will start in Sep- payments, there will be a 2% possible for me to try and tackle tember beginning with: Tuesday, charge applied. this task alone. Don’t hesitate September 1, Thursday, Septem- Monthly dues can also be to pass my phone number ber 3, Thursday, September 10, paid on-line from the 692 website. along. Thank you. Brian Klele, Tuesday September 15, Thurs- Visit ibew692.net and log into the (989) 252 9225 day, September 17, Tuesday, Sep- member section. Ryan Charney, Business tember 22, Thursday, September 2020 Dues (Effective January 1, Manager / Financial Secretary 24, Tuesday, September 29, 2020) Important links & numbers Thursday, October1 and Tues- Monthly$41.20 IBEW Local 692 day, October 6. Seating availabil- Quarterly $123.60 989-684-4510 ity will be limited. To register, 6 months $247.20 www.ibew692.org contact Sara at the LEJATC: 517- Yearly $494.40 Health Plan 483-9686. To avoid a reinstatement fee, 517-321-7502 GENERAL MEMBERSHIP please remember to keep your www.mielectricalhealth.org MEETING – The next General dues current. Michigan Pension Fund Membership (Union Meeting) will Retirees Lunch. All retirees 517-321-7502 be held on Monday August 17, lunches have been postponed. www.michiganelectrical.org 2020 at 6:30 p.m. Golf Outings. The Michigan First time logging in, use your MEMBERS WHO HAVE Wireman’s Golf Outing and the Social Security Number in the “ID BEEN REPORTED AS HAVING IBEW 6th District Golf Outing Box” PASSED AWAY - Bruce Bryan - have been CANCELLED for this NEBF/ NEAP: 301-556-4300 01/16/2020 – DB 306; Frederick (Continued next column) IO Pension: 202-833-7000 10 THE BUILDING TRADESMAN August 7, 2020 Local 292 Local 7 Local 80 Sheet Metal Workers Sheet Metal Workers Sheet Metal Workers Sheet Metal Workers’ Local 292 Sheet Metal Workers 7 TROY – MEETING NOTICE: The next general membership meet- LANSING – NOTICE. This Newspaper Article shall serve as ing will be held on Wednesday, August 12, 2020. Official Notice of ALL meetings for Local 7! Sheet Metal Workers Local 80 Member meetings are held every 2nd Wednes- The next Statewide Meeting will be held August 13, 2020 at 4931 SOUTHFIELD – This paper serves as official notice for all meet- day of the month at The Knights of Columbus in Contec Drive/Lansing, MI at 6:00 p.m. ings and elections. Clawson. Check out the calendar tab at *Zone 1- September 10th -6:00 p.m. **REMINDER** Meetings are no longer held at the Plumbers Hall www.sheetmetal292.com for the location and date. *Zone 2 -July 28th -6:00 p.m. and are now held at Local 80’s Union Hall. The E-Board/Stewards meeting is scheduled *Zone 3- (Saginaw) - September 8th -6:00 p.m. MEMBERSHIP MEETING: The next gen- for August 25, 2020 at 6:00 pm at the Union Hall. *Zone 3- (TCity) September 17th- 6:00 p.m. eral membership meeting is scheduled for August **Per the CDC guidelines, masks must we worn *Zone 4- September 8th - 6:00 p.m. 25th, 2020 at 5:30 pm. Meetings are held at the and social distancing must be followed during all *Zone 5 –October 1, 2020 – 6:00 p.m. Meeting union hall. 17100 W. 12 Mile Rd. Southfield, 48076 meetings. Please register on our website at sheetmetal7.org EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING: The ELECTION NOTICE: The election of Local for the most up to date information on meeting next executive board meeting is scheduled for PAUL 292 officers will be conducted at the date, time, and schedules for 2020. Once you are registered it must Tuesday Aug. 18, 2020 at 5:00 pm. Executive Board GUALDONI place indicated below: Date: Friday, Aug; 21, 2020; be approved in order to be able to log on. Please meetings are held at the Local 80 Hall, 17100 W. Time: 12:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Place: Knights of SAM contact your representative if you are having is- 12 Mile, 2nd Floor, Southfield, MI Columbus, 870 N. Main St. Clawson, MI 48017 FULLER sues registering. UNION HALL REGULAR HOURS Mon- Any member in good standing will be eligible to vote. Members **Attention Certified Welders from Zones 2, 3, 4 TIM day through Friday 7:30 – 4:00, unless otherwise will be asked to present a current Local 292 Dues receipt and driver’s and 5: Starting April 1, 2020 all welding certification renewals will MULLIGAN indicated in holiday hours. license, or some other form of identification at the polls. change to a twice a year schedule. The new renewal deadlines for all RETIREE MEETING SCHEDULE: All re- Any nominee who would like to speak and answer questions will Certified Welders will be April 1 and Oct. 1. In order to keep your maining meetings and activities have been can- be given the chance at the August 12, 2020 membership meeting. certification from expiring you will be required to submit a Welder celled for 2020. We will inform you at a later date what we will be Business Manager / Financial Secretary – Treasurer (Vote for Maintenance Form to the Training Center dated no more than 5 doing for 2021. Any questions regarding joining the Retirees Asso- not more than 1): Paul Gualdoni days prior to April 1 or Oct. 1. You will no longer be required to ciation please contact Steve Murzen at 248-652-0593. Business Agent / President (Vote for not more than 1): Tony submit a $10 Filing Fee with your renewal paperwork. If needed, SUB CHANGES: Effective immediately you will need to start LaForest, Iro Galea, Paul Brown you can request a maintenance form from the Training Center. *IF sending your unemployment proof to [email protected] or Vice President (Vote for not more than 1): Antonio (Tony) YOU FAIL TO SUBMIT YOUR FORM BY THE DEADLINE YOUR fax it to 248-557-0297. Your unemployment proof needs to be in by 2pm Silvestri CERTIFICATION WILL EXPIRE. Feel free to contact Training on Tuesdays to be paid on that Friday. Local 80 will be handling all of Recording Secretary (Vote for not more than 1): Chuck Garry Coordinator Darek Scarlavai @ (231)288-6325 if you have questions. your proof now. If you have questions please call us, 248-557-7575. Warden & Conductor (Vote for not more than 1): Kim Hartman ZONE 1 Info: Any Zone 1 apprentice that is laid off should no- THANK YOU TO MEMBERS WHO HAVE PAID THEIR DUES Executive Board (Vote for not more than 5): Dave Pistotti, Tom tify Kevin at the school. Any Zone 1 Journeyman that is out of work A YEAR IN ADVANCE: Charles Taormina, Austin Runyan, David A. Paquette, Jason Csurgo, Lloyd McMillon, Frank Lewandowski, should contact your agent. There is travel work available, so if you Clark, Nathan Houle, Sandor Kulcsar, Martin Tibbs, Ron Lau, Ralph Jason Houth (Hooch) are interested please contact James or Eric. If you are experiencing Coffman, Robert Jablonski, Greg Outland, Robert Caswell, Christian Union Trustee (Vote for not more than 3): Denny Lau, Brandon any trouble with your insurance, please contact your agent or Hedlund, John Meloche, Michael Postinger, Jay Kuczynski, & Martine Whipple, Dean Fournier BeneSys at (866) 288-7037. Apprentices should be in contact with Nahernak. The term of office will run from the Regular Membership Meet- Instructors to make sure you don’t fall behind. If you are interested CANCELLED EVENTS: Unfortunately the golf outing, picnic ing, Sept. 9, 2020 through the first Regular Membership Meeting in in Fire Life Safety Training and Certification, CAD or Welding, please and Labor Day parade are cancelled for 2020. We hope to resume June 2023. contact the Zone 1 Training Coordinator Kevin Dowdy at (269) 781- back to normal for 2021. To be eligible for election on Aug. 21, 2020, dues for the month of 7183 or by email at [email protected]. SMART INTERNATIONAL has announced that they will be en- August must be paid in advance, that is, on or before July 31, 2020. In Solidarity, James Callahan and Eric Farrington. dorsing Presidential candidate Joe Biden for the 2020 election. Please take time to participate in this important process. ZONE 2 Info: If you are currently not working please call to DUES PAYMENTS: YOUR DUES PAYMENTS ARE DUE PRIOR 2020 ANNUAL CHARITY GOLF OUTING: Due to the COVID- make sure I have you and the out of work list and have a good TO THE FIRST OF THE MONTH. The books will close at the end of 19 pandemic and restrictions placed by the golf course, the Local 292 number to reach you. Our next meeting will be September 15, 2020 at the business day on the last day of the month. Payments made on Charity committee has decided to cancel the outing for this year. We 6pm in Grand Rapids. Thank you, Dave Rutz the 1st of the month are considered late for that month. There will be look forward to 2021 when we can resume this wonderful event. ZONE 3 Info: (Saginaw) Zone 3 is slowly returning everyone to no exception, once the books are closed it cannot be undone. Mem- RETIREES NOTICE: THE AUGUST 6TH LUNCHEON HAS work, following all CDC guidelines as close as possible. Looks like bers will receive a text message dues reminder prior to the end of the BEEN CANCELLED. The retiree’s luncheon will be held Thursdays the rest of the year is going to be busy, there is a big job that will start month. If you are not receiving our text messaging please call the at: Tavern on the Main, 235 S Main, Clawson MI 48017. (248) 588-1- this fall in Alpena, and we will be needing man power to go up there hall. REMINDER: We ONLY take Visa, Master Card & Discover and 696. Looking forward to seeing all retirees, new and old! 2020 meet- to work. Hopefully everyone is recovering well from the pandemic. do not accept American Express. ing dates are as follows: Oct. 1st and Dec. 3rd. Please contact Fred Thank you, Wayne Stover BENEFICIARY REMINDER: Please remember to designate or Engelman at [email protected] if you would like to be added to Zone 3 Info: (TCity) Congratulations to the newly retired Ed- update your beneficiary choice on all of your Local 80 and interna- the retiree email list. ward Bush! We all wish you a lengthy, healthy retirement. Our next tional benefits. The law requires that in the event of an untimely CONSTITUTION AND RITUAL: The Constitution and Ritual meeting will be Thursday Sept. 17 at the Union Hall in Traverse City. death your benefits go to your spouse first and if there is no spouse of the 2nd SMART General Convention is now available online. Go to Masks will be required inside the building. The next Traverse City to your children UNLESS you designate otherwise in writing with www.sheetmetal292.com, click on the Constitution/Ritual tab located Retirees Breakfast