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SHORT Pro-worker majority CUTS puts union label

Candidates picked back on the NLRB for November ballot (From the IBEW) fired the NLRB’s aggressively The balance of power at the anti-union general counsel. Two Absentee ballots will be National Labor Relations Board weeks later, he nominated a card- mailed soon for voters to cast swung from union-busters to carrying Boston union tradesman their ballot in this year’s Gen- union lawyers in the span of an to head the U.S. Labor Depart- eral Election. afternoon when the U.S. Senate ment. Now, Labor Secretary The following confirmed President Joe Biden’s Marty Walsh (a Laborers Union candidates have two game-changing nominees. member) and other new leaders been endorsed by All 50 and staff at the Greater Detroit Democrats agencies under Building and Construction ‘At least we know we’ve and a handful got a fair shot from a Board the DOL um- Trades Council Political Action of Republi- brella are steer- Committee for the Nov. 2, 2021, cans voted to and staff who respect what ing the institu- General Election. The list reflects seat Gwynne it says right there in Article tions back to candidates who have requested Wilcox and 1 of the National Labor Re- their roots, re- an endorsement and have been David Prouty, affirming their screened by the PAC. SET TO RESEMBLE THE street plan of downtown Detroit, a terrazzo floor on the ninth floor of the lations Act — that it is their bringing an duty to encourage, not un- statutory duty Detroit City Council One Campus Martius building in Detroit is given a final polish by Rodney Gillean of Bricklayers end to four to protect work- (At Large): Janeé Ayers, and Allied Craftworkers Local 2. He’s employed by Artisan Tile. bleak years for dermine, the growth of ers from em- Coleman Young Jr. wronged unions and collective bar- ployer abuses. (District 4): M.L. Elrick Craftsman’s touch sets unique terrazzo floor workers seek- gaining.’ “President (District 6): Gabriela Santiago- By Marty Mulcahy floor of the One Campus Martius street layout. (Back in April, we ing justice –IBEW General President Biden is boot- Romero Editor building. featured a tiled, wall version of from the Lonnie Stephenson ing the foxes (District 7): Fred Durhal DETROIT – You may not “This is cool, isn’t it?” a similar street layout concept NLRB. The from the hen Dearborn appreciate or even realize you’re Gillean said of his work. “In the in a building along Woodward July 28 confirmations restore a 3- houses as fast as he can, and he’s Mayor: Abdullah Hammoud walking over a terrazzo floor. But past I have done a terrazzo maple Avenue in Detroit also in- 2 pro-worker majority on the arming his new hires with stron- City Council: Erin Byrnes, Mike the masons who create them leaf, a panther, a wolf’s head, but stalled by BAC Local 2 arti- Board, capping a landmark July ger policy and enforcement tools Sareini know of their long-lasting beauty I have never done anything this sans). This layout was created for federal nominees who embody than we’ve seen in generations,” Hazel Park and durability and potential for intricate in a long time. I’m pretty by Detroit interior design stu- Biden’s promise to be the “most IBEW International President Mayor: Michael Webb artistic expression. proud of this, it really turned out dio Pophouse. pro-union” president ever. Lonnie R. Stephenson said. “He City Council: Luke Londo, One such advocate is great.” The art-on-the-floor is on On Day 1 Biden signed the is literally rebuilding the federal Alissa Sullivan Rodney Gillean, a Bricklayers Gillean on Aug. 20 was wrap- one of the floors that’s under first in a stack of executive orders infrastructure that workers and Livonia City Council: Dan Cen- and Allied Craftworkers Local 2 ping up a three-week project that renovation by the contracting benefiting workers, and he boldly (Continued on Page 4) ters, Jim Jolly member employed by Artisan he did nearly single-handedly, team Whiting-Turner. Quicken Madison Hts. Mayor: Roslyn Tile, who was wrapping up work with the help of apprentice Zack Loans has offices in the build- Grafstein last month on a new terrazzo floor Burns, to install a 13-foot circular ing, and the ninth floor is used Ending bonus jobless Oak Park Mayor: Marian section, installed on the ninth depiction of the City of Detroit’s (Continued on Page 12) Meisner-McClellan Pontiac Mayor: Tim Greimel benefit unlikely to have City Council (District 4): Randy Carter (District 6): William Carrington much effect, analysts say Romulus By Marty Mulcahy “We’re Hiring” notices by em- Mayor: Robert McCraight Editor ployers, many of them desperate City Council: Bill Wadsworth, The effects of the Covid-19 for help? Virginia Williams pandemic have continually defied Certainly there have been Roseville economic expectations. workers who stayed home and Treasurer: John Chirkun After dropping initially, home chose not to work because of the City Council: Stephen building and other construction added benefits. But likely not to Wietecha activity surged unexpectedly last such an extent that cutting off the Royal Oak summer, prompting ongoing, benefits will cause a crush of job Mayor: Michael Fournier higher building material costs. seekers looking for work this City Council: Monica Hunt, When parts of the economy shut month, now that the benefits have Brandon Kolo, Sharlan Douglas down in the spring of 2020, some expired. One study found that in Southfield Mayor: Ken Siver economists saw parallels to the states – nearly all with Republi- City Council: Jason Hoskins, Great Depression. Today, stock can governors – who ended the en- Linnie Taylor market indexes are at or near hanced benefits, the action only Sterling Heights City Council: record levels. prompted a “modest” incentive to Henry Yanez, Michael Radtke But one of the most contro- spur workers to enter the workforce Taylor Mayor: Alex Garza versial arguments is over the fed- and improve overall hiring. Others City Council: Jill Brandana eral extension of unemployment have found no difference. Trenton benefits passed under the Ameri- “The idea was that there were Mayor: Steven Rzeppa can Rescue Plan, which ended lots of jobs – it was just that City Council: Dora Rodriguez Sept. 6: did the extra $300 a week people weren’t looking. That was Westland Mayor: Bill Wild Building the Branch County Jail create a disincentive