Lk, ~m as . p, 0 „r .:·«++ 4~„ k AB~/lill,= //7 90:*2///// /FL,<*Fl--i 1 „,&.9 . .2=. 4-· . 46+ -40! i 2- 1.. /-9 %- .. 44 - . i 1 r.11 + I - firdit.. di~ 4 ......Elwpill--4 .1 7"lill :' -*1. *21- ....4,# - DANIEL MOYNIHAN JOSEPH ALIOTO JOHN DUNLOP GERALD FORD EDMUND BROWN GEORGE MEANY J. C. TURNER U.N. Ambassador S.F. Mayor Secretary of Labor President Governor AFL-CIO President /UOE Sec.-Treasurer Hawaii Construction Agreement Ratified *** i Labor Conventions Meet In San Francisco *** I Put Us Back AFL-CIO Takes ENGINEERS**NEWS To Work Now \#R~/%5 Action On High PUBLISHED .. BCTD Urges I---=-- To PROMOTE THE GENERAL WELFARE OF ALL MEMBERS AND THEIR FAMILIES ---/I'llilililil.ll'll/&/9,/lifin"/3,/I/'IP Unemployment The AFL-CIO Building ~ George Meany opened the and Construction Trades De- -F'/'pr -/7.2.'*-MA ./ /~ ~$~*11'/*/1m:/1- 11th convention of the AFL- partment, meeting in con- Guim. Where America's Day Begins • Hawaii, The 50th State • No. California, The Golden State • No. Nevada, Silver State • Utah Heart Of The Rockies CIO with a strongly worded vention in San Francisco, be- - - ~- - - attack on the economic poli- gan positive action to get the VOL. 34-NO. 10 SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA (141=*,40 October, 1975 cies of the Nixon-Ford Ad- four million building trades- ministrations. The conven- rnen back to full employ- 1 tion was held in San Fran- ment. cisco October 2-7. Hawaii Agreement Is Best Ever'... Marr The delegates adopted an Meany told the delegates action-oriented approach to Hawaii engineers working benefits the first year and an ad- which had been disallowed by the that "It's not enough to have lillit@L. in Construction Industry Stabiliza- the myriad of problems besieging in construction last month ditional 80 cents per hour a nice guy in the White House. fringes the second year. The com- tion Committee in prior years. the industry. Department Presi- overwhelmingly ratified a bined increase over two years to- It is not enough to get a new lead- dent Robert Georgine told the new three Boom pay was increased to pro- ing man-if the play is no good. year agreement tals $3,58 per hour. vide a rate of 80 cents per hour convention "this is no time to with the Hawaii General You have got to write a new script Business Manager Dale Marr, for employees on cranes with -and you have to get 11~1./W!111§] a whole wring our hands over new , the situa- Contractors Labor Associa- J tion which currently inflicts our head of Local 3's negotiating booms of 180 feet up to 250 feet, cast of characters. We need a new people. Our task is to suggest tion providing the highest committee, termed the new con- and increased to $1.25 an hour for philosophy. We need new policies ways and devise means of escape wage and fringe benefit tract the "best ever for Hawaii booms over 250 feet. - we need new directions for from the engineers. This agreement pro- Subsistence pay, when applica- economic swamp in package in the history of Lo- America." vides for !1_~11"IBIL substantial increases ble, was increased which we are expiring." cal 3 in Hawaii. to $15.00 per In today's dangerous world it is In addition to taking action on both in wages and fringes, in ad- day, effective September 1, 1975 obvious, Meany emphasized, that In ratification meetings held in dition to improvements for over- ($16.00 per day August 41 dozens of resolutions designed to 31), 1976), an "economically weak America @ aid employment in the construe- Honolulu and Milo, Hawaiian time work, subsistence and mile- and mileage allowance, when ap- is a prescription for disaster." tion industry, the delegates also members appro ved ana gree- age allowance. I think the Broth- plicable, to 15 cents per mile. The policies of the Nixon-Ford heard speeches from President ment calling for an average total ers in Hawaii will be proud of On the island of Hawaii, the Administrations "h ave plunged cent the first Ford, Governor Edmund G. increase of 18 per this agreement." conditions under which subsis- America into the worst economic Brown, Jr,. Secretary of Labor year, over 15 per cent the second crisis since the 1930's," Meany Financial Secretary Harold tence or ~ John Dunlop and many other year and a third year provision transportation is to be said, "and no amount of economic Lewis was also leaders in the labor movement opening the Agreement for nego- enthusiastic about applied was changed to provide gobbledygook from the White and construction industry. tiation of wages, fringe benefits the terms of the new contract. that when an employee is re- House can wipe away that fact." The convention adopted a wide- and subsistence in 1977. "We have negotiated one of the quired to report to a job