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July 30Th, 2021 THETHE BUILDINGBUILDING Since 1952 TRADESMANTRADESMAN Official Publication of the Michigan Building and Construction Trades Council Serving the highly skilled men and women in Michigan’s building trades unions VOL. 70, NO. 15 July 30, 2021 SHORT Labor law’s flaws CUTS are many, but PRO Act has fixes workers need (From the IBEW) senator who spearheaded its pas- Candidates picked America’s current labor law sage, union membership in- for Aug. 3 primary leaves much to be desired from creased, as did productivity, Absentee ballots have the worker’s perspective, accord- wages and improved working been mailed in Michigan for the ing to new research from the Eco- conditions. Aug. 3, Primary Election. nomic Policy Institute. But there’s In the decades since, how- The following candidates a way to fix it – if Congress de- ever, the NLRA has been repeat- have been endorsed by the cides to act. edly weakened, and with it Greater Detroit Building and As just about anyone who union membership. Despite Construction Trades Council has ever tried to organize their nearly half of all working people Political Action Committee for workplace can attest, the deck is (Continued on Page 4) the election. The list reflects stacked against them. It’s the rare Washington candidates who have requested employer who voluntarily recog- an endorsement and have been nizes its employees’ efforts to join Wire screened by the PAC. together, meaning that workers Please note that since this ON THE ROOF of the Mary Free Bed building on Saginaw’s Covenant Hospital campus are Brad must fight for their rights in an is a primary ballot, Michigan Bolzman and Jeff Greaves of Plumbers and Steamfitters Local 85. Employed by Johnson and Wood, arena that offers few penalties for election law requires you to the mechanical equipment service journeymen are pressure-testing the 100-ton air conditioning anti-union employers and consid- vote a straight Democratic or unit with nitrogen. erable risk for the employees. This Republican ballot – your ballot imbalance, says EPI, is due in will be spoiled if you vote for a large part to weaknesses in the Dem for one office and a Repub- ‘Mary Free Bed’ expands National Labor Relations Act. lican for another. “It is a cruel irony that the Detroit City Council (At two laws most important to work- Large): Janeé Ayers presence into Saginaw ers being able to join together to Infrastructure bill protect their health and safety on Dearborn City Council: By Marty Mulcahy Erin Byrnes, Mike Sareini the job – the National Labor Re- could be door for Editor lations Act and the Occupational Pontiac Mayor: Tim SAGINAW – A former parking lot on the Greimel Safety and Health Act – are the grounds of the main Cooper Street campus of two labor and employment laws passage of key Pontiac City Council (Dis- Covenant Health Care is now gone, replaced by a trict 4): Randy Carter with the weakest anti-retaliation three-story rehabilitation hospital being erected protections,” write EPI’s Lynn pro-worker Sterling Heights City by construction manager Spence Brothers and Council: Henry Yanez, Michael Rhinehart and Celine McNicholas. building trades workers. (Related: See the ‘Hit ‘em PRO Act provision Radtke Construction of the $40.7 million Mary Free Taylor Mayor: Alex Garza in the wallet, hard’ Viewpoint on By Bryan Young Bed Rehabilitation facility began a year ago. The Page 2). UComm Blog Taylor City Council: Jill new 103,320-square-foot building will be con- Brandana When President Franklin D. With the PRO Act seemingly nected to other hospital buildings at the site and Roosevelt signed the NLRA into stuck in the mud, lacking a major- Pipe trades get will include 60 inpatient beds. The first floor will law in 1935, he stated that, “A ity of Democratic senators’ sup- house substantial outpatient physical therapy better relationship between labor port and lacking any Republican $1.1M for training services and engineering infrastructure, while the and management is the high pur- senators supporting it, Demo- LANSING – Union pipe second and third floors will house inpatient ser- pose of this Act. By assuring the cratic senators are coming up trades in Michigan and their vices with 30 beds on each floor. employees the right of collective with a way to push at least one contractors were a major recipi- “The trades are doing ok, they’re working bargaining, it fosters the devel- union priority through. Their plan ent of a state economic devel- on just about everything out here right now,” opment of the employment con- is to take an important part of the opment grant. said Spence Brothers Project Supt. Doug Sobel. tract on a sound and equitable PRO Act and include it in the up- Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and “We have about 110-120 tradespeople on site cur- basis.” At a time of high