for dis- (Continued on Page 4) Liz Shuler picked PLUMBING JAIL CELLS at the Branch County Jail in Coldwater is pipe trades foreman Nick Asher of placed workers to continue to the Positive Trades Group. The Plumbers and Pipe Fitters Local 333 member was helping to complete stay home? Did that unprec- Granger adds to run AFL-CIO the 56,000-square-foot, $22 million project, which will vastly improve the environment for prisoners edented benefit, on top of state WASHINGTON, D.C. – and the jail staff. Clark Construction is managing the project. We featured the project in our last jobless benefits, prompt would- matching 401(k) The AFL-CIO Executive Board edition, but we have more room in this one for photos, which you will find inside this edition. be workers to take a pass on the on Aug. 20 elected Liz Shuler to a four-year term Michigan had a construction 14 states that surpassed its Feb- defer projects.” benefit to its as president of workforce of 177,600 in July, ac- ruary 2021 construction employ- From February 2020 – the the AFL-CIO. Michigan cording to federal Bureau of La- ment level. month before the pandemic union employees The labor bor Statistics released Aug. 20. “This data shows that full caused project shutdowns and LANSING – Granger Con- federation is a construction That number doesn’t mean recovery remains elusive for con- cancellations – to July 2021, the struction Co. on Aug. 24 an- coalition of 56 much on its own, but it’s signifi- struction in most states,” said most recent numbers available – nounced its intention to provide unions and rep- cant in the bigger picture: it shows Ken Simonson, the chief econo- construction employment dropped a 401(k) plan with employer resents 12.5 mil- employment Michigan’s construction job mist of the Associated General in 36 states. And the biggest losers matching for its union trade em- Liz Shuler lion U.S. work- numbers finally clawed their way Contractors. “In fact, the fast- were among the biggest states: ployees. ers. Shuler, 51, back above the employment level spreading Covid-19 Delta variant Texas shed the most construction “This unprecedented move hails from the IBEW, and had surpasses (177,300) we had just prior to the may make it harder to find em- jobs over the period (-56,200 jobs provides an additional layer of fi- been the AFL-CIO’s vice presi- onset of the pandemic. ployees eligible to work on re- or -7.2 percent), followed by nancial security for Granger’s dent. She is the first woman pre-Covid peak Michigan’s gain of 1,100 jobs stricted sites and may also de- New York (-52,600 jobs, -12.9 tradespeople,” said Executive elected to the top post. in July meant it was one of only press demand if some owners (Continued on Page 4) Vice President Dennis Carignan. Shuler replaces longtime Congress bolstered multi-em- AFL-CIO President Rich Trumka, ployer pension funds earlier this who died suddenly on Aug. 5 UA Local 671 crew ramps up, helps out year, and Granger said it is taking this extra step, in addition to tradi- from a heart attack at age 72. A GROUP OF MONROE Plumbers and Pipe Fitters The Executive Council also Local 671 members recently came to the aid of a tional employee pensions, to en- sure its employees’ financial fu- elected United Steelworkers In- member who could use some help. Retiree Rick tures. ternational Vice President Fred Sonak has been battling health issues and needed a Redmond to succeed Shuler as handicap ramp built at his home in order to be “This added benefit allows our union employees to take per- secretary-treasurer, the first Af- released from the hospital. The Local 671 members sonal responsibility for their finan- rican-American to hold the No. were able to mobilize and build a structure quickly 2 office. Tefere Gebre will con- based on prior experience working with Mike Smith, cial future. Not only does this augment Granger’s overall em- tinue as AFL-CIO executive Pete Patterfritz, and the United Way/AFL-CIO ployee benefits package, we’re vice president. Monroe-Lenawee County Project Ramp Team. The ramp was completed in a little over two days, and also doing our part to improve the construction labor market for our Rick gave a big thumbs up when he arrived home. Quotable industry,” said company Presi- The team who built the ramp, (l-r), include Local 671 “That is the greatest fal- Business Manager Mike Jewell, retiree Bryan dent Glenn Granger. “We know our team members are the firm’s lacy, the wisdom of old men. McDaniel, retiree Mark Kubik, Business Agent greatest asset.” They do not grow wise. They Vinnie Fenech, and Training Coordinator Justin grow careful.” McManaway. Also pictured above is Rick’s awesome Founded in 1959 and head- quartered in Lansing, Granger, -Ernest Hemingway (1899- wife Lynda who served food to the crew. Nice work, 1961) for a great cause. (Continued on Page 2) 2 THE BUILDING TRADESMAN September 10, 2021 Granger adds New lock-up Viewpoints matching 401(k) gets ready for benefit to its inmates in When we bombed strikers Branch Co. The philosopher George Santayana wrote in 1905, “Those union employees ONE OF THE ROOMS who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” So (Continued from Page 1) without a view at the new it is perhaps fitting the United Mine Workers remind us of past which regularly makes the Engi- Branch County Jail. This history of workers, in the week that led up to Labor Day 2021. neering News Record’s Top 400 is one of the facility’s five Their Battle of Blair Mountain ceremony should remind us work- contractors (for revenue), was larger holding cells for in- ers bled and died for the right to unionize. recognized in 2020 as one of mates. The new facility in That’s because, starting Sept. 3 in Marmet, W. Va., union Metro Detroit’s Best and Bright- Coldwater will have 210 President Cecil Roberts led a three-day 2021 Blair Mountain me- est Companies to Work For. beds and 56 holding cells. morial march to Sharples, W. Va., commemorating the centennial The company is familiar to The project is expected to of the Battle of Blair Mountain. They followed the same route trades workers across Michigan, wrap up at the end of this those miners took – before the battle began. it specializes in design-build, con- month. Battle? It was more like a war – a real shooting war on work- struction management, inte- ers. It lasted a week, from Aug. 25-Sept. 2, 1921. grated project delivery and gen- It pitted the