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SHORT ‘Right-to-work doesn’t, in fact, work’ CUTS New RTW study re-states the law’s Jobless numbers come up short lack of benefits WASHINGTON, D.C. (PAI) (From the IBEW) on state economies and worker – The nation’s economists were Long-shot efforts to roll back well-being. What they found underwhelmed with the latest right-to-work laws in Michigan paints a bleak picture. The 27 U.S. U.S. unemployment rate and job and Virginia aren’t likely to level states that have enacted right-to- gains in April – much stronger the playing field for working work laws (Michigan’s RTW law numbers were expected. people this year, but a new study was adopted in 2012) saw slower The U.S. gained 266,000 provides fresh ammunition for economic growth, lower wages, jobs in April: it was not a nor- pro-union lawmakers in the fight higher consumer debt, worse mally bad number, but disap- for repeal. health outcomes and lower lev- pointing given that economists The study, released earlier els of civic participation than were expecting a million jobs to this year by the Illinois Economic states that do not have such laws. have been filled as vaccines are Policy Institute and the Project for “This new study shows LOOKING UP from his installation of an atrium glass partition at the Beaumont Outpatient Campus- injected in arms and the nation’s Middle Class Renewal at the Uni- what we’ve known all along, that Lenox facility is Ken Watson of Glaziers and Glassworkers Local 357. He’s employed by Edwards Glass. economy emerges from its versity of Illinois at Urbana- right-to-work doesn’t, in fact, COVID restraints. Meanwhile, Champaign, lays out how, on a work,” said IBEW International the nation’s unemployment rate New option for health care number of metrics, states with President Lonnie R. Stephenson. inched up 0.1 percent to 6.1 per- right-to-work laws come up short. “It doesn’t help people and it cent in April. From lower wages to less com- doesn’t help states. Instead, “While the overall growth munity engagement, states with these laws prop up a corporate was far below expectations, lei- set to open in Macomb County these deceptively-named laws are bottom line – usually at the ex- sure and hospitality gained By Marty Mulcahy a daily basis, a number which is occupancy is expected to be is- failing working families. pense of the workers that make 331,000 jobs (offsetting jobs Editor expected to ramp up a bit as more sued June 9, with tenant occu- Researchers looked at data their profits possible.” lost elsewhere), a sign that in- LENOX TWP. – Construc- finish trades move in to do their pation of the building taking dating back to 2008 to determine That’s why labor-friendly creased demand has led to sig- tion of Beaumont Health’s new- work. A temporary certification of (Continued on Page 15) the impact of right-to-work laws (Continued on Page 4) nificant gains in employment in est version of a comprehensive that sector,” said Economic outpatient care facility is rap- Policy Institute Senior Econo- idly moving toward completion. Death on the Job report: mist Elise Gould. “Likely in re- The Beaumont Outpatient sponse to improving public Campus- Lenox facility brings some progress made, health metrics and increased to northeast Macomb County expectations of job opportuni- a new option for a full slate of ties, more and more workers are health care services, in a three- but struggle continues actively returning to the labor story, 109,650-square-foot By Mark Gruenberg stark reminder that workplace force in search of work.” building erected near the inter- Press Associates Staff Writer safety protections are absolutely COVID-19 cases are declin- section of I-94 and 26 Mile Rd. WASHINGTON (PAI) – In critical, and we still have a long ing in the U.S., but the virus is General contractor ERECTED NEXT TO a Meijer near I-94 and 26 Mile Road, the the five decades since the Occu- way to go. As a country, we must not done casting a shadow over Roncelli, Inc. is managing the Beaumont Outpatient Campus- Lenox will create a convenient op- pational Safety and Health Ad- renew our commitment to safe the nation’s health, and the project, which has been em- tion for a higher level of health care to residents of northeast ministration (OSHA) was estab- jobs for all workers and invest the nation’s economy. There are still ploying 80-85 tradespeople on Macomb County. Roncelli is the project’s construction manager. lished, there’s been a lot of resources to make that happen.” 16.15 million Americans who are progress in cutting worker deaths The death rate has stalled receiving state or federal job- and injuries on the job, but there’s since 2017. And the 3.5/100,000 less aid – amounting to 11.6 per- still a long way to go. rate still translates into having 275 cent of all American workers. That’s a big conclusion from workers die every day from haz- And, the number of people in the data in the AFL-CIO’s 30th ardous working conditions, the the workforce, including those annual Death On The Job report, report says. who have work and the jobless released May 4, a week after Those figures actually un- who seek it, is 8.2 million below OSHA’s 50th anniversary. derstate the case, Shuler told the its peak in early 2020. The Occupational Safety Zoom press conference unveiling There were flat numbers for and Health Act, strongly pushed the report. “About 95,000 work- construction. which maintained by organized labor and particu- ers a year die from occupational a 7.7 percent jobless rate in the larly crafted by the late Tony illnesses,” often contracted long industry in April. That still left Mazzocchi of the old Oil, Chemi- before, she pointed out. And ill- 768,000 of construction workers cal and Atomic Workers, has ness and death disproportion- unemployed. In April 2020, the helped cut deaths on the job from ately hit workers of color, she absolute number was more than nine per 100,000 workers 30 years added. double that number, along with ago to 3.5 per100,000 in 2019, the The law’s weak penalties a 16.6 percent jobless rate in the latest available data, included in don’t help. The maximum federal building trades. the report, shows. fine for death of a worker on the “This year, we commemorate job is $12,788, though some Teamsters primed 50 years of OSHA and the lives states have higher fines. The to move on Amazon saved by ensuring workers are maximum jail time if a worker dies Labor unions are not HEFTING A DUCT ELBOW SECTION across second-floor shell space at the Beaumont-Lenox protected on the job,” said AFL- is six months. And combined state through with trying to organize Township facility are (l-r) foreman Chris Ratzel and Kody Gaffney of Sheet Metal Workers Local CIO Secretary-Treasurer Liz and federal OSHAs have fewer Amazon. 80. They’re employed by Limbach. Shuler. “COVID-19 has been a inspectors now, 1,798, than 30 Just weeks after the Retail years ago. “The problems are Workers union lost an organiz- structural,” Shuler said, adding ing drive at an Amazon ware- corporate opposition has ham- house in Bessemer, Ala. by a Ulterior factors restrain construction growth strung new worker safety rules for wide margin, Teamsters Presi- The U.S. construction indus- May 7 the index posted a strong buildings. 77 percent since January. Com- years. dent James Hoffa told the Off try appears to be primed for a 8.6 percent gain in April. Issued Dodge said April’s gain was mercial sector planning, however, “But we have some good the Record television program strong year, but some secondary by Dodge Data & Analytics, it’s the fifth consecutive monthly in- dropped for the month by less news: We have a pro-worker earlier this month that the factors may throw a wet blanket a monthly measure of the first re- crease in the momentum number, than one percent. That fault line president, a pro-worker vice presi- union is ready to start a cam- on any explosion in growth. port for nonresidential building and similar to February and and others taking place in a dent and a pro-worker majority in paign to organize Amazon truck The most recent Dodge Mo- projects in planning, which have March, it was due to a large in- COVID-affected economy – like Congress,” which gives workers drivers. Hoffa said: “We just mentum Index for U.S. Construc- been shown to lead construction crease in institutional buildings worker shortages and historic a chance to improve the OSH Act had a Zoom call yesterday with tion bore some glad tidings – on spending for nonresidential entering the planning stage – up (Continued on Page 4) (Continued on Page 4) all our leaders in the country. We’re about ready to launch.” By Rebekah Entralgo Viewpoint through window in Texas, accord- 8.1 million job openings across Hoffa added: “Amazon is Employers: The sudden shift from “we ing to a viral internet video. the country. a very tough company. love our essential workers” to lamenting that they are unable to These viral anecdotes, in But it’s not that people don’t They’ve got a lot of money and Want workers? “they’re living off the govern- fill positions as economies re- addition to a weaker than ex- want to work – it’s that they don’t they know how to fight dirty. ment dole” seemingly happened open. “We are short-staffed. pected April jobs report, have want to work for so little. So, we’re ready for the fight. It’s time to pay overnight. Please be patient with the staff raised concerns over a labor Dan Price, the CEO of Grav- That’s our next goal,” he said. Across the country, local who did show up. Nobody wants shortage in the United States and ity Payments who raised the Noting that Amazon a living wage media coverage has been filled to work anymore,” reads a sign how to best address it. The Wall starting wage at his company to “flooded a thousand new with stories of business owners outside a McDonalds drive- Street Journal reports a record (Continued on Page 15) people into the bargaining unit” which affected the vote in Ala- bama, Hoffa said the Teamsters and other unions plan to orga- State Capitol Heritage Center pokes out of the ground nize workers in different seg- By Marty Mulcahy ruary 2019 meeting to create a new the state’s population would ments of the company. “The idea Editor $55 million Heritage Hall, a 54,000- grow,” the Capitol Commission is to hit them all at once and ba- LANSING – The Michigan Capi- square-foot underground addi- said. “Today the Capitol welcomes sically spread them out so they tol Building’s interior and exterior tion – under the northwest side (Continued on Page 2) can’t concentrate like they did have been extensively and ex- of the Capitol’s grounds. HERITAGE HALL, under in Alabama,” Hoffa said. quisitely renovated and refur- The project, approved by construction on the west side of bished in recent years – a project the state Legislature, stems from the Michigan Capitol Building Quotable managed by Christman Construc- a 1980s recommendation from in Lansing, will provide tors with the expertise of build- preservation architect Richard underground space for large “The people I distrust most ing trades union workers and Frank, who wrote the Capitol’s are those who want to improve meetings and tour group their contractors. first comprehensive Preservation assemblies while reducing the our lives but have only one In an effort to help maintain Master Plan. “When Michigan’s course of action.” pressure placed on the142- the beautiful 1879 building’s fea- current Capitol opened in 1879, year-old building. –Frank Herbert (1920 - tures, the Michigan State Capitol no one anticipated how govern- 1986) Credit: Commission voted at their Feb- ment, citizen engagement, and Michigan Capitol Commission 2 THE BUILDING TRADESMAN May 21, 2021 Heritage Center pokes out of the ground Viewpoints (Continued from Page 1) ing, a National Historic Land- project will save about $1.5 mil- geothermal system, an all-new 250,000 annual visitors who at- mark. lion. The upgrade work at the heating and cooling system, elec- tend legislative sessions, take The commission said incor- Capitol Building, which began trical upgrades, extensive ma- tours, and participate in every- porating the construction of Heri- under Christman in 2017, imple- sonry repairs, as well as water- Finally, workers a priority thing from farmers markets to tage Hall into the Capitol Resto- mented a host of improvements proofing, plaster and decorative The Teamsters and other unions for years have been urging concerts, commemorations, ad- ration/ Infrastructure Upgrade to the building, including a new paint repair. lawmakers in Washington, D.C., to prioritize the needs of working vocacy days, and demonstra- people, given that the wealthy in this country have never done tions.” better. Finally, elected officials are responding. Frank recommended the con- More than a million hardworking Americans are set to ben- struction of the subterranean efit from a multiemployer pension fix enacted by Congress in addition to relieve some of the March, and efforts to help U.S. workers haven’t stopped there. human stress that’s placed on the President Joe Biden in recent weeks rolled out substantive pro- Capitol building. posals like the American Jobs Plan and the American Families Heritage Hall will include a Plan that would bring good-paying jobs and work-home balance 600-seat auditorium for larger to many workers who have been struggling to support their fami- functions, and an expanded and lies during the pandemic. safer educational environment The American Jobs Plan offers a broad vision for putting the for the 115,000 Michigan school nation’s economy on a 21st Century path toward better-paying children who visit the Capitol jobs that lift up American workers, promoting job creation and each year. Tour groups will have worker protections. The Biden administration’s commitment to expanded meeting and orienta- modernizing the nation’s aging infrastructure will produce qual- tion spaces and new educational ity opportunities that will revitalize the middle class. exhibits highlighting the history No matter which side of the aisle lawmakers are on, infra- of the Michigan Capitol Build- structure investment has long been a goal supported by Demo- crats and Republicans. While the U.S. is the wealthiest country in STEEL ERECTION continues at the world, it ranks a dismal 13th when it comes to the overall the Heritage Hall project at the quality of infrastructure. After decades of disinvestment, the Michigan Capitol Building. nation’s transportation network is crumbling and something must Among the Tri-Steel, Local 25 be done. iron workers putting it up are But that’s not all the legislation aims to reform. The White D.J. Kalvo, Dave Nelson, Tom House’s push for Congress to enact the Protecting the Right to Gaines, Ryan Richardson, Doug Organize Act as a key piece of the American Jobs Plan is another Cramer and Zac Culimore. sign that Biden is fulfilling his promise to reform labor law and Photo by Marc Crance empower millions of workers looking for a voice on the job. It also focuses on innovation in a new economy that will create hundreds of thousands of quality jobs. American workers will build and make things in every part of this country, and they will be trained for well-paying, middle-class union jobs. Meanwhile, the American Families Plan is a sweeping mea- sure that lifts up hardworking Americans by expanding educa- tion opportunities, mandating paid leave, subsidizing child care and health care for low- and middle-income workers and provid- ing tax relief to the middle class. Nobody could argue that the pandemic has disproportion- ately strained working women, who often struggle to balance a job (or two) while caring for both younger and older generations. Many have simply left the workforce, but the American Families HERITAGE HALL will have several large skylights to brighten the Plan will go a long way toward alleviating these issues. underground space and offer views of the Capitol, as shown in the Images via the Michigan Capitol Not only will workers be able to receive free workforce train- rendering above and the photo, above right. Commission ing like the Teamsters offer or earn a two-year degree at a commu- nity college, but their children will also be eligible for free pre-K ISSN-007-3717 schooling beginning at age 3. 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May 21, 2021 THE BUILDING TRADESMAN 3 4 THE BUILDING TRADESMAN May 21, 2021 Building Michigan: New RTW study re-states New Richmond’s 1879 swing bridge the law’s lack of benefits By Marty Mulcahy (Continued from Page 1) apprentices per 100,000 workers that would be lured to the state if History in the making politicians in Michigan (where and 50 percent more on-the-job lawmakers betrayed its working Republicans control both cham- fatalities. Apprenticeships also people. bers of the Legislature), and Vir- grew faster in union-friendly West Virginia passed right- ginia (where Democrats are in states, providing more avenues to-work in 2016. The law was charge but face opposition from to the middle class. challenged in court, but ulti- the conservative wing of their Right-to-work laws may mately upheld by the state’s caucus), are pushing to repeal also be hampering efforts to re- Supreme Court. The state re- the RTW laws and return their cover from the coronavirus. pealed its prevailing wage law states to what the study refers States with such laws effec- the same year. to as “free collective bargain- tively lower the bar in terms of “When you starve unions, ing” status. providing livable wages and you starve the working class and Right-to-work laws allow a adequate health coverage, not it hurts us all,” the IBEW’s worker to enjoy the benefits of a to mention safe workplaces – all Stephenson said. “Whether it’s union, without paying dues, factors in a state’s ability to wages that keep you from need- which inevitably erodes union combat the deadly virus that ing government assistance to strength. has claimed more than half a make ends meet, or who gets “A growing number of lead- million U.S. lives. elected – and who gets to vote ers in both parties have recog- “As we seek out ways to for them – right-to-work laws nized that ‘right-to-work’ laws fail value and support the front-line have consistently been on the to deliver any broad-based eco- workers who are keeping our losing side where working fami- nomic or social benefits,” said communities going during these lies are concerned.” study co-author Frank Manzo, historically challenging times, SPANNING THE KALAMAZOO RIVER about eight miles east of Saugatuck, the Richmond Swing director of policy of the Illinois there is ample evidence to sug- Bridge, originally constructed in 1879, may be the oldest surviving highway swing bridge in the U.S. Economic Policy Institute. “In- gest that right-to-work laws are Ulterior The bridge hasn’t swung open to river traffic in nearly a century, but when it did, an 89-foot center span deed, the data shows that shrink- having the opposite effect,” pivoted on the 20-foot diamter central cylindrical caisson, visible at left. Photo credit: Travel the Mitten ing the voices of workers only said study co-author, PMCR Swinging bridges that are serves to suppress growth and Director and University of Illi- still in use in Michigan and the eliminate access to good, family- nois Professor Dr. Robert factors rest of the United States are rare. sustaining jobs at a time when Bruno. Rarer still is any bridge that ‘s our nation is in dire need of For those who claim that lim- still in service, using structural both.” iting collective bargaining is restrain iron that easily pre-dates more Prospects for actual repeal good for business, a state’s right- modern metal that would likelier this year are dim in both states, to-work status didn’t even crack be expected to enjoy such longev- but legislation has been intro- the top 10 reasons that busi- growth ity. duced, and supporters of repeal nesses cited as reasons to relo- (Continued from Page 1) Permit us to introduce you are pointing to many of the sta- cate. Such factors, the study au- price increases for materials – to one such example: the New tistics cited in the Illinois EPI re- thors noted, are primarily driven continue to give analysts pause Richmond Swing Bridge in port. by other considerations like in- on declaring 2021 a likely boom Manlius Twp, in Allegan County, According to the analysis, frastructure accessibility, the year for U.S. construction. aka the 57th Street Bridge. right-to-work states have 3 per- availability of skilled labor and “April’s data highlights the Completed in 1879 over the ONLY 12 FEET WIDE, the bridge is closed to vehicular traffic, but cent lower hourly wages on av- quality-of-life factors. nascent recovery underway in Kalamazoo River, the bridge has pedestrians can cross. Photo credit: Bridgehunter/C. Hanchey erage, 5 percent less health in- During a February virtual institutional building,” Dodge quietly and dependably served center section of the bridge bal- ter that, New Richmond probably surance coverage and 8 percent town hall, anti-union Gov. Jim said. “However, given the aver- generations of travelers – and the anced on top. The arrangement had little need for a swing less retirement security. For con- Justice (R-West Virginia) put a age length of time between plan- fact that it’s still in service, at allows a bridge operator to swing bridge,” the application said. struction workers, the pay pen- finer point on the effectiveness ning and project start, this rise least for pedestrians, is abso- the span open, parallel to the river, According to the text on the alty rises to 11 percent. On aver- of anti-union laws, admitting that will likely not impact construction lutely remarkable. to allow river traffic passage. Michigan historical marker at age, union households earn be- right-to-work and a repeal of the starts until late 2021 or early “This nationally significant The National Register appli- the site: “this 422-foot bridge is tween 10-20 percent more than state’s prevailing wage have 2022.” bridge is one of the top historic cation said the bridge’s 89-foot- one of Michigan’s longest pony nonunion households – an in- done nothing to boost his state’s While construction starts bridges in Michigan,” says His- long center span sits atop a 20- truss highway bridges and come premium that has been con- economy. are one area of industry analy- toric Bridges. “Multi-span pony foot diameter caisson positioned among the oldest surviving sistent since the 1930s. “Well, the bottom line to the sis, actual spending and hiring truss bridges are uncommon, in the Kalamazoo River below the swing bridges in the United Free collective-bargaining whole thing is just really simple. are of much more immediate in- and this four-span structure is span’s midpoint. States. The Milwaukee Bridge states also provide more invest- We went out and passed a right- terest. The latest figures from the longest remaining pony “The steel-encased caisson and Iron Co. fabricated the ment in education and worker to-work law, we got rid of prevail- Bureau of Labor Statistics, re- truss in Michigan. Pin-con- has a rubble stone and concrete/ $5,000 structure which has four training, fewer on-the-job fatali- ing wage, we built fields all over leased May 3, show that that nected Warren truss bridges earth filling,” the application primary and eight short ap- ties and faster-growing econo- the place thinking that they will nonresidential construction like this bridge are very rare says. “A vertical post serving as proach spans, to serve traffic on mies. Among the report’s findings come. They didn’t come, did spending fell to a two-year low both in Michigan and nationwide. a pivot point rises from the cen- 57th Street near New Richmond. was that right-to-work states they?” Justice said, referring to in March “as contractors “The 1879 construction ter of the caisson, and beams ex- Of the four primary Warren have 31 percent fewer registered the promised employers and jobs struggled with slumping demand date makes this one of the oldest tend outward from it to connect pony truss spans, three date from for most project types and grow- truss bridges in Michigan. Ad- with a massive ring which rotated 1879 (including an 89-foot long ing shortages of materials, trans- ditionally, pre-1880 metal atop eight equally spaced rollers, swing span) and one from 1899.” Death on the Job report: port, and workers,” said the As- bridges are extremely rare na- which support large circle seg- According to Historic sociated General Contractors. tionwide. Each surviving example ment beams at each end of the Bridges, the New Richmond That lack of growth, the AGC should be considered to have a swing span and facilitate turn- span’s “early date of construc- some progress made, reported on May 7, led to U.S. high level of historic signifi- ing the span. A system of gears tion is evident in the unusual construction employment being cance due to their rarity and also operated by a bridge tender from design of the built-up members unchanged from March to April, the fact that bridges from this a position atop the large midpoint and chords on the bridge, which but struggle continues “as nonresidential contractors period show a lack of standard- caisson, allowed movement of the are unlike the standards found (Continued from Page 1) and homebuilders alike ization and reveal the early de- bridge with just a push. The gear- in most truss bridges of the and beef up enforcement, Shuler said. struggled to obtain materials and velopment of metal bridge con- ing remains in place, but the 1880s and 1890s.” And perhaps Left unsaid: The 50-50 Senate gives anti-worker Republicans find enough workers.” struction in the country.” bridge was welded in the closed only metallurgists or some of enough votes to filibuster the law labor is pushing, the Protect Construction’s lack of job According to the application position in 1979.” our old-time iron workers might American Workers Act, to death. growth last month helped bog made to the National Register for The National Register appli- appreciate that the span is un- The report itself reiterates that hope. “Fifty years after the down job growth in the overall Historic Places – upon which the cation said the 1879 bridge was usual in that it has corrugated, passage of the nation’s job safety laws,” it says, “the toll of work- U.S., which saw an anemic bridge earned a listing: “The a replacement for two trouble- or ribbon lacing, and outriggers place injury, illness and death remains too high, and too many growth of only 266,000 jobs – bridge’s chief importance... is that some wooden bridges built in of star iron, a unique type of rolled workers remain at serious risk. There is much more work to be about a quarter of what analysts it is one of the oldest – if not the previous decades at the site, the structure iron that was common done.” anticipated. oldest – surviving highway swing second of which collapsed. Even in the 1870s but not after. Opposition also hamstrung even collecting accurate and up- “Contractors are experienc- bridges in the United States.” with the failures of the first “It is constructed in the to-date job safety and health figures. Thus, both OSHA’s and the ing unprecedented intensity and Where it flows under the wooden bridges, there was sig- lightweight style similar to the federation’s figures are a year or more behind. That means the range of cost increases, supply- bridge about eight miles east of nificant local opposition to an 10 Mile Road Bridge (in the agency understates the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. chain disruptions, and worker Saugatuck, the Kalamazoo River iron bridge because of the higher U.P.’s Chippewa County) a de- OSHA outbreaks were not counted by state, except for nurs- shortages that have kept firms today is no longer the same con- costs involved. There was still a sign of which few remaining ex- ing homes, prisons and meatpackers and allied occupations. And from increasing their work- duit for commercial boats and significant amount of timber amples exist,” Historic Bridges the AFL-CIO gathered those. forces,” said Ken Simonson, the barges from Lake Michigan as used in the approach spans to said. “With an 1899 construc- Other report details included: association’s chief economist. when the span was first erected. reduce costs. tion date, this pony truss replace- •The most dangerous states for workers were Alaska (14.1 “These challenges will make it In fact, the bridge hasn’t swung The 20-year-old bridge was ment is also historically signifi- deaths per 100,000 workers), Wyoming (12/100,000), North Dakota difficult for contractors to re- to let a boat through since about already in need of repair by 1899, cant as an early example of a (9.7/100,000), Montana (7.8/100,000) and West Virginia (6.4/ bound as the pandemic appears 1925, when railways and con- and the work, including the in- highway truss using riveted con- 100,000). to wane.” crete roads permanently sup- stallation of some new iron, was nections. It may be the earliest Michigan ranked No. 22 among the states in the rate of work- U.S. construction employ- planted the waterway as a con- preformed by the Saginaw highway example in Michigan.” place fatalities, 3.6/100,000 workers. Our state experienced 164 work- ment in April totaled 7,452,000, duit for moving goods. Bridge Co. Other original tim- The group added that “the place fatalities in 2019. matching the March total but Throughout history, swing ber structures underneath have last noteworthy repair of this •The nation’s most dangerous occupations were agriculture, amounting to 196,000 employees bridges were one of three major been replaced over the years. bridge for highway traffic was in forestry, and fishing and hunting (23.1 deaths per 100,000 work- or 2.6 percent below the most re- designs that allowed river craft The National Register appli- 1980. In 2005, this bridge was ers), mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction (14.6/100,000), cent, pre-COVID peak in Febru- to move past low-hanging spans. cation said the bridge was con- restored for pedestrian use only, transportation and warehousing (13.9/100,000 workers), construc- ary 2020. Still, the construction One is a drawbridge, with a structed at a time when the lower representing an excellent suc- tion (9.7/100,000) and wholesale trade (4.9/100,000). sector’s unemployment rate fell single section or split dual sec- stretch of the Kalamazoo River cess story for Michigan and his- •Agriculture and related occupations annually lead all occu- from 16.6 percent in April 2020 to tions of a road lifted to allow the was considered navigable for toric bridges in general.” pations in death rates, figures in prior reports show. This report 7.7 percent last month. movement of boat traffic. An- light-draft commercial traffic. Today the bridge is the cen- notes death rates fell – in some cases drastically – in the other But there’s a major split be- other is the lift bridge, which has Shipping on the river declined terpiece of New Richmond most dangerous job categories, but they’ve barely budged in ag- tween homebuilding and the towers on either side of a after 1871 when the railroad was Bridge Park. The State of Michi- riculture and related occupations. The death rate there 30 years nonresidential sector. Residential riverbank, supporting a system completed, but small steamers gan says the area features a boat ago was 24/100,000 workers. construction firms – contractors that raises the entire roadway to carrying passengers, freight launch and parking lot on the •While the report did not say so, more so-called “right to working on new housing, addi- allow boats to pass underneath. and fruit, continued to operated north side of the bridge, and a work” states – including three of the five worst – had higher death tions, and remodeling – gained Swing bridges, like the New between Saugatuck and New boardwalk and trail. It’s also a rates for workers. The bottom 10 included Wyoming (49th from the only 3,000 employees from March Richmond span, utilize a central Richmond as late as 1916. “Af- popular fishing site. top), North Dakota (48th) and West Virginia (46th). Other RTW states, to April but have added 46,000 post placed in the water with a with 50th being worst: Louisiana (44), Kansas (43) and Missis- workers or 1.6 percent over 14 sippi (41). months. The nonresidential sec- OSHA doesn’t cover the self-employed, meaning indepen- tor – comprising union-heavy dent contractors, and their elevated fatality rate – 13.2 per nonresidential building, specialty 100,000 – shows it. In 2019, 1,098 such workers died on the job, trades, and heavy and civil engi- one-fifth of all deaths. Wage and salary workers had a 2.9/ neering contractors – shed 3,000 100,000 death rate. jobs in April and employed 242,000 fewer workers, or 5.2 per- cent less than in February 2020. Just joking “The fact that employment has stalled – despite strong de- A man picks up a hitch- house mid-afternoon. He ties mand for new homes, remodeling hiker on the side of the road. up the woman and at gun- of all types, and selected catego- The hitchhiker point orders the man to hand ries of nonresidential projects– says, “I’m sur- over all the jewelry and suggests that contractors can’t prised you picked money. get either the materials or the me up. I could’ve The man started sobbing workers they need,” Simonson been a serial and said, “You can take any- said. The economist noted that killer.” thing you want! You can even many firms report key materials The driver responded, pistol whip me, but please are backlogged or rationed, while THE RICHMOND SWING BRIDGE in 1915. Historic Bridges noted that when the bridge was refur- “Oh, please! The chance of untie the rope and free her!” others report they are having a bished in 2005, it was dismantled “and the parts were repaired off-site before being returned to the site two serial killers being in the Thief: “You must really hard time getting former workers for reassembly. The bridge was restored in-kind and rivets were replaced with rivets, something that same car is astronomical!” love your wife!” to return to work. He added these should be done automatically, however many states replace rivets with bolts, so this practice is worth ••• Man: “No, but she’s going factors are contributing to rising A jewel thief enters a to be home any minute now!” mentioning.” Photo credit: Fennville Memories costs for many contractors. May 21, 2021 THE BUILDING TRADESMAN 5 Local 80 Local 292 Sheet Metal Workers Sheet Metal Workers Local 7

