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IBEW JOURNAL, APRIL 2006 Slip Sliding Away ® www.ibew.org April 2006 TO LETTERSTHEEDITOR Working Together I am a member of EXECUTIVE OFFICERS INTERNATIONAL Local 697 and had the EDWIN D. HILL VICE PRESIDENTS opportunity to work on International President First District 900 Seventh St., N.W. PHILIP J. FLEMMING the #14 Blast Furnace at Washington, D.C. 20001 1450 Meyerside Drive, Suite 300 U.S. Steel’s Gary Works JON F. WALTERS Mississauga, Ontario, Canada L5T 2N5 for Meade Electric. Being International Secretary-Treasurer a young journeyman, I’ve 900 Seventh St., N.W. Second District Washington, D.C. 20001 never been on a job of FRANK J. CARROLL, JR. 4 Armstrong Road, 2nd Floor this magnitude. On some INTERNATIONAL EXECUTIVE COUNCIL Shelton, Connecticut days there were over 200 06484 Chairman electricians. Anyway, I ROBERT W. PIERSON Third District worked on the top of the c/o IBEW Local 9 DONALD C. SIEGEL furnace and was fortu- High Point Plaza Office Ctr. 500 Cherrington Pkwy. 4415 W. Harrison St. #330 Suite 325 nate enough to work Hillside, Illinois 60162 Coraopolis, Pennsylvania 15108 with some of my brothers First District Fourth District from other locals. I even learned some “tramp magic” along the way. JOSEPH P. CALABRO PAUL J. WITTE c/o IBEW Local 1158 Here is a picture of all of us on the top of the 300 ft. bleeder deck. From 8260 North Creek Drive, Suite 140 1149 Bloomfield Avenue Cincinnati, Ohio 45236 left to right, back row: Rob Willis and Lou Feldman. Middle row: Bryan Clifton, New Jersey 07012 Sandy, Jason Pritchard, Tony Furlan and Henry Dates III. Front row: Chris Second District Fifth District “Whitey” Kerkes and myself, Nate Plants. I think it is great that all of us from MYLES CALVEY JOHN F. SCHANTZEN different locals (697, 531, 606 and 668) could all pull together and get the c/o IBEW Local 2222 100 Concourse Parkway 122 Quincy Shore Drive Suite 300 job done. I felt a real sense of brotherhood and feel lucky to have worked Quincy, Massachusetts 02171 Birmingham, Alabama 35244 with these men. I will never forget these guys and my experiences on the Third District Sixth District SALVATORE J. CHILIA job. After all, we made history, right? JOSEPH F. LOHMAN c/o IBEW Local 38 Nate Plants 8174 Cass Avenue 1590 E. 23rd Street Darien, Illinois 60561 Local 697 member, Gary and Hammond, Indiana Cleveland, Ohio 44114 Fourth District Seventh District Defeating Ourselves? LONNIE PLOTT JONATHAN B. GARDNER As I write this, I am currently unemployed and feeling somewhat betrayed P.O. Box 181 320 Westway Place, Suite 531 by my brothers and sisters. “Why?” you may ask, and I have one word, “fur- Dacula, Georgia 30019 Arlington, Texas 76018 Fifth District lough.” When I began the apprenticeship 5 years ago, I suppose I was naive Eighth District enough to believe that the word “brotherhood” stood for something. STEPHEN SCHOEMEHL TED C. JENSEN c/o IBEW Local 1 2225 West Broadway, Suite H Now a journeyman and starting my career, I am disillusioned by the lack of 5850 Elizabeth Avenue Idaho Falls, Idaho 83402 solidarity among our brothers and sisters. Sure when you ask them if they are St. Louis, Missouri 63110 good union members, they say “Yes.” But their actions don’t reflect their Sixth District Ninth District MICHAEL S. MOWREY words. For all intents and purposes, the members who choose to sit for their GREGORY LUCERO c/o IBEW Local 66 2500 Venture Oaks Way, Suite 250 contractors are collaborators, defeating what our predecessors fought so hard 4345 Allen Genoa Road Sacramento, California to gain. Pasadena, Texas 77504 95833-4221 It may seem moot to some, but in reality, how are these “brothers and Seventh District Tenth District sisters” any different than their nonunion counterparts? By sitting for contrac- PATRICK LAVIN ROBERT P. KLEIN c/o IBEW Local 47 5726 Marlin Road, Suite 500 tors, you defeat the idea of equal opportunity employment to your fellow 600 N. Diamond Bar Blvd. Chattanooga, Tennessee union members. You spit in the face of the men and women who literally Diamond Bar, California 91765 37411-4043 shed their blood to give us what we have today. Eighth District Eleventh District So I ask, do we continue to defeat ourselves by continuing on this same JOSEPH FASHION c/o IBEW Local 353 LINDELL K. LEE path, or do we take a long hard look around and see that if we don’t change 1377 Lawrence Avenue, East 300 South Jefferson, Suite 300 our ways, we may end up without anything but a fond memory of what our North York, ON, Canada Springfield, Missouri 65806 union was. (Continued on page 8) M3A 3P8 FOR THE LATEST NEWS VISIT www.ibew.org IBEW®JOURNAL April 2006 Volume 105 Number 3 IBEW JOURNAL 