miners, members of UMW and many of them eral contracting services. World War I veterans, against local police, private detectives from This new benefit will be an agency that specialized in smashing strikes, the Logan County available to employees begin- Sheriff and his deputies and – eventually – the U.S. Army Air ning Oct. 1. The program also Corps, whose planes dropped bombs on the miners. The miners enables individuals who are not armed themselves, mostly with rifles. formally part of a labor organiza- The Blair Mountain phase of the war followed a peaceful tion to roll their 401(k) into the mass miners’ march, even though mine bosses had been anything Granger plan. but peaceful in the preceding two years. The first death in this “There are many reasons phase of the war was of mine worker leader Fred Hatfield. After this is great for the tradespeople state authorities indicted him in various charges, unknown gun- at Granger,” said Superintendent men murdered him in early August. Rich Grove. “Granger will be the Before Hatfield died, others had fallen, including in the only union company that offers “Matawan Massacre” earlier in 1921. The toll at Blair Mountain this benefit, which will ensure that showed at least 16 miners were killed and hundreds were injured. we attract the best talent and have More were arrested, indicted for various crimes, tried in later years the strongest teams in the field. and…acquitted. The 401(k) plan also provides an In the Battle of Blair Mountain, bosses didn’t discriminate by additional source of retirement race. Both Black and White miners were shot and bombed, just as income alongside our pension both Black and White miners were UMW members. and annuity. This allows us to What drove the miners to take up arms, besides the oppres- invest our annuity into our own sion of the coal barons who ran West Virginia then and now? How plan upon retirement with no about low pay, rampant black lung diseases and – this was long penalty. The 401(k) will also give before anyone other than workers even thought of job safety and us more control of our retirement; health standards – up to 30,000 deaths in coal mine fires, explo- we can choose to invest our own INSTALLING STEEL DOOR hardware at the Branch County Jail project in Coldwater is Chad McNeal sions and accidents per year nationwide. That count occurred dollars and receive matching Sr. of Iron Workers Local 25. He's employed by Pauly Jail Building Co. about a decade before. funds from Granger.” As reported by Jesse Alexander in a Real Time History Said superintendent and “I was born not knowing podcast: “Until some limitations are placed upon the absolutism crane operator Seth Stoneburner, and have had only a little time of these absentee coal operators in West Virginia, the govern- a 21-year Granger employee: “I’m to change that here and there.” ment of West Virginia will continue to be Russianized and the looking forward to having this –Richard Feynman (1918 - people can be naught but serfs,” said American Federation of additional layer of financial se- 1988) Labor President Samuel Gompers at the time. “Organized labor curity. “I’ve lived and worked has forced these conditions and perversions of justice upon pub- through the economic impact of “Always be a little kinder lic attention and now demands that the wrongs be righted.” 9/11 and the recession of the early than necessary.” The miners lived in company towns and houses, paid in 2000s, and it will be nice to have –James M. Barrie (1860 - vouchers or scrip – when they were paid at all – redeemable only something to fall back on in ad- 1937) in company stores. And when firms raised wages, also in scrip, dition to my pension.” they raised prices, too. Workers had to sign yellow-dog contracts banning them from really unionizing. If they tried to really organize, especially with Why all the ‘quitters?’ UMW, they and their families were evicted. By Jim Hightower off unemployment benefits to “It is like a servant who works in your house,” one company Corporate bosses across people, hoping to force them to lawyer said, as quoted in the podcast. “If the servant leaves your America have been sputtering in work. Other businesses have employment, if you discharge him and you ask him to get out of the outrage at you working stiffs this proffered signing bonuses, free servant quarters. It is a question of master and servant.” No wonder summer, spewing expletives dinner coupons, and other lures, the miners of Blair Mountain sought to unionize with UMW. about the fact that while the U.S. while such notoriously mingy There was no bloodshed in this year’s commemoration of the economy has been coming outfits as McDonald’s and march. It will pass the Blair Mountain State Historic Site, on West back… you haven’t! Walmart have even upped their Virginia Route 17 between Blair and Ethel. It’s one of two Blair “Labor shortage,” they wage scale in an effort to draw Mountain-related sites listed by the Labor Heritage Foundation. squeal, lazily workers. Why do we bring up all this history? Several reasons. One is accusing the Yet… no go. In fact, to the the centennial itself. Another is that it’s close to Labor Day. A workforce of astonishment of the economic third is so it won’t be completely overshadowed by another mas- mass lazi- elite, the employment flow this sacre of workers, otherwise known as 9/11. ness. They year is going the other way! Bosses now wage war on workers with pens, paper, lawsuits, charge in- Record numbers of current work- court cases, NLRB hearings, moving jobs to low-wage nations sultingly ers in all sorts of jobs in every overseas, and corruption and graft, otherwise known as dark that millions section of the country are volun- money and campaign contributions. of workers tarily walking away. There’s even AIELLO LAW GROUP PLLC Blair Mountain was a shooting war on workers. So was the got used to an official economic measure- Ludlow Massacre in Colorado in 1915. So was the massacre of 10 laying around during the pan- ment of this phenomenon called peaceful striking and picnicking people on Chicago’s South Side demic. Noting that there is now the “Quits Rate,” and it is surg- Construction Injury on Memorial Day 1937. So was the forced Homestead strike. an abundance of jobs open for ing beyond anything our Specialists This history is rarely taught in schools. People either never everything from restaurant work- economy has experienced in learn it, don’t know it, or don’t want to know it. We suspect some ers to nurses, the bosses and modern memory – in April, 4 mil- Representing Trades Workers state education departments ban teaching it. their political dogs bark that you lion workers quit; in May, another and their families over 25 years Which is why we’re writing about the Blair Mountain com- people need to get back in the 3.6 million left, in June, 3.9 million memoration – because of what it stands for and because of what old harness and start pulling said adios! WORKERS’ COMP George Santayana said. again. 