will be held at Willies Rear Friday Sept. 4 at 9 AM. each specific benefit. Depending on your classification you could at the top of the home page. The Union Hall will also have hard Stay Safe, Travis Eastman have benefits due to your heirs from Local 80 pension, insurance, copies when they become available. ZONE 4 Info Work in the area is good with everyone working, annuity and from international and SASMI. Each individual benefit SAFETY MODS AND DRUG TESTS: To access your MUST anyone that is not please call me ASAP. I know it feels great to be needs to have a designated beneficiary unless you want it to go to account, please go to www.mustonline.org or access it through the back to work but please be safe and take the necessary precautions to your spouse or children. As always seek the advice of an attorney. “links” tab at www.sheetmetal292.com. Members please note that if keep yourself safe and your family. Your Brother, Larry Kinzie ACCIDENTAL DEATH and DISMEMBERMENT INSURANCE you cannot access the MUST site to complete your safety mods you ZONE 5 Info If you are having issues with your unemployment FROM OUR INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION: Members who have need to contact Laura or Lee Ann at the Union Hall. With the amount or SASMI please give me a call. There are jobs still waiting to start their dues paid in advance (prior to the month of the accident) are eligible of upcoming in-town work, all current Journeymen and Apprentices across the U.P. and if you are interested there is work in other areas if for accidental death and dismemberment benefits up to $7,500. This should ensure they have 18 safety mods completed and drug test you want to travel. If you have not already signed up on the Local 7 benefit comes as a dues paying member of SMART International. should be current. website please do so at sheetmetal7.org, there is lots of good infor- WEEKEND WORK ASSIGNMENTS: Saturday and Sunday work The NMA addendum for most of the upcoming projects states: mation also you can pay your dues there. If your MSHA 5000-23 assignments. Please remember that when performing work on a Sat- 1) Prior to, but within 30 days of referral for employment to the project safety training has or is about to expire please contact me. urday or Sunday the steward must report it to the hall, give each site, all craft persons will: A) Attend a Project Specific Orientation Respectfully, Greg Faust members name and obtain a form for signatures. Each member must facilitated by the Contractor at mutually agreed upon times and loca- Congratulations: to Justin and Kaylee Peckham, on the birth of sign the form along with the number of hours they worked. The tions; B) Before being admitted to the job site, all contractors and their son born on July 27th, 2020. completed form must be sent back to by hall by the end of the day on subcontractor employees having active involvement in job site con- Dues Department: *Online dues payment is now available* Dues the following Monday. Weekend work assignments must be called struction activity, must be current and maintain a current MUST or of all members of local unions shall be paid monthly or quarterly, but or emailed into the hall prior to 3:00 pm on Friday. equivalent status regarding the Substance Abuse Program. Prior to always in advance. To better serve our membership, we accept Credit LAY-OFFS: All members must report to the Union Hall immedi- the start of work on the project the employee must provide confirma- Card Payments in lieu of your monthly dues. If you would like to take ately upon lay-off, even if you only work one day. These are the By- tion of negative results to a MUST Substance Abuse Test or equiva- advantage of the Credit Card Service, a finance charge will be applied Law rules for the Out-of-Work List. Your name will be removed from lent test within the last 30 days. – Please call the Lansing office during regular business hours at 517- the list 14 days after receiving an assignment. It is very important to MEMBER ASSISTANCE: Local 292 is now partnering with 882-4064 to make your payment. report to the union hall immediately after your layoff. Members get Ulliance, an employee assistance program designed to assist active Address/Telephone Changes: Article 8, Section 1 of Local 7 confused because the S.U.B. Fund allows you a period of up to seven members and their eligible family members who may be struggling Work Rules: Address Changes: All members are required to keep the to apply for S.U.B. benefits after lay-off. with emotional, domestic or substance abuse issues, as well as legal Financial Secretary informed of their correct address. A noticed mailed LAY-OFF SLIPS/TERMINATION NOTICES: Lay off slips must and financial referrals. If you and/or a family member feel this may to the last address shall be sufficient and legal. If you have moved or accompany all applications for sub pay. Without lay off slips you benefit you, contact Ulliance at 1-800-448-8326 or changed your telephone number, please contact the union hall to cannot collect sub pay. It is the member’s responsibility to make www.LifeAdvisorEAP.com for completely confidential assistance. update your records. sure they get one from the contractor when laid off. Your application Ulliance is available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Services are of BENEFITS: For Benefit questions please contact the area of- cannot be submitted without one. It is the contractor’s responsibil- no cost to active members and their dependents. fice. Zone 1 – BeneSys 866-822-7037, Zone 2 – TIC 866-887-4338, ity to issue one in accordance with our contract. SUBSTANTIATION REQUEST: Many members have been re- Zone 3 – BeneSys 800-451-5733, Zone 4 – BeneSys 800-842-2690 and S.U.B. BENEFITS: Report to the hall promptly upon layoff. You ceiving Substantiation Request letters from the Local 292 Benefit Zone 5 – Wisconsin H & B Fund 800-654-2329. must complete a S.U.B. Application within seven days from your Fund office. IRS regulations require that every use of the Benny DEATH CERTIFICATES: Please submit to the Union Hall a layoff date or you will forfeit S.U.B. benefits. Lay-off slips must Card be substantiated or validated as an eligible covered expense copy of a Death Certificate for deceased members. Additional ben- accompany the application to be eligible. Proof of UIA benefit pay- under the Plan. This validation is required by the IRS, the Fund efits from the International may be available. ments must be submitted within 21 days of when you were paid in cannot make exceptions. It is the member’s responsibility to ensure CONTACT US: 4931 Contec Drive/Lansing, MI 48910– 517- order to receive SUB benefits. Do not submit your sub applications all requested documentation be returned to the Fund office in a timely 882-4064 directly to the fund office. Your application must be signed by the manner. By not responding to the Substantiation Request letter, Local 7 Officers: hall or you will not collect benefits. your Benny Card may be suspended until all requested documenta- Samual Fuller (Business Manager/Financial Secretary-Treasurer) OUT-OF-WORK LIST: You must be on the out-of-work list to tion has been received. If you have any questions, contact BeneSys 517-882-4064 collect S.U.B. benefits or SASMI. Members must re-register bi-annu- at 248.641.4992 or the Union Hall. Eric Farrington (Agent-Lansing/Jackson) 517-242-3223 ally: March 1 through March 20 and September 1 through September DUES: Membership dues are required to be paid in advance of James Callahan (Agent-Battle Creek/Kalamazoo) 269-342-8842 20. If you fail to re-register you will be removed from the list. the month for which they are due. The union hall is not open on David Rutz (Agent-Grand Rapids/Muskegon) 616-458-2313 SHORT WORK WEEK SUB PAY: If you work 16 hours or less Saturday or Sunday, therefore, if you pay dues on either of those Wayne Stover (Saginaw) 989-692-0002 in a week or have a short work week due to weather you may collect days, it will not be processed until Monday. If you are on suspen- Travis Eastman (Traverse City) 231-943-5150 sub for that week but only if it is at the beginning or the end of a sion warning, your dues are 60 days late. To avoid suspension, dues Larry Kinzie (Agent-Flint) 810-785-6831 layoff. You may NOT collect if you are not laid off. You must com- must be paid online or at the union hall by 4 p.m. on the last business Greg Faust (Agent-Upper Peninsula): 906-372-9288 plete a sub application at the hall, provide a pay stub for that week day of the month. Payments received after 4 p.m. on the last business and the hall will submit it to the fund office. If you are not laid off and day of the month will not be processed and you WILL go suspended. it is due to weather the company MUST provide written documenta- All members are responsible for making sure any required fees, i.e. Local 292, continued tion that it was weather related. late fees or service fees, are included if paying online tration fee that will be refunded on the completion of the class. These MEMBERS ASSISTANCE PROGRAM: If you are experiencing (sheetmetal292.com). deposits are NON-Refundable if you do not show up for the classes. problems in your family, marriage or relationships, stress or emo- UNION HALL HOURS: Hall office hours are 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 You can drop off the deposit between the hours of 7:00 and 3:00 at the tional difficulties, grief or loss issues or problems with alcohol and p.m. Monday through Friday. Apprentice school. drug use please contact our assistance program. Ulliance is there to OUT OF WORK: If you become laid off, you must complete an Call the Apprentice School at 248-589-3237, Dave’s cell 313-623- help you with your needs. They can also help you with legal issues, Out of Work List Registration /SUB form. SUB forms are available at 9390 or Quintin’s cell 248-495-6764 to reserve a spot. Remember we financial concerns, elder care referrals and child care resources. Con- the Union Hall and also through all shop stewards. This is the only must have the deposit before you scheduled in the class. tact them at 1-800-448-8326 or www.LifeAdvisor EAP.com. Make sure way your name will be added to the Out of Work List. APPRENTICE APPLICATION NOTICE. SHEET METAL you mention Sheet Metal Workers Local 80 when calling and not TEXT BLAST NOTIFICATION: We have recently updated the