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September, 1967 Power Training in the Construction Industly • Clem ScoreS NAHB Resolution "Serving the rnen who rnove the earth.'" * * * ENGINEERS"' NEWS Says Labor Must • PUBLISHED TO PROMOTE THE GENERAL WELFARE OF ALL ENGINEERS AND THEIR FAMILIES Provide Training In a s ly bid to create an "open shop situation," the National Association of Home Builders have called on President Johnson to establish an "independent" emergency Commission on Man­ Vol. 26- No. 9 SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA ~® September, 1967 power Training in the Construction Industly. Citing an "increasingly severe shortage of craftsmen and skilled labor" in the construction trades, the NAHB, meeting in Buffalo, International N.Y., would themselves "launch a massive program of accelerated training among unskilled groups" Convention and "broaden job opportunities ELECTION COMMITTEE for them in construction." • Corresponding Commenting on the resolution, Secretary T. lntemational Vice President and J. Stapleton announced this Local Union #3 Business Mana­ week that in accordance with ger Al Clem said, "This mythical Article XIII, Section 1 (c) of shortage of skilled craftsmen is the Local Union By-Laws, rel­ not borne out by the facts. Every ative to the election of Inter­ construction trade union has men national Convention Delegates on the out of work list." and Alternates, the Election Clem went on to point out that Committee shall be nominated any program to b·ain construc­ and elected at regularly sched­ tion workers "outside of the tra­ uled District Meetings during ditional union apprenticeship pro­ the fomth quarter preceding grams would meet massive mem­ bership resistance." the election. (See "Meetings Schedule" on page 3.) "It is sheer stupidity on the part of the consb1Jction industry There will be one Election • to even imply that a government Committee member elected and industry coalition can pro­ from each district by secret bal­ vide any meaningful b·aining pro­ lot of those members present gram that will produce a pool of whose last known address 10 skilled workers. What government days prior to the first District and industry can do is join hands Meeting in October was within in an imaginative public works the area covered by the Dis­ program aimed at full employ­ trict. ment; they can also devote some Nominees for the Election time and energy to correcting seasonal unemployment in the Committee must be registered construction industry-a situation voters within the respective which costs the working man tax­ districts; must have been a payer billions of dollars each member of Local3 for one year year," stated the union leader. preceding their nomination and Clem noted that the resolution shall not be a candidate or the • did not take into account nominator of a candidate for mem­ bership supported pre-apprentice Delegate to the International Convention. PRE-APPRENTICESHIP Training Contract is of General Contractors looking on. Commenting on programs to upgrade the skills of San Francisco and Honolulu signed by Jack Howard, Deputy Manpower Admin­ the program Clem said, " Hopefully this will pro­ the culturally deprived now un­ meetings will be held simul­ istrator, U.S. Department of Labor, with AI Clem, vide a much needed incentive to induce the der way. "\Ve are not going to­ taneously with telephone com­ International Vice President and Business Man­ government and the construction industry to stand idly by while either indus­ munication between officers in ager of Local # 3 and Harry R. Erickson, Executive mount a full scale public works program aimed at try or the government set up some charge of the meetings so as to Director, Northern California Chapter Association full trade employment for all." kind of sub-standard construction trades b·aining program-we now coordinate the nomination and have and/ or will produce the voting for the Member from craftsmen just as quickly as gov­ District l. A Special Called emment and industry produce the Meeting for this purpose is jobs." scheduled to be held in Hono­ Labor, Loca/3 Sign New lulu on October 4, 1967, at 6:00 p.m. The San Francisco • Prince Will Fill meeting will start at 8:00 P.M. Pre-Apprenticeship Pact Hamernick Term In District No. 2 Age Discrimination The U.S. Department of Labor ship Committee. Both organiza­ consist of two twenty-six week Testifying before a House Sub­ and Local Union 3 of the Interna­ ticms have the same administrator. sessions of fifty-six students, eight­ At its regular quarterly meeting committee in support of legisla­ tional Union of Operating En­ Actual training will be done at een to twenty-one years old, last month, the Oakland member­ and tion