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Editor/Photographer Advertising Director Marty Mulcahy Joe Hoshaw E-mail: E-mail: buildingtradesman@ [email protected] ameritech.net (734) 558-6955 Periodical mail postage paid at Detroit, MI and additional Printed at Grand Blanc Printing, mailing offices. a union shop bridge,” the Michigan Technic September 10, 2021 THE BUILDING TRADESMAN 3 Building Michigan: said. “An unusual feature of the Cooley bridge is the single-span, bridge,” the group said. structure,” said the publication cantilever-type superstructure – In the 1930s the Michigan in 1937. “With its ornamental Manistee County’s cool Cooley Bridge so unusual that project engineer Technic appreciated how nicely steel railings, reinforced con- Henderson encountered some the bridge fit into the landscape crete stairways, and symmetri- History in the making By Marty Mulcahy difficulty in convincing a subor- – and it still does. cal lines of construction, the dinate road engineer that con- “The Cooley Bridge bridge adds to the natural beauty struction of this type was feasible achieves much of its beauty from of its surroundings.” for a bridge of this size.” the rugged simplicity of the According to an account by Steve Harold for the Manistee County Historical Museum, “with the end of the lumbering era and the coming of the auto- mobile, Manistee County felt a good highway connection with the interior of the Lower Penin- sula was essential. After more than a decade of work, M-55 was built. The final step in the con- struction was the bridge over the Pine River.” M-55 is one of three east- west state trunklines; it connects Manistee with Tawas City. A VIEW OF THE COOLEY BRIDGE in the 1930s. The iron lattice Harold cited a contemporary in the superstructure certainly adds a classic and unique historic MICHIGAN ONLY HAS A PAIR of cantilevered deck truss bridges of this size - they’re basically twins, account of Mae Dust, an early ad- element to the bridge. But up top, the bridge’s railings are a Michi- and this beauty is located along M-55 about 20 miles east of Manistee. The Mortimer E. Cooley Bridge vocate for constructing the M- gan thing. “There is perhaps no other single element that more over the Pine River was completed in 1934, and it won a major engineering award a year later. 55 road, who said the dedication vividly defines bridges in Michigan than the railing design that was Photo credit: Historic Bridges.org It looks so nice let’s build it nic. “This latest achievement of of the bridge took place on Sept. classified by the Michigan State Highway Department as the R4 twice. the State Highway Department efficient, allowing for the use of 15, 1935. “Delegates from railing standard,” says Historic Bridges. “The railing design is Completed in 1934, The has become the center of inter- less diagonal steel. Manistee and Cadillac met at the identified by its distinctive metal railing panels which are separated Mortimer E. Cooley Bridge over est not only of Michigan engi- “Cooley Bridge is an im- bridge symbolizing the uniting by concrete or metal posts which generally conform to a few differ- the Pine River in Manistee neers, but also of engineers the pressive structure, and is among of these two cities,” Dust wrote. ent designs. The first bridges to use the R4 railing design were County was an instant classic country over, since it was re- Michigan’s rarest truss bridge “There were bands from both cit- constructed in 1932, and the design was used for several decades, when it opened to traffic. cently judged the best example types,” MDOT says. “The bridge ies and other main events. A pa- up to around 1964.” Photo credit: Manistee County Historical Society Designed by in-house engi- of beauty and utility in design for is highly attractive with most rade presenting the evolution of neer James Cissel at the Michi- bridges in its price class by the beams on the bridge being built- transportation started with Indi- gan State Highway Department, American Institute of Steel Con- up with v-lacing and/or lattice.” ans riding in costume, the cov- the 613-foot-long span was the struction.” The Technic article According to the Michigan ered wagon with oxen, the old first of two similar cantilevered added: “The Cooley bridge is a Technic, the contract cost for the surrey buggy, old type tricycles, deck truss bridges built in Michi- product throughout of Michigan bridge was $179,683, with pedestrians to the modern auto- gan. The second, completed over men.” $137,266 devoted to the steel su- mobiles and road machinery.” the Cut River in 1947 along U.S. The Michigan Department perstructure. The funds came The bridge was rehabili- Highway 2 in the U.P.’s of Transportation has the cur- from the Works Progress Ad- tated in 2019, MDOT said, with Mackinac County, was basically rent authority over the bridge, ministration, a federal program a $4.9 million investment. Work a twinned design. (We featured which spans the Pine River. It set up to put people to work dur- included structural steel repair that bridge last December). The features three separate spans, ing the Great Depression. The and partial painting, resurfacing engineering community loved including a 300-foot middle sec- builder/contractor for the span the bridge deck, repair of the the Manistee span at the time, tion. The roadway is 30 feet wide. was the Wisconsin Bridge and substructure, upgrade of addi- and really, what’s not to like? “There is a stairway that Iron Company of Milwaukee. tional steel components, clean- According to the National leads down beside the bridge for With the road erected 73 ing and coating the structural Steel Bridge Alliance, “The the purpose of viewing the feet above the Pine River, the sub- steel, sealing concrete compo- American Institute of Steel