Sheet Metal Workers Local 292 Sheet Metal Workers Sheet Metal Workers Local 80 TROY– MEETING NOTICE: The next general membership meet- SOUTHFIELD – This paper serves as official notice for all meet- ing will be held on Wednesday, June 9, 2021. Sheet Metal Workers Local 7 ings and elections. Member meetings are held every 2nd Wednesday of the month at LANSING – NOTICE. This Newspaper Article shall serve as Offi- **REMINDER** Meetings are no longer held at the Plumbers The Knights of Columbus in Clawson. Check out the calendar tab at cial Notice of ALL meetings for Local 7! Hall and are now held at Local 80’s Union Hall. www.sheetmetal292.com for the location and date. The next Statewide Meeting will be, June 10, 2021 at 6 p.m. MEMBERSHIP MEETING: The next general membership meet- The E-Board/Stewards meeting is scheduled for May 25, 2021 *Zone 1- July 8th -6:00 p.m. ing is scheduled for May 25, 2021 at 5:30 pm. Meetings are held at the at 6:00 pm at the Union Hall. *Zone 2 –July 20th -6:00 p.m. union hall, 17100 W. 12 Mile Rd. Southfield, 48076. *There will be a **Per the CDC guidelines, masks must be worn and social dis- *Zone 3- (Saginaw) July 7th -6:00 p.m. vote for Building Trades wage allocation at this meeting.* tancing must be followed during all meetings. *Zone 3- (Traverse City) June 17th - 6:00 p.m. EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING: The next executive board meet- HOLIDAY HOURS: In observance of Memorial Day, the Local *Zone 4- July 13th - 6:00 p.m. ing is scheduled for Tuesday June 15, at 5 pm. Executive Board meet- 292 Union Hall will be closed Monday, May 31, 2021. Have a safe and *Zone 5 –June 3rd - 6:00 p.m. ings are held at the Local 80 Hall, 17100 W. 12 Mile, 2nd Floor, Southfield. happy weekend! Please register on our website at www.sheetmetal7.org for the UNION HALL REGULAR HOURS Monday through Friday 7:30 2021 ANNUAL GOLF OUTING: At this time, Local 292 is plan- most up to date information on meeting schedules for 2021. Once – 4:00, unless otherwise indicated in holiday hours. ning to have our annual charity golf outing. The outing will be held you are registered it must be approved in order to be able to log on. RETIREE MEETING SCHEDULE: The June 21, 2021 meeting is at Fox Hills in Plymouth on Sunday, August 22, 2021. Please contact your representative if you are hav- CANCELLED. We will be going month to month Mark the date on your calendar. More details will ing issues registering. for 2021. Please keep an eye on the paper for an follow. SMART Union Labels: Make the union label updated schedule. Any questions regarding join- NEW PRESCRIPTION CHANGES: The work for you! The new and modernized SMART ing the Retirees Association please contact Steve Board of Trustees of the Sheet Metal Workers Lo- Labels are an essential part to wage equalization, Murzen at 248-652-0593. cal 292 Health Fund (the Fund) is introducing a new which means more money and work for you. Make PENSION CREDIT UPDATE: Starting prescription drug benefits program effective Janu- sure that you are scanning labels in order to equal- June 1, 2021 through May 31, 2022 the pension ary 1, 2021. The new program will be administered ize pay and eliminate the incentive to subcontract credit will be $150 by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan (replacing outside of your area. For more information visit the PICNIC: Unfortunately due to COVID this EnvisionRx). Since Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michi- official website at www.labelitscanitreport.com and year’s picnic is cancelled. We hope to be able to PAUL gan already administers our Simply Blue PPO Medi- SAM download the official app by texting “SMART” to resume next year. GUALDONI cal Plan, your medical and prescription drugs will 90975. TIM SUB CHANGES: As of May 1, 2021 the be integrated and coordinated, which should make FULLER ZONE 1 Info: Condolences to the family and MULLIGAN sub fund has been raised to $250 per credit for it easier for you and lead to better care. The new card will be used for friends of Boyd Tyler who recently passed away. building trades journeyman. Bereavement & Jury both medical and prescription drug coverage. Please remember to inform James or Eric of your employment status Duty is now $500 but you must be off 2 days. You should have already received your new Blue Cross cards in in the case of a layoff. Apprentices please remember to also inform Effective immediately you will need to start sending your unem- the mail. If you have not received the new cards, please contact Kevin at the Zone 1 Training Center of your employment status. ployment proof to [email protected] or fax it to 248-557- BeneSys immediately to request one. You can also download the If you are experiencing any problems with unemployment, please 0297. Your unemployment proof needs to be in by 2pm on Tuesdays Blue Cross Blue Shield app (BCBSM) to any smart phone. The app contact your Business Agent for additional assistance. Any Journey- to be paid on that Friday. Local 80 will be handling all of your proof provides tools and features to help you access information pertinent person interested in up-grade classes, please contact Kevin at the now. If you have any questions please call us at 248-557-7575. to your account. Training Center (269) 781-7183. Please note that class availability SERVICE & RESIDENTIAL WAGE ALLOCATION: There will These changes are for active members and pre-65 retired mem- depends on the level of interest. In Solidarity, James Callahan and be a vote for service & residential wage allocation at the union hall bers only. Eric Farrington. on May 27. Service will be at 4:30 pm & residential will be at 5 pm. RETIREES NOTICE: Due to Covid-19 and restrictions placed ZONE 2 Info: Work in Zone 2 is picking up, let me know if your GOLF OUTING: SOLD OUT!!! Tickets are now available for for social gatherings, as well as the health and safety of our retirees work status changes or your looking for a job if you been off. Next members only until May 17th! Please join us on July 17 at Cracklewood and their families, the retiree’s luncheons have been cancelled until meeting is July 20, 2021 in the Grand Rapids hall 6pm at this time. The Golf Club in Macomb Twp. Tickets can be reserved at a cost of $90 a further notice. We will notify when luncheons will resume. Stay hall is up for sale by the owner and we may be moving before then, ticket for members and $125 a ticket for non-members. Your ticket will healthy and safe. will let you know if this changes our meeting Location. Thanks Dave include coffee, donuts & danishes, a bloody mary bar, lunch at the Please contact Fred Engelman at [email protected] if you ZONE 3 Info: (Saginaw) Work in Zone 3 is steady, most of the turn, open bar up until 1 hour after golf, beer & pop available on the would like to be added to the retiree email list. members are working and looks like we will have a lot of school work course and a wonderful steak dinner (subject to change due to covid CONSTITUTION AND RITUAL: The Constitution and Ritual this year. If any members need OSHA 30 or need to get welding certs restrictions & CDC guidelines). Please contact the hall with any ques- of the 2nd SMART General Convention is now available online. Go to contact me and we can make arrangements to get it done. The next tions you may have or to reserve your ticket! www.sheetmetal292.com, click on the Constitution/Ritual tab located retiree meeting will be June 22 at 12:30 at the Ponderosa in Bay City. THANK YOU TO MEMBERS WHO HAVE PAID THEIR DUES at the top of the home page. The Union Hall will also has hard copies Also, a reminder on June 5th there is a fundraiser for Bob Vargas’s A YEAR IN ADVANCE: David Yelencich II, Richard W. Donovan, for members who want one. 6 yr. old daughter who recently had a heart transplant. You can get Martin Freiman, Tim Willis, Timothy Koester, Joshua Bernheisel, Ray SAFETY MODS AND DRUG TESTS: To access your MUST more information on Facebook at #TrinityStrong or contact me for Osborne II and Timothy Durucher. account, please go to www.mustonline.org or access it through the details on how to help. Our elections are coming up June 18 &19 so DUES PAYMENTS: YOUR DUES PAYMENTS ARE DUE PRIOR “links” tab at www.sheetmetal292.com. Members, please note that if get out and vote it’s your right. Everyone have a great summer. TO THE FIRST OF THE MONTH. The books will close at the end of you cannot access the MUST site to complete your safety mods you Thank you, Wayne Stover the business day on the last day of the month. Payments made on need to contact Laura or Lee Ann at the Union Hall. ZONE 3 Info: (Traverse City) I would like to congratulate the the 1st of the month are considered late for that month. There will be MEMBER ASSISTANCE: Local 292 is now partnering with Membership of Zone 3 on ratifying a new agreement! It would not of no exception, once the books are closed it cannot be undone. Mem- Ulliance, an employee assistance program designed to assist active been possible without the membership standing together strong! bers will receive a text message dues reminder prior to the end of the members and their eligible family members who may be struggling Work outlook for this summer looks great. We will be reaching out month. If you are not receiving our text messaging please call the with emotional, domestic or substance abuse issues, as well as legal to other areas first when additional manpower is needed then work- hall. REMINDER: We ONLY take Visa, Master Card & Discover and and financial referrals. If you and/or a family member feel this may ing on weakening our non union competition. The next Traverse do not accept American Express. benefit you, contact Ulliance at 1-800-448-8326 or City Retirement Breakfast will be Friday June 4th at Willies Restau- BENEFICIARY REMINDER: Please remember to designate or www.LifeAdvisorEAP.com for completely confidential assistance. rant. Thank You, Travis Eastman update your beneficiary choice on all of your Local 80 and interna- Ulliance is available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Services are of ZONE 4 Info Work in zone 4 is steady with only a few members tional benefits. The law requires that in the event of an untimely no cost to active members and their dependents. off. With summer around the corner work is going to be great, lots of death your benefits go to your spouse first and if there is no spouse SUBSTANTIATION REQUEST: Many members have been re- projects and a ton of school work to do. Please stay safe on the job and to your children UNLESS you designate otherwise in writing with ceiving Substantiation Request letters from the Local 292 Benefit at home covid has changed how we all do things, but we will get through each specific benefit. Depending on your classification you could Fund office. IRS regulations require that every use of the Benny it. Stay strong brothers and sisters! Your Brother, Larry Kinzie have benefits due to your heirs from Local 80 pension, insurance, Card be substantiated or validated as an eligible covered expense ZONE 5 Info Congratulations to James Wheeler and Micah annuity and from international and SASMI. Each individual benefit under the Plan. This validation is required by the IRS, the Fund Johnson on passing their final exam and will be Journeymen June 1, needs to have a designated beneficiary unless you want it to go to cannot make exceptions. It is the member’s responsibility to ensure 2021. Work in the area is steadily picking up and looks to be a very your spouse or children. As always seek the advice of an attorney. all requested documentation be returned to the Fund office in a timely busy summer. Everyone should have received the special call notice ADDRESS CHANGES: If you have a new address please make manner. By not responding to the Substantiation Request letter, for disbursements Saturday May 22, 2021 at 10am EST. Respectfully sure to let the hall know. We will take care of your account with the your Benny Card may be suspended until all requested documenta- Greg Faust union hall which includes the tradesman paper. You will need to call tion has been received. If you have any questions, contact BeneSys SASMI Information – Zone 3 and 5: Underemployment – Filing Benesys at 800-400-7710 and update your address with them as well, at 248.641.4992 or the Union Hall. for period 2020-B is from July 1, 2020 through December 31, 2020. that is not done through the hall. DUES: Membership dues are required to be paid in advance of Eligible members who worked less than 750 hours from July 1, 2020 ACCIDENTAL DEATH and DISMEMBERMENT INSURANCE the month for which they are due. The union hall is not open on through December 31, 2020 may receive an underemployment ben- FROM OUR INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION: Members who Saturday or Sunday, therefore, if you pay dues on either of those efit. Health and welfare benefits paid on your behalf will be deducted have their dues paid in advance (prior to the month of the accident) days, it will not be processed until Monday. If you are on suspen- from your benefit. NOTE: Members who received an Emergency are eligible for accidental death and dismemberment benefits up to sion warning, your dues are 60 days late. To avoid suspension, dues Advance Benefit must file for Underemployment to receive the re- $7,500.00. This benefit comes as a dues paying member of SMART must be paid online or at the union hall by 4:00 p.m. on the last mainder of that benefit for the stabilization period. International. business day of the month. Payments received after 4:00 p.m. on the In addition, you must provide copies of all W-2 forms for the WEEKEND WORK ASSIGNMENTS: Saturday and Sunday work last business day of the month will not be processed and you WILL entire year of 2020. assignments. Please remember that when performing work on a Sat- go suspended. All members are responsible for making sure any Dues Department: *Online dues payment is now available* Dues urday or Sunday the steward must report it to the hall, give each required fees, i.e. late fees or service fees, are included if paying of all members of local unions shall be paid monthly or quarterly, but member’s name and obtain a form for signatures. Each member must online (sheetmetal292.com). always in advance. To better serve our membership, we accept Credit sign the form along with the number of hours they worked. The UNION HALL HOURS: Hall office hours are 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 Card Payments in lieu of your monthly dues. If you would like to take completed form must be sent back to by hall by the end of the day on p.m. Monday through Friday. advantage of the Credit Card Service, a finance charge will be applied the following Monday. Weekend work assignments must be called OUT OF WORK: If you become laid off, you Must complete an – Please call the Lansing office during regular business hours at 517- or emailed into the hall prior to 3:00 pm on Friday. Out of Work List Registration /SUB form. SUB forms are available at 882-4064 to make your payment. WORK ASSIGNMENTS: Everyone must obtain a work assign- the Union Hall and also through all shop stewards. This is the only Address/Telephone Changes: Article 8, Section 1 of Local 7 ment prior to starting work. If you fail to do so you could be written way your name will be added to the Out of Work List. Work Rules: Address Changes: All members are required to keep the up on charges. TEXT BLAST NOTIFICATION: We have recently updated the Financial Secretary informed of their correct address. A notice mailed LAYOFFS: All members must report to the Union Hall immedi- text blast contact list. All members have been added. If you haven’t to the last address shall be sufficient and legal. If you have moved or ately upon lay-off, even if you only work one day. These are the By- been receiving texts and would like to be added or wish to opt out of changed your telephone number, please contact the union hall to Law rules for the Out-of-Work List. Your name will be removed from text blast, please contact the Union hall and we will make the change. update your records. the list 14 days after receiving an assignment. It is very important to FACEBOOK & TWITTER: Be sure to check our website – BENEFITS: For Benefit questions please contact the area of- report to the union hall immediately after your layoff. Members get www.sheetmetal292.com; Facebook page - Sheet Metal Workers Lo- fice. Zone 1 – BeneSys 866-822-7037, Zone 2 – TIC 866-887-4338, confused because the S.U.B. Fund allows you a period of up to seven cal 292 and Twitter - @SMW292, for updates and information. Zone 3 – BeneSys 800-451-5733, Zone 4 – BeneSys 800-842-2690 and days to apply for S.U.B. benefits after lay-off. NOTARY PUBLIC: For your convenience, we now have a No- Zone 5 – Wisconsin H & B Fund 800-654-2329. LAY-OFF SLIPS/TERMINATION NOTICES: Lay off slips must tary Public on site at the union hall. Notary services are free of DEATH CERTIFICATES: Please submit to the Union Hall a accompany all applications for sub pay. Without lay off slips you charge to our members. copy of a Death Certificate for deceased members. Additional ben- cannot collect sub pay. It is the member’s responsibility to make THE 4 PLUS MEMBER PROGRAM: The “4-plus” member pro- efits from the International may be available. sure they get one from the contractor when laid off. Your application gram is for any Local 292 member who has achieved four (or more) CONTACT US: 4931 Contec Drive, Lansing, MI 48910– 517- cannot be submitted without one. It is the contractor’s responsibil- welding certifications. These certifications can be in any welding 882-4064 ity to issue one in accordance with our contract. process. Members who qualify will receive a shirt (one shirt for every Local 7 Officers: S.U.B. BENEFITS: Report to the hall promptly upon layoff. You four certs) with the 4 Plus logo, along with hard hat stickers and Samual Fuller (Business Manager/Financial Secretary-Treasurer) must complete a S.U.B. Application within seven days from your bragging rights. If you would like to be a “4-plus” member contact 517-882-4064 layoff date or you will forfeit S.U.B. benefits. Lay-off slips must your Local 292 Training Center at: 313-623-9390 (Dave) or Quintin Eric Farrington (Agent-Lansing/Jackson) 517-242-3223 accompany the application to be eligible. Proof of UIA benefit pay- 248.495.6764. James Callahan (Agent-Battle Creek/Kalamazoo) 269-342-8842 ments must be submitted within 21 days of when you were paid in Attention all Welders! We are looking for any member inter- David Rutz (Agent-Grand Rapids/Muskegon) 616-458-2313 order to receive SUB benefits. Do not submit your sub applications ested in a Saturday welding class May 22. Wayne Stover (Saginaw) 989-692-0002 directly to the fund office. Your application must be signed by the These classes would be for members that are ready to try and Travis Eastman (Traverse City) 231-943-5150 hall or you will not collect benefits. obtain an AWS welding certification, learn how to weld, or just need Larry Kinzie (Agent-Flint) OUT-OF-WORK LIST: You must be on the out-of-work list to to practice welding. 810-785-6831 collect S.U.B. benefits or SASMI. Members must re-register bi-annu- Note: Anyone that signs up for a class, must pay a $40.00 regis- Greg Faust (Agent-Upper Pen- BUILDERS LICENSE TRAINING ally: March 1 through March 20 and September 1 through September tration fee that will be refunded on the completion of the class. These insula): 906-372-9288 MIDDLETON 20. If you fail to re-register you will be removed from the list. deposits are NON-Refundable if you do not show up for the classes. Real Estate Training Inc. 901 Tower Drive, Suite 120 SHORT WORK WEEK SUB PAY: If you work 16 hours or less You can drop off the deposit between the hours of 7:00 and 3:00 at the “There is nothing stronger Troy, MI 48098 in a week or have a short work week due to weather you may collect Apprentice school. in the world than gentleness.” www.middletontraining.com sub for that week but only if it is at the beginning or the end of a Call the Apprentice School at 248-589-3237, Dave’s cell 313-623- –Han Suyin 248-885-8311 layoff. You may NOT collect if you are not laid off. You must com- 9390 or Quintin’s cell 248-495-6764 to reserve a spot. Remember we plete a sub application at the hall, provide a pay stub for that week must have the deposit before you will be scheduled in the class. and the hall will submit it to the fund office. If you are not laid off and it is due to weather the company MUST provide written documenta- tion that it was weather related. Local 80 cont’d MEMBERS ASSISTANCE PROGRAM: If you are experiencing the contractor you are working for. problems in your family, marriage or relationships, stress or emo- NOTARY: We have a notary public available at the hall at no tional difficulties, grief or loss issues or problems with alcohol and charge. Please call to confirm availability. drug use please contact our assistance program. Ulliance is there to SAVE THE DATE: help you with your needs. They can also help you with legal issues, Building Trades Wage Allocation: May 25, 2021 5:30 pm financial concerns, elder care referrals and child care resources. Con- Service Wage Allocation: May 27, 2021 4:30 pm tact them at 1-800-448-8326 or www.LifeAdvisor EAP.com. Make sure Residential Wage Allocation: May 27, 2021 5:00 pm you mention Sheet Metal Workers Local 80 when calling and not Local 80 Golf Outing: July 17, 2021 (Continued next column) Local 80 Picnic: August 7, 2021 *Cancelled* 6 THE BUILDING TRADESMAN May 21, 2021