WORKERS LOCAL 292 APPRENTICE TRUST FUND, 64 PARK the contractor you are working for. text blast contact list. All members have been added. If you haven’t ST. TROY, MI 48083-2752. www.smwl292jatc.org. Training Center News. Upgrading classes will resume their nor- been receiving texts and would like to be added or wish to opt out of NOTICE OF NON-DISCRIMINATION POLICY. The Appren- mal schedule for the Fall 2020 term. Building Trades and Architec- text blast, please contact the Union hall and we will make the change. tice Training Program operated by Sheet Metal Workers Local 292 tural Journeymen, Indentured Apprentices and Production Workers FACEBOOK & TWITTER: Be sure to check our website – Joint Apprenticeship and Training Committee (JATC) admits quali- that pay into the JAC fund can register for classes starting Monday, www.sheetmetal292.com; Facebook page - Sheet Metal Workers Lo- fied applicants without discrimination because of race, color, reli- Aug. 10. Probationary Apprentices can register starting Aug. 17. cal 292 and Twitter - @SMW292, for updates and information. gion, national or ethnic origin, age, sex, disability (except to the ex- To register, please call the Local 80 Training Center between 7:30am THE 4 PLUS MEMBER PROGRAM: The “4-plus” member pro- tent that such disability actually affects the applicant’s ability to and 3pm at (586) 979-5190. The Fall 2020 classes are as follows: gram is for any Local 292 member who has achieved four (or more) work at the trade or craft), marital status, or other classification pro- Monday: Detailing 1-4 (Altizer); HVAC Field Installation (DuFour); welding certifications. These certifications can be in any welding tected by federal, state or local law or ordinance. (You must be 18 Trade Math (O’Rourke); Welding 1-4 (Velez) process. Members who qualify will receive a shirt (one shirt for every years old at the time of application.) Tuesday: First Aid (Jackson) *Three week classes start Sept 1, four certs) with the 4 Plus logo, along with hard hat stickers and Application must be made in person. No faxes or emailed appli- Oct 6 & Nov 3 bragging rights. If you would like to be a “4-plus” member contact cations will be accepted!! Applications for Apprenticeship are ac- Wednesday: Grease Duct Welding (Zabik); Intro to AutoCAD your Local 292 Training Center at: 313-623-9390 (Dave) or Quintin cepted all year every business day. (Wilkos); OSHA 30 (Jackson); Sheet Metal Layout (Flood); TAB 1 248.495.6764. All applications must be filed in person at the Training Center (McGow) Attention all Welders! We are looking for any member interested and a copy of your High School diploma, or GED certificate, along Thursday: Architectural (Velez); Gas Heating Service (Hedlund); in a Saturday welding class August 15th and 22nd. with a picture ID must be submitted with the application or it will not Pipe Welding (Kelly); Reading Plans & Specs (Blackwood); Revit These classes would be for members that are ready to try and be accepted. At the time of filing you will be registered for a written 1&2 (Shuboy) obtain a AWS welding certification, learn how to weld, or just need to test at Macomb Community College, at a cost of $60 (Non-Members Masks will be required at all times in the Training Center and practice welding. Only) which you must pay at time of testing. Cash only will be ac- necessary precautions will be in place to minimize the risk of spread- Note: Anyone that signs up for a class, must pay a $40.00 regis- cepted. If you have any questions, call Dave at (313) 623-9390 or ing germs (Continued next column) visit www.smwl292jatc.org for more information. REFURBISHING the exterior of the Tech One property on the Wayne August 7, 2020 THE BUILDING TRADESMAN 11 State campus are BAC Local 2 masons Jim Cusin and apprentice Josh Lloyd. They’re employed by Grunwell Cashero. Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers Local 149 Roofers & BAC Local 2 Waterproofers WARREN/LANSING – We take the COVID-19 outbreak seriously and recognize the importance of minimizing the spread of the virus. Roofers 149 So, while we continue to provide services to our members, any visits DETROIT – Main Office – to our offices should be scheduled by appointment. If you have any Southeastern Lower Michigan – questions, please contact either the Warren office at (586) 754-0888 Regular Membership Meet- or the Lansing office at (517) 886-9781. ing. The next regular membership The health and well-being of our members and their meeting is scheduled for Tues., families and continuity of service to our members is Sep. 1, 2020 at 7:00 p.m. The next our highest priority. Please visit our website for Executive Board meeting is updates: www.bricklayers.org scheduled for Tues., Aug 25, 2020 AUGUST 2020 MEMBERSHIP MEETINGS: at 6:00 p.m. The SEMI-ANNUAL UNION MEETING will be The 2020-2021 ratified con- held on Saturday, August 15, 2020 at 10:00 am at tract is as follows: Local 2’s office located at 3321 Remy Drive, Lan- Local 514 $1.50 increase across the board sing, Michigan 48906. This meeting will be outside Zone 2 $75 a day under a tent with physical distancing in place with Zone 3 $85 a day CHUCK our seating. Face coverings will be provided and Cement Masons & Plasterers Mileage 30 cents per mile KUKAWKA required for those who attend this meeting. Condolences. It is with great ALL CHAPTER MEETINGS ARE CANCELLED tered to vote to do so. You can uled for the free Seminar. sadness and heavy hearts that we FOR THE MONTH OF AUGUST 2020 DUE TO THE SEMI-ANNUAL Operative Plasterers’ and Cement register at any Secretary of State If you are a Military Veteran inform you of the passing of the MEETING. Masons’ Local 514 office. please contact the Local so we following Brother. Brother Randy CRAFTWORKERS NEEDED: If you are available for work, it is DETROIT – The next mem- It is important for all mem- can update our records. Please Nutt, he was 34 years old and an important to contact your Field Representative on their cell phone. bership meeting will be Aug. 18, bers to keep the Local updated call (248) 548-0800. 8-year member. Brother Nutt past We are looking for experienced Craftworkers in all of our trades: Brick- 2020 at 7 p.m. at the Local. Please on addresses, email and phone The Local’s website is: on 7/30/2020. layers, Caulkers, Masonry Restoration Workers, Cement Masons, feel free to call the office (248) 548- numbers. If you need to change www.opcmiami.org. Detroit Training Center In- Tile, Marble and Terrazzo Workers. Those who are interested should 0800 or any agent with your ques- an address or add an email and O.P.C.M.I.A. Local 514 has a formation. The next term for all contact either the Warren office (586) 754-0888 or the Lansing office tions or concerns. Stay safe! phone number please call the satellite office in Flint, Michigan. Detroit Apprentices will be as fol- (517) 886-9781. Tell anyone who is doing our work, that we are look- There is a special called meet- Local at (248) 548-0800. We welcome Member and Contrac- lows: ing for craftworkers! ing Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2020 at 6 Lawrence Nemeth is now the tors in the Flint area to handle their Apprentice 2 & Single Ply 1- SIGNING BONUS FOR SKILLED CRAFTWORKERS: Local 2 p.m. at O.P.C.M.I.A. Local 514, new Apprenticeship Coordina- business transactions at: 2630 Monday, July 20 will pay up to $2,000 as a Signing Bonus for skilled craftworkers who 1154 E Lincoln Ave, Madison tor; he can be reached at (313) Grand Traverse, Flint, MI 48503. Apprentice 1 & Single Ply 2- come to work for one of our Union Contractors for at least a month. Hts., MI. Regarding the Execu- 350-0389. Appointments may be made by Tuesday, July 21 Also, Local 2 members working with the tools and non-supervisory tive Board Recommendation to Attention all Apprentices contacting Business Agent Mike BUR 1 & Steep Slope 1- members can get a Finders Referral Bonus for each new skilled Article 10 Sec. N in the Constitu- now you will need to go to the Stanfield at (517) 719-2316, or the Wednesday July 22 craftworker who they refer, if they work for at least a month for our Union tion and Bylaws of Local Union website: www.micement Business Manager Henry Will- BUR 2 & Steep Slope 2- Contractors. For more details and information, call your Field Represen- 514 Business Agent. plasterertraining.com to enter iams at (313) 215-5063. Thursday, July 23 tative or either the Warren office (586) 754-0888 or the Lansing office Please make every effort to your work hours. When you get Members working for non- Apprentice 7 & 8 Safety & (517) 886-9781, or go to https://bit.ly/BAC-2-MI-2000-Signing-Bonus. attend this meeting!! to the website click the link signatory commercial contractors Health - Thursday, July 23 DEATHS REPORTED: Our sincere condolences to the family Election Results – July 31, “About” and then click on “Ap- are having a negative impact on All classes begin at 6:30pm and friends of Brother James McCall (Bricklayer) who passed away 2020 prentice monthly work form in- our market share. Members work- Journeyworkers upgrade on July 28, 2020. Brother McCall had been a member for 34 years. Business Manager/Finan- structions.” You will be able to ing non-union will be brought up classes to improve your skills, Our sincere condolences to the family and friends of Brother cial Secretary- Henry Williams put in your hours so Larry can on charges and fines will be en- your worth, and our Brotherhood/ Joseph Sorgi (Tile Layer) who passed away on June 29, 2020. Brother President – Keino Walker keep track for your raises. Any forced. Let’s work together to Sisterhood is available at no cost Sorgi had been a member for 64 years. Vice President – Lance Ryan questions please feel free to con- secure our future!! to all Detroit LU 149 members. *IMPORTANT CHANGE Regarding Union Dues* All Local 2 Recording Secretary- Mike tact Larry with any questions you We must stay vigilant in our Dues must be current in or- Members are now eligible for a Union Dues discount, regardless of Stanfield might have. effort to promote our trade. If you der to enter the Training Center. what month you are paid through currently. This offer is a great way Sergeant of Arms- Jack Effective September, 2018 are working in a crew of 5 or more If you are interested in any to catch up on your monthly window dues by taking advantage of McCool every member in Good Standing an Apprentice must be on the of these classes, contact Thomas this annual dues discount. 