Con- bridge,” MDOT say. “The fact structure of the bridge consists nents, and upgrading the bridge struction (AISC) launched its that the bridge is well-main- of two reinforced concrete abut- approaches. Prize Bridge Competition in tained and preserved is evidence ments and two reinforced con- Historic Bridges appreci- 1928 as a way to showcase the that the bridge continues to be crete piers. The abutments are ated the fact the bridge was re- beauty of steel bridges.” respected as a Michigan historic constructed with six reinforced habilitated with its original fea- And its national winner in landmark and attraction.” concrete columns joined to- tures intact or properly repli- 1935: the Cooley Bridge. Historic Bridges says the gether with concrete struts. cated, with upgraded, safe rail- “It was a fitting tribute to span is technically a “Metal Can- “The result is a frame simi- ings. “This solution is a good (longtime U-M College of Engi- tilever 12-Panel Rivet-Con- lar to that of a reinforced con- solution that retains the aes- THE LATTICE STEEL girders used here on the Cooley Bridge, and neering Dean) Mortimer E. nected Pratt Deck Truss, Fixed.” crete building,” the Michigan thetic and historic qualities of later on the twin Upper Peninsula’s Cut River span in the 1940s, Cooley when Murray D. Van With a Pratt Truss, the vertical Technic said. The concrete piers the original railings, while also began to be supplanted in the 1950s with welded or bolted plate Wagoner, State Highway Com- steel members above the bridge are 35 feet from bottom to top, providing crash-resistant and girders, which use more material but have lower fabrication and missioner, dedicated Michigan’s deck are in compression, while each extending 23 feet below AASHTO approved guardrails maintenance costs. The newer steel doesn’t quite have the coolness newest and most beautiful bridge the diagonal members are in ten- water level. which do not overly obstruct the factor, though. The latest rehabilitation of the bridge, on the steel in his honor,” said the January sion, which simplifies construc- “The piers are designed to view of the bridge, original rail- and elsewhere, was performed in 2019 by contrator C.A. Hull. 1937 issue of Michigan Tech- tion and makes the design more carry the entire weight of the ings, or scenery from the Photo credit: Manistee County Historical Society 4 THE BUILDING TRADESMAN September 10, 2021 Pro-worker Ending bonus jobless majority puts benefit unlikely to have union label much effect, analysts say (Continued from Page 1) vice-sector businesses is little back on NLRB the narrative,” said Arindrajit different across states opting to (Continued from Page 1) Dube, a University of Massachu- end these benefits early com- unions depend on. When he talks setts economist who was an au- pared to those who have not.” about ‘building back better,’ he thor of one of the studies, told The Economic Policy Insti- doesn’t just mean roads and tun- the New York Times. “I don’t tute, a labor-backed think-tank, nels and technology. He means think that story holds up.” said on Aug. 24 that “the July us.” Many construction contrac- state employment and unem- More than any other presi- tors would beg to differ. “Many ployment data... showed that dent, Biden has used the White construction firms would likely be strong job growth is widespread House bully pulpit to champion even busier if only they could find throughout the country, includ- labor, reminding Americans materials for their projects and ing in leisure and hospitality and again and again that unions workers for their teams,” said state and local governments. built the middle class. His nomi- Associated General Contractors States that chose not to cut fed- nees, especially for jobs that CEO Stephen E. Sandherr. “End- eral pandemic unemployment in- hold sway over workers, have ing a program that is basically surance (UI) benefits have, on lived and breathed those val- paying people not to work will average, experienced greater job ues. In June, he chose a former help.” growth since April than the 26 union organizer, Jennifer Sung, The business community largely Republican-controlled to serve on the Ninth Circuit PULLING CATEGORY SIX cable at the Branch County Jail project in Coldwater is Nate Lutz of would largely agree. “It’s time for states that cut benefits to unem- Court of Appeals. Her confirma- IBEW Local 665. He's employed by FD Hayes Electric Co. With all the security features at the jail, the state and federal government ployed workers. tion is pending. the building’s network cabling is extremely complex. The project is expected to wrap up later this to stop paying Michiganders not “There was always little evi- Currently, Sung is a judge on month. to work,” said Michgan Chamber dence to support this claim; how- the Oregon Employment Rela- of Commerce CEO Rich Studley. ever, now there is evidence that tions Board. A colleague said Laborers But the Times added: ‘Sev- the decision to cut federal unem- she’s the perfect choice: “She has International Local 1191 eral recent studies, however, ployment insurance assistance represented working people. Not Union of have concluded that the extra has not improved these states’ many people on the bench have North America Feel the Power payments have played only a recoveries.” done that.” small role in this year’s labor At the NLRB, Prouty and Laborers 1191 to have this form on file at least training center. It could mean the shortages. And they found at Michigan Wilcox, the first Black woman to DETROIT – Monthly Mem- 60 days before the next vacation difference of being sent to work most a modest increase in em- serve on the Board, aren’t the bership Meetings: Union meet- checks are distributed for the or not! FYI: By taking the OSHA ployment in states that aban- only recent newcomers. In a tie ings are held on the first Friday months of May or November. 