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Covers 1&4 TEMP ® wwww.ibew.orgww.ibew.org May 2006 TO LETTERSTHEEDITOR Sticking With the Union I would like to reply to Brother Daniel Nicholas’ letter in the April Jour- EXECUTIVE OFFICERS INTERNATIONAL nal, based on my 40 years in the trade. Sometimes the fair distribution of EDWIN D. HILL VICE PRESIDENTS jobs is accomplished through job referral systems. But no matter what the International President First District 900 Seventh St., N.W. PHILIP J. FLEMMING rules, someone finds a way to make it work in their favor. Furloughs are a Washington, D.C. 20001 1450 Meyerside Drive, Suite 300 major problem and headache for all of us. So you think [the contractor] JON F. WALTERS Mississauga, Ontario, Canada L5T 2N5 owes you something? WRONG! He needs you as long as he has work and International Secretary-Treasurer decides to continue in the business. Imagine working for a contractor for 30- 900 Seventh St., N.W. Second District Washington, D.C. 20001 35 years and one day the owner comes out on the job and says, “I’m closing FRANK J. CARROLL, JR. 4 Armstrong Road, 2nd Floor up.” It’s back to the hall. Let’s not forget, this where you started and where INTERNATIONAL EXECUTIVE COUNCIL Shelton, Connecticut you will finish one day. Keep your name clean and be loyal to your local. 06484 Chairman They are the ones who will be there in the end with your pension. No one I ROBERT W. PIERSON Third District know ever got “The Golden Umbrella” from a contractor. I don’t know c/o IBEW Local 9 DONALD C. SIEGEL about anyone else, but “I’m Sticking With the Union.” High Point Plaza Office Ctr. 500 Cherrington Pkwy. 4415 W. Harrison St. #330 Suite 325 James E. Kennedy, Hillside, Illinois 60162 Coraopolis, Pennsylvania 15108 First District Local 103 retiree, Exeter, New Hampshire Fourth District JOSEPH P. CALABRO PAUL J. WITTE c/o IBEW Local 1158 8260 North Creek Drive, Suite 140 Call This Bilge? 1149 Bloomfield Avenue Cincinnati, Ohio 45236 According to retired Brother Thomas R. Hall, my letter to the editor in Clifton, New Jersey 07012 the December issue of the Journal was a “despicable bucket of bilge.” I Second District Fifth District challenge Mr. Hall to show statements or charges in my letter that were MYLES CALVEY JOHN F. SCHANTZEN c/o IBEW Local 2222 100 Concourse Parkway untrue. 122 Quincy Shore Drive Suite 300 President Bush did attempt to bypass the Davis Bacon Act in the Gulf Quincy, Massachusetts 02171 Birmingham, Alabama 35244 Third District Coast areas after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. His administration has Sixth District SALVATORE J. CHILIA done virtually nothing to stop illegal immigration. He has added two conser- JOSEPH F. LOHMAN c/o IBEW Local 38 8174 Cass Avenue vative justices to the Supreme Court who probably will not be on the side of 1590 E. 23rd Street Darien, Illinois 60561 organized labor. The only political statement that could possibly upset Mr. Cleveland, Ohio 44114 Hall was that we could “elect pro-labor Democrats over anti-labor Republi- Fourth District Seventh District cans.” It is my recollection that in the IBEW Constitution we are required to LONNIE PLOTT JONATHAN B. GARDNER P.O. Box 181 320 Westway Place, Suite 531 “seek a higher and higher standard of living.” It is my opinion that member- Dacula, Georgia 30019 Arlington, Texas 76018 ship in the IBEW requires us to do all we can to improve the working con- Fifth District Eighth District ditions of members and to improve the social standards under which we STEPHEN SCHOEMEHL TED C. JENSEN c/o IBEW Local 1 live. If my statements are “despicable buckets of bilge,” I plead guilty. 2225 West Broadway, Suite H 5850 Elizabeth Avenue Idaho Falls, Idaho 83402 Robert E. Fritz St. Louis, Missouri 63110 Local 35 retiree, Hartford, Connecticut Sixth District Ninth District GREGORY LUCERO MICHAEL S. MOWREY c/o IBEW Local 66 2500 Venture Oaks Way, Suite 250 Keeping the Peace 4345 Allen Genoa Road Sacramento, California It was heartening to see a mention of the Peace Corps on page 4 of your Pasadena, Texas 77504 95833-4221 April issue, since both Habitat for Humanity and the Peace Corps are vital Seventh District Tenth District community service and volunteer organizations. But that mood was com- PATRICK LAVIN ROBERT P. KLEIN c/o IBEW Local 47 pletely destroyed by your use of the “Peace Corps” tag on page 16 to 5726 Marlin Road, Suite 500 600 N. Diamond Bar Blvd. Chattanooga, Tennessee describe a military battalion. As the 200,000 citizens who have served their Diamond Bar, California 91765 37411-4043 country in peace celebrate the 45th anniversary of the U.S. Peace Corps, the Eighth District Eleventh District one-to-one diplomatic work we have done should not