3 Executive Board members will only be allowed to use the crew. Help out! Call the Local at Jaranowski at the Training Cen- We are making available to ALL Local 2 members the opportu- at large- Juan Hernandez, Chris Hall twice per year, also effective (248) 548-0800. Training is the ter, 248-543-3847, or TJaranowski nity to pay for 6 months of union dues and receive credit for 12 Richardson, Terrance Smith January, 2019 there will be a key to our future!! @DetroitRoofers.org to make ar- months. An entire year for half the price!! We are asking all members $100.00 refundable deposit re- Please make sure your mod- rangements. UPDATE – BAC LOCAL 2’S TRAINING CENTERS. Both Lo- to contact the Local with their quired for any cleaning and/or ules and drug test are up to date, Reminder. Members please cal 2 Training Centers have re-opened to our members but visits to email addresses, it will be a more damages that may incur. there are some plant jobs that do call the Hall when you see a roof- our offices should be scheduled by appointment. Please contact our efficient way of contacting ev- Miller Cohen PLC is extend- require the MUST modules. You ing project whether it is one of Training Centers at the numbers listed below for an appointment for eryone. ing an invitation to our members can go online at: www. our signatory companies or not. annual RESPIRATOR FIT TESTS and other services. Lance Ryan is now the new to participate in free Estate Plan- mustonline.org Call the Local if The Hall needs this information. DETROIT IMI TRAINING CENTER: To make your appoint- Plasterer Business Agent, if you ning Seminar. Learn about Wills, you need a drug form sent out. Members are reminded to ment for your annual RESPIRATOR FIT TEST or for other scheduled have any questions for him please Trust, Durable Power of Attor- Please make sure that we call the Hall (313) 961-6093 to put appointments at the Metro Detroit Training Center, please contact call (586) 615-1564. ney, and Medical Power of Attor- have all of your current contact their name on the out of work list. Tom Ward directly at (734) 552-7066. 2020 is a very important elec- ney, and Guardian Designation. information, address and phone Follow us on Facebook for METRO DETROIT APPRENTICE WORKSHEETS AVAILABLE tion year! We are encouraging Contact the Union Hall if inter- number so we can keep the fund announcement updates @ United FOR DOWNLOAD: Turning in monthly worksheets is a require- every member who has not regis- ested and a date will be sched- offices updated for your health Union of Roofers, Waterproofers, ment of your apprenticeship. Metro Detroit Apprentice Worksheets care and pension and also if you and Allied Workers Local 149. are available for download at http://bit.ly/Apprentice_Worksheets. BAC Local 2 Golf Registration Form are having your vacation checks CLEARANCE CARDS. Are If you do not have a printer you can pick them up during our monthly Name______mailed out. If you have moved you scheduled to go out of town meeting or contact Tom Ward at (586) 757-6668 to request them by please contact the Local and we for work in another Local’s terri- mail. For more information on the Detroit Training Center visit: Address______will change your addresses with tory? Clearance cards are needed detroittroweltrades.org all of the fund offices. when you are sent out of town to LANSING TRAINING CENTER: To make your appointment City, State, ZIP______IMPORTANT NOTICE work. Get a clearance card from for your annual RESPIRATOR FIT TEST or for other scheduled ap- FOR PLASTERERS AND DE- the Hall and call the Local in that pointments at the Lansing Training Center, please contact Howard Phone (_____)______TROIT COMMERCIAL CE- area to avoid fines against you. Hipes directly at (517) 749-1102. MENT MASONS: You can track MID-MICHIGAN AREA – Go to https://www.michiganbricklayers.org to view the Lansing Email______your annuity fund status at the Clio Office. The next Mid-Michi- Apprenticeship and Training website and register future 2020 online Wells Fargo website. You may gan regular membership meeting training classes. Golfers’ names do so by logging on to: www. is scheduled for Tue, Oct 13, 2020 MEMBERSHIP ASSISTANCE: During this COVID-19 pandemic, retirement.wellsfargo.com or at 6 p.m. at 810 Tacoma Ct. Clio the IUBAC Member Assistance Program has a number of services 1.______call (866) 640-5138, you can also MI, 48420. available for free or at a discounted rate to BAC members and their call the fund office at (248) 645- Mid-Michigan Training families. These confidential services can be seen at http://bit.ly/ 6550 with any related questions. Center Information. The Mid- MAP-BAC and are also available via telephone at (888) 880-8222 and 2.______PLASTERERS AND CE- Michigan Apprentices will be as ask for membership assistance Monday - Friday 8 am-8 pm. These MENT MASONS It is your re- follows: services were established and are intended to help get us through sponsibility to fill out reciprocity Apprentice 1, thru 3- are on difficult life situations. 3.______forms if you plan on working out Mondays FACEBOOK: “Like” Local #2 on Facebook “Bricklayers & Al- of the local 514 area. This will Apprentice 4, thru 8- are on lied Craftworkers Union, Local 2 of Michigan.” ensure that your hours are sent Wednesdays MEMBERSHIP GOLF OUTING: Local 2’s 7th Annual Membership 4.______back to your home fund. If you All classes begin at 6:00pm Golf outing will be held on Saturday, Sept. 12, 2020 at Hawk Meadows have any questions, or need any Journeyworkers upgrade Golf Course in Howell, MI. If you are interested in golfing with your Golf fee (dinner included) $60.00 ( ) forms, please contact the Local. classes to improve your skills, fellow Union members, the registration form is next to this article! Foursome $240.00 ( ) Please make sure your ben- your worth, and our Brotherhood/ MEMBERSHIP GOLF OUTING: The 7th Annual BAC Local 2 Mem- Amount Enclosed $______eficiary information is up to date. Sisterhood is available at no cost bership Golf Outing: will be held Saturday, Sept. 12. All are welcome Any changes to your beneficia- to all Mid-Michigan LU 149 mem- and invited to participate. This outing will be held at Hawk Meadows ries can be made at the Local. bers. Golf Course in Howell, 410 E. Marr Rd., Howell, MI 48855. (517) 546- Apprentices Needed! If you have questions con- Dues must be current in or- 4635. Please return the completed registration form below with your cerning your pension benefits, der to enter the Training Center. check payable to BAC Local 2, and mail to: BAC Local 2, C/O Golf Free Training for ROAD BUILDERS can call: Toll If you are interested in any Outing, 21031 Ryan Rd., Warren, MI 48091. The paid reservation dead- Bricklayers – New Work and Restoration Free at 1-877-876-9357 or (517) of these classes, contact Rick line is Sept. 4. 321-7502. PLASTERERS’ AND Baird at the Training Center, 810- For more information contact: Paul Dunford, 248-521-0856, Brett Tile and Cement Masons COMMERCIAL CEMENT MA- 687-1368, or Gierak 248-705-3660 or Shaun Gajewski, 586-601-7539. 12 Week Pre-Apprentice Class SONS can call: (248) 645-6550 for [email protected] to make Detroit & Vicinity Health Insurance (Brick, Cement and TMT) pension and annuity, and Toll arrangements. (800) 435-4080 or (248) 828-6000 (dvtt.org) Based on Skill Level and Demand Free 1-877-876-9357. All Plaster- When contractors call the PENSION AND HEALTH INSURANCE INFORMATION: In preparation for the re-opening our training centers, we are en- ers and Cement Masons can con- Union Hall for help, we need Bricklayers Metro Detroit Local Pension Fund (248) 641-4954 couraging anyone interested in a Trowel Trades Apprenticeship tact (517) 321-7502 for health & to know who is available, and Detroit & Vicinity Health Insurance (Brick, Cement and TMT) and able to meet the physical demands of the work to complete the welfare information now through have an up to date phone num- (800) 435-4080 or (248) 828-6000 (dvtt.org) application process. Outstate Michigan Trowel Trades ber. All Mid-Michigan Area MI BAC Health & Welfare and MI BAC Pension (800) 531-2244 Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Michi- members who are out of work (outstate funds, michiganbac.org) If you live in Wayne, Oakland, Macomb, Monroe or St. Clair County, gan. For the INTERNATIONAL need to call the Hall at (810) Cement Pension Fund (248) 645-6550 (detroitcementmasons.org) go to detroittroweltrades.org to download the application. If you PENSION Call 1-888-880-8222 687-1368 to be put on the out CALL-A-DOC (800) 835-2362 (D&V Health Fund) live outside the above-mentioned counties (outstate), go to Toll Free or (202) 638-1996. of work list. International Pension/Annuity Fund (Brick, Cement and TMT) (888) michiganbricklayers.org to apply online. Read and follow instruc- 880-8222 or (202) 638-1996 (dvtt.org) tions carefully and completely. “Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good.” $2,000 Signing Bonus for Veterans are given highest priority as a thank you for their service. –Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784) Metro Detroit and the Outstate programs differ slightly, below are common minimum requirements for both programs. You will find Skilled BAC Craftworkers! the complete list of instructions online. Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers Local 2 MI is offering up to a $2,000 Signing Bonus for Skilled Craftworkers. Our Applicants Must: Members who refer them will get the same bonus if they stay •Remain drug and marijuana free, applicants must pass initial working for our contractors! and random testing if accepted into program. Our Contractors have immediate opening for Skilled Brick- •Shall be physically cable of performing the essential func- layers, Masonry Restoration Workers, Caulkers, Cement Fin- tions of the Apprenticeship program without posing a direct threat ishers, Tile, Marble and Terrazzo Workers! to the health or safety of the individual or others. For more information about our Signing Bonus Program •Have a valid Michigan driver’s license. and our need for Skilled Craftworkers, go to: •Pass physical evaluation. mcnicholsscrap.com detroitironandmetal.com www.bricklayers.org and click on the Signing Bonus page! •High School Graduate or GED, higher education a plus. (313) 365-6100 (313) 841-5100 12 THE BUILDING TRADESMAN August 7, 2020 District Council 1M Business Manager: Robert Gonzalez Local 25 Meeting date: 2nd Tuesday of every month at 6:30 p.m., with the Executive Board meeting at 6 p.m. Iron Workers Local 36 Place: 14587 Barber Ave, Warren Local 8 MI 48088 & 419 S. Washington Elevator Ave, Lansing MI 48933 Iron Workers Local 25 worker Festival in Mackinaw is Iron Workers Constructors Local Union 312 NOVI – Work is Available! CANCELLED. The Annual Sep- Local 1M Business Rep: Tim Schwerin We are in need of manpower. If tember Ironworker Benefit Dinner Iron Workers Local 8 Elevator Constructors Local 36 Meeting date: 2nd Wednesday of you or someone you know is off, every month at 6:30 p.m. is cancelled. If anyone wishes to Tim Roman DETROIT – ALL MEMBERS Painters District Council 1M please call Dispatch or a Busi- make a donation to the ICIF Business Representative ARE INFORMED that our next WARREN – Dear Members: We Place: 1473 N. 30thSt., Galesburg, ness Agent. We must fill our jobs please contact Jimmy Horvath at UPPER PENINSULA– regular Membership Meeting is set have been informed OSHA will be MI 49053 in order to protect them! the Novi Union Hall. Thank you. WELD CERTIFICATIONS: for Monday, Aug. 24, at 5:30 pm, as visiting construction sites across Local Union 514 Dispatch is OPEN. Please Stewards’ Notes: 1) The Elec- Weld certifications are being held of this printing we are having a the state of Michigan and issu- Business Rep: Scott Mikulen call 248-305-9282: Monday tronic Steward Reporting forms on an as-needed basis. Please meeting in the parking lot only, we ing fines on the jobsite for NOT Meeting dates: 1st Wednesday through Friday 7 am to 10 am. if are online www.ironwork- contact Rich Hanson at the Ap- are seeking alternate ways to com- wearing a mask. of every month at 7:30 p.m. you happen to get voicemail, just ers25.org Log in with your book prenticeship office for more infor- municate if the weather does not PLEASE WEAR YOUR Place: 7920 Jackson Road, Ann leave your name, book number number, and the password is the mation. 414-476-9372. cooperate. Any changes in this MASK WHEN WORKING ON Arbor, MI. and phone number. Local 25 Ac- last 4 (four) of your social. MEMBERSHIP MEETING: schedule or venue will be included YOUR JOB SITE! Take care of Web site: www.iupat- tive Members, Apprentices and 2) PLEASE be sure to check The Membership Meeting will in future Building Tradesman ar- yourself and each other. local514.org. Probationary should call each dues for members and boomers take place by video conference ticles and emails. The Local requests DC1M WEBSITE: day you are out of work. OR use too AND BE SURE ALL on August 26th, 2020, at 5:00 p.m. your email so we may inform you www.iupatdc1michigan.org Local Union 826 our website to sign up for the out BOOMERS HAVE SIGNED BOTH CST. Members can gain access on any last-minute changes or the DC1M FACEBOOK: www.face Business Rep: Rocky Ackerman of work list: www.ironwork- THE RECIPROCAL AND THE to the meeting at https:// possibility of virtual meetings. book.com/iupat1m Meeting date: 2nd Thursday of ers25.org ASSESSMENT-TARGETING. meeting.iwl8.org on the after- Attention All Apprentices, DC 1M UNION CARDS* every month at 5:30 p.m. MANDATORY TO WEAR A 3) All members please be noon of the meeting. please keep an eye on the NEIEP Any questions regarding a lost, Place: 3115 Joyce St. FACE MASK IF YOU VISIT ANY sure to keep your Union dues paid RETIREE & ACTIVE MEM- website for next semester classes. damaged Union cards, or if you Burton, MI 48529 OF THE UNION OFFICES OR up to date as it is criteria for work- BER UPDATES: Michael J. Check your NEIEP email address have dues in- UNION HALLS. ing. You can be asked to leave Lester, Book #1175417, age 60, of for additional information. NEIEP quiries or have Local Union 845 FRINGE BENEFIT OFFICE: the jobsite if your dues are not Garden, Michigan, passed away will be continuing the next semes- not received a Business Rep – Fred Frederickson 800-572-8553 or 248-347-3100 and current. on June 9, 2020. ter with the format of online card please con- Meeting date: 1st Thursday of follow the prompts. Hours 7:30am Pay union dues with credit- Mike was initiated into Iron classes. Apprentices who have tact the DC1M every month at 7 p.m. to 4:30pm. The mailing address debit card 24/7 by calling 888- Workers Local #783 in May 1990, completed their classes will soon offices at: Place: 419 S. Washington Av- for member BENEFIT related mat- 386-8173 and follow the and then into Local #8 in January receive their invite for the Warren Of- enue, Lansing, MI 48933 ters is: Iron Workers Local 25 prompts. OR PAY at www. 1994. Mike was a 30 year Mem- Mechanic’s Exam and received an fice: (586)552- Local Union 1052 Fringe Benefit Funds, PO Box ironworkers25.org Any member ber of the Union and a Honorary e-mail from the Local in regards 4474 extension Business Rep – Jake Fluty 99219, Troy MI 48099-9219. Blue payment for multiple members, Member. to the Mechanic review courses. 100 Meeting date: The Fourth Cross Health Claims and Cus- fines, suspensions, withdrawal Our condolences to the Monthly OJT Forms are still ROBERT Freeland Of- Wednesday of every month at tomer Service 877-790-2583. Delta deposits, SHOULD NOT use this Michael Lester family. required of ALL APPRENTICES! GONZALEZ fice: (989) 695- 6:30 p.m Dental Claims and Customer Ser- process. Whenever possible we Gregory Davis, Book #73455, You can drop these forms at the 6888 Place: 3115 Joyce St., Burton MI vice 800-482-8915. are emailing you, your dues re- age 82, of Gwinn, Michigan, hall. This is a requirement of the *LABOR DAY PARADE 48529 BENEFIT FOR NEW ceipt. passed away on July 22, 2020. Department of Labor. Do not put your CANCELLATION* Due to CHILD: Any member who has a Pay union dues with per- Greg was initiated into Iron apprenticeship in jeopardy by failing COVID-19 concerns the Labor new born child, or a new depen- sonal check or money order and Workers Local #17 in January to fulfill your responsibility. This will Day Parade scheduled for Mon- Local Union 1803 Business Rep: Josh Ovalle dent child through marriage mail to: Iron Workers Local 25 – 1966, transferred into Local #783 also result in your appearance be- day September 7, 2020 has been Meeting date: 4th Tuesday of ev- MUST NOTIFY the Fringe Ben- P.O. Box 965 – Novi, MI 48376- in November 1968, and then into fore the Local JAC Committee. cancelled. ery month at 5:30 p.m. efit Office of your new dependent 0965. PLEASE include your book Local #8 in January 1994. All Members, Local 36 is FTI OF THE GREAT LAKES Place: 7677 Midland Road, within 31 days. number on the face of the check/ Greg was a 54-year Member working with Local 85, Lansing MICHIGAN APPRENTICESHIP. Freeland, MI 48623. Apprentices: Fill out your money order. Pay union dues in of the Union and a Lifetime Mem- and the EIWPF holding classes The Apprenticeship School has monthlies online at the website person at the Novi Union Hall (M- ber. on Monday nights, 6-8:00 pm. sent letters to all Apprentices re- or mobile app located under the F) from 8 am to 3 pm (NO Cash). Our condolences to the Greg Reviewing and answering any garding their schedule. Local Union 2352 apprenticeship tab “Monthly Re- After-hours use the outdoor- Davis family. questions pertaining to Michigan Painter, Drywall Finisher and Business Rep: John Sape port Sign-In,” this gives you the dues-collection box. Former Member, Gary and Detroit Elevator Codes. Con- Glazier Apprentices: should you Meeting Date: 3rd Tuesday of ability to electronically submit Pay a year’s dues or more Stroud, age 71, of Amasa, Michi- tact the Hall if you are interested. have any questions, please con- every month at 6:30 p.m. your monthlies. Also located ($429.00 Journeyman) ($426.00 gan, passed away on June 13, The link will be sent to you for ei- tact Director of Training Shawn Place: District Council 1M, 14587 under the apprenticeship tab you Apprentice) and you will get a (1) 2020 of an apparent drowning. ther online or phone participation. O’neill at (517)304-4425 or by email Barber Ave., Warren, MI. will find “Evaluation Form” Jour- one-month dues paid for by Lo- Our condolences to the Gary Brothers and Sisters, due to [email protected]. neyman/Supervision can use this cal 25. (Get the 13th month free). Stroud family. recent conditions, ALL are re- PAINTERS DISTRICT Local Union 2353 to submit apprentice evaluations This is intended to encourage quested to follow guidelines put COUNCIL 1M SMART PHONE Business Rep: Keith Anderson using computer/cell phone and members to pay their dues in a out by the CDC, the state of APP Meeting date: 3rd Thursday of submit electronically. Please also timely manner. The one month Local 25 cont’d Michigan, the buildings and your Painters District Council 1M every month at 6:30 p.m. note, you must check your email will be credited in the month AF- Families: Learn more about the companies. Common sense and is pleased to announce its’ all new Place: District Council 1M, 14587 on a regular basis; we now email TER your actual 12-month pay- unique benefits available to personal health practices should APP. Barber Ave, Warren, MI. your annual MUST drug screen ment. union members, their parents and always be followed. ALL safety For IPHONE go to IOS store, paperwork and your pay raise Secretary of State Jocelyn children. CALL 866-802-7307, policies must always be followed. For ANDROID got to Google slips. Benson announced last month M-F 8am - 10pm EST, Sat 9am - The City of Detroit is open Playstore Local 357 The next Union Meeting will that all REGISTERED voters in 5:30pm EST www.unionplus.org by appointment only for license Search for “Painters and Al- be via Zoom on Monday, August Michigan will receive an applica- Those who have passed: renewal on the 29th of June, be lied Trades” download APP Glaziers & 17, 2020 at 7:00 pm. Please sign tion to vote by mail in the No- James Kirchoff # 535013, Lifetime advised they would like it done Username: your member id# Glassworkers up as Notification will go out via vember elections. By mailing ap- Reinforcing Ironworker from online. Send emails to kurtj@ Password: painters the APP. Participation was very plications, the Secretary of State Alpena, MI, passed away July detroitmi.gov with photos of cur- With this APP you can ac- good in July and we look forward will ensure that no “Michigander 16th, 2020 at the age of 85. He rent driver license and