30 your 18 MUST Safety mod- doned the programs – most of construction vote broken by Vice President of every month at 7:00 pm at the Vacation Check Direct De- ules are updated as well. If you them in June – even as millions Kamala Harris, the Senate con- Union hall (except for holidays), posit: If your mail delivery is are not able to go to the Training of jobless workers have had to employment firmed a third union-side attor- next membership meeting will on slow or your mail is getting lost, Center for MUST Safety Modules cut spending, potentially hurting ney, Jennifer Abruzzo, as general the Oct. 1, 2021. then it is highly recommended to contact the Local Union to as- local economies.” counsel July 21. Abruzzo most re- Retirees: Retiree Council’s get your vacation check direct sist you with making arrange- The study, co-authored by surpasses cently worked for the Communi- meetings are the last Friday of the deposited into your bank ments to complete them. Dube and five other scholars, cations Workers of America but month. The meetings are held checkings or savings account. A Roll Call: All members on the Early Withdrawal of Pandemic pre-Covid peak spent 22 earlier years with the 11:00 a.m. at the Local Union Hall, Payee Deposit Agreement must out-of-work list must re-register Unemployment Insurance: Ef- (Continued from Page 1) NLRB. She even had a fleeting 2161 West Grand Blvd. in Detroit. be completed and signed, and the every quarter within the first five fects on Earnings, Employment percent) and California (-35,100 jobs, stint as acting general counsel in Union Dues For 2021: Ef- member must return the payee days of the following months and Consumption, released Aug. -3.8 percent). Louisiana recorded November 2017 but was quickly fective Jan. 1, 2021 regular deposit agreement at least (60) March, June, September and De- 20, said the end of the extra ben- the largest percentage loss (-15.3 displaced by Peter Robb, a union- monthly dues are $35 for active days before the following vaca- cember. Your failure to do so will efits eliminated jobless checks percent, -21,000 jobs), followed by busting Trump nominee who cut members. Retiree monthly dues tion distribution for the month of result in your name being re- entirely for more than 2 million Wyoming (-13.5 percent, -3,100 jobs) his teeth helping President will remain the same $8.00. May, or November to Michigan moved from the referral list. Ex- workers in those 26 states where and New York. Ronald Reagan fire the nation’s Reminder: Be sure to keep Laborers Vacation Fund, 6525 ample: If your name is on the list in benefits were ended early, while The top three states for con- air traffic controllers in 1981. the Local Union updated with Centurion Dr. Lansing MI 48917. April and or May and you don’t reducing benefits by $300 per struction jobs gains during those Robb’s career came full circle any changes to your phone num- MUST Safety Awareness re-register by June 5 your name will week for more than one million 17 months were Utah, North when a letter arrived in his inbox ber, address, and/or email. Training: Please check the MUST be removed from the list. workers. Carolina and Idaho. moments after Biden took the Members can now Pay Dues website at www.mustb safe.com to Members are urged to report “In our data through Aug. 6, In terms of total U.S. con- oath of office Jan. 20. Resign by online 24/7 on our website at see how many modules you have. new project starts to the Local we find that ending pandemic UI struction project starts, the 5 p.m. or be fired, he was told. He www.laborerslocal1191.org! Up- Drug Test Renewal: Mem- Union. Members working for a increased employment by 4.4 number fell 3 percent in July to refused. Lawsuits followed, argu- per right-hand corner Pay Dues bers are reminded to keep your contractor who may be looking percentage points while reducing a seasonally adjusted annual ing that Biden acted illegally be- tab, and follow the instructions… Yearly Drug Test current and to hire additional laborers are UI recipiency by 35 percentage rate of $854.8 billion, according cause Robb had 10 months left Please also check out our website also your 18 safety modules. You urged to call the Union Hall and points among workers who were to an Aug. 18 report by Dodge in his term. Ruling on one of the and “Laborers’ Local 1191” can schedule an appointment to help a brother or sister get referred unemployed and receiving UI at Data and Analytics. There were cases in July, a New Jersey fed- Facebook page for important in- take your modules at our train- out to work. The next time, it may the end of April 2021,” the Early few bright spots during the eral judge disagreed based on formation about your Local Union. ing schools located in Perry, be your name on the list when Withdrawal study said. The re- month, with all three sectors (resi- language in the National Labor NOTICE: The Uniform Lo- Wayne, St. Joseph, or Iron Moun- that call comes in for work. searchers added: “we see very dential, nonresidential building Relations Act. cal Union Constitution Article tain by calling (517) 625-4919 CONTACT NUMBERS. little difference in employment and non-buildings) moving Robb wielded enormous VIII sec. 4. The monthly dues are or visit the training school Michigan Laborers’ Fringe probabilities between January lower. control over NLRB cases, backed due on the first day of the month website www.mltai.org to sched- Benefits Funds (Annuity, Insur- 2021 and early June 2021. How- “Construction material by an equally hostile Board that and unless paid on or before the ule appointments for modules. ance, Pension & Vacation) ever, by the first week of August, prices continue their march routinely sided with manage- last day of the following month, You can also contact the Local Telephone: (877) 645-2267 we find a modest, but precisely higher and are weighing heavily ment. Under their watch, employ- the member shall be deemed sus- Union office at (313) 894-2241 Fax: (517) 321-7508 measured increase in the prob- on construction starts,” said Ri- ers won license to search work- pended by the International to use a Local Union computer Website: Www.michigan ability of job-finding in the with- chard Branch, chief economist ers’ cars and personal items, eject Union without notice. to complete required modules. laborers.org drawal states.” for Dodge. “Lumber and copper union organizers from public Save Time & Money: We Training: Check out the Delta Dental: (800) 524-0149 Other analysts shrugged at prices have fallen in recent spaces, more easily withdraw urge members to make their pay- training classes available to you Metropolitan Detroit Laborers’ any perceived overall economic weeks; however, steel, plastic and union recognition, thwart pro- ments timely to avoid additional at no cost. Journeymen and ap- (Pension) Phone: (248) 641-4942 benefit of cutting off the jobless other construction-related