IBEW Local 692’s column – See Page 8 IBEW LOCAL 58

AT WORK ON A 3,500-AMP IBEW distribution panel at the Beaumont Outpatient Lenox campus is Doug Herbert of Local 445 IBEW Local 58. He’s employed by Centerline Electric. IBEW 58 IBEW Local 445 DETROIT – Information re- BATTLE CREEK – Initial Sign and Daybook: Effective June 1, garding the next General Mem- 2021, with the suspension of the NDERA, normal initial sign to Book bership Meeting. Current guide- 2, dings and the Daybook procedures will return to normal business lines and restrictions are prevent- as usual. If you have any questions, feel free to contact the Hall. ing a May 18, 2021 meeting. We Reminder: You can pay cash, check, money order or credit/debit are hoping for a relaxation. Un- card for dues. For those that have scheduled payments, please verify fortunately, we are facing a “last with your bank that you are sending in the correct amount. minute” decision as to whether Building Committee: The Hall is looking for Members that are or not to hold an in-person meet- interested in being on the new Building Committee. You can be an ing. Should restrictions relax al- Apprentice or JIW to be on the Committee. Please submit your inter- lowing us to have an outside est in writing to [email protected]. meeting then we would have a The Annual IBEW 445 Picnic is scheduled for June 26, 2021. Special Order of Business at our The venue has been changed this year to C.O. Brown Field for a regular membership meeting on Battle Creek Bombers game. There will be fun, games and food before May 18, 2021 at 6:30 pm for Nomi- the game. Watch your mailbox for a postcard with the information. nation of Officers for Local Union The Night at the Ballpark Outing has been scheduled for July No. 58. Nomination of Officers 31, 2021. Please watch your mailbox for additional information. and Delegates are being cur- The Annual IBEW 445 Golf Outing is scheduled for July 17, rently accepted through USPS or bait and tackle shop. Special Bradshaw (313-408-1287). PAC cheer on your team. You may get 2021. If you would like to play or volunteer, please contact the Hall Email election.judge@ibew thanks to Chris Wroblewski the contributions can be made a laugh or two and say I can do for additional information. local58.org owner of Anglers Point. Please through the APP, and at the that. First game is at Ford field The General Membership Meeting is the second Monday of Electrical Industry Training check out his bait and tackle Union Hall. You can contribute May 10th 10:00 am diamond # 5. each month and starts at 5:00 p.m. at the Hall. Please make sure to Center is offering Continuing shop located in New Baltimore more than the $4 that is sug- If you would like more info, please wear your masks. Education classes. Please check next to the Selfridge public access gested on your quarterly dues, contact Gerry Cassani at 586-804- The Executive Board meets the fourth Monday of each month them out at http://www. site for all your fishing needs. but you cannot exceed $175.00 8026 or Joe Schraufnagel at 586- starting at 4:30 p.m. detroiteitc.org/continuing-edu- The Jerry Gaudi Memorial per calendar year. The loss of our 255-1205. Remaining schedule PLEASE HELP!! – The Hall is asking for each member to verify cation/.We will start to cancel Golf Outing will be Friday, June deduction cut our resources in will be soon to follow. their address, phone number and email address that we have on file. classes if they don’t meet the mini- 4, 2021, at the Glenhurst Golf half, and we would like to assist IBEW Local 58 Retirees We are looking into a texting and email service, and if you would like mum enrollment requirements, or Course in Redford, Michigan. local candidates and our members Association: Spring is upon us, to be included in those correspondences, we need your current infor- more hopefully we will order This will be the 20th Annual Gaudi looking to run for office. and we can now look forward to mation. Thank you! books for those of you who’ve Open. The Entry Fee is $75 per Local 58’s Women’s Softball mowing lawns, gardening, walk- Local Website - Please check the Local 445 website for the latest signed up. Members on the Storm ticket, which includes cart, golf, team, The Live Wires will be cel- ing, biking and other warm information, including job postings. The Local 445 web address is Book must secure their training prizes, & lunch (at the turn). Ev- ebrating its 20th year anniversary weather coming activities. The IBEW445.com. through the Continuing Educa- eryone is welcome and bring a this year and welcomes new play- Retirees Association continues tion Program offered by the friend. Limited to 120 golfers due ers. Season begins April 26th. We its suspension of our events. We school. If you need assistance in to Covid restrictions. Arrive by play single recreational games, expect to return to a normal IBEW registering for a class please call 8:00 AM, Golf starts at 9:00 AM. USA Softball rules, Monday schedule sometime before the end the Training Center at 586-751- Hole sponsorships are avail- nights at Claude Allison Park in of this year. We are still guard- Local 131 6600. able for $100 and raffle tickets are Redford on Beech Daly Rd. All edly hopeful that a Christmas Serving Southwest Michigan Since 1916 VACATION FUND: Dis- available for a Cooler of Cheer skill levels welcome to join the Party in early December will take bursement from the Vacation and an IBEW golf bag with ac- camaraderie and solidarity. If you place. IBEW Local 131 Fund is anticipated to be trans- cessories. If interested in hole or someone you know would like Any news on returning to KALAMAZOO – The next General Membership meeting is ferred to your PNC Bank Stored sponsorship, raffle tickets or do- more info, please contact Grace social gathering will be shared in scheduled for June 7th at 6 p.m.. The next Executive Board meeting Value Card or if you elected, di- nations please contact Michael Trudell at 313-244-2268. this column and in our monthly will be held on June 21st at 5 p.m. rect deposited into your check- Bellhorn 586-612-5964 or Jim Local 58’s Women’s Com- newsletter. Just a reminder, if you Due to the Governor’s current executive order, we ask that those ing or savings accounts, on or Peltier 586-610-1154. Thanks mittee- Our next regular meeting haven’t paid your 2021 dues, $8 coming to the Local Union to conduct business please wear a face around May 25, 2021. Please again for all your support. is Thursday, May 27, 2021 at 6pm per year, per person, please send covering. check the listed contributions Members of the Community on Zoom. Please watch for emails a check payable to the “Retirees All Book 2 signings shall be done by fax or email from the from your employers with your Service Committee: The next with further updates and hope- Association,” to Ray Owen, 428 member’s home local. pay records for accuracy. A list meeting will be Wednesday, June fully we will be meeting in person Welch Road, Northville, 48167. Work Outlook: The work outlook is strong. We expect to have of contributions may be obtained 8, 2021 at 5:30 PM. The Wobbly soon. ARC Scholarship and Let’s continue to check on a busier than usual fall continuing into the winter. If you are aware of from the Benefit Office Website, Kitchen is up and running again Awards are back for 2021! Schol- each other, via phone calls, texts interested electricians working in our jurisdiction, please have them www.ewjbt.org by logging into and we are assisting them every arship applications and award or emails. We are all looking for- visit www.poweringkalamazoo.com or call the office. your personal information and 2nd and 4th Sunday with food prep nomination forms are available ward to seeing one another in We are continuing to fill a large number of calls for “Project clicking My Benefits then Vaca- and distribution at Cass Park. We under the Women’s Committee person very soon! Bronco” at Graphic Packaging International for Van Ert Electric. tion Benefits. If you require a pa- are asking volunteers to show up tab on the app/website. Scholar- Be sure to keep the Union The LMCC has launched a new website www. per statement, please contact the at the hall at 8:00 am to help with ship applications and nomina- Hall updated with any changes poweringkalamazoo.com. This website will be used to highlight local Benefit Office for a printout. If the Wobbly Kitchen program. To tions have been extended! The to your phone number, address, signatory contractors and used as an organizing tool. Follow us on there is an error, contact the Ben- get involved with future commu- new date is May 27th. ARC and email. Facebook @poweringkalamazoo, Twitter @PoweringKzoo, Instagram efit Office at (586) 575-9200 ext. nity service projects contact Awards dinner is being planned IBEW Pension: Congratula- @poweringkalamazoo, and LinkedIn @poweringkalamazoo. Please 212. Mike Conflitti or Rob Z at the for July 17th. Bids are still tions to the following members feel free to share the wage calculator feature of this site. ATTENTION - TO UPDATE union hall. Local 58 is very ac- opened for catering, music/enter- who have been placed on Inter- If you believe we do not have your email address or correct cell BANKING INFORMATION THE tive with community service in the tainment, photography, tent national Pension: Jeffrey L. phone number, please email Christine at [email protected] FUND OFFICE MUST RECEIVE Metro Detroit area and has a va- rental. If you or someone you Collins, Robert E. Hendricks III, Dues pricing - The price for dues in 2021 is $40/month. If you’re CHANGES BY April 30, 2021. You riety of upcoming projects that know offers these services and Daniel P. Jackson, Donald J. unsure about your balance, please call the Hall for the exact amount may check your Stored Value uti- require the help of volunteers and would be interested in participat- Nichols, John Palma, Julian J. or email Christine. If your dues ticket reads paid through May 2021, lization history by logging on to helping hands. Contact the Union ing in this event, please contact Scorzelli, Walter T. Siebenrock, your dues are not current; please contact the Hall. www.pncpaycard.com and by Hall (313) 963.2130 for further in- the women’s committee. You can and Marc F. Watson. We have finalized our automated dues reminders; these remind- entering your 16-digit card num- formation to volunteer or partici- Email us at: 58Womenscommittee Members that have Passed ers will be sent ahead of possible late dues. You may receive a mes- ber listed on the front of the card pate. @ibewlocal58.org, or call commit- Away- Mary Allgeyer, widow of sage via text or email if you have not tendered your most current I.O. and the last four digits of your Members of the Entertain- tee chairs Angela Panicucci (586) the late pension member Bernard Dues payments. Dues payments can also be made online; to log in, Social Security Number, also re- ment Committee: The next meet- 291-8014 or Kayla Pauli with any Allgeyer; Robert T. Bogues, Jour- use your Last Name and Card Number. ferred to as your Account Access ing of the Entertainment Commit- questions. Follow us on neyman Inside Wireman; Patrick Life events happen, and we’d always like to make sure you have Code (or AAC for short). Cus- tee will be Wednesday, June 8, Instagram @ibewomen58; Check Cosgrove, Technician I; Gary updated beneficiary forms. If you’re questioning whether yours is tomer Service can be reached by 2021, following the Community us out on Facebook Local 58 Culicerto, pension member, 49 up to date, stop on down to the Hall to get new documents. telephone at (866) 453-5071. Service Committee meeting that Women’s Committee. year IBEW membership; Leon If you’re interested in receiving updates from the Hall, please Local 58 Dues Information: starts at 5:30 pm. Local 58 Senior Softball Malfait, pension member, 54 year email Christine at [email protected] to get your email address Dues should be paid by the first EWMC of Southeastern MI Team – We now have a senior 55 IBEW membership; Willard added. day of the quarter. You can pay – The next chapter meeting is and over team. Games are played Noricks, pension member, 50 year Retirements: Congratulations to the following retiring members: your dues with an APP. Go to scheduled for Monday, June 21, Monday and Wednesday morn- IBEW membership; Alyssa Adrian DiVisser, July 2020. Michael Chaddock, May 2020. John Apple/Google Play and download 2021 at 6pm. Please bring any ings at 10:00 am or 12:00 pm in O’Harra, Sister to Technician I Magnan Jr., May 2020. Robert S. Davis, June 2020. Roger Clark, March the IBEW 58 APP. In the APP go suggestions that you have for Shelby twp.at two locations. Angela Panicucci, George Roman, 2020. Patrick Klocke, May 2020. Keith Moore, April 2020. William to My Profile, My Member Tools, EWMC involvement and engage- Main diamonds at Ford field on pension member, 56 year IBEW Slater, July 2020. Thomas Vrobel, August 2020. Peter Spreitzer, Au- Pay Dues. Please follow all ment. What can we safely partici- 23 mile rd. west of Van Dyke and membership; Catherine Seffens, gust 2017. Joe Haskins, May 2021. instructions. You can also pay pate in that continues to promote second at Mae Stecker park on Wife to JIW Michael Seffens. We Condolences: Brother James Stewart passed on January 17th, by phone with credit/debit or mail the IBEW in the community? We 24 mile rd. east of Van Dyke. extend our sincere sympathy to 2021. Brother Gary Yack passed on January 31st, 2021. Brother Wes a check/money order. are collecting for our Toiletry and Those who can come on out to the families on their loss. Smith passed on March 29th, 2021. Brother Adam Russell passed on Local 58 Motorcycle Club: Sock Drive to benefit the Detroit April 22nd, 2021. Brother James Wynn, passed on April 14th, 2021. For more information contact Public Schools Community District Brother Wenford Abbs March, 11th, 2021. Anthony Anderanin at Office of Homeless and Foster All Memorials (members and members families) and full obituar- [email protected] or Grace Care. New and unused toiletries ies can be viewed on the website under the Memorials Tab. Trudell 313-244-2268 for more and socks can be placed in the col- FROM THE APPRENTICESHIP: info. lection container at Local 58 any- Journeyman Upgrade Classes: Local No. 58 Benevolent time during regular business hours. Fall 2020-Winter 2021 Fund: The next Benevolent Fund Thank you to those who 6. Foreman Training W March 10 to May 12, 2021 meeting will be Tuesday, June 1, continue to attend our Zoom 7. CPR S March 13, 2021 2021 5:00 pm. meetings as we navigate through 8. CPR S April 10, 2021 Local #58 Benevolent Fund these difficult times. Please make **Code Update Classes: it is now required for Journeyman to would like to thank everyone who sure your cell phone number and pay in advance to hold your spot in the Code Update Class. We participated and helped out at the your email address are up to date. require 48 hours’ notice for cancelations if you need to reschedule 12th Annual Walleye Tourna- The meeting information will be for another available Code Update Course.** ment on Saturday, May 1, 2021. sent out as soon as available. If Please visit our website www.kalamazoojatc.com or stop in to We had a great turnout with 16 you are not receiving the notices, sign up for the Code Update Class. September 3, 2020. Call Nicole at boats and over 50 fishermen. It please make sure that your infor- 269-388-4434 with any questions. was great to see everyone and mation is updated here at the hall. Drug Test Renewals: Please keep track of your drug test expira- we hope for an even better turn- Please continue to stay safe at tion date through www.safe2work4you.com. It is your responsibility out next year. Glitter Sparkles was work, home, and in the commu- to stay current on your drug test. Please contact Nicole (269) 388- the winning boat with their fish nity. #ibewstrong 4434 to get your authorization form printed for you to pick up. If you weighing in at 23.02 lbs. They also The RENEW Committee don’t want to come to the Hall to pick it up, please email Nicole and had the Big Fish that weighed meeting will be on Tuesday, May request your form to be emailed to you. [email protected]. 6.82 lbs. The fishermen on the 25, 2021 at 5:00 PM. Negotiations: The Local Union has ratified our contract for the boat were Matt Decker, Caleb The Safety Committee meet- upcoming cycle, along with important language changes, the local Brewer and Tom Duplanty. ing will be on Monday, June 14, has received total package increases of 3.5%, 3%, 3% over the next The second-place boat was 2021 at 5:30 PM. three years. Thanks to our Negotiation Committee for all their hard Charb and their fish weighed The Veterans Committee work, Brother Scott Mueller, Brother Tim Haydon, Brother Randy 17.77 lbs. Nate, Mike and Andrew will now be meeting monthly im- Williams, Sister Kari Collison, and Brother Scott Bryer. Charbonneau were the fishermen mediately after the Safety com- Organizing: As much technology as we use to track non-union on that boat. Sister Heather mittee meeting on the 2nd Mon- electricians in our jurisdiction, often, our best resources are you, the Brugioni out of Local #141 was day of each month. members. If you see a non-signatory in the area working at a location, the winner of the raffle which con- The Political Action Com- please let the Hall know. sisted of a Made in USA Igloo mittee (PAC) meets the 1st “United we Bargain; divided we beg” Polar 120 cooler, $50 gift card to Wednesday of each month Via Brian O’Donnell Cabela’s and a custom rod and Zoom. To be added to our email Business Manager/Financial Secretary reel donated by Anglers Point list please contact Jeannette May 21, 2021 THE BUILDING TRADESMAN 7 IBEW LOCAL 948

IBEW Local 948 IBEW FLINT – Our June Union Meeting will be held at a place to be determined Monday June 14th, 2021 at 6:00pm. Local 498 Our May Executive Board Meeting will be held on Monday, May “Powering Northern Michigan IBEW Local 252 24th, 2021 at 4:30 pm. Since 1949” ANN ARBOR – CON- The Retiree Club Meetings are still cancelled until further notice. TRACTOR CLASS: We will be Do not forget to check our website for new content. Be sure to IBEW Local 498 hosting Pro-Union Consulting to IBEW log in to see all the new content. www.local948.com. TRAVERSE CITY – Meet- assist IBEW Local 252 members Local 275 You can pay over the phone with debit or credit card. You can ings. in becoming profitable union elec- LOCAL 906 also stop by the Hall during business hours (7am-noon/ 1-4pm) and Regular E Board- The next trical/ renewable energy contrac- IBEW Local 906 IBEW 275 pay by cash, check, debit or credit card. Do not wait till you owe a regularly scheduled E-Board tors. THE DATES FOR THIS UPPER PENINSULA– COOPERSVILLE – Dear reinstatement fee (4 months behind). meeting is set for June 11th, 2021 CLASS HAVE BEEN CHANGED MEETINGS Brothers and Sisters, Walter and 2021 – Monthly Dues – Journeyman $43.70 a month – Appren- @ 6pm. to Aug. 5th, 6th, and 7th , 7:30 a.m. MARQUETTE UNIT–First Geoff are currently working on tices, CE, Sound Tech $40.70 a month Regular Meeting – Sched- – 3:30 p.m. Please call the Union Tuesday scheduling a New Member Ori- 2020 – Monthly Dues – Journeyman $43.70 a month – Appren- ule is 7pm Friday, June 11th, 2021. Hall to sign up. We need a mini- IRON MOUNTAIN UNIT– entation class. Details on when tices, CE, Sound Tech $40.70 a month We will continue the Solidarity mum of 20 people for the class. Second Tuesday and how the class will be held will If you are unfamiliar with our referral procedure, please refer to Picnic before the Regular meet- TRAINING CLASSES 2021: ESCANABA UNIT–Second be made available soon to those our website @ http://local948.org/job_referrals/ ing at 6:30pm. 1.CPR/FIRST AID: Tues- Wednesday who need it. –Gregory Remington, Business Manager JATC – The JATC is look- day, June 8 and 15, starts at 5 p.m. PLEASE PROTECT YOUR- Now that we are able to meet E-mail and Re-signs: If the Hall does not have your e-mail ad- ing for a part time instructor. If 2. Photovoltaic Class: Mon- SELF AND OTHERS BY KEEP- indoors (up to 25 people), I will try dress it would be a good idea to send us an e-mail to you are interested, please notify day, Aug. 2 through Oct. 11, starts ING 6 FEET OF PHYSICAL DIS- and schedule the Stewards train- [email protected] so we can add you to the e-mail list. This is a the Traverse City JATC. The at 5 p.m. TANCE. WEAR YOUR MASK ing that we had to postpone last great way to keep up with the latest information on job calls and JATC is also scheduling a first To register, call the Training Cen- AT THE JOBSITE. FOLLOW year. If you were on the list of those other information sent from the Hall. aid and CPR class in June. If you ter at (734) 475-1180. Masks must be THE GUIDELINES ON HAND who wanted to attend, you still are are in need of an update please worn at all times in the school. WASHING AND WIPING and I will confirm that you are still call the JATC or Union hall to get COVID-19 UPDATE: If your DOWN SURFACES. BE SMART, interested as the time draws nearer. IBEW on the list. employment is disrupted due to BE SAFE. As summer quickly ap- Habitat for Humanity – COVID-19, please contact the IBEW Service pins were pre- proaches, it is time to start plan- LOCAL 557 There is a house in Maple City Hall so that we can ensure that sented to the following members: ning this year’s annual picnic. coming up to be roughed in. you get everything that’s entitled 15-year pin: Leonard We tentatively have it scheduled Anyone interested please call the to you, and that proper protocol Anderson for Aug. 14. If anyone is interested BEW Local 557 hall for more information. is followed for everyone’s safety. 25-year pin: James in being on the Picnic Committee, SAGINAW – Union News: Local 557 would like to thank our Email – Please get an email Local 252 Website & App: Mannikko, Dan Johnson, Kevin please contact Geoff Yonkers. Labor Council delegates for attending the Clean Up Saginaw commu- address to the hall so we can get The Local’s website www. Hogan, Gary Gardipee, Jeremy At the time of this writing, nity event. This was put on by the mayor and brought a variety of info out easier and faster, thanks. ibew252.org is up and running. DesJardins, Robert A. Carlson, the following members are three volunteer groups to clean the streets and neighborhoods surround- You can email your address to the There is also a Local 252 App Stephen Butina, John Butina, or more months behind in dues: ing City Hall. The Saginaw Police and city workers were there to help hall at [email protected] . Please available to download. Search John Albanys. Aaron Elliott, Joshua Erb, Norm and their efforts deserve many thanks. House Bill No. 4125 regarding put your name in the subject. “IBEW 252” in the app store. You We congratulate these Brothers Kaminski, David Oberlin Cody cleaning up out-of-date electrical license language, is still in commit- Contracts – We have up- must create a new login and pass- and thank them for their service. Wasilchenko and Kevin Wynn. tee and awaiting further discussion. By the end of May, The Appren- dated Inside Wireman Contracts word to access the Members Only Negotiations are ongoing for From now on, all resign request ticeship Board will have chosen a new class with start-to-work date available at the hall. section. Your login for the old the two Units in Norway. Both the will be sent to gyonkers around June. Thank you to all our members who are involved in this Dues 2021 – There is no website is no longer valid. Supervisors Unit and the Electric @ibew275.org. The procedures process. We know it takes a lot of time, and our local couldn’t con- Union Dues increase for 2021. SERVICE PINS: If you Department are currently engaged are still the same. tinue to thrive without your hard work. Effective Jan. 2021 the rate will would like your service year pin in contract talks. We believe these Regular meetings for the The following policies are in effect to keep our members, their remain $140.10 per quarter. please call the hall to make ar- Units will settle the few remaining EWMC and RENEW committees families, and the union hall staff as safe as possible: Resale Items – We have rangements to receive it. issues at their next session. are every month on the 4th Tues- -The Union Hall is OPEN. Please limit trips to the Hall for critical Local 498 Beanie Hats for resale M.U.S.T DRUG TESTING: The Inside group settled on day @ 6 pm at the Union Hall in business through utilization of the glass service window. and T-shirts. Stop in to get yours Please make sure your MUST the following allocation of this Coopersville and/or via zoom. -When visiting the Union Hall, you must wear a mask and stay today! Proud Union Home signs drug testing is current as you year’s raise: Both of these are great ways to socially distanced. are in and available at the hall. Free cannot work on a U of M project On the check: 51 cents ($36) get involved with the local as well - Please continue to take care of as much business as possible to members in good standing. or several other projects in the Health: 35 cents ($8.84) as the community. via email, phone, or fax when you can. Scholarship – Past charter jurisdiction without being cur- Pension: 52 cents ($12.91) Dues for the year 2021 are -Please try to take care of your quarterly dues payments by uti- member Brother Bob Dost has a rent. Local 252 has a zero toler- for a total package of $58.33. $42.90 per month. Please make lizing a credit or debit card over the phone. E-checks are also avail- scholarship ‘Robert Paul Dost ance for alcohol or drug use. Iron Mountain will receive adjustments when making pay- able. Scholarship Endowment’ for High ERTS: Please make sure that $1.01 and Escanaba will receive ments through mail and auto- -Apprentices should continue to monitor emails and correspon- School seniors in the 5-county you are signed up in the Elec- $1.10 on the check. The benefits matic bank payments. dence from the school regarding upcoming class schedules. Please area around Traverse City. To ac- tronic Reciprocity Transfer Sys- will be the same as the Marquette make sure you are up-to-date on all work reports and book cess it go to www.gtrcf.org/schol- tem. You must be signed up in area. Next year it will be the same Local 906, con’t payments. You can send book reports via email, fax, or drop them off arships/ . Local 498 Union mem- ERTS before working outside of package across the entire U.P. at the hall. bers’ children get preference to Local 252’s jurisdiction or your ben- IBEW 906 will be hosting the cult. Please if you have a service -Stop by the hall and purchase your short or long sleeve 557 the endowment. A huge thank efits will not be transferred back. Michigan State Conference in that pays your dues monthly in- shirt. Represent your local with pride wherever you go. you in Memory of Bob Dost for Aflac Insurance: Aflac has August. The Conference con- form them of the correct amount. Keep in mind, all of these decisions have been made to keep his generosity and being a great teamed up with the IBEW to of- sists of all IBEW Locals in the Please remember that ad- members and their families safe. union member. fer its members Aflac benefits at State and also Local 8, Toledo dress changes and phone MEMBERSHIP MEETINGS- Our May 4th meeting was focused Made in America Websites a reduced rate. Contact Repre- Ohio and Local 153 from South changes along with new addi- on wage allocation. The members were presented with three different – www.theunionbootpro.com - sentative Lisa Enerson for infor- Bend, Ind. The Conference will tions to the families need to be options. The body voted to divide the $1.57 between on the check, 100% American made/union mation about Accident, Cancer, be held at the Island in Bark passed on to the Hall and the the annuity and health care. The new JIW hourly rate being $35.00. made. Union member discounts Critical Care, Dental and Vision River. Pension and Health Plans. Please make sure this change is reflected on your paychecks issued 27% off. Use this code when or- insurance from Aflac. Phone A reminder that the monthly If you have any information the week of June 7th. Thank you again to our negotiations team. E- dering. Be0498mD or order toll number: (517) 306-0144. dues are $40. We have received you would like to see noted in board will meet on Tuesday May 18th. free 1-800-723-5384. AT&T Discount: Union some at the old rate of $39 and a this article or something you be- MICHIGAN INITIATIVE- Michigan Initiative Organizer Gus Email Addresses - Any mem- members can save up to 15% on few members are overpaying. lieve should be published please Voisine will begin working with our local. Brother Gus is a member ber that would like to have Local the monthly service charges of This makes the bookwork diffi- email the Hall with your request. from our Sister Local to the north of us, 692. We welcome Gus to this 498 forward communication to qualified wireless plans.Visit (Continued next column) [email protected] exciting and demanding position. If our members have any questions them from the International, Local UnionPlus.org/ATT with dis- or work tips they can reach out to him on his cell: 989-941-8046. Also, 498, AFL-CIO or the Building count code 4924966. Local 665 member Cameron Haynes will be coming aboard around Trades, to help stay informed to Winter Gathering: Due to SOCIAL SECURITY DISABILITY June 1st to help with organizing efforts in Saginaw and around the current events, politics, contracts, covid-19 concerns, the Winter State. Organizing is the life blood of the IBEW and the future is work, etc. Please call or email your Gathering in Lakeland, FL will not REPRESENTING BUILDING TRADES bright with two new, hard-working and motivated Brothers. current email address to Local 498 be held this year. UNION HALL OPERATIONS- The Union Hall is open. Please at [email protected] Thank you! Retirees’ Breakfast: The BROTHERS & SISTERS OVER 35 YEARS limit visits to the Hall for critical business if possible. We ask that if Important numbers for you Retirees’ Breakfast will resume on business can be taken care of with phone calls, emails, or a fax that to write in your address book: April 14, 2021 and will take place you please do so. Otherwise, the glass service window in the front of MEEHP (Health) 1-855-633- the second Wednesday of each BIESKE & ASSOCIATES the building should be utilized as much as possible to keep everyone 4584 or 1-517-321-7502 Fax# 1- month at 8:00 a.m. at Leo’s Co- as safe as possible. Thank you to our membership for their under- 517-321-7508 ney Island, 160 South Zeeb Rd., Many people are wrongly standing and patience. MEEPP (MI Pension) 1-517- Ann Arbor, MI 48103. There is rejected when they apply for BOOK SIGNING- Out of work lists can be signed for other Lo- 321-7502 parking and entrances in both the Social Security Disability benefits. Money was taken out cals through fax or email. This is to continue to cut down on as many (New address Michigan Pen- front and rear of the restaurant. of their paychecks for Social in-person transactions as possible. Contact your home local and sion and Health Plan) Union 4 Life Golf Outing: Security taxes to ensure that request a correspondence to be sent to the Local you are interested TIC International Corpora- The 2021 golf outing has been they would receive disability in signing. scheduled for Sunday, Septem- tion, 6525 Centurion Drive, Lan- benefits if they could no longer WORK OUTLOOK- There have been some setbacks to the Caro ber 26, 2021 at Stonebridge Golf sing, MI 48917 work full-time. Sadly, the Club, 1825 Clubhouse Dr. Ann Mental Health facility due to permit issues. Mary Free Bed continues NEBF 1-301-556-4300 government denies approxi- Arbor, MI 48108. Registration to have manpower issues on the electrical side. They have tempo- NEAP 1-301-556-4300 mately 60% of those who apply rarily switched to 10 hour shifts for the next month or so to try and IO Pension 1-202-833-7000 begins at 8 a.m. with a tee-off at 9 for disability benefits. catch up. We hope to see them hire more JIW’s soon. The Meridian DUES RATES. Jan 1, 2021 – a.m. To complete your team or Attorneys J.B. Bieske Wind Farm hired and will continue to hire in the upcoming weeks. The No increase. Still remains individual registration, visit and Jennifer Alfonsi have new Youth Center Tennis courts have started and we await hiring. $140.10/Quarter www.union4lifecharity.com. Reg- 55 years combined experience HEALTH CARE-The Michigan Electrical Employee’s Health Plan Info Updates – Any member istration is $100 for individuals, representing only Social Security disability clients. And they personally meet continues to cover 100% of the costs related to testing for COVID-19. with a new address, phone num- $400 for a 4 person team. with all clients and appear themself at all court hearings. Many large firms During this pandemic, remote care is encouraged and Blue Cross ber, email address, etc. should con- NOTICE TO RETIREES: If assign inexperienced attorneys to your case. And some of these firms are members can call the 24-Hour Nurse Line at 800-117-BLUE. You may tact Local 498 with these changes. your 50-year commemorative located thousands of miles away and only fly the attorney in the day of the also want to inquire if your primary care provider offers telemedicine. Please remember it is your re- watch stops working for any rea- court hearing. Attorneys Bieske and Alfonsi have vast experience before local The Health plan continues to meet regularly via teleconferences to sponsibility to pay your dues on time. son please contact the hall. Michigan judges. stay on top of the pandemic and update coverage as necessary. Remember to check the hall CREDIT CARDS: The Lo- Attorneys Bieske and Alfonsi can often make a winning difference at the Don’t forget to schedule your annual physical with your doctor. recorder at night after 4:00pm for cal is now accepting credit cards application stage. And, if an appeal is necessary they have won several By completing your annual physical, you could catch a health con- any jobs that might be available. to pay union dues. We accept hundred cases before a court date is even set. cern early and also help keep the cost of health care down. Register- 231-943-4980 ext. 3# Visa, Master Card, American Ex- Those denied can appeal on their own but statistics for many years reveal ing on the Blue Cross/Blue Shield website is highly recommended. press and Discover. There is a fee that those represented by attorneys win a much higher percentage of appeals. Please take the time to visit www.bcbsm.com. Upon registering you Local 557, con’t of 3.5% to use your card. And attorneys who specialize in Social Security Disability cases win a much can take the Free Health Assessment test and find instant results that UNION DUES FOR 2021: higher percentage yet. can lead to living a healthy lifestyle. rent. The Hall has the ability to Effective Jan. 1, 2021 union dues In addition to practicing only Social Security disability law attorney BLUE CROSS APP-Download the Blue Cross/Blue Shield of accept credit cards and also E- for “A” members will remain Bieske has written a book for attorneys about the subject and has been Michigan app for your smartphone. Search for “BCBSM” on the checks. The credit card service $119.25 per quarter. Union dues interviewed on various television programs. Both attorney Bieske and Alfonsi Google Play app or Apple store. Benefits to utilizing the app in- can accept payments for dues, for “BA” members will remain have also been interviewed on radio programs and have given speeches to clude: instant access to EOB’s, a virtual ID card on your phone, merchandise, apprentice book $61.80 per quarter. many groups. information on deductibles, explanations of coverage and other help- payments and other purchases. DUES PAYMENTS – Please Attorneys Bieske and Alfonsi offer free phone or office consultation. If ful tips related to your Health Care coverage. EOB’s can be down- There is a convenience fee to use look at your dues receipt. If your they represent you, there will be no fee charged until after the case is loaded to smart phones or computers and used to substantiate WEX either service. Both payment dues paid through date shows 3/ wonwon. The fee is a percentage of retroactive benefits. receipt requests. methods to pay dues can also be 2021, your dues are not current. Bieske and Alfonsi represent clients from all over the state of Michigan. WEX APP- Search for the “TIC HRA” app in Google or Apple accomplished over the phone to “A” members pay $119.25 per They maintains offices in Sterling Heights, Livonia, Southgate and Novi. Call and download it today. Utilization of this app will give you access to ensure you are current. quarter for 2021. “BA” members them at 1-800-331-3530 for a free consultation if you have been denied, or account balances, receipt reviews and submittals, barcode scanning CONTACT NUMBERS- pay $61.80 per quarter for 2021. if you are thinking of possibly applying for Social Security benefits. for covered items, other helpful services. This is a great tool to ac- Michigan Electrical Employee Please mail your check to 7920 company your Health Care benefits. Pension fund and Michigan Jackson Rd., Ann Arbor, MI •ONLY SOCIAL SECURITY DISABILITY CASES JOB CALLS- Please stay vigilant checking the Job Line if you Health Plan (517) 321- 48103. Your second quarter dues are seeking work. All work calls for the day will be available on the 7502 or (855) 633-4584. Fax (517) (Apr. through Jun.) are due now. •WE WILL PERSONALLY REPRESENT YOU Job Line after 4:30 pm. IF YOU ARE SEEKING WORK don’t forget to 321-7508, website Payments for second quar- •OUR FEE PAID AFTER YOU WIN CALL 989-781-0516, option 3. mielectricalhealth.org ter dues will be accepted no later STAY CURRENT ON DUES –Please check to see if you are cur- –In Solidarity, Breanna than 11:30 A.M. on Wednesday, www.ssdfighter.com (Continued next column) DePottey, Press Secretary June 30, 2021. 8 THE BUILDING TRADESMAN May 21, 2021

