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October 1968 "Serving the men uiho move ~ he eartM" ENGINEE NEWS NegotiationsProve ·R · Very Successful GENERAL W~LFARE OF ALL ENGINEERS AND THEIR FAMILIES Operating Engineers Local Union No. 3 of the International Union of Operating Engineers announced this week that most of it's major • three-year contract negotiations had been signed and ratifi~d by the members. Most recently completed were agreements with the Dredging Con­ tractors Association of California; Piledriving Contractors Association; and Equipment Dealers Association. Vol. 27-No. 10 SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA October 1968 Local 3 Business Manager AI Clem said that members of ·the Local 3 negotiating team had worked long and hard in numerous sessions with the employers to win for the membership the finest collection of con- struction agreements ever negotiated. "Of course," said Clem, "it's the same old stmy, you can't please all of the members all of the time, however, we know the vast majority of the membership were well pleased with the economic gains not only in . direct pay but in the health and welfare and pension and vacation pay areas of the contracts negotiated. Subsistence areas were · clearly established and travel pay was increased. Overall, our member­ ship will gain some 40% in economic upgrading dming the next three­ • . years of our major contracts." · New sections of recently completed agreements include: DREDGE AGREEME~T Section No. 1-General Provisions A. Defirtitions-4. The term "employee" as used herein, shall mean any person, without regard to race, creed, color, sex or national origin: (a) whose work for an Individual Employer in the area covered .by this Agreement falls within the recognized jurisdiction of the union or (b) who operates, monitors and controls, maintains, repairs, assem­ bles, erects, services or each or all of them, power operated equipment, of the type or kind of equipment used in the performance of work referred to in (a) above, regardless of whether such equipment is mechanically, electrically or electronically, hydraulically, automatically or remotely controlled, and (c) who assists or helps in the operation, maintenance, repairing or assembling, erecting or servicing of such • power-operated equipment of the type or kind of equipment used in the performance of work referred to in (a) above and who .qualifies to register in a Job Placement Center, provided that the foregoing . NEGOTIATING TEAM MEMBE Local hd . ng't~afii. (:O :ch air· shall not apply to superintendents, assistant superintm)dents, genera! the Dredging G.Q..n.tractors Ass_?c iation of Caiifor- man; Louis Palmer, Olymp·ian Dredge anc:I. co· foremen, timekeepers, mess.enger boys, guards, confidential employees, . nia are shown foilowing tfi"f signing of a. new .· chafrman ' arid ,;T_ J .'-:· ._,'rorrH~~:StaplefcYh ~. Local ·:3-''. office help, inspectors and persons specifically excluded elsewhere in 3-year contract. Shown standing (I. tor.) are Paul '"~ R-et.ording ~ Co' rresponc:ling Secretary ana a mem­ this agreement. Cushing, Jr., Secretary of the Associ~tion; Paul ber of the Local 3 team. Nofshown is Walt Lou­ Section No. 3-Hiring Edgecombe·, Local 3 President; Arnold Malley, .. boltz, Ut. !'!h~ Construction and-a member of man : For the purpose of hiring General Matson. -Seated · (I. to r'.) Don Kinchloe, - - agement's ·negotiating group. ,__ : ·- under this agreement, an employee or applicant for · employment who registers on the Operator's List as a Deckmate only, may at the same time register on the Assistant to Engineer List. Upon being dispatched his name shall be stricken from .both Lists and he may not while employed as a deckmate be trans­ State Labor Fe ·ferred to an assistant to engineer classification or if employed as an ·derdtion Assistant to Engine_er classification be transferred to ,an operator classi­ -fication. • For the purpose of this agreement the following are assistant _to engineer classificatio,n: · 1. Bargeman; . 2. Deckhand; ,, 3. Leveehand; . Spells Out Top Poii~Y 4. Fireman; 5. Oiler. Utah-Referral procedures: Local Union No. 3 and Intermountain "Until responsible men in all walks of life be_~ome as-ffiilitant in their system financed by contributions Branch A.G.C. 1966-1969 Agreement, and any amendii_Jent or amend- demands for equality and justice as the firebrands and revolutionaries from workers, employers, and the ments thereto. · are for destruction, racism and grave internal disorder will continue." government to "assure that every Section No. 4-Union Security This call to action and involvement by all concerned Americans citizen receives adequate health l. All employees covered was made by delegates to the California Labor Federation's Seventh services." by this agreement employed at the site of construction, alteration, painting or repair of a -building Convention in Sacramento last we~k when they adopted a strong • Supplementation of the so­ , structme or other work shall be i:equired, as condition of , employment, policy statement on civil rights. · cial security payroll tax.by. monies a to apply for, and to become members of, and to· maintain Official delegates to the con- many urban ghettoes jobless rates from generalrevenue. :membership; in the union (that is the pai·ent local union or the appropriate sub­ vention from Operating Engineers exceed 25 percent and pointed • Review of the costs of the division of the union as determined from time ·to time· by the union Local Union No. 3 included Presi- out that "when this happened to r:nedicare program in view of the by classification) within eight ( 8) days following ·-the · beginning • dent Paul Edgecombe, Vice Presi- white America it was called a "extremely rapid" rise in medical of their employment or the effective date of this clause; whichever dent Dale Marr, Recording Cor- Great Depression." and hospital costs. is the later. This clause shall be enforceable to the extent ·Permitted by law. responding Secretary T. J. Staple- What's needed, the AFL-CIO • A boost in the taxable wage 2. All employees covered by this agreement not ·err1ployed on the ton, Treasurer and Special Rep- union members declared, are mas­ base for social security to $15,000 resentative Don Kinchloe and sive and imediate programs: site of construction, alteration, painting or repair of building, structure to allow increased benefits, par­ or other work shall be A. J. Hope, Financial Secretary • To provide jobs for all and required as a condition of employment, to apply ticularly for wage earners in up­ for, and to become members of, and and District Representative, and ban job discrimination "in prac- to maintain membership in, the per income brackets whose bene­ Union (that is Gorth Patterson. · tice as well as on paper." the parent local union or the appropriate subdivision fits are now pegged to a relatively of the Union as determined from tim All were in agreement that this · • To build low-cost housing e to time by the ·Union by classi­ small percentage of wages earned. fication) within thirty-one (31) is a "vital year- in the life of La- and wipe out the ghettoes. days following the·beginning of their • . Establishment of a flexible employment or the effective date bor" and that "all members have • To insure equal educational of this clause, whichever is the later. zone of retirement between 60 This clause shall be enforceable a debt to the future as well as the _ opportunities for all. to the extent permitted·lby law. and 65. .3. The Union recognizes its obligations and therefm past and must join with their • To train, retrain and up­ 'e· assumes full The trade unionists pledged responsibility to every employee discharged for working Brothers in pushing this grade the-skills of minority group failing to comply with their continuing support to the the provisions of the paragraphs natiori toward an accelerated goal members. 1 and 2 last abbv.e·set,out, as a result farm workers's .organizing drive of a written request from the union to the individual. employer of progress and productivity." .. Strong support for major im- of the a_nd. CC!~leP: , f.g! lfg~~lati.on to: employee. · ·: ·. .. · ·-:"' While noting that significant - provement · in· the ~ n~tion~s ·social • Provide coverage - '4, Any employee discharged for failing to comply with the • legislative progress has been security program, including a 50 .-for farm provi­ . workers under both sions of paragraphs 1 and 2 above, as the case may be achieved, the representatives of percent boost in benefit payrmepts, the National ; while actively Labor.. Rel~tians . Act and a similar en1ployed shall, b~fore registering in a job placement center for dis­ the state's 1.4 million AFL-CIO was also ::voicecl: by geleg~tes to . state statute: ~atch under this Master Agreement, tender to the Union his initiation union members said that "when the convention. -·· · · .. or reinstatement fee and· current quarterly dues in .. the form and matched against the need, it is In adopting a policy statement · • Provide unemployment in- manner regulatly required by the union, and the union shall issue .pitifully inadequ·ate." · surance coverage for fa1:m work- on Social Security, , the reptesen- ei·s : - -- .· ... - · · •· · .. receipt therefor. Upon presentation of such receipt to the job place­ To underscore the fact that "the tatives of some: 1,600 AFL-CIO ri1ent center as evidence of such tender, the .. employee shall be per- situation is worse than most .peo- local unions and_, c;en~~a l JN!-'iies • - E xtend . the . p1: oteG.~i9nsc{the . mitted to 1:egister as if he had never been discharged for such non- ple care to believe," the trad~ throughout. the.. state also. ;cg.ll,ed - :fecfei·al'Fair.Lab:or., St~nd~:~rds : ,Ac t payment. 1' 1P 10) unionists noted the fact that in for a national health insw;ailce ..
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