to prohibit age discrimination gineers signed an ~833 , 063.00 the Porter Creek Road facility of will combine classroom ship elected Ralph Noel Prince, subjects in employment, Labor Secretary contract to provide pre-appren­ the Marine Cooks and Stewards with equipment 1139 Rincon Avenue, Livermore, familiarization W. Willard Wirtz said that appli­ ticeship training for one-hundred in Santa Rosa, California. and on-project-training. California, to fill the balance of Ernest cants over 55 are barred from half and twelve ( 112) culturally dis­ International Vice President and Ernst, the unexpired term of Joe Ham­ a nationally known of all private job openings. He advantaged youths from the hard­ and Business Manager Al Clem erick who resigned from the of management consultant firm said this was "inhuman, indecent core employment areas of Ala­ Local3 Grievance Committee. and Jack Howard, Deputy worked with the Apprenticeship and unnecessary." meda county. Manpower Administrator, U. S. Committees in designing the cur­ Dubbed Project PAT (Pre­ Department of labor signed the ricula. Apprenticeship Training), the formal agreement at the Federal Selection of the candidates was New Aid Funds Work Stoppages program, • first of its kind nation­ Building here. done jointly by the Alameda Cen­ SAN FRANCISCO-The U. S. Time lost because of work stop­ ally, will come under the Nmthern In making the joint announce­ tral Labor Council and Depait­ Departments of Labor and Health, pages during the first half of 1967 California Chapter Association ment, Howard said, "We believe ment of Labor. Candidates and Education and Welfare have ap­ amounted to 0.21 percent of total General Contractor's and the this is the first major step in an alternates will be chosen on the proved $750,000 in federal funds working time. Since 1953, the Union's Joint Apprenticeship in-depth program to provide basis of testing and those that it to conduct skill training courses January-June rate was ranged Committee, 46 Counties Nmthem prideful! and marketable skills for is determined will best benefit for 250 jobless workers in various from .11 to .23 percent, averaging California and Northern Califor­ the culturally deprived young men from the six-month training ses­ public and private training facili­ .17 percent, according to the Bu­ nia Surveyors .Joint Apprentice- in our midst." The program will sions. ties in California. reau of Labor Statistics. Page 2 ENGINEERS NEWS September, 1967 Editorial • IUOE Talks e C~ffective/1 On Safety Only Suggest~ IMPORT ANT NOTICE! On August lOth, in Tampa, Washington ecrees ~reakiufl Florida, a climbing tower crane parted at the h1rntable and fell Dear Brother Clem: waft AI Clem 150 feet to the street. The oper­ This is a letter that I vvould like to have put in the Engineers' ator, Brother Floyd Masterson of N ev.: s and a few questions answered if they can be answered. You 1 l li::lll[:lllll l ll !l llll ! l lll! lll ll lll li lll ll llllll l ll ! l llllll l!illl l ill illlli:illli!li~ :,l!!i; II: :I!U!I : 1 1il 'l ll!; lli !i lli i i l li[[ l li i lll llll l ll! ll ll llll ll ll ~l 1 1 1 1[1 11[1! 11111111111111 1 111 ! : 11 1 1 ! 111 1! 1 1 1 !1 1 1i l l llll ! l l lll ll lllllilll l lll Local Union No. 925, IUOE, was sent each of us brothers a card to fill out on what we are. I'd like killed and three women who were to know if we can be fined by law if we don't tell them. in an automobile which was sh·uck $10,000 During the past month we have devoted considerable time in • by the jib were injured. The crane It's about time that someone who wrote that law comes up vvith preparing a proposal and negotiating a construction agreement in was a Liebherr, and was swinging the word "WHITE!", in or on this slip of paper. Just to check if Honolulu. with no load when the accident I was right, I pulled my Honorable Discharge to see what the other The carpenters went on strike, and it goes without saying, that occurred. meant on its so-called question and answer slip and on it (the dis­ An investigation suggests that charge ) it has the word WHITE first on the list. most of the Employers' effort was diverted towards arriving at a the immediate cause of the acci­ Since when has a man that has paid his taxes and all his bills settlement with the carpenters; however, we have made consider­ dent was the failure of 24 hex­ have to be questioned as to who or what he is . What are they doing able progress in adjusting the administrative clauses of the agree­ head capscrews which are to this land of ours? They might hire a few men and have them ment, and we hope to arrive at a settlement in the not too distant screwed into tapped holes in the slewing ring-gear.
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