Local 25 Local 47 Heat and Frost Insulators Heat and Frost Abatement Insulators Workers Heat & Frost Insulators Local 25 SOUTHFIELD – REMIND- Heat and Frost Insulators & Local 207 ER: We continue to be under the Allied Workers Local 47 directive of the International LANSING – To combat and Abatement Workers Local 207 Union and pursuant to that direc- limit the spread of Covid-19, Local TAYLOR – There are a lot of tive, the JUNE 2021 UNION 47 encourages all members to con- upcoming projects slated for MEETING has been cancelled. tinue to work safe, and if you feel Spring so be prepared for work. Continue to monitor the sick contact a doctor immediately. When you do return to work, fol- Facebook page for updates. Any retirees wanting to go low all required Covid guidelines APPRENTICE APPLICA- to work, please call the office. that may be in place for certain TION: The Apprentice applica- The Funds Trustees have sites. Remember to call in if you tions acceptance period has been waived the 79-hour rule. are unemployed for help with fu- extended through May 2021. To All members should have ture placement. learn more and apply online, received a letter from our Inter- Workers are needed Imme- visit HeatFrostInsulators.org/ national regarding the Asbestos diately all over the Detroit area! Apprenticeship. Exposure Scientific Study. For It is time to get off the couch and If you have any more information on how to par- get back to work! Remember if questions, con- ticipate in this study, please con- you go more than a year without CENTERLINE ELECTRIC Foreman Jason Morang of IBEW Local 58 looks over blueprints while work- tact the Union tact Business Manager Patrick hours the sys- ing at the Beaumont Health Lenox Township Outpatient Facility. Office (248) 352- Welch at the main Local 47 Office tem will Lapse 1850. number: 517-708-0665 you automati- QUALIFI- Contracts are available at the cally and you CATIONS Union Office. will lose your NECESSARY OSHA 10: Local 47 will be membership. It FOR AN AP- offering OSHA 10 to any Active is time to call in CURT PLICANT TO Member who is not current with your availability McGLONE BE CONSID- the program. The course is done and get back to ERED FOR A online, so if you wish to take the KEVIN some steady HEAT AND FROST INSULA- course please contact the Local MEAGHER work for you TORS LOCAL 25 APPREN- Union office with your email ad- and your fam- TICESHIP dress and we will be more than ily! Updated, working telephone 1. Must be at least 18 years happy to set it up for you. If you numbers are necessary to help of age by June 1, 2021, and have do not have a computer at home, you with work placement. Do not a valid driver’s license. you are welcome to come to the Lo- get caught without the necessary IBEW Local 692 Projects that are slated for our Death Benefits. We regret to 2. Complete the application. cal Union Office to take the course. current job site credentials, al- BAY CITY – Message from jurisdiction. We are currently inform you of the death of retired Be sure that you sign the appli- To ensure all Active Mem- though several state agencies the Business Manager. Please re- working on a timeline for all solar Brother Robert “Gene” LaLonde, cation and you must upload any bers and Retirees are receiving have relaxed renewal require- main vigilant in your efforts to work. Rest assured both organiz- Card Number D60460, who required supporting documents, their Robo calls please make sure ments due to the pandemic. stay healthy and safe from Covid- ers and myself are working very passed away on May 8, 2021. including documents that sup- you have not blocked the follow- The General Office still has a 19. All adults are now eligible to diligently to secure whatever Brother LaLonde was born on port previous employment or ex- ing number: (804) 441-8365. There ban on Union Meeting and Elec- be vaccinated in the state of work is being bid in our jurisdic- April 1, 1935 (86 years old). He tracurricular activities. are several members who have tions. Our current election pro- Michigan. Please contact myself tion for our membership. Work re- was initiated on March 10, 1954. • If you are a current high the number blocked and therefore cess is still on hold until an ok is or one of our agents for any ques- mains very good in Detroit, Ann Gene resided in Onaway, Michi- school senior, you must provide are not receiving the Robo Calls. given to proceed. tions you may have regarding Arbor, Kalamazoo, and Lansing. gan. your diploma or GED certificate These calls are only used for Im- There is a major need for Covid-19. Please contact the hall if you #325. Local death fund as- (proof of completion) by June 1, portant Notifications from the manpower right now in Illinois The June monthly member- would like to sign any books. sessment $5 each (due within 30 2021. Local Union Business Manager and Missouri... Most of this work ship meeting will be held outside Ryan Charney days) payable to: IBEW Local 692 • Successfully complete an and Funeral Notifications. If you falls under the Missouri rate at 6PM on June 7, weather per- Business Manager / 1300 W. Thomas, Bay City, MI aptitude test when scheduled, (at are not receiving these calls, of $32.60 per hour as well mitting. Although the state of Financial Secretary 48706 the applicant’s expense of $30). please contact the Local Union as overtime on some of these Michigan has very recently Organizers Report. 692’s Please stay up-to-date on • Appear for an interview Office and we will double check projects and hotel on a per con- adopted new mask guidelines for Organizing team will continue to Death Benefit payments. Local when notified. to make sure we have the correct tractor per job basis. Some of the those that have been vaccinated, speak with unrepresented work- death fund assessments • Have a residence and live number in the system or if you work is ASAP and some of the please continue to wear a mask ers in our jurisdiction about the are $5.00 each (due within 30 in the Territorial Jurisdiction of may have blocked the number. projects are 2 weeks out. If you and maintain social distancing benefits of joining the IBEW. days). They can also be paid in Heat and Frost Insulators Local Anyone interested in joining have a Illinois or MO License when entering the Union Hall. We Jobsite visits are occurring more advance, which is recommended 25 as follows: the newly formed Breath Of Life please Contact Wade Edwards as are currently reviewing changes regularly as statewide COVID re- to ensure that families receive the In the counties of Wayne, Committee is asked to please call soon as possible for details to this policy that may drop the strictions are relaxed. We are ac- benefit in the event of a member’s Oakland, Macomb, St. Clair, and the Local Union Office. at 314-581-2254. mask mandate if vaccinated and tively recruiting JIWs as well as unexpected passing. Any over- neighboring counties as well as We have received our Breath With most state agencies willing to show evidence of that. accelerated apprentices to help payment of benefits will be re- the Townships of Ann Arbor, of Life Gun Raffle Tickets. To working from home during this Stay tuned. man the work we anticipate our funded to the family of the de- August, Lodi, Northfield, purchase any tickets please call pandemic filling out on-line re- Contract Negotiations. A contractors will secure in the up- ceased member. Pittsfield, Salem, Saline, Scio, Su- the Union Office. newals is the way to go. They are special thanks to our negotiating coming months. Apprenticeship State IBEW Golf Outing. perior, Webster, Ypsilanti, York in Local 47 now accepts PayPal processing much quicker than team of Pat Nitschky, Derek interviews for 2021 have con- The 2021 State IBEW Golf Out- Washtenaw County. and Venmo for our members to traditional mail in applications. If Simms, Brian Walker and Travis cluded for the time being, and a ing has been cancelled this year. Before employment, all appli- send their PerCapita Payments, you have any questions about Brady. They worked very hard in new class of successful appli- Local 692 Retirement Party. cants accepted for probationary shirt purchases, or any other on-line applications or what representing all members that cants should be announced The retirement party originally apprenticeship will be required to monies that may need to be sent states you may want to get a li- work under the Local 692 Inside soon. scheduled for May 2021 has been pass a physical examination and to the Local. cense for do not hesitate to call Wireman Agreement. We met with Engaging with young people postponed to March 11, 2022. It pre-employment drug test as pre- •To send money via PayPal the office or my cell. We are look- the employer side on 7 different to encourage them to consider a will be located at the DoubleTree scribed by the local JATC. all you need is our email address ing at scheduling a new initial occasions and fought hard for career in the skilled trades has in Bay City. Please mark your cal- APPAREL New Local 25 ap- which is insulatorslocal47@hot- class so please if you can recom- the membership. been a consistent focus as we’ve endars and make every effort to parel is available at the Union mail.com (Please make sure to mend anyone that you know can The membership over- attended and presented at mul- attend this great event to honor Hall. New items include: knit hats check the “Friends and Family” handle this work have them call whelmingly ratified the agree- tiple career day events in the past our retirees! and beanies, new hi-vis short box to avoid any fees. the office to get an application ment on April 26th. Some high- month. It is important to recog- Retirees Lunch. All retirees’ and long sleeved t-shirts and hi- To send money via Venmo filled out and sent in so we can lights to the ratified contract in- nize the fact that apprentices lunches have been postponed. vis hoodies. Apparel can be you can scan the QR code below get them into the next class. clude 3%, 3% and 3% total pack- alone will not replace those broth- Fringe Benefits. RE- viewed on the Facebook page. or call the Local Union office UPCOMING ASBESTOS age increases over the next 3 ers and sisters leaving the MINDER: if you have recently MUST SAFETY MODULES: and we can text the QR code to you. TRAINING CLASSES: years. Zone 2 received an addi- workforce for retirement. We gotten married, divorced, had It is important to keep your MUST We will be making changes Asbestos Supervisor Re- tional .25 cents on top of the 3% need to actively recruit and orga- children, etc. make sure your ben- Safety Modules up to date. If you to the Rules of Procedure this fresher June 5. over the next three years. This nize non-union electricians to eficiaries have been updated ac- have Modules expiring and need- year. If any member has a recom- Asbestos Initial Class June was done in an effort to bring the keep pace with attrition and cordingly. Beneficiary forms can ing to be completed, give the mendation to amend any part of 7 thru 11. two zones wage packages closer strengthen our membership. be obtained from the hall. Union Office a call to have the test- the Rules of Procedure you will Check with the Office to together. Lastly all work inside of Recent school board deci- REMINDER: If you contact ing authorization turned on. need to send in writing which part ensure the classes will occur as the “old” Dow Chemical will sions to award bond projects to the Health Plan Office about go- EMPLOYEMNT CHANGES: you would like to recommend scheduled. progress to 100% over the next non-signatory contractors ing on short term disability, it is All employment changes; hire, along with your recommendation. — All classes will be held at two years. This has been a long should strengthen our resolve to important for you to notify the lay off, fire, shop change, disabil- Once completed please make sure Local 207’s office @ 26453 time coming for those members support candidates who see the Hall as well. A copy of your pa- ity, etc. must be called into the to sign, date and put your regis- Northline in Taylor. inside what they now call the I value in local labor and appreci- perwork will need to be submit- Union Hall. The only way to guar- tration number at the bottom of — Classes begin promptly at Park. The most beneficial part to ate the efforts made by our mem- ted to the Hall for your file. This antee you are on the out of work the page and mail to the office. 8AM and end at 4PM, followed this agreement is our side gave bership to strengthen our com- will also freeze your position on list and your employment records Per the Rules and Procedures: by a Lead Awareness Update. nothing up. Great work Brothers! munity. Although we have seen the out of work list. remains current and correct. Members must notify the If you are due to expire and Work Report. Master Elec- some recent success turning RENEW Committee. The LAY OFF/HIRE: Please be office within 24 need one of these refreshers now, tric has secured the new Meijer school jobs around to our con- next scheduled RENEW meeting reminded, all members shall no- hours of being please call the Taylor Office (1- in West Branch as well as the new tractors in lieu of a lowball bid, it will be held Friday, May 21st at tify the Business Manager within laid off or 800-207-5622) to register. Isabella County Jail located in Mt. is important that we keep the pres- 5:30 PM in the Union Hall. Masks 48 hours after accepting a job or charges may —Class sizes are being lim- Pleasant. The Meijer will begin sure on and continually educate are required unless fully vacci- upon termination of employment. be placed. ited due to state guidelines cur- this month. The new jail is seeing trustees on the benefits of nated. If you are a member in Failure to report will result in an Members rently in place. some delays, we will keep you partnering with NECA and the good standing under the age of automatic $50 fine. must notify the BE SAFE, WEAR YOUR posted. Ted’s Electric has been IBEW. 35 and looking to get more in- SUB FUND: Please remem- office before MASKS, & FOLLOW THE SO- awarded some of the work at Mid- If any members are interested volved in the local, please reach ber, in order to receive a SUB Fund ANY overtime CIAL DISTANCING GUIDE- land Public Schools with Barton in receiving some talking points out to the hall and we can get you check on Friday, all paperwork is worked. LINES! Malow serving as GC. Ted’s was that will be helpful when discuss- the information that you need. must be submitted to the Office Pension and Health Wel- also awarded the Bay County lift ing with their local elected offi- Important links & numbers no later than 2 p.m. Thursday. fare: Joshua Kroell (989) 385- station project. cials the importance of hiring lo- IBEW Local 692, 989-684- SUB FUND TIME LIMITA- 2671, Allied Workers’ Local 47 Local 47 cont’d A large energy upgrade cal professionals to work on tax- 4510 TION: Please be reminded, per Fringe Benefit Funds, 6525 Centu- Remember that Auto and project is currently being bid for payer-funded projects, please www.ibew692.org the Plan Document: Each time a rion Dr., Lansing, MI 48917-9275 Motorcycle accidents are not Midland Public Schools. Alpena contact the hall and we will sup- Health Plan 517-321-7502 participant receives a State Un- Toll Free: (800) 323-8079 covered by our plan. Auto and Schools have been awarded to ply you with that information. www.mielectricalhealth.org employment check, he/she must Fax : (517) 321-7508 Motorcycle accidents should be Zone II contractor John’s Elec- Educating people in positions of Michigan Pension Fund mail or deliver the receipt, check Joshua Kroell will be avail- covered by your personal Auto tric. John’s has also been power is one way we can ensure 517-321-7502 stub, or a copy of the check to able via phone to answer any Insurance policy. awarded the Alpena library that our contractors continue to www.michiganelectrical.org the Administrator’s office within questions regarding Pension, Members having questions project and a large marijuana secure work for our members. First time logging in, use 30 days of receipt of said State Welfare and Vacation Funds. regarding Pension and Welfare grow facility located in Harrisville. Brian Klele 989.252.9225 your Social Security Number in Unemployment check. Any re- Joshua is the Secretary for the Fund please contact TIC Interna- Clements Electric is continu- Brendon Baranek 989.327.4131 the “ID Box” quest for a benefit payment past Pension, Welfare, Vacation and tional, log onto their Website: ing work on the Sterling Saw Mill, Union Dues. Dues can be NEBF/ NEAP: 301-556-4300 the 30 days will be denied per the Special Benefits and can be www.heatfrostlocal47benefits .org Monitor Township Fire Depart- paid via phone, on-line, by mail IO Pension: 202-833-7000 Plan Document. reached by phone at (989) 385- Please complete and return ment, Bay-Arenac ISD bus ga- or automatic withdrawal from BENESYS: When calling the 2671, or by mail at: P.O. Box 1498, the working spousal forms to TIC. rage, multiple marijuana dispen- your bank account. Please note “He that will not sail until Fund Office, Benesys, please be Mt. Pleasant, MI 48804. JATC Coordinator Phil saries and the Handy Middle when using a credit card for pay- all dangers are over, will never sure to get the name of the per- To all active members, if you Wilson (616-466-8736). Appli- School office renovation. ments there will be a 2% charge put to sea.” son providing you information. have not sent in your Coordina- cations are open for the Appren- Countyline Power has secured applied. –Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661) Lately, we have been experienc- tion of Benefits Form, your Spou- ticeship Program. Call the Union Midland/Gladwin County dam 2021 Dues (Effective Janu- ing some incorrect information sal Form, or your Birth Certifi- Office. “I don't think anyone work, the Mackinaw City lift sta- ary 1, 2021 being provided to our members. cates for your Children, no one Under Duties of Apprentice- should write their autobiogra- tion and the Roscommon Airport. Monthly $41.20 In order to make sure the correct will be covered on our insurance ship, Section 5.3 part L, page 4 of phy until after they're dead.” Consumers Energy work for Quarterly $123.60 information is provided, it helps until these items are sent to TIC. the Apprenticeship Standards –Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - the summer includes Karn 1&2 6 months $247.20 to have a name so the Union Of- Please call TIC immediately at states, “According to the Ap- 1974) utility separation, and also work Yearly $494.40 fice can call Benesys, correct the (800) 323-8079 and get the above- prenticeship Standards you are on the generator at Alcona Dam. To avoid a reinstatement “Always be a little kinder person providing incorrect infor- mentioned forms into the fund required to accurately fill out the Northern Valley Electrical has the fee, please remember to keep than necessary.” mation and find out why they are ASAP and you will be reinstated online work report for NO later LaFarge PLC upgrade. There are your dues current. –James M. Barrie (1860 - providing our members with in- retroactively than 10 days from the end of the also a large number of Solar (Continued next column) 1937) correct information. (Continued next column) current work week.” May 21, 2021 THE BUILDING TRADESMAN 9 Local 25 Iron Workers

Local 169 Iron Workers Local 25 Local 149 NOVI – Cut off for early Va- Boilermakers cation check request is before Roofers Local 149 12:00 pm (NOON) Tuesday June DETROIT – Main Office – Boilermakers Local 169 1, 2021 for check pick up after 2:00 Southeastern Lower Michigan – ALLEN PARK – The next pm on Thursday, June 3, 2021 at Regular Membership Meet- Union Meeting, scheduled for the Novi Union Hall. Call the ing. The regular membership Wednesday, June 9, 2021, will be Fringe Office 800-572-8553; meeting is scheduled for Tues, held in Area Three at IBEW 692 - Prompt 1 for member, Prompt 1 June 1, 2021 at 7:00 p.m. 1300 West Thomas Street, Bay for Vacation. Anyone on Direct The regular membership City, MI 48706. Please make a Deposit your Vacation check meeting will be broadcasting live note of the new day. Masks are will be in your account Friday on “Detroit Roofers - Radio Ac- required for entry. morning June 4, 2021. All other tive” channel 88.5 on your FM The Union Hall has resumed Vacation checks not scheduled dial. You must be within one mile “normal” operations with the pre- for pick up will be mailed at the of the Union Hall to hear the ra- vious safety measures in place, end of business day Tuesday dio station. Providing that the which include social distancing, June 1, 2021 and all checks are weather is fine, we will have the mandatory mask use, and limited dated June 5. regular membership meeting out- occupancy. As always, if you do May’s ZOOM Union meeting will side in the parking lot. not feel well, be Monday May 24, 2021 at 7 p.m. Executive Board meeting. do not come to Memorial Day is Monday, May The next Executive Board meet- the hall. 31, 2021 and all Union Halls will ing is scheduled for Tues., May We are cur- be closed. We wish everyone a 25, 2021 at 6:00 p.m. rently looking Safe & Happy Memorial Day! The Detroit ratified contract for volunteers ZOOM: If you have not yet is as follows: 3-year contract for the Enter- signed up for Notifications • $1.90 1st year, $1.65 2nd tainment Com- please sign up as Notification will year, $1.60 3rd year, all raises are mittee in Area go out via the APP. To participate across the board. One to help in the Zoom Union meeting is Meijer store rises in Jackson •Foreman pay is $3.50 over with the picnic. very easy … just be sure you A NEW MEIJER store in east Jackson was populated last month by Iron Workers 25 members, putting Journeyworker pay. BOB In order for a have downloaded our APP or up the structural iron for Wolverine Steel. Among the iron workers were Keith Gretzer, Ed Martin and •Travel pay increase, Area 1 HUTSELL safe and signed up for our emails via our Steve Roberts. Photo by Marc Crance $23, Area 1A $50, Area 2 $80, Area healthy event, website (www.ironworkers- 3 $90. more volunteers will be needed 25.org). We are leaning toward I’ve seen people come around 180 up to date as it is criteria for work- •Vacation pay ($4.45/hr) than previous picnics. Please call communication through the degrees. After all, who doesn’t ing. You can be asked to leave starts as soon as a member pays Jamie at the union hall if you are PUSH NOTIFICATIONS – want higher wages, better ben- the jobsite if your dues are not off their union card. interested. Please download the APP if you efits, and a safer work current. Detroit Raise Notice. $0.67 Union dues for 2021 are haven’t done so yet!! Again, via environment? “It is difficult to MUST Safety now has an on the check, $0.23 to the Pen- $49.85 per month. The union hall our website! get a man to understand some- APP. Download from the APP sion, and $1.00 to an Annuity/ accepts Visa, MasterCard, and CREDIT/DEBIT CARD pro- thing when his salary depends store or google play. Search key Defined-Contribution Plan Discover. Payments can be made cessing for Union Dues: upon his not understanding it.” word “MUST SAFETY.” Local 8 Condolences. It is with great both at the hall and over the Comerica has changed the pro- –Upton Sinclair. New Apprentice Applica- sadness and heavy hearts that we phone. cessing platform in compliance –In Solidarity, Your Orga- tions are being accepted BUT you Iron Workers inform you of the passing of the OSHA 10 and OSHA 30 with new banking regulatory nizer Hank Kiluk, (313) 600- MUST go to ironworkers25.org, following Brother. Brother Roger safety training can now be taken rules. The new platform now re- 8242 print the application, gather Iron Workers Local 8 Lee, he was 64 years old and a online. Please visit our website – quires all new and existing users IT IS MANDATORY TO documentation then phone the Tim Roman 42-year member. Brother Lee past www.boilermakerslocal169.com - to authenticate themselves. Any- WEAR A FACE MASK IF YOU school for an appointment; no Business Representative on 5/16/2021. Brother Roger Lee for more information. one who has used the prior sys- VISIT ANY OF THE UNION OF- walk-in foot traffic. The Wixom MARQUETTE – WELD has been a Union Officer, Train- Training Center: Journey- tem will need to set up brand new FICES OR UNION HALLS. Training Center – Phone: 248- CERTIFICATIONS: Weld certi- ing Center Instructor, and the men wanting to obtain welding payment information AND will FRINGE BENEFIT OFFICE: 960-2130. fications are being held on a as- Retirees Association President. certifications are encouraged to need to create a new log-in and 800-572-8553 or 248-347-3100 and Apprentices: Fill out your needed basis. Please contact Rest in Peace Brother Lee, thank attend training in Allen Park, in password the first time you log follow the prompts. Hours 7:30am monthlies online at the website Rich Hanson at the Apprentice- you for your years of service. preparation for the Commonarc in. The link is available on our to 4:30pm. The mailing address or mobile app located under the ship office for more information. Website for announce- test currently scheduled for this website www.ironworkers25.org for member BENEFIT related mat- apprenticeship tab “Monthly 414-476-9372. ments, news, and updates: August. and cell phone APP. The NEW ters is: Iron Workers Local 25 Report Sign-In,” this gives you MEMBERSHIP MEETING: www.rooferslocal149.com Apprentices: All training phone number effective 5/10/ Fringe Benefit Funds, PO Box the ability to electronically sub- It is the intent of Iron Workers DAD’s Day. It is with great centers are reopening on the fol- 2021 is 866-635-2826. A letter 99219, Troy MI 48099-9219. Blue mit your monthlies. Also located Local #8 to tentatively resume in- sadness that we inform you that lowing dates: Area 1 – May 17, was mailed on 4/20/2021 ex- Cross Health Claims and Cus- under the apprenticeship tab you person Membership Meetings. the June DAD’s Day canister 2021; Area 2 – July 1, 2021; Area plaining all you need to know. tomer Service 877-790-2583. Delta will find “Evaluation Form” Jour- The next meeting will be held on drive is canceled. This was an 3 – Following current outages; If you have questions, please Dental Claims and Customer Ser- neyman/Supervision can use this June 23rd, 2021, at 5:00 p.m. CST. extremely difficult decision to Area 4 – Following current out- call the Union Hall or your Busi- vice 800-482-8915. to submit apprentice evaluations Local #8 will stay in compliance make. Our union will try to have ages. Your area agent will con- ness Agent. BENEFIT FOR NEW using computer/cell phone and with governmental guidance of an event later in the year. tact you with your scheduled Pay union dues with per- CHILD: Any member who has a submit electronically. social distancing and capacity Union Dues. Make sure you class time. sonal check or money order and new born child, or a new depen- Please also note, you must limits. Due to this limitation, our pay your monthly dues before Sweatshirts are available for mail to: Iron Workers Local 25 – dent child through marriage check your email on a regular plan is to continue a virtual broad- the end of every month to stay in purchase for $40.00. Payments P.O. Box 965 – Novi, MI 48376- MUST NOTIFY the Fringe Ben- basis; we now email your annual cast of the meeting in conjunc- good standings. You can pay can be made with cash, check, or 0965. PLEASE include your book efit Office of your new dependent MUST drug screen paperwork tion with in-person attendance. dues over the phone with a credit credit. If you live out of the area number on the face of the check/ within 31 days; otherwise wait and your pay raise slips. Members can gain access to the or debit card. Monthly dues can and would like to order one, money order. Pay union dues in until the next open-enrollment To view classes at the Local meeting at https://meeting be taken out of your vacation please call the hall. Additional person at the Novi Union Hall (M- period (April 1-April30). A birth 25 Apprenticeship School, please .iwl8.org on the afternoon of the check by filling out a form at the shipping charges will be added. F) from 8 am to 3 pm (NO Cash). certificate will be required. go the ironworkers25.org to view meeting. Hall (active Members only). If you Baseball caps are also available. After-hours use the outdoor- BENEFIT FOR LIFE the block schedule; we are prac- MINE SAFETY TRAINING: have to come in to our office to Varsity jackets are available by dues-collection box. CHANGE: Any member experi- ticing social distancing protocols, A 24-Hour MSHA Class will be pay, please understand that we special order. Please contact the Iron Workers Local 25 An- encing a divorce or a new spouse etc. Due to the high volume of held on June 3rd, 4th, and 5th, 2021, are adhering to Michigan union hall for details. nual Picnic will take place this MUST NOTIFY the Fringe Ben- apprentices doing their make-up at 8:30 a.m., at the Operators’ Hall, COVID19 guidelines; masks and year on Saturday, August 28, 2021. efit Office within 31 days; other- days, we are limiting the number 802 Clark Drive, Gladstone, social distancing are being en- Location at the Training Center wise wait until the next open- to 10 per day. Please call the Michigan. To sign up for this forced to protect our staff and our Local 149 cont’d 50490 W. Pontiac Trail, Wixom enrollment period (April 1- school to make up days …. Do class, contact Ann Lakenen at the tenants. The mailbox is only to $0.05 to Check-Off Dues MI 48393. More details to fol- April30). A Marriage certificate not just show up and expect to be Pipefitters #111, at 906-226-6511. be used for checks and money Mid-Michigan Training low; Mark your calendar! will be required. allowed to stay. The next MSHA Refresher orders, do not put cash in the Center Information. Journey “I hate Unions!”, an unrep- Stewards’ Notes: The Novi retirees Board of Class will be held on June 19th, mailbox. To be eligible for the In- workers upgrade classes to im- resented Ironworker snapped at 1) STW Meetings cancelled Directors will meet on Tuesday, 2021, at 8:30 a.m. via Zoom. To ternational Union Burial Benefit, prove your skills, your worth, and me last year. He was seriously until further notice. June 1, 2021in Novi at 9:00 am. sign up for this class, and pro- a member must be in continuous our Brotherhood/Sisterhood is anti-union, and ready to fight 2) The link for Online Stew- The Novi retiree meeting will be vide your email address, please good standing. available at no cost to all Mid- about it. I tried asking him to ard Report forms is found in the Tuesday, June 1, 2021 at 10:00 am. contact Ann Lakenen at If you have any questions Michigan LU 149 members. explain his view, but he was look- upper right-hand corner of our Watch for updates at (www. Pipefitters #111, 906-226-6511. please feel free to call the Hall at Dues must be current in or- ing for any reason to swing at website www.ironwork-ers25.org ironworkers25.org) or the Local If you sign up for MSHA 313-961-6093 der to enter the Training Center. me. This is my favorite type of LOG-IN DIRECTIONS will follow 25 app that you can download by classes and do not attend or can- CLEARANCE CARDS. Are If you are interested in any of Ironworker to meet in the field once you click the link that reads searching “Iron Workers Local cel, you will be charged a fee of you scheduled to go out of town these classes, contact Rick Baird because they are not afraid to “Electronic Steward Reports” 25” to stay informed on union $30.00 and will be suspended for work in another Local’s terri- at the Union Hall/Training Cen- talk about what they believe in. These forms are much easier than matters. from any further Mine Safety tory? Clearance cards are needed ter, 810-687-1368, or If I can get them to see the truth the paper forms, we encourage Jim Hamric started up break- classes until the fee is paid. when you are sent out of town to [email protected] about collective bargaining, you to give it a try if you have fast on the last Friday of the IRON WORKERS LOCAL work. Get a clearance card from to make arrangements. chances are good they’ll be more not yet done so. month at Mom’s Restaurant 9:00 #8 ONLINE STORE: Check out the Hall and call the Local in that Notice. When contractors fired up to be pro-union than they 3) PLEASE be sure to check am. Located 2691 Fort St, Tren- Local #8’s swag at the online area to avoid fines against you. call the Union Hall for help, we were anti-union. dues for members and boomers ton, MI 48183. All are welcome! store at iwl8.org. Detroit Training Center In- too AND BE SURE ALL To all Union Members: need to know who is available, That first communication is “Adversity has ever been formation. Journeyworkers up- difficult, uncomfortable, and of- BOOMERS HAVE SIGNED BOTH Please be safe in this pandemic! and have an up to date phone considered the state in which a grade classes to improve your ten seems pointless, but it is nec- THE RECIPROCAL AND THE This information is as of number. All Mid-Michigan Area man most easily becomes ac- skills, your worth, and our Broth- ASSESSMENT-TARGETING. Submission Time for this Ar- members who are out of work essary if we want to win back non- quainted with himself.” erhood/Sisterhood is available at union jobs in Michigan. It takes 4) All members please be ticle (05/17/2021 12:00 pm need to call the Hall at (810) 687- – Samuel Johnson (1709 - no cost to all Detroit LU 149 mem- sure to keep your Union dues paid E.S.T.). 1368 to be put on the out of work patience, and persistence, but 1784) bers. list. Dues must be current in or- The publication above is as der to enter the Training Center. 5/17/2021, 12:30p.m. If you are interested in any In Solidarity, Brian Gregg of these classes, contact Thomas Business Manager, Roofers & Jaranowski at the Training Cen- Waterproofers Local 149. ter, 248-543-3847, or TJaranowski @DetroitRoofers.org to make ar- “The trouble with having an rangements open mind, of course, is that Follow us on Facebook for people will insist on coming announcement updates @ United along and trying to put things Union of Roofers, Waterproofers, in it.” and Allied Workers Local 149 –Terry Pratchett Reminder. Members please “Do not remove a fly from call the Hall when you see a roof- your friend's forehead with a ing project whether it is one of hatchet.” our signatory companies or not. –Chinese Proverb The Hall needs this information. “One machine can do the Members are reminded to call the work of fifty ordinary men. No Hall (313) 961-6093 to put their machine can do the work of one name on the out of work list. extraordinary man.” MID-MICHIGAN AREA – –Elbert Hubbard (1856 - Clio Office. The next Mid-Michi- 1915) gan regular membership meeting scheduled for Tue., July 13, 2021 “What's the difference be- at 6 p.m. at 810 Tacoma Ct. Clio tween a boyfriend and a hus- MI, 48420. band? About 30 pounds.” Mid-Michigan Raise Notice. – Cindy Gardner $0.80 on the check, $0.78 to the “If you don't risk anything Pension, $0.22 to the H&W and you risk even more.” (Continued next column) –Erica Jong 10 THE BUILDING TRADESMAN May 21, 2021