14 NEW ALLIANCE Edwin D. Hill, EDITOR C. James Spellane, R DIRECTOR E 14 Mechanical Crafts Carol A. Cipolari, V MANAGING EDITOR O Form New Alliance Carol M. Fisher, C SR. EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Malinda R. Brent, COMMUNICATIONS SPECIALIST Len Shindel, 6 Solidarity Rescues COMMUNICATIONS SPECIALIST Hurricane Survivors ARCHIVES Mike Nugent, INTERNATIONAL REPRESENTATIVE 12 EXTREME MAKEOVER HOW TO REACH US 9 Proposed Merger We welcome letters from our readers. The writer should include his or her name, Raises Questions address and, if applicable, IBEW local union number and card number. Family members should include the local union number of the S IBEW member to whom the Journal is E mailed. Please keep letters as brief as possi- IBEW in Public Office— R 10 ble. The Journal reserves the right to select letters for publication and edit all submis- U sions for length. T Larry Clark A Send letters to: E Letters to the Editor, IBEW Journal, F 900 Seventh Street, N.W., 12 Unions Go ‘Extreme’ 6 HURRICANE RELIEF Washington, D.C. 20001 or send by e-mail to: Hit show requires union skills [email protected] ©2006 International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. IBEW on Duty All rights reserved. Printed in the U.S.A. 16 on Union-made paper. IBEW Journal (ISSN: 0897-2826) Published monthly, except January/February and Octo- ber/November, which are combined issues, 16 IEC Meeting by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, 900 Seventh Street, N.W., Washing- ton, D.C. 20001. Subscriptions prices in the United States and Canada, $4 per year in advance. Periodicals postage paid at Wash- 2 President’s Message ington, D.C., and at additional mailing offices. S POSTMASTER: Send address changes to T IBEW Journal, 900 Seventh Street, N.W., 3 Secretary-Treasurer’s Washington, D.C. 20001. This Journal will N Message E IBEW®JOURNAL not be held responsible for views expressed by correspondents. Paid adver- Get Connected! tising is not accepted. M 4 IBEW Currents T Publications Mail Agreement No. 40011756 Return undeliverable Canadian addresses to R 8 Safety Corner B&M Mailing Services Limited, 35 VanKirk A If you would like to Drive, Unit 15, Brampton, Ontario L7A1A5. P receive your IBEW E-mail: [email protected] 18 Local Lines E Journal via e-mail instead D 27 In Memoriam of in your mailbox—contact us at [email protected]. Give us your name, IBEW local union number, card number and e-mail address and we will send you the link to access the Journal electronically. 1 Running the Future came across a quote in an article recently: in my 50 years of carrying an IBEW ticket. Our message has made a difference. I have heard directly from people who “History does not run on its own. It is hire our contractors and our members for big jobs in indus- run.” tries like power generation, automobiles, telecommunications and even petrochemicals. They see a marked difference in That summed up perfectly my message to the annual the performance of our members—in work ethic, productiv- Construction and Maintenance Conference this year. We ity and appearance. We are getting opportunities in places are finished letting ourselves be defined by events. We are we have never been before. Idetermining our own future. It’s ironic that the answer was right in Human nature is a powerful thing. It is front of us all along. We are seeing that human nature to do what’s comfortable, the old-fashioned values of hard work or easy, or what we are used to, even if and skilled craftsmanship are alive and our actions aren’t yielding the results we well. We have seen that empowering the want. best in our ranks means that they become The construction branch of the IBEW the standards by which we are judged. that I saw when I took office in 2001 was As you will read in this issue, we have on the brink of bad times. We were just taken an important step with the creation coming off some incredible boom years of the Mechanical Allied Crafts, or MAC. where we had empty benches and plenty This is a new initiative of seven of the of good projects in most parts of North skilled crafts within the building trades to America. Then we were jolted by a sharp foster greater cooperation, win a greater economic downturn caused in part by the share of the market, minimize jurisdic- worst attack ever on American soil. tional problems and promote excellence. The economy of North America that These are the crafts with which we have emerged from the darkest days of 2001-02 the best working relationships on most is different. The commercial markets were projects, so an alliance of this sort is a saturated in many urban areas.
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