economic coming budget reconciliation bill the Michigan Department of La- rently, and they’re working all over the building.” uncertainty and labor strife, this that will only need 50 Democrats’ bor and Economic Opportunity He said “substantial completion” of the project was an attempt to establish labor support to pass. (LEO) announced July 20 that is expected on Sept. 24. peace by leveling the playing According to union officials, the Michigan Pipe Trades As- When its fully operational, Mary Free Bed field. And it worked. With passage congressional staffers, and the sociation, a union organization, Rehabilitation at Covenant HealthCare is esti- SETTING A CARD READER box on the first floor of the NLRA, also called the Biden administration, the new is the recipient of a $1.1 million mated to bring 25-30 additional jobs to the of the Mary Free Bed building in Saginaw is elec- Wagner Act after the New York (Continued on Page 4) award to “help support costs for Saginaw facility. trician Breanna DePottey of IBEW Local 557. employer sponsors of registered (Continued on Page 15) She’s employed by Clements Electric. apprenticeship programs, in- Former state representative, cluding on-the-job learning and related technical instruction for new Registered Apprentices.” UA Local 174 business “As we put Michigan back to work, expanding Registered Ap- prenticeship programs help Michi- manager Doug Bennett dies ganders enter high-demand, high- The building trades mourn two-year terms skill careers and get a good-paying the loss of Doug Bennett, a before he was job,” said Whitmer. “Increasing former state representative, term-limited af- access to education and train- Muskegon County commissioner ter the 2010 ses- ing opportunities will help us and business manager of Plumb- sion. He was achieve our 60 by 30 goal to ers and Pipe Fitters Local 174, one of only a have 60 percent of Michigan’s who died July 16, 2021 in a motor- handful of work- adult with post-secondary edu- cycle accident in Muskegon. ers who came cation or skills training by Mr. Bennett, 75, served as out of the build- 2030, boost quality of life, help business manager of Local 174 Doug Bennett ing trades more Michiganders get good- (and its predecessor Local 154) unions to win an office in the paying jobs, and ensure busi- from 1983 to 2004. That year he state Legislature. nesses have the talented ran as a Democrat for state House A journeyman steamfitter workforce they need to suc- SETTING A REGISTER on the first floor of the Mary Free Bed project in Saginaw is Ricky Berwick of Representatives in the 92nd since 1971, Doug was later ceed. Apprenticeships benefit of Sheet Metal Workers Local 7. He’s employed by U.S. Sheet Metal. District, and won. He served three elected to his union’s bargaining workers, employers, and the committee and then in 1981 state as we continue jump-start- elected to the Local Union Execu- ing our economy.” tive Board. Mr. Bennett also The funds will help cover Please don’t worry about our CEOs served as on the Muskegon the cost of 367 new registered The following remarks were health crisis in a century. And the County Board of Commissioners apprentices in the pipe trades. made by AFL-CIO Secretary-Trea- They’re earning 299x more only reason we’re reaching the (1999-2004) and as chairman of the Other recipients included surer Liz Schuler on a press call other side of the COVID-19 pan- Muskegon County Community money for Macomb/St. Clair announcing the 2021 “Executive than average U.S. workers demic is because working people Development/Strategic Planning Michigan Works! and the Paywatch” maintained by the la- The headline is: In 2020, on erage total compensation. stepped up. Committee. Healthcare Association of bor federation as it has kept tabs average, CEOs of S&P 500 com- Compared to 2019, that’s a Our first responders, county He was also a founding mem- Michigan. on the runaway corporate execu- panies were given a big raise. pay increase of more than and municipal workers, food and ber of Muskegon Economic “Michigan Pipe Trades is tive compensation in the U.S. They received $15.5 million in av- $700,000, during the worst public (Continued on Page 15) (Continued on Page 2) grateful to Gov. Whitmer for her commitment to increasing reg- istered apprenticeship opportu- Education a passion for new leader at U.P. Construction Council nities across Michigan and for By Marty Mulcahy contractors/associations, has ers Local 1329 in Iron Mountain nized labor and the United Way I a school board trustee for recognizing the value that piping Editor been in place since 1984 to pro- as part of his new position. The have been able to grow and hone Bedford Public Schools, in Tem- and other skilled trades offer to MARQUETTE – For the first mote the new executive director moved to my skills qualifying me for this perance.
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