Plumbers & Pipe Fitters

Local 370 Plumbers and Pipe Fitters 333 Local 671 Plumbers & LANSING – June’s union meeting to be announced. Plumbers and Pipe Fitters 671 Pipe Fitters Effective June 1, 2021 Foye MONROE – The next Regu- Pierce III will be the new orga- lar Union meeting is scheduled Plumbers and Pipe Fitters 370 nizer for Local 333. We wish Foye for June 3, 2021 at 7 p.m. This FLINT – The next Member- the very best of luck with his new will be a Special Order of Busi- ship Meeting is scheduled for position in the Local. ness for Wage Allocation. The Ex- Tuesday June 15, 2021 at 7 pm. SCHOLARSHIP APPLICA- ecutive Board will meet in person Please note the change to the 3rd TIONS: Scholarship applica- on June 3 at 5 p.m. If any Member Tuesday of the month due to the tions for the 2021-2022 school wishes to see them, please contact State Pipe Trades Convention. year will be available April 1, the Hall prior to the meeting. This will be a refreshment meeting. 2021. Students who received an ATTENTION: This paper is Please note that your award last year will receive an to serve as official notice to the SETTING A WATER HEATER on the second floor of the Beaumont- Lenox Twp. Outpatient facility is monthly work hour statements application in the mail. Applica- membership. Skip Chaffin of Plumbers Local 98. He’s employed by Guideline Mechanical. from TIC now show your Health tions will be available at all three Condolences: It is with sad- Care banked hours and Benny union halls or members may re- dened heart the I report the pass- card dollar bank. quest an application by calling ing of retiree Harold Jones. Scholarship Applications for Joni at the Jackson office, 517- Harold was a 40-year member of the 2021-2022 school year are 784-1106, ext# 4. Application Local 671 and a respected leader Plumbers Local 98 now available online at our must be postmarked by June 26, in the community. Harold passed website UALOCAL370.ORG. The 2021 and in the Jackson office away on May 13 from ongoing applicant must be a son or daugh- by July 1, 2021. health issues. I would to extend ter of a member in good standing Plumbers & Pipefitters An- condolences to his family and Plumbers 98 Vaccine. For up-to-date informa- through July 16, 2021. If you of UA Local Union 370. Complete nual Golf Outing will be held Sat- friends. At the time of this article DETROIT – Membership of tion on COVID-19 you can go to know anyone who is interested, lists of qualifications and appli- urday, Aug. 7, 2021 at the no services have been arranged. Plumbers Local 98 the website Michigan.gov/ please direct them to the Train- cations are also available at Lo- Eldorado Golf Course, 3750 W. Also, we extend our condolences Brothers and Sisters, protectmicommision. Or, if you ing Center’s website plumbers cal 370 Hall. Applications are due Howell Rd. Mason, MI. 48845. to Brother Dave Merrick and his With Memorial Day ap- would like to be a part of the con- 98tc.org. by May 15, 2021. 9am Shotgun starts at 9am. $300 family on the passing of his Mother proaching, your officers and I versation and join a workgroup, We are currently looking for Local 370 2021 Golf outing per team, this includes 18 holes Gladys Marie Merrick on May 13. would like to thank the brave men you can reach out to Residential and Service Plumb- will be held Saturday, June 26 at of golf, cart, chicken/steak din- Health and Welfare: If you and women who courageously protectmicommission ers. This is a great opportunity Flushing Valley Golf course in ner and prizes for everyone. Come have any insurance problems or gave their lives for our country. @michigan.gov or michigan to expand and grow, as many Flushing. 9 am Shotgun Start. and join the fun. Registration questions, you can contact Carly Let’s continue to be smart and .gov/covidvaccine for locations members are looking to retire. If The price is $70 a man. $280 per forms are at all three halls and using the health line on the back stay safe out there. or information regarding COVID- you know anyone working Non- team. Price includes 18 holes with needs to be turned in by July 19. of your insurance card. 734-241- WAGE ALLOCATION. The 19 updates. WEAR YOUR Union or is a past member that cart, lunch at the turn, Refresh- Weld Classes: Lansing’s 6180. Any MRA or Dental/Vision new wages and allocation were MASKS! Any concerns with may be interested, have them call ments, Door prizes and Dinner. weld class: Tuesday’s & receipts can be mailed, emailed or approved at the Special Called COVID-19 safety protocols or Organizer Rob Moses at 248-763- Stop by the hall and get the Thursday’s Lansing Training faxed to the benefit office. Contact Meeting on May 13, 2021. Find lack of PPE contact the Business 2187. signup sheet with all the informa- Center, 16180 National Parkway, information is at bottom of article. the rates on our website Agent in the area or the Union In solidarity I remain, tion. We are limited to 38 teams so Lansing, MI. 48906. Covid tests and vaccinations are ualocal98.com/wage-allocation. Hall. Carlo Castiglione Business sign up early if you want to play. Jackson’s weld class: covered 100% by our insurance. MEETINGS. The next Union Additional information on Manager Plumbers Local 98 Committee and Board meet- Tuesday’s & Thursday’s, 3101 Do not pay for these tests up front Meeting will be held on Thurs- vaccination sites is available on TRAINING CENTER NEWS ings are as follows: Industrial Allied Dr. Jackson, MI. or through the billing process. Con- day, June 17 at 7 pm in person. our website, please visit ualocal Phone # 248-585-1435 Examining Board – Tuesday, June 49201. tact Carly if you are asked to pay! Please note this will be on 98.com/covid. Check out The Training 15, 2021 at 4:00pm Battle Creek’s weld class: If you are working out of the third Thursday of the Month UNION HALL. The Union Center’s website www.Plumbers FMR Committee – Tuesday June Monday’s & Thursday’s (KCC) another local it may take up to 90 due to the State Convention. Hall is Open by APPOINTMENT 98tc.org 15, 2021 at 4:00pm RMTC, 405 Hill Brady Rd. Battle days for your pension and insur- June’s meeting will take place ONLY. Properly worn masks are The Apprenticeship Appli- PAC committee – Tuesday June Creek, MI. 49037. ance money to reciprocate back outside at our Union Hall and all required. There is a COVID-19 cation process is now open 15, 2021 at 5:00pm If you are interested in sign- to Local 671. Please keep track of Covid restrictions will be in place questionnaire that MUST be filled through July 16, 2021. Executive Board –Tuesday June ing up for classes go to our all hours and keep your check using social distancing and out by everyone entering the The Training Center is open 15, 2021 at 5:00pm website at www.ua333.org or call stubs so there is no disruption in masks. Join us starting at 5 Union Hall. and adhering to COVID-19 re- Building Committee – Tuesday the Training Center (517) 323-0333. your health coverage. o’clock for a BBQ, we will pro- SUB APPS/OOW strictions. Please call Ryan Lyle June 15, 2021 at 6:00pm PLEASE NOTE FOR ALL Congratulations: Congratu- vide hamburgers, hot dogs, and CHANGES/ BENEFITS. Due to at 248-585-1435 ext. 122 if you Finance Committee -Tuesday CERTIFICATIONS: Per the UA, lations to the following Members refreshments. influx of travelers, SUB pay is have any questions. June 15, 2021 at 6:15pm as of January 2019, all Braze and who recently have retired: Rich E-Board meetings. E-Board closed to all except for medical or Michigan State Plumbing JATC Committee – TBD Weld Certifications shall be up- VanHove and Don Scheich. May meetings are the first and second COVID related injuries. It is your License Renewal –There is not ALL GM Worksites and dated within 120 days of their ex- you both enjoy your well-de- Thursday of the month at 6:30 responsibility to fill out a SUB an update required to renew the others require Must Safety and piration date, or you will lose your served retirement time! p.m. If you need to contact or see App when you are laid off. SUB Michigan State Plumbing License Drug Testing: MUST safety certifications. Check the date(s) Work Opportunities: As the board, please call V.P. Jim Apps should now be filled out this year. In order to renew your modules are only valid for 4 of your Certifications, if they discussed over the last few Cools at 734-307-9841. electronically. This can be found license, go to Michigan.gov/lara years. Call the hall to sign up for have expired please contact Diana months, we have a significant Retiree Meetings: The Presi- on the web page under the and click on License Renewal. the MUSTBSAFE.com website at 517.323.0333. Though we send amount of work starting very dent of the retiree association has OOWL section. If you’re still **Deadline was April 30th, you and complete all 18 safety mod- out everyone’s continuities to be soon in our jurisdiction, and will worked out a detailed plan for re- having unemployment issues call may be required to pay a late fee. ules. Members will not be eligible renewed; between changes in have many travelers in town. The starting these meetings. All BAs Gary Glaser or Tom ASSE Backflow Tester Re- to work at any job site requiring addresses and the Post Office, expectation always remains the Covid-19 protocols and distanc- McWilliams. Certification exams are sched- them until all 18 modules are com- there is plenty of room for same; our Local hands will come ing will be adhered to. They are For any issues that are unre- uled quarterly. Please be sure to plete and are current on their drug error. Ultimately it’s the back home to man their work. exercising extreme caution so ev- solved at BeneSys, please get the check your expiration date, it is test. If your drug test is expired you member’s responsibility to make Please contact Vinnie for details eryone can remain healthy and name of the person you are deal- now required that you complete must take one before you can be sure their certification(s) are on the various projects. safe. The next Retiree meeting will ing with and contact Carlo, Jon, your update class prior to your dispatched to any GM work. Drug current and updated. Mobile App: Our Mobile App be Wednesday, June 9 from 12pm or the Union Hall immediately. expiration. For those who are eli- tests are only valid for 1 year. Call If your Med-Gas Installer is titled “UA Local 671” is available – 2pm at the hall. NOTE ON DISABILITY/ gible, please call the Training The hall and we will print you a going to expire within the next few in the App Store for iPhone or OTHER EVENTS. As of this RETIREMENT. If you are filing Center to register and pre-pay by drug test authorization form months please sign up on our Android. The Username for Lo- moment, the State Pipe Trades for Social Security Disability you check only before the deadline Local 370 office hours website to take the renewal class. cal 671 Members is your last Convention is on for the second will need to file for your Local 98 June 25, 2021. The next sched- 7:30am – 4:30pm. name and your book number (UA week in June. Your delegates have Disability Pension at the same uled recertification class is July Sub/Sick checks will be pro- Local 370, con’t Card No.). The Password is just met and are ready to represent us. time in order to make sure you 27 & 28, 2021. cessed 8:00am – 11:30 am and tage of this service there will be a your book number. It has been presented that the get all of your pension checks. *OPEN WELDING* -Call 1:30pm – 4:15pm daily. $1 per month charge added to the We recently have sent Push convention centers in both Social Security normally Chris Opalka 248-585-1435 ext.146 Sub Pay: Remember to monthly window dues fee and a Notifications with important in- Michigan and California are re- takes at least a year and some- to reserve a booth and visit the qualify for sub pay when you are 3% fee for all other transactions. formation such as Covid-19 up- quiring attendees to be vacci- times a lot longer. If you file for updated welding shop. Looking laid off, you must sign the out of Plumbing, Mechanical and dates and Informational Meeting nated against Covid-19. As for your Local 98 Disability Pension to try something new? Ideas for work list. You can also collect Residential Code Books are now notices. This mobile app is a great the National Convention, we at the same time, when you re- a class? We’re here to help. when you are on Jury Duty and available at the hall. The books tool to stay current with all the lat- should be hearing news by the ceive your award from Social Se- If your brazing or welding miss work. If you are traveling, call are $75.00 each. est information from the Union end of the month as to whether it curity, we will be able to pay you certs are ready to expire, call to Karla to see if you need to make Remember to keep your dues Hall. PLEASE DOWNLOAD will be taking place. all the retro money owed. If you schedule an appointment. The sub-fund self-payments. All mem- current. Any member failing to THIS APP SO YOU CAN KEEP SCHOLARSHIP GOLF are less than a year from retire- next WELDING Tests will be Sat- bers were sent a Sub-Pay manual pay for 3 months shall stand sus- UP ON CURRENT INFORMA- OUTING. Tickets are now avail- ment, we suggest you set up a urday, June 5 and July 10, 2021. in 2018. If you did not receive pended, unable to vote for a pe- TION THAT THE HALL NEEDS TO able for our 43rd Annual Scholar- meeting with Jon DeRoo prior to You must call to schedule your one, call TIC at (517) 321-7502 and riod of 1 year or run for office for GET OUT. The App is available in ship Golf Outing which will be your retirement date. welding tests at least 3 days prior ask for the 370 Sub Pay Fund Sum- a period of 2 years and subject to the Google Play Store or on iTunes. held August 14, 2021 at Marsh SCHOLARSHIP OPPOR- to the class. The next BRAZING mary Plan Description (SPD) a $50 reinstatement fee. Dues In Closing: Over the past Oaks Golf Course. The cost is TUNITIES. All of the information Cert Session will be Friday, June Attendance award drawing must be paid in 3-month incre- several months I have had the $90.00 a golfer and tickets can be regarding the scholarships avail- 4 & July 9, 2021. Please note: All for membership meeting informa- ments according to our bylaws. unfortunate task of attending a purchased by calling the hall. For able through Local 98 and the UA members must be dressed appro- tion. Members present must have Dues will be accepted up to 6:45 lot of funerals for friends, co- more information on the outing can be found on our website, priately to be in the shop area. dues paid to date to claim award. on union meeting nights. workers and fellow members. The please contact Financial Secre- ualocal98.com/scholarship. 2021 Course Hour reim- Monthly award is 150 dollars. Members wishing to take the biggest mistake we all make is tary Jon DeRoo at (248) 762-9238. These scholarships are open to bursement forms are now avail- Attention All Active Mem- U.A. welding certification test thinking we have time; at some LICENSE RENEWAL. If the dependents of our members able at the Training Center. You bers in Good Standing: The Joint contact business agent, Dan point we will all run out of time. you are looking to take your jour- who are seeking a higher educa- must have 8 hours (approved Apprentice and Training Commit- Gaudet for application and test- Let’s not put off seeing that loved ney plumber or master plumber tion. Please note, the UA schol- hours credited may vary from ac- tee voted to reimburse any active ing dates. one until next week. Go do and see exam the Training Center is hav- arship deadline is fast approach- tual hours attended) of verifiable member of Local 370 that takes Local 370 ball caps and win- the things you have always wanted ing a code study class on ing, June 9, 2021. The deadline approved classes/training from and passes any training, testing ter fleece caps are available at the to do. Time is the one thing that is Wednesday, May 26th at 4:30pm. for the Local 98 Scholarship is January 1 - December 31, 2021 to or certification that may be re- union offices. Ball caps $10.00 given but cannot be recovered. This will be a 4-hour class. Please June 30, 2021, but it is best to be eligible for the $80.00 reim- quired to perform their work. This and fleece caps $5.00. Pocket May God Bless Local 671 bring your code book if you have get your application submitted bursement. includes Rigging, Med-Gas, Back Tee shirts are available for $10 and all Union Labor. one. There are a limited number sooner rather than later. OSHA Training - OSHA 10, flow or any work-related training dollars each. Hooded sweat Mike Jewell: Cell (419) 262- of code books available for sale RETIREES. Congratulations available as on an online class for or certification expense. Mem- shirts and long sleeve pocket 8503 email: [email protected] for $76.85 through the Training to Brother Don Priest, Brother $25 at www.careersafeonline.com bers will be reimbursed after suc- tee shirts are available. The Vinnie Fenech: Cell (734) 693- Center if you do not have one al- Reginald Freeman, and Brother This OSHA 10 class is not affili- cessful completion and verifica- sweat shirts are $30 and the long 4082 email: vinnie@ualocal ready. For more information, or Joseph Montagano on their re- ated with the UA or our Training tion of the cost. Lost wages will sleeve tee shirts are $15. Golf polo 671.com any other continuing education tirements. We wish you all end- Center. OSHA 10 and 30 Hour not be covered by the JATC. and golf wind shirts are available Carly Neely: Insurance Line opportunities or classes, you can less days of relaxation. Training is also offered online Plumbing license renewal is still for $25. (734) 241-6180 email: carly@ contact Training Center Coordi- IN MEMORIAM. Our heart- through the MUST website. Go the responsibility of the member. T.I.C. fringe administrators’ ualocal671.com nator Ryan Lyle at 248-585-1435. felt condolences go out to the to www.mustonline.org. **Be If you have any questions, please toll free number is 1-888-797-5862. Local 671 Fax: (734) 242-4692 BAs Gary Glaser and Tom family and friends of our Broth- sure to take the Construction contact local 370 JATC. McWilliams are admins on the ers who have recently passed Safety courses; not the General Mobile App. Our mobile app. Must/Most program, contact away. Brother Dennis Rooke Industry courses. is now available for download on them if you need help. passed on April 12, 2021. Brother It is each member’s indi- you cell phone. Go to the app DUES. You can pay your Frank Zaleski passed on April 29, vidual responsibility to keep all store and search UA Local 370. dues online, over the phone, or 2021. Brother Fonando “Freddy” their Certifications current. Download the app and sign in. by mailing in a check. You can Cirilli passed on May 1, 2021. If the person you are trying Our web site is up and run- also set up auto-payments. If you Brother Edward “Ed” McIlroy to reach at the Training Center is ning. Check it out at ualocal have any questions or need to passed on May 9, 2021. unavailable, please leave a mes- 370.org pay dues, please contact Kristina GOOD/WELFARE. Plumb- sage to ensure we can return your We are now able to accept Lodovisi at (248) 307-9800 ext. 4 ers Local 98 Training Center is call. We attempt to return all mes- Visa, Master Card, Discover and or on her cell at (248) 331-7232. NOW accepting applications for sages by the end of the business American Express for window mcnicholsscrap.com detroitironandmetal.com COVID-19 Information & our Apprenticeship Program, day. dues. If you want to take advan- (313) 365-6100 (313) 841-5100 May 21, 2021 THE BUILDING TRADESMAN 11