current cess training classes, Local Union Glaziers & Glassworkers 357 to more members joining us in has to choose between their was a 66-year member. Appren- city of Detroit Elevator license meeting times and dates, receive WARREN – Our next regu- August. To participate in the health and their right to vote,” tice Alex Satawa #1527584 passed and your phone number attached alerts, and communications from lar scheduled union meeting will Zoom Union meeting is very easy said Benson. “Voting by mail is away on July 22, 2020 at the age or call 313-316-8711. Kurt your Union, etc. be Monday, Oct. 5 at 6pm. … just be sure you have down- easy, convenient, safe, and se- of 24. He was a 3-year member. Johnson has said all licenses ex- GET INVOLVED AND PAR- This year’s Detroit Labor loaded our APP or signed up for cure, and every voter in Michi- Our deep condolences to all of piration dates have been ex- TICIPATE IN YOUR UNION! Day Parade has been cancelled. our emails via our website gan has the right to do it.” The the family and friends as you tended during the shutdown. OUT OF WORK/ BACK TO Our Local union meeting for Sep- (www.ironworkers25.org). We are application is also available for mourn the loss of your dear These instructions have been WORK: To keep work placement tember falls on Labor Day. That leaning toward communication download at Michigan.gov/Vote. loved one(s)! sent to you through email. efficient, please notify the office meeting has been cancelled. through the PUSH NOTIFICA- At the same website, voters can To all Union Members: We We are STILL requesting when you are laid off or going Unfortunately, brother Dan TIONS – Please download the also register and join the perma- hope you and your family are safe your email addresses. If you are back to work. Diehl passed away on May 26th APP if you haven’t done so yet!! nent absent voter list so they al- and healthy. Thank you for all not receiving emails, please con- Warren office# is 586-552- in a fatal car accident. Dan was a Again, via our website! ways have the option to vote by you continue to do to support firm your address with the Hall. 4474 or Freeland office# is 810- member of Local 357 since 1999 Unfortunately Steward Meet- mail. Check your voter registra- each other during this pandemic During our recent situation we 232-0005. New job starts should and was a father to three young ings are still cancelled until fur- tion at Michigan Voter Informa- response. have received updates daily and be reported to the Union office, girls. Please keep Dan and his fam- ther notice as we adhere to the tion Center Michigan.gov/Vote This information is as of we want this information at your please do so ily in your thoughts and prayers. Governor’s Executive Orders. “If you do not take an inter- Submission Time for this Article disposal as soon as possible. Get involved. Work smart. He was our brother, and our friend. Classes at the Local 25 Ap- est in the affairs of your govern- (8/03/2020 12:00 pm E.S.T.). There is a mailing from Work safe. Mike Pheney is gathering dona- prenticeship School have started ment, then you are doomed to live American Income Life. If you fill tions currently for Dans family. If up again, please go the under the rule of fools.” –PLATO. the form out and mail it back in you wish to contribute some- ironworkers25.org to view the The International Associa- you will receive phone calls from thing please get the money to block schedule; we are practic- tion (IABSORIW) has endorsed them, it is unnecessary to fill the Mike, or you can send the money ing social distancing protocols, Joe Biden for president of the form or any paperwork out for this to the union hall, attention Dan etc. New Apprentice Applications United States of America. policy. If you feel the need for Diehl, or Don Stepp and we will are being accepted BUT you Curtis Schmidt would appre- more life insurance you can con- Sign, Pictorial & get the money into Mike’s hands. MUST go to ironworkers25.org, ciate thoughts and prayers for tact them. If any retirees are in- Display Local 591 The Governor has let con- print the application, gather Patrick Allen #1007390 as he terested in Life insurance please struction resume. This being said documentation then phone the battles lung cancer. Best wishes contact the hall and we will for- Sign Pictorial & Display 591 please follow the specific guide- school for an appointment; no to Patrick from all the Officers here ward the information on. WARREN – The next Gen- lines required on each project. It walk-in foot traffic. The Wixom at Local 25. All members are reminded eral Membership Meeting will be will take some get used to, the Training Center – Phone: 248-960- ATTENTION RETIREES: that your company is responsible held on Sep. 1,2020 at 6:30p.m. new ppe required, but it is neces- 2130. The Novi Retirees regular meet- to deliver material to the jobsite. Trustees and union stewards sary to keep each other safe, and Welder online Verification: ing is “in person” August 18, Use of personal vehicles for de- meet at 6:20 p.m. our families safe. For an accurate and quick review 2020 at 10:00am. Social distanc- livery of material is for only emer- The August 4, 2020 meeting Keep your working status of welder certifications please ing, face masks and good hygiene gency situations. There are no has been cancelled as usual. current; this helps protect your visit www.welderscertifica- will be observed. There will be emergencies in modernization or Anyone possessing a union benefits. If you have a mailing tion.org. On the homepage click no luncheons in the near future, construction. All construction, membership and willingly works at address and/or telephone num- “login” and type “read only” as coffee and cake will be provided modernization and cab work is a nonunion shop doing union work ber change, please notify the both your username and pass- however. The Novi Retirees TEAMWORK. This is according can have charges preferred against Union and Fund Offices. word. Once logged on, type the Board of Directors meets “in per- to our agreement and follows them under Sec. 16.4,and 19.8 of Dues payments may be member’s book number in the son” September 1, 2020. your company’s safety policy. A the District Council By-laws. mailed to the Union Office at column on the left marked “ad- The Retirees’ Scholarship licensed journeyperson must also Any questions on local 14587 Barber Avenue, Warren, MI vanced search,” click the ”go” Fund Golf Outing is scheduled be onsite while any work is per- union issues, please call John 48088. Make checks payable to: button, wait until the name pops for September 10, 2020. The Bay formed. If you are asked or told dif- Sape at 586-899-8082,or Keith DISTRICT COUNCIL 1M in care up, and then click on the welders City Retirees are planning a regu- ferently call the hall immediately. Anderson at 586-899-7958,your of Glassworkers #357. first or last name. lar meeting for October 15, 2020. Also, all jobs are to be reported to Business Representatives. When traveling to work out On the next screen, click “list Watch for updates at the HALL, this does include all Questions pertaining to of town, all members are reminded certifications.” Every welding (www.ironworkers25.org) or the unloads, crane picks and cab mod- Local 591 Pension Fund is- that they must check in with the certification the welder has will Local 25 app that you can down- “You can't wait for inspira- ernizations. This is our work and sues call 248-645-6550 and/or local that you are working in as be available for viewing and you load by searching “Iron Workers tion. You have to go after it with SHALL be performed by ELEVA- Health Care issues call 248- per the International Constitution can see that if it has been re- Local 25” to stay informed on a club.” TOR CONSTRUCTORS! 358-3340 or 800-482-8736 and our local C.B.A. newed; it is good until the year union matters. –Jack London (1876 - 1916) We regret to inform all mem- which will then be answered The Fund Office address is 2021. The site also allows you to Diversified Members Credit bers on the fatality in Local 63, directly through fund office. Michigan Glass and Glazing Joint print out a copy of the welder Union: Located at 25880 Novi Rd. “Seek not, my soul, the life Oklahoma City. On July 27, 2020 OUT OF WORK: BACK TO Funds, P.O. Box 966, Troy, MI WPQR if needed. Click on “list Phone: 248-344-2560 - CALL of the immortals; but enjoy to the Brother Joseph Crook was killed WORK: procedure for out of and 48098-066; phone number: 248- test results.” Click on the actual FOR HOURS. Services available: full the resources that are within on the job. We will collecting for back to work: When laid off or 641-4957; fax 248-813-9898. test code you want to see and debit or credit cards, interest bear- thy reach.” two Death Assessments on be- going back to work, call the of- If you are in need of safety you will see the test details. On ing checking accounts, IRAs, –Pindar (522 BC - 443 BC), half of our lost Brothers with our fice, 586-552-4474. modules, please contact your that page click “Printable Form” CDs, Benefits Plus program, 518-438 B.C. next quarter cards. employer if you are employed or (WPQR) and you can print the HOME MORTGAGES, low inter- Get well wishes are extended the union office @ 586-552-4478, “You must learn from the “What a blessing it would WPQR. est loans and part of Co-Op to all our Brothers and Sisters who be if we could open and shut our if you’re not. Any questions call The following events are Shared Branching. We have other mistakes of others. You can't pos- are on our sick list. Keep safe and the hall or call the Council @ 586- sibly live long enough to make ears as easily as we open and cancelled: August Pin Award Cer- branch locations in Detroit and healthy. Be a Brother to a Brother, shut our eyes!” 552-4474. Participation is very im- emony, Detroit Labor Day Parade, Clawson. them all yourself.” regardless of what Local they might portant to keep your union strong, – Sam Levenson (1911 - –Georg Christoph and the Labor Day Bridge Walk Home Mortgages for Union belong too. We are all in this and Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799) so try to make it to a meeting. in Mackinaw. The Annual Iron- (Continued next column) 1980) will get through this, together! Business Rep- Don Stepp August 7, 2020 THE BUILDING TRADESMAN 13