prod- tests and disregard the plight of costs! Monthly dues can be de- prentices may still obtain train- Fax: (248) 813-9898 benefits. ucts are continuing their ascent. workers at subcontractors and ducted from your vacation check ing through MLTAI’s online Metropolitan Detroit Labor- Forbes reported on Aug. 24 These increases will continue to franchises, among other ex- and sent directly to the Local training at https://lms.mltai.org. ers’ (Healthcare) that “states that cut off benefits impact construction starts over the panded powers. Union. Please stop by the Local Types of training you can take Telephone: (800) 228 0048 early have backed up their deci- coming months, somewhat muting Sen. Patty Murray, chair of Union office to get one of the include: Asbestos Awareness- Metropolitan Detroit Labor- sions with anecdotes of worker the impact of stronger economic the Health, Education, Labor and “Vacation Monthly Dues Deduc- Silica Awareness-Infectious Dis- ers’ (Vacation) (877) 645-2267 shortages to push people back activity. Pension Committee, decried the tion” forms or you may call the ease Awareness-Respirator Web Site: Www.metro to work. But early cutoff data Branch added: “A further wreckage in urging her col- Local Union office at (313)-894- Awareness-Hazard Communica- detroit laborers.org doesn’t validate those claims.” risk to the sector is the rising leagues to confirm Wilcox and 2241 to have one mailed to you. tion-Blood borne Pathogens BENEFICIARY RE- Analysis from workforce number of Covid-19 cases due to Prouty on July 28. “While Demo- Members who sign up for Vaca- Awareness-Covid-19 Awareness- MINDER: Please remember to management firm UKG reported the Delta variant. While we don’t cratic nominees to the NLRB were tion monthly dues deduction and Lead Awareness. designate or update your benefi- on Aug. 3 that states that ended expect significant business re- blocked and anti-worker nomi- pay (6) months at a time will re- NOTE: Classes & Certifi- ciary choice especially after a di- benefits in June saw half the strictions in response, it is a risk nees were jammed through, we ceive a 1-month rebate! To better cations contractors have been vorce on all of your LIUNA Lo- “shift growth”– a measure of the that can not be fully discounted. saw decades of worker protec- serve our membership, we are ac- asking for are: OSHA 30, As- cal 1191, American Income Life number of worker shifts com- On the upside, projects entering tions reversed,” Murray said. cepting Credit & Debit payments. bestos & Lead Awareness, Hoist- Accidental Benefit, Pension and pleted – in July versus states the planning stage remain at lev- “This has had a devastating Vacation Monthly Dues De- ing & Rigging, Pipeline Safety, Healthcare funds. The law re- where the unemployment boost els not seen in several years, and impact on workers across the duction Authorization: Members Class A Cdl License, Asbestos quires that in the event of an un- has continued. “People are re- forward progress on an infra- country, who are not only strug- may revoke vacation monthly Removal Supervisors Licence, timely death your benefits go to turning to work. We just haven’t structure program and the federal gling through a pandemic, but dues authorization at any time by Confined Space Permit Re- your estate and may be taxable. seen the surge of people return- budget provides hope that who have also seen their rights signing a vacation deduction quired, Grade Checking Blue- Each individual benefit needs to ing that businesses desperately brighter days are ahead.” to strike, organize, and bargain cancellation form. This cancella- print Reading & Measuring have a designated beneficiary. need,” said UKG Vice President That “upside” for more collectively, undermined and tion form must be sent to the Lo- Tools, GPS Location. Scholarships. LIUNA mem- Dave Gilbertson. “This is true for projects in the planning stages constrained in ruling after rul- cal Union 1191 office, however The above training and cer- bers can apply for scholarships both states that continue to of- is welcome news. Over the past ing.” understand that Local 1191 needs tifications are all available at the for university, college, trade fer pandemic-related unemploy- 12 months ending July 2021, The five-seat board is meant school and technical trainings ment benefits as well as states nonresidential and commercial to be split 3-2, tilted toward the Just joking through Union Plus. Learn more where these benefits have ex- building starts were both down 8 party in power in the White information about Union Plus pired.” percent, while manufacturing House. But for two years during One summer afternoon a police officer pulls into a yard, scholarships at www.unionplus And Gusto, a payroll com- starts dropped 26 percent. Dur- the last administration, the GOP- gets out, and asks an old gentleman, “who owns the prop- .org/benefits/education/union- pany, said their data shows “that ing that time residential starts led Senate refused to fill Demo- erty?” The old fella tells the officer that he does, and asks plus-scholarships aggregate employment in ser- were 23 percent higher. cratic vacancies. what he can do for him. “It’s a whole new day at the The officer told the man that he had a war- NLRB,” the IBEW’s Stephenson rant to search his property for illegally-grown said. “We’re not going to win drugs. every battle, but at least we know The old gentleman denied that he was grow- we’ve got a fair shot from a Board ing anything but garden vegetables, and that the and staff who respect what it officer must have the wrong address. “But if you’re gonna says right there in Article 1 of the take a look through my property, I’m telling you, whatever National Labor Relations Act – you do, don’t go into that field over yonder!” pointing out a that it is their duty to encourage, fenced parcel of land. not undermine, the growth of The officer responded, “look mister, I have a warrant, unions and collective bargain- and I have this badge. Whether you like it or not, I have the ing.” right to inspect your property, and that’s what I intend to “I have never been espe- do!” The old gentleman nodded his head politely, softly apolo- cially impressed by the heroics gized, and muttered “I warned you.” Then he went about his of people who are convinced chores. they are about to change the A short time later, the old gentleman heard someone world. I