Plumbers, Pipe Fitters, Local 357 Service Technicians, Plumbers, Local 190 Gas Distribution Pipe Fitters & Plumbers and Pipe Fitters 190 card on the transaction amount. HVAC Service ANN ARBOR – THE UNION We will then mail you your dues MEETING FOR THE MONTH receipt and credit charge slip. Local 85 Plumbers, Pipe Plumbers, Pipefitters & HVAC APRIL WILL BE A NORMAL IN- LAID OFF OR BACK TO Sprinkler Fitters Local 704 Fitters & HVAC Service Local 357 PERSON MEETING: The next WORK – IMPORTANT RE- DETROIT– The next regular KALAMAZOO – UNION meeting will be held on Monday, MINDER TO ALL MEMBERS: Plumbers and Steamfitters 85 business meeting will be held MEETING: June’s membership June 14th and will start 6:00 p.m. All members who get laid off or SAGINAW – Union Meet- Service Wednesday, June 16 at 5:30 P.M. meeting will be a special-called at 7920 Jackson Road, Ann Ar- report back to work please im- at the Union Hall. The Executive ings will be Wednesday, May 26, Local 111 meeting and will be held on bor, MI. Members are urged to mediately contact Karen (734) 2021. Meetings will be held at the Board will meet the same evening MONDAY, JUNE 7TH. The meet- attend and take an active part in 424-0962 Ext. #210, to report at 4:30 P.M. Union Hall located at 3535 Bay Plumbers and Pipe Fitters 111 ing will start at 6:30 pm and be the proceedings. Masks and the last day in which you worked Reminder: Article V, Section Road and start at 7:00 PM. UPPER PENINSULA – Both held outside on the east end of maintaining social distance will or to report the day you went 13 of Local 704’s Constitution, The next Northern Meeting the Escanaba and Marquette the building. To enter the build- be enforced. back to work. PLEASE NOTE: By-Laws and Rules of Order. Any is scheduled for Wednesday, halls have been closed to walk-in ing to vote you will need to wear MICHIGAN GAS JOUR- Members can now go to the project that falls into the jurisdic- June 2, 2021 at 7:00 pm at BJ’s in members until further notice. a mask. If you wish to submit a NEYMAN: Requalification test- website under “members only” tion of Local 704 shall be manned Gaylord. Please call either hall for any wage proposal you will need to ing for Consumer Energy and and fill out a “back to work” form by not less than two (2) members. Seeking licensed plumbers assistance you may need. st by June 1 . The Finance Com- Semco Energy will start Tuesday, or “laid off” form. Any member violating this By- to work in Alpena, if interested A special-called meeting is mittee and Executive Board will June 1st and run the whole month INFORMATION - Law shall be brought before the please call Clint Steele at (231) 499- scheduled for the June 1st wage conduct their regularly sched- of June. Testing will be held at FRINGE BENEFIT OFFICE: Executive Board for a trial and be 7330. allocation. This meeting will be uled monthly meetings. The our training center. Please con- NEW VISION PROGRAM subject to a fine. Please note: Our new mail- May 27, 2021 at the Escanaba Building Trades Paper serves as tact Roy Musgrove 734-369-1432 – DAVIS VISION: Please be ad- Article IX, Section 4 of Lo- ing address for all correspon- hall @ 7:30 EST. and will be held your official notification. for more information and to vised of the January 1, 2021 cal 704’s Constitution, By-Laws dences has changed to 3535 Bay outside. ORGANIZING: Organizer schedule your testing date. change to your vision benefits. and Rules of Order sates: Mem- Rd. Saginaw, MI 48603. If you missed the recent Phil Curtis’s cell number is 269- UNION HALL CLOSING: Effective January 1, 2021, your bers shall report all job starts to ALL NON-CRITICAL IN- MRA webinar with Zenith Ameri- 330-3267 and his email is Our office will be closed at noon vision benefits are now being its local union office. TERACTIONS is cancelled until can, you can access it again on [email protected]. If you on Friday, May 28th and all day offered through Davis Vision. NFPA All Access is available further notice. Please utilize email our website at – LU111.com, click are working around someone or Monday, May 31st for Memorial Welcome letters and cards, de- for all 704 members. Please con- and phone calls whenever pos- on the Zenith link, click on the know someone working in our Day. Our thanks to those who tailing your new benefits, were tact the Local 704 Training Cen- sible. MRA link and enter the pass- industry who is interested in serve. As we celebrate our lib- mailed during the month of De- ter for username and password. Justin Pomerville, Business word. Please check it out for use- membership, please contact Phil. erty and freedoms we remember cember 2020. If you have not re- Phone numbers to remem- Manager (989) 799-5261 x 8513 ful information. MEDICAL CLAIMS IS- and support those who protect ceived this information, please ber: NASI is 1-800-638-2603 for [email protected] Thank you to the member- SUES: As a member, TIC Inter- them. contact the Fund office at #888- information regarding Health and Jamie Badour, Business ship for your patience during this national provides a dedicated IMPORTANT NOTICE – 390-7473. You can also go to the Welfare or Pension fund ques- Agent (989) 799-5261 x 8515 process due to the current situa- team of member advocates to as- UNION HALL HOURS: Effec- Local 190 website www.ua190.org tions. [email protected] tion of the COVID-19 mandates sist with the resolution of any and tive Monday, April 5th the office and go to the benefit section for TIC International: 248-645- Tim Danielak, Business of gatherings. Any questions all medical claims issues. If at any will resume normal business more information. 6550 for D.C. Fund distribution Agent (989) 799-5261 x 8514 please call Business Manager, time you experience an issue with hours. The office will be open NEW BLUE CROSS BLUE questions. [email protected] Dean Gutzman and stay safe. your claims being processed and on Monday through Friday from SHIELD APP FOR YOUR Jason May (Merrill Lynch): Clint Steele, Business Agent Reminder: It is your respon- paid correctly, please contact TIC 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 (the office will be SMART DEVICE: Attention all 248-655-4048 for D.C. Fund In- (231) 499-7330 sibility to call the hall as soon as international at 1-888-281-3461. If closed for lunch from Noon to members, you can download the vestment questions. [email protected] you get laid off, the day you call you are not satisfied with the ser- 1:00 p.m.) There will be no foot free Blue Cross Blue Shield APP Continuing education Bobby Anderson, Organizer in is the date that you are placed vice you have received, please traffic to the back offices. on your smart device. This will classes are being formed. Please (989) 799-5261 x 8512 on the Out of Work List, if you call me, Ken Willcutt, at (269) 569- Currently Local 190 is not allow you to see a copy of your reach out to the training center [email protected] do not call in you will not be re- 3492. accepting any apprenticeship BCBS card, review your claims, for further information or future Kristin Tuthill, Office Profes- ferred to work. WEBSITE INFORMATION applications. A note will be put explanation of benefits and much classes you would like to see sional (989) 799-5261 x 8511 Important Information: – FRINGES – TIC: Check out the in the paper when this current sta- more. Download: BCBSM added. [email protected] Contact the hall with any website at www.ualocal357.com tus changes. REPRESENTATIVE FROM Condolences go out to the Please check the changes with any of the follow- and the FACEBOOK Page @ MASKS MUST BE WORN FRINGE BENEFIT OFFICE: Ef- family and friends of retired ualocal85.org or our Facebook ing: E-Mail, address, phone num- www.facebook.com/UALocal WHEN ENTERING THE UNION fective Wednesday, November Brother Louis Grilli who passed page for the most up-to-date in- ber, a new birth, marriage, divorce, th 357/. You should sign up for ac- HALL BUILDING AND TRAIN- 25 due to COVID there will be away. Brother Grilli was a 39 year formation. or death. For those of you, who cess to your fringe reporting ING CENTER DUE TO THE EX- no representative at the union member of the UA. Please keep The new website is up and have an email address that we do nd rd th done by TIC via the Union ECUTIVE ORDER. hall the 2 , 3 , and 4 Wednes- his family in your thoughts and running. Please check out not yet have on record, please website. To gain access, click on SCHOLARSHIPS: Local day of each month until further prayers. www.ualocal85.org. Click on Lo- call and give it to April or Ann. the Members Access Your Infor- 190 Scholarship is now available notice. You can reach the ben- Please keep your information cal 85 Members to access mem- Reminder to Welders/Weld- mation Here, then click on TIC In- at the union hall for distribution efits office Monday through Fri- updated with the union hall. bers only information. Login in- ing Forms: The UA Welder ternational Corporation and then to members and their families. day by calling 888-390-7473. A speedy recovery to all of formation is username: first ini- Qualification Continuity Report Register. This is where you will There are two scholarships avail- MEDICARE: When you tial with full last name. Password our sick and injured members. forms are available on our type in your Name, Email Address, able. One from Local 190, due become eligible for Medicare, is 00 with your UA Card Number. website under Training or at the UA Card # and Create your own back no later than July 9th. The please contact Bernadette Maus If you should have any difficul- hall. Certifications expire every 6 password. Once you have com- UA scholarship will now only be at our Fringe Benefit office 1-888- Local 190, ties logging in, please call Kristin months and it is YOUR responsi- pleted all the information – click accepted electronically, no later 390-7473. at (989) 799-5261 ext. 8511. bility to get your welding forms on the LARGE REGISTER button than June 9th https:// CLASS INFORMATION – continued The new Facebook page is turned in on time. that is surrounded by a Blue Box. uascholarshipfund.community TRAINING CENTER – OFFICE live. If you are currently on the we have enough, we will put this Please update all Non-UA Your User Access will be granted force.com. You can contact the PHONE: 734-426-3700. Local Eighty-Five Facebook ac- class on. Looking to put this certifications (Plumbing License, the next business day. union office at (734) 424-0962 for The Training Center is open class on in the late summer, early count, invites were sent to have MUST, OSHA-30 etc.) by send- To access your account, further information. to members wishing to update you join the new site. UA Local fall, as we are upgrading our rig- ing a copy of your certification once it is set up, all you need to ROBO CALLS: We are any certifications, licenses, or 85 page is our public Facebook ging course. to the Union Hall do is access the Membership sending out Robo calls to keep qualifications. We are following EPRI Rigging and Signal account. UA Local 85 Members Check your dues records! Button again – type in your email you updated and informed, if you CDC, OSHA, MiOSHA, MDHHS, Group is our new members only Person Re-certification You are assessed a $50 reinstate- address and password – and all are NOT receiving these mes- and Washtenaw County Health Facebook. On this page, we will (16hrs): This class will be four ment once you become 3 months your information will be pre- sages it means we do not have a Department guidelines. You (4) days long. The Training have important messages and re- behind. You are automatically sented. As a member via the current phone number on file for must wear a face mask while in- minders specific to our member- Center is looking to put on a re- expelled once you are over 6 website, you will be able to keep you, please contact the hall to side the building. Check your ship. Please like both and let us certification/upgrade class. months behind. track of all your hours and receive update. Certifications to make sure that This upgrade is a 120-ques- know what you think. Safety Training on Local 111 an e-mail when hours are posted TICKETS ARE NOW you are current! TRAINING NEWS. Con- tion test. All rigging certifica- Web Site: When taking the on- to your account. This is very im- AVAILABLE TO PURCHASE - Lead/Asbestos/Blood- gratulations to our newest jour- tion and re-certification classes line safety training, go to our web portant as it is up to you to keep 47th ANNUAL GOLF OUTING: borne Pathogens Training (4 will include the signal person neyman Cruz Hale! site ua111.com and click on Safety up to date on the hours being Our annual golf outing will be hrs): 2021 Schedule - All on GOD BLESS ORGANIZED certification going forward. Links. Members must take these paid on your behalf by ANY held on Saturday, July 31. Our Mondays - July 19, 2021 @ LABOR AND THE LABOR Please call Retha to be put on safety trainings for each site to CONTRACTORS. event will be held at Whitmore 5:00pm, and Oct 4, 2021 @ the list. We will run this class as MOVEMENT! work at each mill. Please take note CHANGE OF STATUS: If Lake Golf Links, Whitmore Lake. 5:00pm. Call Retha to be put on SUB Fund: soon as we have enough for a they are valid for 1 year. you have a change of status for Mark your calendar for this spe- the list for the day you choose. Print Unemployment Pay- class. MSHA Training: The 2021 example: married, divorced, re- cial event. The prices are as fol- First Aid/CPR Training (4 ICRA Certification ment History located underneath MSHA schedule is on our web married, birth, death, workers lows: $80.00 union member, hrs): 2021 Schedule - All on the Certification Tab when logged (16hrs): Looking to put on an- site & our Facebook page. Call comp, address change, etc., $60.00 retiree union member and Mondays - July 26, 2021 @ into your MiWAM account. other ICRA certification class. Ann at (906) 226-6511 ext. 4 to please call TIC at the phone num- $100.00 for non-union. Please 5:00pm, and Oct 18, 2021 @ Next class possibly in-person at Deadline for submittals is Noon register. MSHA expires in one ber above and Lori at the Union purchase your tickets no later 5:00pm. Call Retha to be put on on Thursday in order to receive a the Training Center. In-person year. Hall. It is very important that we than Wednesday, July 29th. If the list for the day you choose. check that Friday. Checks will be class is limited to 8 participants. keep all our records up to date. you have any questions please EPA Universal Certification Call Training Center to get put mailed out on Friday. No in-per- There seems to be a continuing contact Karen at (734) 424-0962 (16hrs): This is a 16-hour son pickups allowed. If a holiday Local 85, on the list for the next class. If it problem regarding notification of Ext. 210 class. Class will be Wednesday falls on a Friday, checks will be is on-line, it will be ran through continued divorces. Note that you, the MICHIGAN GAS DISTRI- June 16th, Thursday, June 17th, Zoom. For on-line class, you issued on Thursday and deadline member, will be responsible for BUTION JOURNEYMAN Wednesday, June 23rd and will be moved up to Wednesday must have a computer with good visit www.ualocal85.org. any bills incurred and paid on WELDERS: Please remember it Thursday, June 24th from 5pm - by noon. reliable internet access and a Insurance: When you are claims of an ex-spouse or depen- is very important to keep your 9pm. Please call Retha to be put webcam. You must also have a Where to submit docu- working out of another Local’s ju- dents. (See Pages 6 and 27 in the continuity forms up to date. on the list for this class. ments: Address: UA Local Union valid email account. Test day risdiction it may take up to 90 days Summary Plan Description MICHIGAN GAS DISTRI- Welding Lab: Welding lab 85 SUB, 3535 Bay Road, Saginaw, will be at the Training Center. for your Insurance and Pension Booklet for clarification) Time BUTION - E-Mail address: is closed for the summer. Open RETIREE MEETINGS – MI 48603 Fax: (989) 791-3468 to be reciprocated back to Local limits apply for Please contact the union hall 734- welding lab will resume the SPADES and BREAKFAST MEET- Email: [email protected] 85, which may cause problems CONGRATULATIONS: 424-0962 or Pat Duffy 734-368- week of September 6, 2021. SUB Application for Ben- INGS HAVE BEEN CANCELED with your Health Insurance. AL- Congratulations to Randy Smith 4423 to make sure we have a cur- ASSE Backflow Certifica- UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. efits: Must be on file in order to WAYS SAVE YOUR CHECK on his recent marriage. rent e-mail address. tion (40hrs): This is a 40-hour NOTIFICATIONS FOR THE receive SUB Check. Available at STUBS and fax them in to the hall Congratulations to Donald MICHIGAN LICENSE RE- class, to become an ASSE Certi- the Hall. BUILDING TRADESMAN PA- at 989-791-3468 with the local you Bell on his 50-year life member- NEWAL: Plumbing license re- fied Backflow Tester (5110). PER: Please contact Karen 90-Day Rule: The weeks are working out of indicated. We ship with the Union. newals are done online ONLY!!! Class will begin Tuesday, Sept. Spearin at the union hall, (734) you are claiming must be submit- will fax them down to BeneSys to CONDOLENCES: Condo- For detailed instructions and re- 14th and run Tuesdays and ted within 90 days of the first 424-0962 Ext #210, if you would keep your Insurance up to date. lences to the entire Lisowski fam- quirements, please visit: Wednesdays for 5 weeks. like to put a special notification Monday following the week in RETIREE LUNCHEON: All ily on the recent passing of their www.michigan.gov/bcc. Feel free ASSE Backflow Re-Certifi- in the paper. which you are eligible to receive retiree luncheons are postponed mother / grandmother. to stop into the Union hall and cation (8hrs): Re-certification a State benefit per the Plan Docu- until further notice. Please check pick up a copy of the instructions. for the ASSE Backflow Tester “Middle age is when your ments. the ualocal85.org or Facebook for “As I know more of mankind UA LOCAL 190 WEBSITE: (5110) will be Tuesday, Oct 19th broad mind and narrow waist Taxes: There are no taxes all up to date information. I expect less of them, and am www.ua190.org Current members and Wednesday, Oct 20th. begin to change places.” taken out of SUB Fund Checks, CONDOLENCES: We ex- ready now to call a man a good will be able to log into the “Mem- Med Gas Installer and –E. Joseph Cossman however they are taxable wages tend our condolences to the fam- man upon easier terms than I was bers Only” section using your Brazer Certification (40hrs): and you will receive a W-2 at the ily of Robert Hester who passed formerly.” “It's the same each time with last name and UA card number. The next class will be in the fall. progress. First they ignore you, end of the year. If you want taxes away on April 27, 2021. –Samuel Johnson (1709 - Med Gas Installer Up-Date NEW ON THE WEBSITE: then they say you're mad, then withheld from your SUB Fund Remember you all are essen- 1784) Members can now view and sign (8hrs): These classes are com- Check, please indicate the dollar tial to me. dangerous, then there's a pause “Government is not reason, up for job calls. The same proce- plete. We will have classes in the amount for Federal and State on Justin M. Pomerville and then you can't find anyone it is not eloquence, it is force; dure will be used as the call-in fall. each SUB submittal. Business Manager/ who disagrees with you.” like fire, a troublesome servant line. If you are laid off or go back EPRI Rigging and Signal NOTE TO ALL MEMBERS: Financial Secretary –Tony Benn and a fearful master. Never for a to work, there are forms available Person Certification (40hrs): Address & Phone Update: Local Union 85 moment should it be left to irre- to fill out on the website that will The UA and EPRI have devel- “Everyone takes the limits Please call the Union Hall to up- inform the hall. oped a test to cover both the Rig- of his own vision for the limits of “Big, sweeping life changes sponsible action.” date any address or phone num- CREDIT CARD MACHINE: ging Certification and a Signal the world.” really boil down to small, every- –George Washington (1732 ber changes at (989) 799-5261. You now have the ability to pay Person Certification. The –Arthur Schopenhauer day decisions.” - 1799) Beneficiary Cards: Please your union dues or purchase standalone Rigging Certifica- (1788 - 1860) – Ali Vincent call the Union Hall for any “Therefore search and see merchandise by credit card or tion will no longer be offered. changes in beneficiary informa- “If there is no struggle, if there is not some place where debit card. We accept Visa, Please call Retha to be put on “To win without risk is to tion at (989) 799-5261. there is no progress.” you may invest your humanity.” MasterCard and Discover. A sur- the list for the next class. Once triumph without glory.” Website Address: Please –Frederick Douglass (1817 - –Albert Schweitzer (1875 - charge of 3.99% is added to your (Continued next column) –Pierre Corneille (1606 - 1684) (Continued next column) 1895) 1965) 12 THE BUILDING TRADESMAN May 21, 2021

Local 174 Plumbers, Pipe Fitters & Service Trades 10. Chris Pelton (1st alternate) West Michigan Plumbers, Fitters 11. Robert Barnett (2nd alternate) & Service Trades Local 174 12. Lenny Dehoff (2nd alternate) COOPERSVILLE – Meeting 13. Micah Perkins (4th alternate) Notice: We will have an in per- 14. Jeffery Rumsey II (5th alter- son, SPECIAL- CALLED meet- nate) ing on Tuesday, June 1st at 7pm UA Convention: The UA Local at the Union Hall to allocate our Convention will convene on the upcoming raise. We will have week of August 23, 2021. The 636 designated overflow areas should convention will either take place we reach capacity in the Assem- in San Diego CA in person, be Pipe Fitters, bly Hall. The meeting will also be entirely virtual, or a hybrid ap- Steam Fitters, broadcast in the members private proach with some delegates par- Facebook group. ticipating in person and others Refrigeration & Attention: This paper is to virtually. Air Conditioning serve as the official notice to the Local Union Picnic: The membership. Local #174 Family Picnic will take MOVING A BIN OF SCRAP outside the new Beaumont Outpatient Facility in Lenox Twp. is Al Service Stewards Class: Local #174 place at Heritage Landing in Vanlerberghe of Operating Engneers Local 324, behind the controls of a Telehandler He’s employed will be offering a Stewards Train- Muskegon on Saturday, July 17 by Roncelli. Pipe Fitters 636 ing class Tuesday, May 25th from from 11am to 3pm. This year we DETROIT – The Next Union 6pm-8pm at the Assembly Hall. would like to purchase prizes from Meeting is scheduled for June Come and learn why jobsite Stew- local vendors. If you know of a Hardhats and hard conversations 15, 2020, it will be held at St. ards are so important. We will local small business we could Georges Romanian Culture cover work jurisdiction, organiz- support please forward their info ‘Lean-In’ groups bring tradeswomen Center located @ 18405 W. Nine ing and contract issues. Dinner to Ryan at [email protected]. Mile Rd. Southfield MI 48075. It and drinks will be provided. Con- Dave Reynolds Memorial will start at 7pm. MASKS or tact Nathan Phillips to RSVP. Golf Outing: The Local 174 Golf together to navigate industry bias FACE COVERINGS are manda- Student Council: Below is a Outing will take place on Satur- (From North America’s spectful remarks. “Unions are all about collec- tory and temps will be taken at list of our 2021 Apprentice Stu- day, August 7th at the Falls at Bar- Building Trades Unions) The challenges of the Only tive voice, and this innovative the door. dent Council Members: ber Creek. The format will be a LeanIn.Org, North America’s experience make it exponentially program offers the perfect oppor- Antibodies testing will be Ed Bouchard (President), four person scramble. Each team Building Trades Unions harder for women to gain a foot- tunity to enhance that solidarity,” held at the Pipefitters 636 Union Connor Brown, Josh Brown (Sec- must have two Local #174 mem- (NABTU), and Canada’s Build hold in male-dominated industries said AFL-CIO secretary-treasurer Hall (30100 Northwestern Hwy. retary), Kevin Giles (Vice-Presi- bers. Registration at 8am and Together on May 11 announced like construction. This is a prob- Liz Shuler. “We need more women Farmington Hills MI 48334) on dent), Joe Kersjes, Gabriel Miller, shotgun start at 8:30am. The cost the formation of “Lean-In Circles lem, because these jobs tend to in the trades, more women in lead- May 24th and 25th from 12pm Aaron Plambeck, Aaron is $65 per person. Contact Cami for Union Tradeswomen,” a peer offer higher pay and better secu- ership roles, and having programs (Noon) to 7pm. Registration In- Rederstorf, Colin Van Heukelom, to sign up. Money must be paid mentorship and training program rity than other industries and pro- like this is a meaningful step to formation will be mailed to all Konner Wolter. Congratulations by July 31st. to help women break new ground vide critical benefits for workers create lifelong leadership skills members from Benesys. and thank you for serving our DHE Plumbing and Me- in an industry that’s been histori- and their families. As investment and real tools that will guide The Pipefitter 636 48th An- Local Union. chanical: We would like to talk cally dominated by men. in infrastructure grows and jobs tradeswomen throughout their nual Golf Outing is now SOLD Local Union Office: The of- to DHE’s workers. If you know “Women in the building in construction increase, having careers. Connecting with other OUT. We are on a waitlist so if fice will remain open. To reduce of a jobsite where they’re work- trades are talented and deter- access to these kinds of trades women in similar situations and you are interested in golfing, you foot traffic in the building we’re ing, please contact Chris Pelton. mined– but they are often alone,” represents a crucial opportunity sharing strategies through net- may contact Terry Gilligan to get asking members to conduct busi- Contact Information: If you said Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook for women. works is invaluable.” on the list. 248-538-6636. ness by phone are use the website have a change in contact infor- COO and LeanIn.Org founder. Lean In Circles for Union Two years in the making, the The Pipefitters 636 Retirees when possible. mation PLEASE CONTACT “Lean In Circles for Union Tradeswomen addresses head-on program was developed by play golf every Thursday UA Convention Delegate CAMI so we can keep our sys- Tradeswomen will connect them the issues tradeswomen face. The LeanIn.Org in partnership with throughout the Spring, Summer, Election: Congratulations to our tem up to date. with each other and help them yearlong program brings trades AFL-CIO and NABTU leaders, and Fall. We move around to dif- elected delegates listed in order TIC, Aetna, Labor First: If gain valuable skills for self-advo- women together in small groups subject matter experts, and ferent East and Northeast of votes received below. Thank you have issues with any of our cacy and navigating bias. This is (virtually for now) to connect, share tradeswomen to address the spe- Courses usually playing around you to all who stopped by and fund service providers please an important step toward empow- advice, and learn new skills. cific experiences of women in the 11:30am. Regular attendance not voted. Thank you to our elec- contact Ryan Bennett at ering more women to take advantage Tradeswomen discover how building trades. The program was mandatory. Play when you can. tion committee and Office Man- [email protected]. Please try of the pathway to economic security gender bias can play out on a piloted in St. Louis, Missouri, and If interested in joining us, con- ager/CPA Lisa Johnson for your to remember who you spoke with, that trade union jobs provide.” work crew or at a job site, gain throughout Canada in 2019 and tact Jim Dunn @ 248-709-7036 or help. Our final delegate count will this will help the company fix the Less than 4 percent of con- practical skills for navigating 2020 and received positive feed- Joe Bourgeois @ 313-590-0448. be based off end of March mem- problem. struction workers are women, and bias, and explore strategies they back from participants: 95 percent Pipefitters 636 would like to bership numbers, but we’ll likely COVID-19: The virus is because there are so few of them, can use to advocate for them- of Circle members said they built extend our condolences to the have 9 delegates plus the busi- showing up on many jobsites they are often the only woman selves and other women in the strong connections, and 90 per- family of Retiree Brother John ness manager. throughout our jurisdiction. on a crew or at a job site. Being trades. Each monthly meeting cent of group moderators re- Seigler on the passing of his wife 1. Jason Finch Please continue to practice social an “Only” is a major barrier to covers a specific topic – such as ported gaining leadership, facili- Elaine Seigler who passed away 2. Nathan Phillips distancing, wear a mask and women in any industry. Women how to respond when your abili- tation, and organizing skills. As on May 6, 2021. 3. Clint Fowler wash your hands frequently. who are Onlys face more bias and ties are questioned or how to ad- one tradeswoman put it, “The Pipefitters 636 would like to 4. Terry Brown PAC Cards: Since the elimi- sexism than women who work vocate to your boss for a leader- confidence I feel when a Circle inform the Local 636 members of 5. Mark Mangione nation of prevailing wage, the with other women. They are more ship role, like foreman – and in- member looks to me for advice is the current Office Administrative 6. Frankie Pagan race to the bottom on wages and than twice as likely to be asked cludes real-world examples and immeasurable. I take that confi- changes they are as follows 7. Jeffery Rumsey benefits for publicly funded to prove their competence, over scenarios to prompt discussion. dence with me to the job and de- (please notice the changes in the 8. Jeremy Raap projects has begun. Our political three times more likely to be mis- At the end of each meeting, mand respect through my actions.” SUB FUND correspondence): 9. Jason McDiarmid focus over the years to come will taken for someone more junior, tradeswomen commit to one action Following the success of the pi- Receptionist/Dues/Address be electing people who support and about twice as likely to be they plan to take to push back on lot, so far, more than 700 Changes/General Inquiries: Craig prevailing wage and wage stan- subjected to demeaning or disre- bias at work or advance their career. tradeswomen have signed up. Harmon email: charmon@ Local 636, con’t dards in general. To do that we pipefitters636.org 410-9984. Plan provider number need to raise our PAC card par- Local 174, continued ext.15, Lisa Johnson Accounting Sub Fund Office: Kristina is 7526. ticipation. We currently have less Manager 11, Cami Burris Admin- Springer: Please send all SUB You can now login to your than half of the local contribut- the Union office. Remember that efit inquiry. Your username is istrative Assistant ext. 10, Train- Fund Requests to email: Defined Contribution account on ing to our PAC. Your PAC contri- if you are expelled from the UA your social security number. The ing Dept: Jeff Rumsey ext. 16, [email protected] the Local’s website. Just click on bution DOES NOT COME OFF that you are no longer eligible to password for first time users is Nicole Shumaker ext. 30. 248-538-7065 the “Defined Contribution login YOUR CHECK. When you sign attend Local Union events, such K4GHB39 (case sensitive). You Training News. Account Management/ here tab” and it will take you to the PAC card it allows us to move as meetings, picnics, awards ban- will then be prompted to create a FIRST AID: First Aid/CPR/ Death Notice: Margaret April the BeneSys login page. The money from your working dues quets, and Christmas parties. permanent password. BBP class will be the second email: [email protected] Defined Contribution website is over to our PAC. Please call Cami Jurisdiction: Remember to Forms: The forms for Dollar Thursday of the month, from 248-538-6636 extension 102 www.yourplanaccess.com/ today and find out if you have always call into the local you are Bank Reimbursement and Sub 5:00p-9:00p. The next class will The Hall is now open to all benesys. All inquiries. current PAC card on file. traveling to. Do not rely on any- Pay are on the www.ua174.org be held June 10, 2021. foot traffic. Masks are RE- Are you “Work Ready”? Medicare Retirees: Effec- one else to call in for you. They website under the Members Only OPEN WELDING: Open st QUIRED. Dues payments or SUB Have any of your safety modules tive January 1 2021 your insur- will not get into trouble. It is the section and Forms and Links tab. Welding on Wednesday eve- transactions can still be done via expired? Is your Drug Test cur- ance premiums will be reduced by member who is working in another Contract Requirements: nings has been cancelled until email or by phone. SUB email is rent? Check your report card at approximately 12.5%. New rates local who has not checked in that Please remember Section 5.7 of further notice due to lack of par- [email protected] mustbsafe.org and if it is time for are as follows: gets into trouble. Please contact our collective bargaining agree- ticipation. The contract with Merrill renewal call the Training Center Single Medicare $262.55 Ryan Bennett if you see another ment states, “Persons called from ASSE BACKFLOW Lynch Wealth Management has 248-585-0636 and they will regis- Retiree and Spouse Medi- local’s contractors/members the unemployed list will report to TESTER: Class has been post- been finalized and Jason May has ter you. Be “ready” when the care $525.09 working in our jurisdiction. work with a UA/WMMCA issued poned and is now scheduled to new contact information, 248-655- calls come in. Safety modules Retiree and Non-Medicare Contact Info: Please make drug card.” Section 18.5 states, begin on Wednesday, June 2, 4048. and drug tests are paid for by the Spouse $677.55 sure we have your updated con- “…employees…shall be required 2021 @ 5p-9p (previously sched- CJ Harrison would like all our Contractors Association. WHEN Short Term Disability: The tact information. Check your info to maintain the following Safety uled to begin on 5/10). The re- members to know that she is still YOU STAY CURRENT WITH Local 174 Board of Trustees re- on the website or by calling Cami Training Certifications: First Aid/ vised class dates are as follows: available by phone during these YOUR SAFETY MODULES, cently voted to increase the at the Union office. CPR, Bloodborne Pathogens and June 2, 5, 7, 9, 12, 14, 16, 17 & 19 uncertain times, she is working DRUG TEST AND FIRST AID, short-term disability amount from Retiree Breakfast: Can- OSHA 10.” Please make sure you (Exam). Saturday classes are from home doing phone confer- YOU WILL QUALIFY FOR FU- $300 per week to $400 per week. celled until further notice. follow our agreement. scheduled for 8a-4p. The cost for ences which is still beneficial to TURE BONUS PAYMENTS. This increase will be effective Metal Trades, Helpers, and Out of work list: Please re- the exam is $120. Exam fees are th all our members and their fami- Recovery Support Group: September 30 , 2019. Trainees: Please remember that member to call extension 17 when due prior to testing. lies. You can contact her @ 313- Pipe Dreamers, a Peer Support Dispatch: We will be split- if you are working as a Metal you are laid off. You must call line Night classes will be added to 580-6887 Recovery group for ongoing re- ting up the dispatch responsibili- Trades, Helper, or Trainee your 17 to be put on the available to the schedule based on student de- The Retiree Association covery from substance abuse and ties between the business agent raises are based on the day you work list. When you leave a mes- mand and instructor availability. Meetings have been cancelled addiction meets the second and and the assistant business man- were first dispatched to work at sage, please speak clearly. Any If you have a certification that until further notice. The election fourth Tuesday of each month at ager positions. Each person will that classification. If you are not member who goes to work with- has expired in the last few months has also been postponed until 4:30pm at the office of “Work be on dispatch for 2 weeks. There sure of your dispatch date, please out a referral is in violation of our and have questions regarding re- further notice. – President David Life Strategies” 26789 Woodward is a dispatch email: dispatch@ contact the Union office. It is up to Collective Bargaining Agreement certification, please contact the Evans Avenue, Suite 3105, Huntington ua174.org which both offices have you to let the Union office know. and Article XXXI of our Constitu- Training Office. Many certifica- UA password good thru Woods 48070. Call 248-545-8301 access to. There is a dispatch Labor Councils: - Kent Ionia tion and By-Laws. Please contact tions have extended grace periods June 30, 2021: CERTIFIED AP- for details or any questions you phone extension that will switch - 3rd Wednesday of the month / the Union Hall to find out your on expiration dates. PRENTICESHIPS may have. between the two offices depend- Labor Temple 918 Benjamin / position on the out of work list. Please contact Jeff or Nicole Any member that is Retir- Also, a Relations/Divorce ing on who is on dispatch. 5:30pm Union Hall extension num- if you have questions. Call the ing contact Benesys @ 248-813- Support Group meet on the sec- New insurance carriers: Lakeshore – 3rd Thursday of bers: Ryan Bennett Business Training Office 9800 for your Retirement paper- ond and fourth Thursday of the Active and NON Medicare Retirees the month / CIO Hall 490 West- Manager ext:12, Nathan Phillips @ (616)837-0222 x16 (Jeff) / Nicole work or if you want to meet with month at 6pm. Aetna: (888)290-7241 ern / 6pm Assistant Business Manager ext. @ (616)837-0222 x30. the Financial Secretary Trea- Worker Assistance Pro- Save-Rx: (800) 228-3108 All members are encouraged 13, Jason Finch Business Agent Or via text Jeff (231)923-8140 surer, please give him a 7 to 10 gram: Work Life Strategies, LLC Medicare Retirees Labor First: to become active in our area La- ext.14, Chris Pelton Organizer / Nicole (231)206-4213. day notice so that he can get all are available to our members and (616) 345-0788 bor Councils. Please contact a of your paperwork in order. their families to provide personal Organizing Update: Please Union Officer for details. Dues: If you do not pay your counseling services and when contact Chris Pelton if you know FRINGE PLAN THIRD $$$ Top Prices Paid $$$ Dues by the end of each quarter. needed, referral to other profes- of any jobsites with a non-union PARTY ADMINISTRATOR: ALL TYPES of NONFERROUS and FERROUS SCRAP METAL After 2 quarters go unpaid you plumbing or mechanical contrac- sionals. Call 248-545-8301 to talk (TIC) West Michigan Plumbers, • ALUMINUM • BRASS • COPPER • STAINLESS STEEL will then be Expelled and have to to a counselor for issues relating tor or if you are interested in ac- Fitters and Service Trades Local • EXOTIC ALLOYS • CATALYTIC CONVERTERS be Re-Initiated and pay a $200 Re- to grief, alcohol and or drug ad- tively assisting with our organiz- No.174 Fringe Benefit Funds, • CARBIDE • HIGH SPEED STEEL • AUTO RADIATORS Initiation fee. diction, bankruptcy, financial ing efforts. There are plenty of 6525 Centurion Drive, Lansing, Defined Contribution Pen- management, marital, depression, opportunities available, ranging MI 48917-9275 COMMERCIAL CONTAINERIZED sion Plan: For those members legal and family counseling. from a one-day ride-along with a (517) 321-7502 Phone RESIDENTIAL SERVICE who use the Voice Response Unit, Consultations with Work Business Agent or Organizer all (855) 40-PLUMB Toll Free INDUSTRIAL PICKUPS VRU to obtain balance informa- Life Strategies are a service paid the way up to full blown salting. MONDAY-FRIDAY 8 A.M.-5 P.M. AVAILABLE (517) 321-7508 Fax SATURDAY 8A.M.-NOON tion and transfers funds in your for by the Insurance Fund. Re- Dues: Please keep your BENEFITS WEBSITE: Defined Contribution Pension, ferrals to outside professionals, monthly window dues current. westmichiganplumbers.org is (248) 960-1200 the number has changed. The if needed, will be paid for accord- You can find your dues bal- the TIC website where you can new number for the VRU is 877- ing to the current health care plan ance on the website or by calling check your contributions and MANN METALS CORP. (Continued next column) benefits. (Continued next column) benefit information. Click on ben- 1011 DECKER ROAD • P.O. BOX 711 • WALLED LAKE 48390 May 21, 2021 THE BUILDING TRADESMAN 13 Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers

BAC Local 2 the family and friends of Brother worksheets is a requirement of Local 514 WARREN/LANSING – We Richard Zellinger (Bricklayer & your apprenticeship. Metro De- Cement Masons take the COVID-19 outbreak seri- Welder) who passed away on troit Apprentice Worksheets are ously and recognize the impor- April 11, 2021. Brother Zellinger available for download at http:// & Plasterers tance of minimizing the spread of had been a member for 29 years. bit.ly/Apprentice_Worksheets. the virus. The health and well-be- CRAFTWORKERS If you do not have a printer, you Operative Plasterers’ and Cement ing of our mem- NEEDED: We need Skilled Brick- can pick them up during our Masons’ Local 514 bers and their layers and Restoration workers monthly meeting or contact Tom DETROIT – The next mem- families and and Caulkers in Metro Detroit. If Ward at (586) 757-6668 to request bership meeting is scheduled for continuity of you are available for work, or them by mail. For more informa- June 15 , 2021 at 7 p.m. for a Tele- service to our know anyone who is skilled in our tion on the Detroit Training Cen- phonic meeting. Please feel free members is our crafts, contact your Field Repre- ter visit: detroittroweltrades.org to call the Business manager or highest priority. sentative on their cell phone. You LANSING TRAINING any agent with questions on how If you have any can also have those who are in- CENTER: To make your appoint- to sign up. questions or terested call either the Warren ment for your annual RESPIRA- Have a safe and enjoyable concerns, office (586) 754-0888 or the Lan- TOR FIT TEST or for other Memorial day weekend. CHUCK please contact sing office (517) 886-9781. scheduled appointments at the Our thoughts and prayers KUKAWKA either the War- SIGNING BONUS FOR Lansing Training Center, please go out to the retirees that you all ren office at SKILLED CRAFTWORKERS: contact Howard Hipes directly at are safe and well. (586) 754-0888 or the Lansing of- Local 2 will pay up to $2,000 as a (517) 749-1102. Membership gold cards- fice at (517) 886-9781. Signing Bonus for skilled Jour- Go to https://www. Congratulations! MAY 2021 CHAPTER ney Level craftworkers who come michiganbricklayers.org to view Adolfo Santos – 25 Years MEETINGS. The May Chapter to work for one of our Union Con- the Lansing Apprenticeship and John Predkelis –25 Years meetings will also include the tractors for a month. Also, Local Training website and register fu- Gregory Brisboy – 25 Years Special Called meeting in all Chap- 2 members working with the tools ture 2020 online training classes. Louis Carducci – 25 Years ters for the purpose of NOMINA- and non-supervisory members MEMBERSHIP ASSIS- Jackie Galloway Sr. – 25 Years TION / ELECTION of Chapter can get the same amount as a TANCE: During this COVID-19 It is important for all mem- Chairman, Recording Secretary Finders Referral Bonus for each pandemic, the IUBAC Member bers to keep the Local updated and Sergeant-at-Arms for each new skilled craftworker who they Assistance Program has a num- on addresses, email and phone Chapter. If an election(s) is nec- refer, if they work for at least a ber of services available for free numbers. If you need to change essary in any of our Chapters, it month for our Union Contractors. or at a discounted rate to BAC an address or add an email and shall be conducted by secret bal- For more details and information, members and their families. These A CLEAN SWEEP of the new Beaumont Outpatient Facility in Lenox phone number please call the lot election at that June Chapter call your Field Representative or confidential services can be seen Township is made by Bill Kelly of Laborers Local 1076. He’s em- Local at (248) 548-0800. meeting. either the Warren office (586) 754- at http://bit.ly/MAP-BAC and are ployed by Roncelli. Lawrence Nemeth is the Ap- SAGINAW CHAPTER: 0888 or the Lansing office (517) also available via telephone at prenticeship Coordinator; he can Tuesday, May 25, 2021 at 7:00 886-9781. You can view the full (888) 880-8222 and ask for mem- be reached at (313) 350-0389. PM, 1300 W. Thomas Street, Bay Signing Bonus policy on our bership assistance Monday – ‘I can’t find the workers I need’ Attention all Apprentices City, MI 48706 website. Friday 8 am – 8 pm. These ser- now you will need to go to the JUNE 2021 CHAPTER A SPEEDY RECOVERY: A vices were established and are (‘at the wages I want to pay’) website: www.micementplasterer MEETINGS. METRO DETROIT speedy recovery is wished to all intended to help get us through training.com to enter your work CHAPTER: Tuesday, June 01, those who have been sick or in- difficult life situations. By Heidi Shierholz Viewpoint hours. When you get to the 2021 at 7:00 PM, 21031 Ryan jured. FACEBOOK: “Like” Local Economic Policy Institute website click the link “About” and Road, Warren, MI 48091 *IMPORTANT CHANGE 2 on Facebook “Bricklayers & There are lots of anecdotal growth. Unsurprisingly, at a re- then click on “Apprentice ANN ARBOR CHAPTER: Regarding Union Dues* All Lo- Allied Craftworkers Union, Local reports swirling around about cent press conference, Federal monthly work form instructions.” Tuesday, June 01, 2021 at 7:30 PM, cal 2 Members are now eligible 2 of Michigan.” employers who can’t find work- Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell You will be able to put in your 8225 Dexter-Chelsea Road, Dex- for a Union Dues discount, re- E-MAIL ADDRESS: Local ers. Just search “worker short- dismissed anecdotal claims of la- hours so Larry can keep track for ter, MI 48130 gardless of what month you are #2 wants to use every means pos- ages” online and a seemingly bor market shortages, saying, “We your raises. Any questions please FLINT CHAPTER: Wednes- paid through currently. This of- sible to communicate with you. endless list of stories pops up, don’t see wages moving up yet. feel free to contact Larry with any day, June 02, 2021 at 7:30 PM, 1701 fer is a great way to catch up on Sometimes we have time sensi- so it’s easy to assume there’s an And presumably we would see that questions you might have. W. Genesee Street, Lapeer, MI your monthly window dues by tive information (such as job alarming lack of people to fill jobs. in a really tight labor market.” If you are a Military Veteran 48446 taking advantage of this annual openings, picket lines, funeral But a closer look reveals there Further, when restaurant please contact the Local so we can KALAMAZOO CHAPTER: dues discount. arrangements and other such may be a lot less to this than owners can’t find workers to fill update our records. (248) 548-0800. Thursday, June 10, 2021 at 6:00 We are making available to communications) that would be meets the eye. openings at wages that aren’t The Local’s website is: PM, 11847 Shaver Road, ALL Local 2 members the oppor- most efficiently done via e-mail. First, the backdrop. In good meaningfully higher than they www.opcmiami.org. Schoolcraft, MI 49087 tunity to pay for 6 months of Please submit your address by times and bad, there is always a were before the pandemic – even O.P.C.M.I.A. Local 514 has a LANSING CHAPTER: union dues and receive credit for sending an e-mail to information chorus of employers who claim though the jobs are inherently more satellite office in Flint, MI. We Monday, June 14, 2021 at 6:00 12 months. An entire year for half @bricklayers.org and in the sub- they can’t find the employees stressful and potentially danger- welcome Member and Contrac- PM, 3321 Remy Drive, Lansing, the price! ject line place “Local #2 e-mail they need. Sometimes that cho- ous because workers now have to tors in the Flint area to handle their MI 48906 UPDATE - BAC LOCAL 2’S address” then type your name, rus is louder, sometimes softer, deal with anti-maskers and ongo- business transactions at: 2630 MARQUETTE CHAPTER: TRAINING CENTERS: Both phone number and e-mail ad- but it’s always there. One reason ing health concerns – that’s not a Grand Traverse, Flint, MI 48503. Monday, June 21, 2021 at 7:00 Local 2 Training Centers are open dress in the body of the commu- is that in a system as large and labor shortage, that’s the market Appointments may be made by PM, 119 S Front Street, to our members but visits to our nication. We appreciate your time complex as the U.S. labor market functioning. The wages for a contacting Business Agent Mike Marquette, MI 49855 offices should be scheduled by and effort in helping us accom- there will always be pockets of harder, riskier job should be higher. Stanfield at (517) 719-2316, or the SAGINAW CHAPTER: appointment. Please contact our plish this task. bona fide labor shortages at any Further, despite many anec- Business Manager Henry Will- Tuesday, June 22, 2021 at 7:00 PM, Training Centers at the numbers BAC 2 MI Texting Pro- given time. dotes of restaurants in particular iams at (313) 215-5063. 1300 W. Thomas Street, Bay City, listed below for an appointment gram: We have been communi- But a more common reason not being able to find workers, Members working for non- MI 48706 for annual RESPIRATOR FIT cating by text message more fre- is employers simply don’t want the labor market added 280,000 signatory commercial contractors TRAVERSE CITY CHAP- TESTS and other services. quently with our membership to raise wages high enough to at- jobs in the leisure and hospital- are having a negative impact on TER: Wednesday, June 16, 2021 DETROIT IMI TRAINING lately. We encourage our mem- tract workers. Employers post ity sector in March, the sixth high- our market share. Members work- at 7:00 PM, 1231 Hastings Street, CENTER: To schedule appoint- bers to sign up to receive our text their too-low wages, can’t find est percent increase in the last ing non-union will be brought up Traverse City, MI 49686 ments at the Metro Detroit Train- messages by workers to fill jobs at that pay half century, even though aver- on charges and fines will be en- Our deepest sympathies to ing Center, please contact Tom - texting 2MI to 877877 level, and claim they’re facing a age weekly earnings for forced. Let’s work together to Brother Nicholas Mataitis and Ward directly at (734) 552-7066. - You’ll receive a confirmation labor shortage. Given the ubiq- nonsupervisory workers in that secure our future! his family on the passing of their TMT RTI CLASSES RE- text asking for your member num- uity of this dynamic, I often sug- sector equate to annual earnings We must stay vigilant in our son, Adam. SUME WITH REDUCED CA- ber (IU#) gest that whenever anyone says, of just $19,651. With these kinds effort to promote our trade. If you DEATHS REPORTED: Our PACITY DUE TO COVID-19; - Respond with your six-digit “I can’t find the workers I need,” of numbers it is difficult to take are working in a crew of 5 or more sincere condolences to the fam- REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. IU number and you will receive she should really add, “at the the claims of widespread short- an Apprentice must be on the ily and friends of Brother John To register visit detroit Local 2 Text Messages going for- wages I want to pay.” ages very seriously. crew. Help out! Call the Local at Meffer (Bricklayer) who passed troweltrades.org and click Cal- ward! Furthermore, a job opening And there are far more un- (248) 548-0800. Training is the away on April 25, 2021. Brother endar. Classes are filled on a first PENSION AND HEALTH when the labor market is weak employed people than available key to our future!! Meffer had been a member for 6 registered first served basis and INSURANCE INFORMATION: often does not mean the same jobs in the current labor market. Please make sure your mod- years. will be held on the following Sat- Bricklayers Metro Detroit Local thing as a job opening when the In the latest data on job open- ules and drug test are up to date, Our sincere condolences to urdays from 7:00am – 3:30pm: Pension Fund (248) 641-4954 labor market is strong. There is a ings, there were nearly 40 percent there are some plant jobs that do the family and friends of Brother June: 5th & 12th Detroit & Vicinity Health In- wide range of “recruitment inten- more unemployed workers than require the MUST modules. You Robert Voss (Tile Layer) who Apprentices, remember that surance (Brick, Cement and TMT) sity” that an employer can apply job openings overall, and more can go online at: www.mustonline passed away on April 03, 2021. Related Training Instruction (RTI) (800) 435-4080 or (248) 828-6000 to an open position. than 80 percent more unemployed .org. Call the Local if you need a Brother Voss had been a member classes are a requirement of your (dvtt.org) For example, if employers are workers than job openings in the drug form sent out. for 22 years. Apprenticeship, failure to attend will MI BAC Health & Welfare trying hard to fill an opening, they leisure and hospitality sector. Please make sure that we Our sincere condolences to delay your apprenticeship and raises. and MI BAC Pension (800) 531- will increase the compensation While there are certainly have all of your current contact Additional classes will be 2244 (outstate funds, package and perhaps scale back fewer people looking for jobs now information, address and phone added as necessary to accommo- michiganbac.org) the required qualifications. Con- than there would be if Covid number so we can keep the fund Local 514, con’t date all apprentices. Cement Pension Fund (248) versely, if employers are not try- weren’t a factor – many people offices updated for your health ers and Cement Masons can con- Feel free to contact your 645-6550 (detroitcement ing very hard, they may offer a are out of the labor market be- care and pension and also if you tact (517) 321-7502 for health & BAC field representative or the masons.org) meager compensation package cause of Covid-related care re- are having your vacation checks welfare information now through Apprentice Coordinator should CALL-A-DOC (800) 835- and hike up the required qualifi- sponsibilities or health concerns mailed out. If you have moved Outstate Michigan Trowel Trades you have any questions. 2362 (D&V Health Fund) cations. Perhaps unsurprisingly, – without enough job openings please contact the Local and we Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Michi- METRO DETROIT AP- International Pension/Annu- research shows that recruitment to even come close to providing will change your addresses with gan. For the INTERNATIONAL PRENTICE WORKSHEETS ity Fund (Brick, Cement and intensity is cyclical. It tends to work for all job seekers, it again all of the fund offices. PENSION Call 1-888-880-8222 AVAILABLE FOR DOWN- TMT) (888) 880-8222 or (202) 638- be stronger when the labor mar- stretches the imagination to sug- IMPORTANT NOTICE Toll Free or (202) 638-1996. LOAD: Turning in monthly 1996 (dvtt.org) ket is strong, and weaker when gest that labor shortages are a FOR PLASTERERS AND DE- the labor market is weak. This core dynamic in the labor market. TROIT COMMERCIAL CE- means that when a job opening One question people raise is MENT MASONS: You can track goes unfilled when the labor mar- whether the expanded pandemic your annuity fund status at the ket is weak, as it is today, employ- unemployment benefits keep Wells Fargo website. You may ers are even more likely than in workers from taking jobs. Right do so by logging on to: www. normal times to be holding out now, for example, unemployed retirement.wellsfargo.com or for an overly qualified candidate workers who receive unemploy- call (866) 640-5138, you can also at a very cheap price. ment insurance benefits get not call the fund office at (248) 645- This points to the fact that just the (very meager) level of 6550 with any related questions. the footprint of a bona fide labor benefits they would get under PLASTERERS AND CE- shortage is rising wages. Employ- normal benefits formulas, but an MENT MASONS: It is your re- ers who truly face shortages of additional $300 a week. That sponsibility to fill out reciprocity suitable, interested workers will means that some very low-wage forms if you plan on working out respond by bidding up wages to workers – like many restaurant of the Local 514 area. This will Bricklayers and Allied attract those workers, and em- workers – may receive more in ensure that your hours are sent ployers whose workers are being unemployment benefits than they back to your home fund. If you poached will raise wages to re- would at a job. have any questions, or need Craftworkers Local 2 members: tain their workers, and so on. Is this making jobs hard to forms, please contact the Local. $2,000 Signing Bonus for Skilled Journeyman Bricklayers! When you don’t see wages grow- fill? There was a lot of fuss about Please make sure your benefi- ing to reflect that dynamic, you this same question a year ago, ciary information is up to date. BAC Local 2- Michigan is offering up to a $2,000 Signing Bonus for can be fairly certain that labor when workers were getting a $600 Any changes to your beneficia- Skilled Journeyman Bricklayers and Masonry Restoration Workers shortages, though possibly hap- additional benefit a week. There ries can be made at the Local. who join now and who stay working for our contractors! pening in some places, are not a were several rigorous papers If you have questions con- driving feature of the labor market. that looked at this question, and cerning your pension benefits, Our Members who refer these new members will get the same bonus as well! And right now, wages are they all found extremely limited ROAD BUILDERS can call: Toll not growing at a rapid pace. labor supply effects of that ad- Free at 1-877-876-9357 or (517) Journeymen Bricklayers in the Metro Detroit Area get $34.54 an hour, While there are issues with mea- ditional weekly benefit. If the 321-7502. PLASTERERS’ AND plus fully paid Health Insurance, and suring wage growth due to the $600 a week wasn’t keeping COMMERCIAL CEMENT MA- 2 Pensions. Our Contractors have immediate opening for unprecedented job losses of the people from taking jobs then, SONS can call: (248) 645-6550 for Skilled Bricklayers, and Masonry Restoration Workers. pandemic, wage series that ac- it’s hard to imagine that a benefit pension and annuity, and Toll count for these issues are not half that large is having that ef- Free 1-877-876-9357. All Plaster- For more information go to: bricklayers.org showing an increase in wage fect now. (Continued next column) 14 THE BUILDING TRADESMAN May 21 2021

Michigan Painters District Council

WARREN – Dear Members, DC1M WEBSITE: www.iupatdc1michigan.org DC1M FACEBOOK: www.facebook.com/iupat1m DC 1M UNION CARDS* Any questions regarding a lost, dam- Building aged Union cards, or have dues inquiries or have not received a card please contact the DC1M offices at: for Warren Office: (586)552-4474 extension 100 Freeland Office: (989) 695-6888 *FULL TIME POSITION OPENING FOR FTI APPRENTICSHIP- Beaumont LANSING FACILITY* The FTI of the Great Lakes Michigan Ap- prenticeship is looking to fill a full time instructor position at the FTI Lansing Facility. Any interested candidates please contact FTI Train- ing Director Shawn O’neill at (517) 304-4425 or email [email protected] *D-BAR-A BOY SCOUT CAMP ANNUAL MIX FIX 2021 SUC- CESS* Thank you to all DC 1M Members who participated in the 2021 D Bar A Mix Fix. We had over 100 Brothers and Sisters partici- pate to help beautify the Boy Scout Camp. PAINTERS DISTRICT COUNCIL 1M SMART PHONE APP. Painters District Council 1M is pleased to announce its’ all new APP. DRYWALLING AN ELEVATOR lobby at the Beaumont-Lenox Twp. Outpatient Campus are (l-r) Enrique Guillen and Guillermo For IPHONE go to IOS store, Guillen of Michigan Painters District Council 1-M. They’re employed by Denn-Co. Construction. The soon-to-open facility brings a For ANDROID got to Google Playstore new option for a full slate of health care services to northeast Macomb County in a three-story, 109,650-square-foot building erected Search for “Painters and Allied Trades” download APP near the intersection of I-94 and 26 Mile Rd. Roncelli is managing the project. Username: your member id# Password: painters With this APP you can access training classes, Local Union meeting times and dates, receive alerts, and communications from your Union, etc. GET INVOLVED AND PARTICIPATE IN YOUR UNION! OUT OF WORK/ BACK TO WORK: To keep work placement efficient, please notify the office when you are laid off or going back to work. Warren office# is 586-552-4474 or Freeland office# is 989-695- 6888. New job starts should be reported to the Union office, please do so Get involved. Work smart. Work safe.