be linked to the mili- JOSEPH FASHION c/o IBEW Local 353 LINDELL K. LEE tary in any way. 1377 Lawrence Avenue, East 6601 Winchester Avenue Suite 150 Charles Greer North York, ON, Canada M3A 3P8 Kansas City, Missouri 64133 Local 283 member, Boise, Idaho FOR THE LATEST NEWS VISIT www.ibew.org IBEW®JOURNAL May 2006 Volume 105 Number 4 IBEW JOURNAL 7 BEST PLANTS WINNER Edwin D. Hill, EDITOR C. James Spellane, DIRECTOR IBEW On the Job Carol A. Cipolari, 8 MANAGING EDITOR R Carol M. Fisher, E At the United Nations SR. EDITORIAL ASSISTANT V Cover photo: Local 1212 member Jane O Malinda R. Brent, Marino-Gordon adjusts a microphone at the COMMUNICATIONS SPECIALIST C speaker’s podium in the U.N. General Assembly. Len Shindel, COMMUNICATIONS SPECIALIST Photo by Local 1212 member Philip Mango. ARCHIVES AT THE UNITED NATIONS Mike Nugent, 8 INTERNATIONAL REPRESENTATIVE HOW TO REACH US 7 Tennessee Plant We welcome letters from our readers. The writer should include his or her name, Is World Class address and, if applicable, IBEW local union number and card number. Family members should include the local union number of the IBEW member to whom the Journal is mailed. Please keep letters as brief as possi- S ble. The Journal reserves the right to select E letters for publication and edit all submis- 10 IBEWin Public sions for length. R U Send letters to: T Office–Dan Gardner Letters to the Editor, IBEW Journal, A 900 Seventh Street, N.W., E Washington, D.C. 20001 F 10 PUBLIC SERVICE or send by e-mail to: [email protected] 14 Job Training–Fresh ©2006 International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. Start or New Setback All rights reserved. Printed in the U.S.A. on Union-made paper. IBEW Journal (ISSN: 0897-2826) Published Part 2 in a series monthly, except January/February and Octo- ber/November, which are combined issues, by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, 900 Seventh Street, N.W., Washing- ton, D.C. 20001. Subscriptions prices in the S 2 President’s Message United States and Canada, $4 per year in T advance. Periodicals postage paid at Wash- N ington, D.C., and at additional mailing offices. 3 Secretary-Treasurer’s Message E POSTMASTER: Send address changes to IBEW Journal, 900 Seventh Street, N.W., M Washington, D.C. 20001. This Journal will T 4 IBEW Currents not be held responsible for views R expressed by correspondents. Paid adver- tising is not accepted. A 17 Local Lines P IBEW®JOURNAL Publications Mail Agreement No. 40011756 Return undeliverable Canadian addresses to E Get Connected! 28 In Memoriam B&M Mailing Services Limited, 35 VanKirk D Drive, Unit 15, Brampton, Ontario L7A1A5. E-mail: [email protected] If you would like to receive your IBEW Journal via e-mail instead 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 New Challenges, New Tactics ack in the 1990s, the labor movement These organizing councils are a structure to create action when it comes to organizing and unify the Brotherhood in hailed the IBEW for the creation of its each region to support our critical mission of growth. innovative organizing programs, known The organizers’ job in each council will be to identify tar- gets compatible with our expansion goals. How many times by their initials COMET and MEMO. have you heard me say—and how many of you know it to Construction Organizing Membership Education and be true—that while you are fighting battles in your own plant Training (COMET) is still around, and it served as the or with one employer, a company in the same or similar Bfoundation for building our mem- industry down the road goes on its merry bership in the construction branch to the nonunion way? While our local leadership highest level in the history of the Brother- works hard to represent its membership hood, some 330,000 members. Member- within the workplace, including bargain- ship Education for Mobilization and ing and political mobilization, there is lit- Organizing (MEMO) also got off to a great tle time or energy left over for organizing. start, being well received by many locals in This is a much different situation than the utility, manufacturing, telecommunica- exists in our construction locals where tions, broadcasting, railroad and govern- organizing, expansion of market share ment branches. While MEMO increased and survival go hand in hand. And even interest in and enthusiasm for organizing so, it has taken a mighty effort to create a and helped spur some success stories, the strong organizing culture in construction. program and others that followed were Our lead organizers in each council dis- never able to harness that spirit to make trict will be calling on our locals to help widespread membership gains.
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