Local 1191 COMPLETED IN 1927, the 140,000- square-foot TechOne Building in Laborers Detroit’s TechTown is undergoing a complete rehabilitation of its reinforced concrete walls. Laborers 1191 MUST website at www.must Check & Update your Skills.) Doing the work is Grunwell DETROIT – Due to COVID- online.org to see how many mod- Also please be advised: Per Cashero and their 19, Laborers’ Local 1191 is mak- ules you have. Members are re- the out of work list rules, all mem- BAC Local 2 ing every effort to keep our mem- minded to get your 18 modules bers on the list must re-register workforce. bers and staff safe during this and keep them up to date also a your availability for work every time by limiting person-to-person current Drug Test. You can quarter and do so within the first contact at the Local Union Hall. schedule an appointment to take five days of the following months: The Office is now Open. your modules at our training March, June, September and De- Thanking you in advance for school by calling (734) 729-7005 cember (Roll Call). complying with the above condi- or 517-625-4919 website www Your failure to do so will re- tions and please follow the .mltai.org. You can also contact sult in your name being removed COVID-19 recommendations to the Local 313-894-2241. from the referral list. *Example: If stay safe and healthy. Also, check out the training your name is on the list in April Members can now pay dues classes available to you at no and or May and you don’t re-reg- online 24/7 on our website!!! Up- cost. ister by June 5th your name will per right-hand corner Pay Dues Note: classes & certifica- be removed from the list. tab, and follow the instructions… tions contractors have been ask- Members are urged to re- Check out our website at ing for are, OSHA 30, Asbestos port new project starts to the www.laborerslocal1191.org .Im- & Lead Awareness, Hoisting & Local Union. Members working portant information about your Rigging, Pipeline Safety, Class for a contractor who may be Local Union … Also, on A Cdl License, Asbestos Removal looking to hire additional labor- Facebook!!! Supervisors Licence, Confined ers are urged to call the Union Concrete walls gets their due as Dues: Beginning January Space Permit Required, Grade Hall and help a brother or sister 1, 2020 regular monthly dues are Checking Blueprint Reading & get referred out to work. The $35.00 for active members. Re- Measuring Tools, Gps Location. next time, it may be your name masons rehab TechTown building tiree monthly dues will remain the All are available at the train- on the list when that call comes By Marty Mulcahy Modern-style architectural era ment for Pontiac. It later became same $ 8.00. ing center. It could mean the dif- in for work. Editor two decades later. It differs from the Chevrolet Creative Services NOTICE: The Uniform Lo- ference of being sent to work or Save Time & Money: no DETROIT – The exterior of a lot of 1920s-era buildings building, where the original Cor- cal Union Constitution Article not! more checks or money orders to the home of “TechTown” is any- whose exteriors were made of vette was designed on the third VIII sec. 4. The monthly dues are FYI: By taking the OSHA 30 mail no more worry if it gets here thing but high technology, but limestone, granite or other quar- floor. Interior ramps allowed cars due on the first day of the month your 18 MUST Safety modules on time, monthly dues can be de- the mass of reinforced concrete ried stone, whose use could help to be moved within the building. and unless paid on or before the are updated as well. If you are not ducted from your vacation check in its walls has served its occu- the architect offer differentiation Today, the owners offer a last day of the following month, able to go to the Training Center and sent direct to the Local. pants well for the past 93 years. and ornamentation on a range of spaces for lease, includ- the member shall be deemed sus- for MUST Safety Modules con- Please stop by the office to get The TechTown technology building’s facia. But Kahn’s use ing small offices, office suites pended by the International tact the Local, we will help make one of the forms or you may call incubator, which serves as a home of large windows effectively and wet labs. TechTown calls it- Union without notice. arrangements for you to com- the office (313-894-2241) to to more than 50 small businesses, breaks up TechOne’s monotony self “Detroit’s Entrepreneurship We urge members to make plete them. have one mailed to you. has been in the five-story building of concrete walls, leaving a build- Hub,” where “we help tech their payments timely to avoid Referral List: Every member Members who sign up for since the group was incorporated ing that has been pleasing to look startups and local businesses additional costs! who is looking for work must call, Vacation deduction and pay 6 as a nonprofit in 2004. That’s the at for nearly a century. launch and grow.” Retirees: Retiree Councils’ or come to the Local Union Of- months at a time will receive a 1- year the group established their According to TechTown, The group lists a number of meetings are the last Friday of the fice on Mondays between 1:00 month rebate!!! Also, be sure to headquarters in the landmark 1927 which is part of Wayne State partners, such as Amazon Web month. The meetings are held pm and 4:00 pm and put their keep your current address and Albert Kahn-designed building on University’s Research and Tech- Services, Apple, Bank of America, 11:00 a.m. at the Local Union Hall name on the out-of-work list. You phone numbers up to date with Burroughs Street just north of the nology Park, the building’s origi- Beaumont Health, GM and IBM, located at 2161 West Grand Bou- must have an out-of-work skills Local. Current E- mail address Wayne State University campus, nal use was as a service depart- to name a few. levard in Detroit. sheet filled out and on file in or- is also very important! Also, we dubbed TechOne. MUST Safety Awareness der to be referred out for work by are now accepting CREDIT & Masonry contractor Training: Please check the this Local Union. (Be sure to DEBIT payments. Grunwell Cashero, as it has done on so many other historic Detroit buildings in recent years, has U.S. labor law needs to start been rehabilitating the exterior of the building in recent months, in preparation for a paint job that’s working for workers, study says expected to freshen up the building’s exterior. One the job last (Continued from Page 1) have been left without personal ganize – which is supposedly en- year and this year have been employees that there’s a good protective equipment, hazard shrined in the National Labor Bricklayers and Allied chance they will lose their jobs if pay, and access to sick leave,” Relations Act of 1935 – has been Craftworkers Local 2 foreman Jim they vote to unionize. said Lola Loustaunau, research effectively cancelled out by a Cusin and fourth year apprentice A 2019 EPI report showed fellow at the University of combination of legal and illegal Josh Lloyd. Their task: patching, that employers collectively spend Oregon’s Labor Education and employer intimidation tactics. caulking and making repairs to $340 million per year on “union Research Center and co-author The EPI focused on the le- exposed re-rod and spalled areas, ESPER AIELLO LAW GROUP, PLLC avoidance” consultants who of the report. gal tactics – heavy-handed ac- leaving all four sides of the build- teach them how to exploit weak- “Unionization has helped bring tions “that would be illegal in any ing ready for paint. nesses in federal labor law to ef- living wages to once low-wage election for public office but are “This place was really well Construction Injury fectively scare workers out of ex- jobs in industries such as health regularly deployed by employers built,” Cusin said, “it could prob- ercising their legal right to col- care and is a key tool for closing under the broken National Labor ably stand up to a bomb. As we’ve Specialists lective bargaining. racial wage gaps. Congress must Relations Board’s union election gone over the building, we’ve Representing Building Last month’s report comes a ensure workers have a meaning- system,” the report says. removed a few chunks of mate- Trades Workers since 1988 month after the International ful right to organize and bargain The Bureau of Labor Statis- rial that looked like they might fall Trade Union Confederation collectively.” tics reported earlier this year that off, but overall the building and WORKERS’ COMP ranked the U.S. among the worst The EPI report said that most union membership continued its the walls are well-preserved and Tim Esper Mark Aiello countries in the world for (not) American workers want a union decades-long decline last year, we’ve found them to be in pretty SOCIAL SECURITY DISABILITY supporting workers’ rights, put- in their workplace but very few down to 10.3 percent from 10.5 good shape.” CONSTRUCTION ACCIDENT LITIGATION ting the U.S. on par with nations have it, because the right to or- percent in 2018. Cusin and Lloyd are using a like Jordan, Uruguay and Haiti for fiber reinforced mortar to make ESTATE PLANNING - ELDER LAW “systemic violations” of worker repairs on cracked and missing Our associates also handle: rights. concrete. Cusin said the original UNEMPLOYMENT • ANY INJURY CASE “The Global Rights Index ex- Trades may not like hand builders used a “form-it and pour- poses a breakdown in the social it” method of building the 140,000 ASBESTOS/TOXIC EXPOSURES • DRIVERS LICENSE RESTORATION contract that governments and square-foot structure, with one employers have with working dealt by ‘Green New Deal’ floor constructed atop the other. 