Sign, Pictorial & Michigan Painters Mix, and Fix Display Local 591 Another year, another successful “Mix-Fix” weekend effort to help fix and maintain the facilities at the D-Bar-A Boy Scout Ranch in Metamora. Volunteers from the Michigan Painters District Council 1-M spent the day on Saturday, May 8 fixing doors, repairing screens Local 1M Sign Pictorial & Display 591 and painting cabins. It’s a traditional destination for the Painters Union, which has been volunteering a day each springtime for more than WARREN – The next Gen- two decades to help to refurbish the camp. Thank you to everyone who gave their time to give back to the community! Photo credits: eral Membership Meeting will be Painters District Council 1M District Council 1M held on Tuesday, June 1, 2021 at Business Manager: Robert 6:30p.m. Trustees and union stew- Gonzalez ards meet at 6:20 p.m. “There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.” Meeting date: 2nd Tuesday of Meeting may be postponed – James Thurber (1894 - 1961) every month at 6:30 p.m., with the due to covid, will notify a.s.a.p. Executive Board meeting at 6 p.m. Members must be in good “O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous Place: 14587 Barber Ave, Warren standing (dues up to date) with to use it like a giant.” MI 48088 & 419 S. Washington district council 1 app or receipt –William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) Ave, Lansing MI 48933 of paid dues to attend meeting Local Union 312 Anyone possessing a union “I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief Business Rep: Tim Schwerin membership and willingly works duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and Meeting date: 2nd Wednesday of at a nonunion shop doing union noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of every month at 6:30 p.m. work can have charges preferred its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each Place: 1473 N. 30th St., Galesburg, against them under Sec. 16.4,and honest worker.” MI 49053 19.8 of the District Council By- –Helen Keller (1880 - 1968) Local Union 514 laws. Business Rep: Scott Mikulen Any questions on local Meeting dates: 1st Wednesday union issues, please call Jeremy of every month at 7:30 p.m. Haviland at 586-899-0183,or Keith Place: 7920 Jackson Road, Ann Anderson at 586-899-7958,your Arbor, MI. Business Representatives. Web site: www.iupat- Questions pertaining to Lo- local514.org. cal 591 Pension Fund call 248- Local Union 826 645-6550 and/or Health Care is- Business Rep: Rocky Ackerman sues call 248-358-3340 or 800-482- Meeting date: 2nd Thursday of 8736 which will then be answered every month at 5:30 p.m. directly through fund office. Place: 3115 Joyce St. OUT OF WORK: BACK TO Burton, MI 48529 WORK: procedure for out of and Local Union 845 back to work: When laid off or Business Rep – Fred Frederickson going back to work, call the of- Meeting date: 1st Thursday of fice, 586-552-4474. every month at 7 p.m. AIELLO LAW GROUP PLLC Place: 419 S. Washington Av- enue, Lansing, MI 48933 Construction Injury Local Union 1052 Business Rep – Jake Fluty Specialists Meeting date: The Fourth Representing Trades Workers Wednesday of every month at 6:30 p.m and their families over 25 years Place: 3115 Joyce St., Burton MI 48529 WORKERS’ COMP Local Union 1803 SOCIAL SECURITY DISABILITY Business Rep: Josh Ovalle CONSTRUCTION ACCIDENT LITIGATION Meeting date: 4th Tuesday of ev- Mark Aiello ery month at 5:30 p.m. Local 357 ESTATE PLANNING - ELDER LAW Place: 7677 Midland Road, Glaziers & Our associates also handle: Freeland, MI 48623. Glassworkers Local Union 2352 UNEMPLOYMENT • ANY INJURY CASE Business Rep: Jeremy Haviland Glaziers & Glassworkers 357 ASBESTOS/TOXIC EXPOSURES Meeting Date: 3rd Tuesday of WARREN - Our next regular every month at 6:30 p.m. scheduled union meeting will be 3031 W. Grand Blvd, Suite 440, Detroit 48202 Place: District Council 1M, 14587 on Monday June 7, 2021 at 6pm. Barber Ave., Warren, MI. We will be voting on delegates (313) 964-4900 - (800) 881-8896 Local Union 2353 to the district council at this meet- www.aiellolawgroup.com email: [email protected] Business Rep: Keith Anderson ing. Meeting date: 3rd Thursday of Work remains steady in the FREE INITIAL CONSULTATION • VALIDATED PARKING every month at 6:30 p.m. area. There is lots of school work Place: District Council 1M, 14587 coming up this summer. That be- Local 357, con’t Barber Ave, Warren, MI. ing said, we will be busy. Brother Tony Meyers of town, all members are reminded “Let us make one point, that passed away on May 10th. that they must check in with the we meet each other with a smile, Brother Dennis Roberts passed local that you are working in as when it is difficult to smile. Smile away on May 13th. Please keep per the International Constitution at each other, make time for each them both in your thoughts and and our local C.B.A. other in your family.” prayers. The Fund Office address is #1 Michigan Electrical Maintenance Firm –Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997) Keep your working status Michigan Glass and Glazing Joint current; this helps protect your Funds, P.O. Box 966, Troy, MI “The squeaking wheel benefits. If you have a mailing 48098-066; phone number: 248- doesn't always get the grease. address and/or telephone num- 641-4957; fax 248-813-9898. Sometimes it gets replaced.” ber change, please notify the If you are in need of safety –Vic Gold Union and Fund Offices of the modules, please contact your changes. employer if you are employed or “Men make history, and not Dues payments may be the union office @ 586-552-4478, the other way around. In peri- mailed to the Union Office at if you’re not. Any questions call ods where there is no leadership, 14587 Barber Avenue, Warren, MI the hall or call the Council @ 586- society stands still. Progress oc- 48088. Make checks payable to: 552-4474. Participation is very curs when courageous, skillful DISTRICT COUNCIL 1M in care important to keep your union leaders seize the opportunity to of Glassworkers #357. strong, so try to make it to a meet- change things for the better.” When traveling to work out ing. –Harry S Truman (1884 - (Continued next column) -Business Rep- Don Stepp www.uispowerservices.com 1972) May 21, 2021 THE BUILDING TRADESMAN 15

Laborers 1191 DETROT – UNION HALL OPERATIONS- Laborers’ Local 1191 Local 36 has remained open during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, Local 1191 is making every effort to keep our members and staff safe during Elevator this time by limiting person-to-person contact at the Local Union Constructors Hall. Thanking you in advance and please follow the COVID-19 recommendations to stay safe and healthy. Elevator Constructors 36 Monthly Membership Meetings: We continue to monitor new DETROIT – ALL MEM- orders and directives pertaining to COVID-19. Decisions about mem- BERS ARE INFORMED that our bership meetings will be determined and relayed to you as they ap- next regular Membership Meet- proach. Union meetings are held on the first Friday of every month at ing is planned for Monday, May 7:00 pm at the Union hall (except for holidays), next membership 24, 2021 at 5:30 pm. As of this meeting will on the June 4th, 2021. printing we are having a meeting Retirees: Retiree Council’s monthly meetings will resume in the parking lot only, we are starting May 2021.Retiree Council’s meetings are the last Friday of seeking alternate ways to com- the month. The meetings are held 11:00 a.m. at the Local Union Hall, municate if the weather does not located at 2161 West Grand Boulevard in Detroit. cooperate or a venue to accom- Union Dues For 2021: Effective January 1, 2021 regular monthly modate us. Keep watching your dues are $35.00 for active members. Retiree monthly dues will re- email for possible changes! main the same $8.00. Attention All Apprentices, Reminder: Be sure to keep the Local Union updated with any monthly OJT forms are now changes to your phone number, address, and/or email. online at NEIEP which must be Members can now Pay Dues online 24/7 on our website at completed before the 9th day of LOOKING OVER PLANS in what will be the emergency area at the Beaumont Lenox Outpatient www.laborerslocal1191.org!!! Upper right-hand corner Pay Dues tab, the next month. If you are work- Facility are (L-R) Blake Stewart and Kim Fountaine of Electrical Workers Local 58. They’re employed and follow the instructions…Please also check out our website and ing out of our jurisdiction, laid by Centerline Electric. Photo by Laura Mastrangelo/Roncelli “Laborers’ Local 1191” Facebook page for important information about off or a probationary, OJT forms your Local Union. must be filled out and turned into NOTICE: The Uniform Local Union Constitution Article VIII the Hall. This is a requirement New option for health care sec. 4. The monthly dues are due on the first day of the month and of the Department of Labor. Do unless paid on or before the last day of the following month, the not put your apprenticeship in member shall be deemed suspended by the International Union with- jeopardy by failing to fulfill your set to open in Macomb County out notice. responsibility. Reminder to All (Continued from Page 1) most fun projects I’ve been as- Access is through a 2.5-foot- Save Time & Money: We urge members to make their pay- that the NEIEP website is avail- place later in the summer. sociated with,” Azar said. He said thick “giant door,” O’Dwyer said ments timely to avoid additional costs! Monthly dues can be deducted able to All interested in Review- “We are thrilled to offer Roncelli has had “a great rela- – “it’s 23,000 lbs. lined with lead from your vacation check and sent directly to the Local Union. Please ing and Continuing Education. much-needed health care ser- tionship” with Beaumont and and containing high-density stop by the Local Union office to get one of the “Vacation Monthly Attention All Members Re- vices in Macomb County,” said NexCore. And the building trades block.” Dues Deduction” forms or you may call the Local Union office at fund checks are available at Hall! Beaumont Health CEO John Fox. workers “have been fantastic, The Outpatient Campus in (313)-894-2241 to have one mailed to you. Members who sign up Attention All Members: “We selected the site because of couldn’t be happier with them,” Lenox is the first of its kind for for Vacation monthly dues deduction and pay (6) months at a time Check your pay stubs regularly, its convenient location close to he said. Beaumont Health, which said the will receive a 1-month rebate!!! To better serve our membership, we there have been multiple issues major thoroughfares in a grow- While the building and cam- facility “will offer a full continuum are accepting Credit & Debit payments. with several Companies with Pay ing and thriving community.” pus have been erected on virgin of quality outpatient care under Vacation Monthly Dues Deduction Authorization: Members and Rates due. The hours you are Beaumont Health selected land, that doesn’t mean there one roof in a highly visible loca- may revoke vacation monthly dues authorization at any time by sign- paid should match hours toward NexCore Group as its develop- weren’t a host of other consider- tion. With eight hospitals ing a vacation deduction cancellation form. This cancellation form vacation, benefits and expenses ment partner for the project. ations at the site. Azar said the throughout southeastern Michi- must be sent to the Local Union 1191 office, however understand submitted. All may request a copy All manner of work was on- first and biggest task at the site gan, Beaumont recognized the that Local 1191 needs to have this form on file at least (60) days of the time you submit, accord- going at the facility last month, was the de-watering effort – a need to bring high-quality and before the next vacation checks are distributed for the months of ing to the NEBA Agreement, Ar- with building trades workers toil- high water table below ground affordable healthcare services to May or November. ticle XI, Par 2. Any changes made ing in all corners of the building. necessitated a two-month effort the communities it serves.” Vacation Check Direct Deposit: If your mail delivery is slow or to your time are to be docu- Befitting a facility that will offer a to dry the area to install the un- Beaumont partnered with your mail is getting lost, then it is highly recommended to get your mented and given to you, NEBA wide variety of medical care, it’s derground utilities, such as storm NexCore Group, a national health vacation check direct deposited into your bank checkings or savings Agreement, Article XI, Par.1. All a very intense mechanical build- sewer, sanitary and water mains, care real estate developer, to de- account. A Payee Deposit Agreement must be completed and signed, Testing must be done according ing, with pipe, conduit and duct and to place concrete footings velop the campus. NexCore will and the member must return the payee deposit agreement at least 60 to Code and your Companies runs set in-between the floors. and foundations. handle design management, fi- days before the following vacation distribution for the month of May, Maintenance Control Program. It’s a building without a base- The construction team also nancing, contractor selection, or November to Michigan Laborers Vacation Fund, 6525 Centurion Document all tests that are due ment; the mechanical room is on had to be cognizant of, and work development, leasing, property Dr. Lansing Michigan 48917. and only tasks you have com- the first floor with electrical around, an existing 24-inch DTE management and asset manage- MUST Safety Awareness Training: Please check the MUST pleted. Keep all job logs current rooms placed on each of the three Energy high-pressure natural gas ment. There are opportunities for website at www.mustbsafe.com to see how many modules you have. with this information. floors. The major mechanical main running through the site and independent physicians and Drug Test Renewal: Members are reminded to keep your Yearly All Members, Local 36, Lo- equipment, including air handlers, located only three-and-a-half feet groups to open offices at the site. Drug Test current and also your 18 safety modules. You can sched- cal 85, Lansing and the EIWPF rooftop units and exhaust fans, below ground through portions NexCore said its design ule an appointment to take your modules at our training schools are holding outreaches sessions is located on the rooftop. of parking access at the west side team, HKS Inc., “created a build- located in Perry, Wayne, St. Joseph, or Iron Mountain by calling on Monday nights, 6:00 – 8:00 The facility will offer Beau- of the site. Then, there’s also a ing design that was flexible (517) 625-4919 or visit the training school website www.mltai.org to pm. No session on May 31st for mont Health-affiliated primary major storm sewer structure un- enough to accommodate the schedule appointments for modules. You can also contact the Local the Memorial Day Holiday. Re- and specialty care physicians, der the gas main. “DTE stressed acute care needs of the hospital Union office at (313) 894-2241 to use a Local Union computer to viewing and answering any ques- emergency care, imaging, outpa- the importance of what would as well as lower acuity spaces. complete required modules. tions pertaining to Michigan and tient surgery, cancer services, happen to local homes and busi- The result was a dual entrance Training: Check out the training classes available to you at no Detroit Elevator Codes. Contact physical therapy and many other nesses – and the local economy design concept with two-story cost. Journeymen and apprentices may still obtain training through the Hall if you are interested. The services. – if we hit into that pipe,” said glass atriums at each entrance to MLTAI’s online training at https://lms.mltai.org. Types of training link will be sent to you for either “The campus will allow our Gaudreau. “So we dug very care- maximize daylight and provide an you can take include: Asbestos Awareness-Silica Awareness-Infec- online or phone participation. team of experts to share knowl- fully around that main.” open and inviting layout. A tious Disease Awareness-Respirator Awareness-Hazard Communi- Maintenance Control Programs edge with each other and collabo- One of the unique – and greeter will be stationed at the cation-Blood borne Pathogens Awareness-Covid-19 Awareness-Lead (MCP) reference the Codes, are rate with patients and their families heaviest – features of the build- entrances of the building to as- Awareness. you being Code compliant? for care that works best for them,” ing will rarely be seen by most sist in guiding patients and to NOTE: Classes & Certifications contractors have been asking Know what the MCP is referenc- said Beaumont Chief Medical Of- patients and visitors. In fact, most provide concierge-quality ser- for are: OSHA 30, Asbestos & Lead Awareness, Hoisting & Rigging, ing for you the Licensed ficer David Wood, M.D. of the staff at Beaumont Health vice. Public areas available Pipeline Safety, Class A Cdl License, Asbestos Removal Supervisors Journeyperson. Construction began with will have never seen a linear ac- throughout the first floor include Licence, Confined Space Permit Required, Grade Checking Blue- Reminder, keep your State site work in November 2019. celerator vault, which is under a café, lounge space for common print Reading & Measuring Tools, GPS Location. The above train- of Michigan and City of Detroit Roncelli’s team leaders on the construction on the building’s area waiting, and a retail pharmacy ing and certifications are all available at the training center. It could licenses current. Sign up to re- project include Senior Project first floor. It’s a super heavy-duty focused on wellness.” mean the difference of being sent to work or not! FYI: By taking the ceive Safety Alerts at IUEC.org Manager Paul Flores, Assistant structure that will house a pin- Roncelli’s Azar said even OSHA 30 your 18 MUST Safety modules are updated as well. If you for safety and product alerts to Project Manager Ryan O’Dwyer, point radiation delivery system to with a three-week interruption in are not able to go to the Training Center for MUST Safety Modules your phone. All Construction and Project Engineer Mohamad aid in cancer treatment. construction at the site last year contact the Local Union to assist you with making arrangements to Modernization work is Team- Fardoun, Superintendent Jeremy The accelerator – one of only due to Michigan’s executive or- complete them. work. Request assistance when Azar, Superintendent Rob Mar- a handful in Michigan – requires ders reaction to the COVID-19 Referral List: Every member who is looking for work must call, needed, do not proceed until pro- tin and Director of Health and the placement of a concrete en- pandemic, the building will be or come to the Local Union Office on Mondays between 1:00 pm and vided as stated in your Safety Brett Gaudreau. closure that is 3.5 feet to 6 feet turned over to NexCore on sched- 4:00 pm and put their name on the out-of-work list. You must have an Company’s Safety Policy. Con- “I’m very pleased with the thick in order to safely operate ule, or ahead of schedule, and on out-of-work skills sheet filled out and on file in order to be referred tact the hall if assistance is de- project, it’s one of the biggest and and encapsulate the radiation. budget. out for work by the Local Union. Also be sure to Check & Update nied. Keep the hall informed of your Skills regularly. starting all jobs. Roll Call: All members on the out-of-work list must re-register We regret to inform all mem- every quarter within the first five days of the following months March, bers, but the Executive Board Employers: Want workers? June, September and December. Your failure to do so will result in and Officers have decided to can- your name being removed from the referral list. *Example: If your cel this year’s 2021 Picnic due to name is on the list in April and or May and you don’t re-register by Covid concerns. Remember to al- It’s time to pay a living wage th June 5 your name will be removed from the list. ways follow COVID-19 guidelines (Continued from Page 1) try. While these low-wage work- Members are urged to report new project starts to the Local for your safety and those around $70,000, recently said he gets 300 ‘What we are ers braved the pandemic, their Union. Members working for a contractor who may be looking to hire you. applications for every opening. CEOs cashed in. additional laborers are urged to call the Union Hall and help a brother Have a Safe and Enjoyable It turns out there’s no “labor witnessing now is A new report from the Insti- or sister get referred out to work. The next time, it may be your name Memorial Day. The Hall would like shortage” – just a shortage of a reckoning and tute for Policy Studies found that on the list when that call comes in for work. to pass on our condolences to people who will work for starva- among the 100 S&P 500 firms with CONTACT NUMBERS. Michigan Laborers’ Fringe Benefits the friends and family on the tion wages, especially during a reassessment of the lowest median worker wages, Funds (Annuity, Insurance, Pension & Vacation) passing of Honorary Retired pandemic that’s hit low-wage the future of work’ 51 rigged the rules in 2020 to *Telephone: (877) 645-2267 * Fax: (517) 321-7508 *Website: Brother Dan Gawenda. Get well workers the hardest. What we are award CEOs large bonuses while www.michiganlaborers.org wishes are extended to all our witnessing now is a reckoning stay competitive, employers must their low-wage employees suf- *Delta Dental: (800) 524-0149 Brothers and Sisters who are on and reassessment of the future adapt to the demands of the mar- fered. Average CEO pay skyrock- Metropolitan Detroit Laborers’ (Pension) *Telephone: (248) 641- our sick list. Be Safe and Be of work. ket and pay their workers what eted 29 percent to over $15 mil- 4942 *Fax: (248) 813-9898 Healthy! But rather than think criti- they are worth. lion, while average employee sala- Metropolitan Detroit Laborers’ (Healthcare) *Telephone: (800) cally about why so many work- Instead, they’re opting to ries fell to barely $28,000. 228 0048 “Usually, terrible things ers are hesitant to return, some slash unemployment benefits, It’s been well over a decade Metropolitan Detroit Laborers’ (Vacation) *Telephone: (877) 645- that are done with the excuse pundits and right-wing politi- oppose significant increases in since Congress raised the federal 2267 *Web Site: www.metrodetroitlaborers.org that progress requires them are cians blame unemployment ben- the federal minimum wage, and minimum wage. But meanwhile, BENEFICIARY REMINDER: Please remember to designate or not really progress at all, but just efits. President Joe Biden’s have the government subsidize the CEOs and speculators who update your beneficiary choice especially after a divorce on all of terrible things.” American Rescue Plan provides businesses by forcing employees get rich off minimum-wage labor your LIUNA Local 1191, American Income Life Accidental Benefit, –Russell Baker (1925 - 2019) an extra $300 a week for those out to rely on assistance like food have seen their fortunes sky- Pension and Healthcare funds. The law requires that in the event of “They can do all because of work during the pandemic. stamps to get by. Same as it ever rocket. If the minimum wage had an untimely death your benefits go to your estate and may be taxable. they think they can.” The GOP now wants to take was. increased at the same rate as Wall Each individual benefit needs to have a designated beneficiary. –Virgil (70 BC - 19 BC) that away. Republican governors The COVID-19 pandemic Street bonuses since 1985, it Death Certificates: Please always notify the Union Hall with a “Total absence of humor from Montana, South Dakota, has exposed the reality that our would be worth $44 an hour to- phone call when a member of the Local has passed away and submit Utah, Iowa, and Arkansas, for economy is dependent on exploi- day. a copy of a Death Certificate for deceased active or retired member. renders life impossible.” – Colette (1873 - 1954), example, have already an- tation. As the virus spread, many With all of this in mind, Scholarships. LIUNA members can apply for scholarships for nounced they will cut unemploy- workers watched their bosses would you put your life on the university, college, trade school and technical trainings through “Ability will never catch up ment benefits in order to force prioritize profit over the lives of line for $7.25 an hour? For em- Union Plus. Learn more information about Union Plus scholarships with the demand for it.” more people back to work. If Re- employees, who risked their ployers, the lesson should be at www.unionplus.org/benefits/education/union-plus-scholarships. –Malcolm Forbes (1919 - publicans truly wanted to abide health and lives to work frontline simple: If you want workers, pay 1990) jobs during a pandemic that killed “Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. by their free market ideals, they them a living wage. over 500,000 people in this coun- Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's “An ignorant person is one would recognize that in order to (via www.otherwords.org) only for wallowing in.” who doesn't know what you “Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.” –Katherine Mansfield (1888 - 1923) have just found out.” –Will Rogers (1879 - 1935) –Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (1893 - 1986 “All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem “I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.” brings us face to face with another problem.” “Victory belongs to the –Leo Rosten (1908 - 1997) ) –Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968) most persevering.” “Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.” –Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 “It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.” –Greek Proverb - 1821) – Publilius Syrus (~100 BC) 16 THE BUILDING TRADESMAN May 21, 2021 essary to complete the work. The clearly visible part of the There is also a detailed pro- smolting process is the shedding tocol created and revised annu- of the camouflaged (with parr Outdoors ally that describes the process marks) scales that help conceal required to fertilize, disinfect and the fish while in rivers and prepare the eggs for the trip from streams. These scales are re- Catching fish eggs the weir to the hatchery. placed with bright silvery scales Once these steps are deter- as they migrate down rivers to the By Scott Heintzelman, Aaron mined, it is time to bring in the Great Lakes. Switzer and Joe Mickevich fish. Fish are moved from the large This occurs after only six Michigan Department of holding ponds by opening the months for Chinook salmon, while Natural Resources pond doors and using a machine steelhead are in the hatchery for Have you ever wondered called a crowder to slowly push about one year. Stocking fish dur- where those salmon and trout the them into the main raceway. ing the smolting process assists Michigan Department of Natural From there, the fish are slowly biologists in predicting where the Resources stocks in the Great pushed into the spawning build- fish may return to spawn. Lakes and tributaries come from? ing and lifted by a basket into a The Little Manistee River Before they hatch into fry tank where fish are anesthetized Weir facility and grounds is also (very young fish), before they for handling. The fish are then a great place to visit. Egg-take grow to stocking size and before taken out of the basket and put operations are usually open to the they leave the stocking truck, the onto a sorting table where ripe- public (apart from recent COVID- eggs of these fish must be col- ness can be checked, and males 19 restrictions) and allow visitors lected by DNR Fisheries Division and females are separated. The to see these amazing fish and the personnel. ripe males are gently squeezed so process of harvesting their eggs The Little Manistee River Weir milt, or sperm, can be collected in up close. Weir tours, combined with and Egg Collection Facility, located a small receptacle. Eggs are re- education and outreach efforts, on the beautiful Little Manistee moved from ripe females by add- bring hundreds of students to the River just outside of Manistee in ing compressed air into the body Little Manistee Weir every year to Manistee County, is the place cavity with a small needle. MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT of Natural Resources staffers work to sort fish for spawning at the Little learn about the life cycle of fish, where this story originates. In the steelhead egg collection Manistee River Weir and Egg Collection Facility in Manistee County. invasive species, the history of For over 50 years, workers at process, spawned fish are moved salmon in the Great Lakes and the the Little Manistee facility have from Chinook salmon that spawn to a recovery tank outside the build- DNR programs that manage and collected eggs from Chinook in the fall. ing before being released upstream. sustain these prized fisheries. salmon and steelhead, two very In 2019, the facility got much- Steelhead do not necessarily die In 2012, the DNR partnered important and popular gamefish needed upgrades, including re- after spawning and can spawn more with the Manistee Explore the species. placing most of its mechanical and than once in their life cycle. Shores Program to add universally The egg-take facility was concrete infrastructure and add- In contrast, Chinook salmon accessible amenities at the site, in- constructed in 1967 and began ing efficiencies such as LED light- only spawn once during their life cluding paved pathways around operations in 1968 to meet the ing and pump improvements. cycle and then die, so fish that the grounds that offer a self-guided growing interest in fishing for Over the last 50 years, there have been spawned are then har- tour with informational signage, a salmon and steelhead – two non- has been only one time the facil- vested and sold by a state con- large observation deck below the native species introduced previ- ity and staff were unable to fulfill tractor. During both egg collec- weir structure, handicap parking ously to the Great Lakes. This site the egg quota for the steelhead tion operations, males and fe- spaces and Americans with Dis- on the Little Manistee River was program. In the spring of 2020, the males are put in individual buck- abilities Act-compliant pit toilets. chosen based on its proximity to COVID-19 pandemic was still in ets for fertilization. Eggs are then This work was made possible by a Lake Michigan and its ideal its early stages, and the many combined in large egg buckets to grant from the Michigan Natural spawning habitat that already unknowns at the time resulted in finish preparation for transport. Resources Trust Fund. supported natural reproduction of the painful decision to suspend When the buckets of fertil- If you would like to visit the steelhead (lake or ocean-going spring egg-take operations out of ized eggs leave the Little weir, check out dates of opera- rainbow trout). an abundance of caution. Manistee River Weir facility, they tion and more at Michigan.gov/ In the late 60s and early 70s, For the fall Chinook salmon go to a DNR fish hatchery, where Hatcheries. the introduction of coho and Chi- operations, return-to-work proto- MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT of Natural Resources fisheries techni- they are counted nook salmon revitalized Great cols were in place. These same cian Ed Barr works with collected fish eggs at the Wolf Lake State and placed in incu- Lakes fisheries that were depleted protocols were in place for the Fish Hatchery. MDNR photos bators. This begins by invasive sea lamprey and ale- 2021 spring steelhead operation, would. The other major compo- leads them into the facility. Once the fish’s journey wife, commercial fishing and habi- allowing staff to meet the needs nent of the facility is a fish ladder a significant number of fish have through the hatch- tat degradation that had occurred of this important program while leading to a raceway that con- been collected in ponds, egg-take ing and early rear- over time. safely working together. nects to several ponds. The operations can begin. ing process. Beginning in 1968 and con- The Little Manistee Weir and ponds, raceway and fish ladder are A typical day of egg take be- The fish are tinuing through today, the Little Egg Collection Facility and all flooded using large pumps that gins with a significant amount of kept in the hatch- Manistee egg-take facility has grounds includes several impor- pump water from the river channel planning and preparation. First, eries until they be- operated as the primary source for tant components that provide a that circulates throughout the fa- the quota of eggs to meet the gin the visible Chinook salmon eggs, and the sole way to capture and hold fish and cility and down the fish ladder. stocking requests of the program, smolting process, source for steelhead eggs, for these allow staff to collect and fertilize The flow of water through including enough surplus stock when physiological two fish-stocking programs. eggs and to release or harvest fish. the facility attracts fish congre- to allow for changes in stocking changes occur as The facility operates from The process begins with the gated below the weir up the fish numbers and losses during the these migratory fish about mid-March to May to col- weir structure itself. The weir is ladder and into holding ponds. rearing process, must be deter- begin homing in on lect eggs from steelhead that basically a temporary dam that Chinook salmon and steelhead on mined. This gives staffers who their surroundings, AND HERE’S WHAT FISH EGGS BECOME: spawn in the river each spring. blocks fish from migrating up- their spawning run instinctively conduct the egg collection an idea which will determine Olen Gannon, Michigan Department of Natural Mid-September through October, stream but does not impound wa- move upstream to seek out of how many days the operation where they return to Resources fisheries technician at the Harrietta the facility staff collects eggs ter in the way a traditional dam spawning habitat. This instinct will take and the staffing level nec- spawn. Field Office, is shown with a 20-pound steelhead.