or proj- He spelled out in detail the wide ranging program calling for steps During the first and second best contracts for engineers any- ect which is located rnore than 25 sweep and range of unemploy- member will receive ment and recession and asserted to reduce unemployment in the years, each building trades. A major resolu- a $1.00 per hour increase each where, in the country. After the miles from the Hilo Post Office that it is clear that "the fault lies terms and effects tion demanded that the Ford Ad- year applied to wages with a 78 of the wage or more than 25 miles from the not in our system but in our lead- (See MORE BUILDING TRADES, P. 10) cents per hour increase in fringe freeze imposed by President Nix- Kailua-Kona Post Office, the em- ership." on have finally run their course, (See MORE HAWAII, Page 22) (See MORE AFL-CIO, Page 12) At Building Trades we were able to obtain an agree- ment worthy of operating engi- Veni, vidi, vici? neers." Among the key features of the r, contract are Veteran's Day as a brown Showcased At Big Ford Introduces holiday and a provision providing for double time pay for work per- New Energy Plan formed after ten hours, both of National Labor Sessions By KEN ERWIN, Managing Editor Brown, Jr.'s "When I talk about energy, I'm talking about jobs, Amer- WHAT'S INSIDE It might have been Governor Edmund G. finest two weeks that were as he captured no small portion ican jobs. Last year, about three-fourths of all planned nu- PRESIDENT CANDIDATES of the national spotlight that shone on the big labor con- clear plants and over one-fourth of all coal plants scheduled Hopefuls Address claves that held their every two-year rituals in the City of to be built in the next ten years were postponed or can- Convention .Pg. 5 St. Francis recently. At best it was a bright twig on Brown's celled. Domestic oil production right here in the U.S.A. has NEGOTIATED INCREASES political beanstalk that at present fallen by 11 per cent since early 1973. Natural gas production Cost of Living Adjust- has no visible limit; at the of jobs are threat- very President Bob Georgine at a spe- has declined so seriously that thousands ments for California, least it gave the young governor cial luncheon .Pg. 7 with the general tened this very winter." Nevada a chance to test his forensic skill presidents of the national building With that, President Ford out- EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW on a tough labcr hierarchy that trades. Although it was a closed lined his energetic energy devel- the United States in ten years or Shirley Carr, V.P. of has seen many a biight political session, comments from some of opment plans for the United less. Canadian Labour Con- star rising-and falling. the general presidents indicated States. Calling for the creation of The President revealed his en- gress Talks to Engineers How did Brown make out? that in a rough give-and-take an "Energy Independence Author- ergy program at the 58th biennial News Pg. 8 Judge for yourself. meeting, Governor Brown came ity," Ford said he would "pro- convention of the AFL-CIO Build- Prior to his speech before the off with high marks for his grasp pose an entirely new $100 billion ing and Construction Trades De- ELECTION NOTICE general session of the 58th Con- of the economic problems plagu- government corporation to work partment on September 22 in San Selection of Convention vention of the Building and Con- ing the construction industry and · with private enterprise and labor Francisco. Local 3's Bus. Man- Delegates Pg. 9 struction Trades Department, for candor and honesty. "He bit to gain energy independence for (See MORE FORD, Page 16) AFL-CIO, Brown was hosted by (See MORE BROWN, Page 6) Page 2 ENGINEERS NEWS October, 1975 cleaning up the environment alone will provide jobs for con- struction members that virill cover a 20 to 30 year period. I was happy to see this statement substantiated in a re- Senate Cuts cent report from the Bay Area Sewage Service Agencies 1. t *4 - 1 LOOKING AT ' which has reviewed the water quality control facilities in Safety Act the San Francisco bay region. According to the BASSA, over LABOR $1.5 billion, the major part of which will be federal funds, A 48-45 vote in the Senate weak- must be spent on water quality control in the Bay Area. ened job safety and health protec- By DALE MARR, Business Manager Currently, 85 projects are either under construction or in tion for America's workers, and the AFL-CIO looked to a House- and design states, but the program has fallen the planning Senate conference committee to far short of a unified effort because of local jurisdictional Operating Engineers and their families and friends have plug the loophole.