3031 W. Grand Blvd, Suite 440, Detroit 48202 people,” the confederation said. (Continued from Page 1) The exterior walls of “There’s a trend to restrict work- takes longer to build an oil and gas pipeline. That’s important for TechOne comprised of poured (313) 964-4900 - (800) 881-8896 ing rights through violations of construction workers, whose livelihood depends on moving from concrete and concrete block – www.esperaiellolawgroup.com collective bargaining, withhold- project to project, a process often punctuated by unemployment. which was a style that, for better ing the right to strike and exclud- When a project takes several years, workers can settle down to pre- or worse, was adopted in the FREE INITIAL CONSULTATION • VALIDATED PARKING ing workers from unions.” dictable schedules for themselves and their families, McGarvey said, The Protecting the Right to and there is generally a variety of crafts involved. Organize (PRO) Act that passed The views on the comparative advantage of building the oil and the U.S. House in February is one gas lines parallel NABTU union leaders’ skepticism about the Green of the most significant bills since New Deal, and particularly its goal of ending U.S. dependence on the 1930s that would bolster fossil fuels, thus making the nation carbon-neutral, within a few de- workers’ ability to organize. The cades. The Green New Deal is a major bone of contention within PRO Act – adopted with nearly organized labor. universal Democratic support – Rank and file workers, speaking in focus groups involved in the would amend U.S. labor law to tilt surveys, backed McGarvey’s observations up in quotes in the report. the scales back to giving work- “In refineries there’s always new technology in production,” ers more power during disputes one male union electrician said. “Wind you only have wind, solar at work, adding penalties for com- you only have solar. There’s not anything really new that you can panies that retaliate against work- do with it other than it just runs a cell, or it blows the wind turbine ers seeking to organize, and in- blades. But lots of different things in the petrochemical world troduce the ability to collectively change radically. And with those (radical changes) they have to bargaining to workers who don’t do lots of upgrades.” enjoy that right. The survey of 1,619 workers, union and non-union, before the Michigan is one of 27 states coronavirus pandemic hit, found renewable energy project construction with right-to-work laws, and the lasted from 3.5-15.5 months, with a median of six months – i.e. half the PRO Act would weaken those projects lasted longer and half were shorter. Oil and gas construction laws and end the ability of work- projects lasted from 4-20 months, with a 6.5-month median. ers to enjoy union representation One sector, including building trades unions and the Mine Work- without paying dues. But the PRO ers, opposes complete divorce from fossil fuels, especially from their Act isn’t going anywhere in the use for electricity generation. Those unions’ leaders recognize, how- Republican-led Senate, and Presi- ever, that “carbon capture” is needed to prevent more emissions that dent Trump would almost cer- cause global warming. They advocate pro-capture “clean coal” and tainly veto it, anyway – which similar projects. brings the importance of getting They also point out that even with the goal of cutting carbon the right candidates into office emissions, there will still be a long transition period, where traditional during the November election for fuel plants, run on oil, coal and natural gas, will need to keep going those who support a stronger until capacity in the non-carbon technologies catches up. #1 Michigan Electrical Maintenance Firm U.S. labor movement. “There’s anecdotal evidence” that construction workers build- “The importance of unions ing oil and gas pipelines “make 50 percent more” than those building has been even further heightened renewable energy projects, added Dr. Thomas Kriger, NABTU’s edu- by both the COVID-19 pandemic cation and research director. “But we need more research on that.” and the national protests around He also noted the oil and gas lines involve a “bigger mix of construc- racial justice. In recent months, tion crafts,” represented by NABTU’s 14 member unions, than the thousands of nonunion workers renewable energy projects involve.

Unions... The folks who brought you the weekend www.uispowerservices.com 14 THE BUILDING TRADESMAN August 7, 2020 ing harbor locations, amenities, throughout the country, as inter- reservation information and more. est in paddle sports and other Outdoors Michigan also has more than water-based recreation continues 1,300 public state and local boat- to grow,” said DNR Parks and ing access sites, both developed Recreation Chief Ron Olson. “We and undeveloped. are pleased to help advance these Michigan’s liquid superhighways Hitting the water trail. While opportunities by recognizing funding also supports the devel- boating has long been a popular model public water trails that set opment of harbor facilities. pursuit for Michiganders, partici- the standard for the future of “Of the over 80 public har- pation in paddle sports like Michigan’s water trails program.” bors, most are operated by our kayaking, canoeing and stand-up Paul Yauk, the DNR’s state Grant-in-Aid partners,” said Linnae paddle boarding has flourished in trails coordinator, said that Michi- Dawson, DNR recreational harbor recent years. gan is in a great position to work coordinator. “GIA harbors are In 2018, to offer paddling trav- with partners to create a state- owned and operated by a local unit elers more opportunities, the state wide water trails program that of government but have received first designated water trails – complements Michigan’s broader waterways funding in the past.” eight waterways totaling 540-plus trails system. Local communities are re- miles that flow through more than “Designating these rivers as sponsible for continuing opera- a dozen counties. official water trails shines an even tion and maintenance of harbor A water trail is a designated brighter light on some incredible facilities. The state only consid- route on a navigable waterway natural resources,” Yauk said. ers assuming these responsibili- such as a lake, river, canal or bay, “We fully expect that offering – and ties where local resources are un- which is designed and managed expanding – water trail opportuni- able to support them, so the DNR to create a positive outdoor rec- ties in Michigan will encourage operates only 18 of Michigan’s reation experience for the user. more outdoor recreation and harbor facilities. They feature well-developed healthier lifestyles, and also serve Information about planning access points, often are near sig- as regional destinations that will a day or overnight trip to one of nificant historical, environmental or give a boost to local economies.” Snail Shell Harbor at Fayette Historic State Park in Delta County offers traveling boaters the opportu- Michigan’s 83 state-sponsored cultural points of interest and of- Find tips on keeping you safe nity to experience life as it was in this partially restored company town, once one of the Upper Peninsula’s harbors is available on the DNR’s ten have nearby amenities like res- in and around higher water lev- MDNR photo most productive iron-smelting operations. ‘Boating the Great Lakes’ page. taurants, hotels and campgrounds. els, plus ideas for lessening the By Casey Warner land waterways are a road map to maintenance of public harbors Here boaters can find access to “Water trails naturally are an impacts to fish and wildlife, at Michigan Department of much of the nation’s history,” ex- and boating access sites. the digital harbor guide, includ- increasing trend in Michigan and Michigan.gov/HighWaterSafety. Natural Resources plains a passage from the National So began the state’s Great With more than 3,000 miles Museum of American History’s Lakes Harbors Program. The Wa- of Great Lakes shoreline and thou- online exhibition On the Water: Sto- terways Commission was granted sands of miles of rivers and ries from Maritime America. authority and supporting funds streams, Michigan offers ample “They guided the travels of to create a marine “highway” opportunity to traverse the state Native Americans, explorers from along the 3,000 miles of Great over the water – no matter the size Europe, and streams of newcom- Lakes shoreline. or speed of your vessel. ers who established businesses, From 1947 to 1964, the com- While designated water towns, and cities. … Inland water- mission developed the majority of trails are a relatively recent devel- ways helped hold together the Michigan’s harbors of refuge, opment, use of Michigan’s water- people and economy of the nation providing tens of thousands of ways for transportation isn’t new. as it grew throughout the 1800s.” boaters safe harbors and hospi- Historical headwaters. “Our Today, while still important tality as they circumnavigate the harbor system along the Great for industrial transport, state. In 1966, the commission Lakes is the first water trail sys- Michigan’s waters often host became part of Michigan’s De- tem we’ve had in this state,” said more leisurely travelers. Michigan partment of Conservation, the Jordan Byelich, waterways devel- consistently ranks among the top precursor to the DNR. opment program manager for the three states in the nation for water- “Today, the number of safe Michigan Department of Natural craft registrations and boat sales. harbors has grown as the Water- Resources. “In fact, going back Recreational boating has an eco- ways Commission continues its hundreds of years, the Great Lakes nomic impact of more than $7 bil- mission to provide safe public served Native Americans and Eu- lion annually in Michigan, accord- access to the Great Lakes and in- ropeans as a water trail system.” ing to data from the National Ma- land waters of this state,” reads Native Americans first used rine Manufacturers Association. the Michigan Harbors Guide. Michigan’s waterways for suste- Finding safe harbor. As boat- “The program’s goal is to locate nance and trade, early European ing became a popular pastime, the harbors so that no boater will ever settlers used them to transport state set out to provide safe pub- be more than 15 shoreline miles goods and timber, and water re- lic access to the Great Lakes and from safety.” sources were the foundation of inland waters of Michigan. In Boaters have paid for much Michigan’s earliest manufactur- 1947, the state Legislature created of this harbor network through ing and shipping industries. the Michigan State Waterways taxes on marine fuel purchases These waterways also had a Commission – a seven-member and boat registration fees. Under significant impact nationally. “The advisory board that works with the Waterways Grant-In-Aid Pro- Great Lakes and a network of rivers the DNR on the use of dedicated gram, local units of government opened the vast American heart- funds, provided by boaters, for are given grant funds for con- land to a nation moving west. In- the acquisition, development and struction of facilities. Federal