am more awed by those screaming in absolute terror – coming from field where he’d who struggle to make one small told the officer not to go. He looked over at the pasture and difference after another.” saw the officer running for his life, chased by a very angry –Ellen Goodman (1941 - ) bull. With every step the bull was gaining ground on the of- ficer, and it appeared likely that the policeman would be “You will need to find your gored by the bull’s horns before he could reach safety. passion. Don't give up on find- Realizing the imminent danger that the policeman was in, ing it because then all you're do- the old gentleman ran to the field’s fence as fast as he could, ing is waiting for the Reaper.” determined to do whatever he could to help. Reaching the –Randy Pausch edge of the pasture, the old gentleman quickly climbed to “Whoever gossips to you the top of the fence, waving his arms frantically and will gossip about you.” screamed at the very top of his voice, – Spanish Proverb “Your badge, officer, show him your BADGE!” September 10, 2021 THE BUILDING TRADESMAN 5 Local 169 Boilermakers ments can be made both at the tiree Luncheon is held on the first Boilermakers Local 169 hall and over the phone. Wednesday of every month at ALLEN PARK – The next OSHA 10 and OSHA 30 safety 11:00am at the Brown Derby Bar, Union meeting will be on Friday, training can now be taken online. 10661 West Jefferson, River September 10, Please visit our website – Rouge, MI. 2021, at 8pm in www.boilermakerslocal169.com - Hoodies have been re- Area Four – for more information. stocked and are available in United Trades Journeymen: sizes ranging from medium Building, 119 Training Center: Journey- through 3XL. Cost is $40.00. South Front men wanting to obtain welding Payments can be made with St., Marquette, certifications are encouraged to cash, check, or credit. If you live MI. attend training in Allen Park. The out of the area and would like Union dues training center in Allen Park is to order one, please call the hall. for 2021 are currently open from 8:00 am – Additional shipping charges $49.85 per 4:00 pm, Monday through Thurs- will be added. Baseball caps are BOB month. The day. also available. Varsity jackets HUTSELL union hall ac- Apprentices: are available by special order. cepts Visa, Retirees: Retiree luncheons Please contact the union hall for MasterCard, and Discover. Pay- have resumed. The Area One Re- details. INSTALLING RETENTION equipment at the Branch County Jail project in Coldwater is Cameron Breimayer of Iron Workers Local 25. He's employed by Pauly Jail Building Co. Local 25 Iron Workers F) from 8 am to 3 pm (NO Cash). INTERVIEWS FOR THE AP- Iron Workers Local 25 After-hours use the outdoor- PRENTICESHIP APPLICANTS. NOVI – Iron Workers Local dues-collection box. Apprentices: Fill out your 25 Annual Picnic was great fun; CREDIT/DEBIT CARD pro- monthlies online at the website in spite of the heat the kids had a cessing for Union Dues: or mobile app located under the water slide and a few other Comerica has changed the pro- apprenticeship tab “Monthly bounce houses to stay busy cessing platform in compliance Report Sign-In” this gives you with. We enjoyed hot dogs & with new banking regulatory the ability to electronically sub- hamburgers, popcorn, snow cones, rules. The new platform now re- mit your monthlies. Also located ice cream, watermelon and sweet quires all new and existing users under the apprenticeship tab you corn. Lots of cold drinks too! to authenticate themselves. Any- will find “Evaluation Form” Jour- Thanks to Cecil Randall for one who has used the prior sys- neyman/Supervision can use this donating the tents. Thanks to the tem will need to set up brand new to submit apprentice evaluations Retiree Club for their financial payment information AND will using computer/cell phone and donation helping defer some of need to create a new log-in and submit electronically. Please the cost. Thank you to the Chris password the first time you log also note, you must check your Reed Family and to the in. The link is available on our email on a regular basis; we now Kurtzhals’ Farms for donating website www.ironworkers25.org email your annual MUST drug the sweet corn. Thanks Bubba and cell phone APP. The NEW screen paperwork and your pay Chiles for contacting Kurtzhals! phone number is 866-635-2826. raise slips. IRON WORKERS Local 8 members march behind their banner in the annual Ishpeming Labor Day Thanks to all the Apprentices Parade on Sept. 6. Now Hiring another Orga- To view classes at the Local Photo courtesy Michael Laitinen who lent a hand again this year nizer for Michigan with the 25 Apprenticeship School, please too! Thank you to anyone who Great Lakes District Council. If go the ironworkers25.org to view volunteered or helped out in any interested send your resume & the block schedule; we are prac- way – we really appreciate it all! cover letter to Chad Rink ticing social distancing protocols, Iron Workers Local 8 Column climb results: 1st ([email protected]). Applicants etc. Due to the high volume of nd Brandon Jordan, time 6:46; 2 must be a Journeyman in good apprentices doing their make-up p.m. CST. Local #8 will stay in 8:30 a.m. via Zoom. To sign up rd Kyle Collett, time 7:93; 3 Mike standing, self-motivated, days, we are limiting the number Iron Workers Local 8 compliance with governmental for this class, and provide your th Weaver, time 8:64; and 4 Matt coachable, team players, able to to 10 per day. Please call the Tim Roman guidance of social distancing and email address, please contact Rajda, time 8:79. work long hours & weekends, be school to make up days …. Do Business Representative capacity limits. Due to this limi- Ann Lakenen at Pipefitters #111 In-person Union Meeting willing to travel for periods at a not just show up and expect to be UPPER PENINSULA - WELD tation, our plan is to continue a - 906-226-6511. Monday, Sept. 27, 2021 at all time, and want to make a positive allowed to stay. CERTIFICATIONS: Weld certi- virtual broadcast of the meeting If you sign up for MSHA Union Halls. Please join us for difference for the betterment of In Recognition of Colin K. fications are being held on an as- in conjunction with in-person at- classes and do not attend or can- some much-needed comraderie & the ironworking trade. See our Bohlinger #817275 Veteran of the needed basis. Please contact tendance. cel, you will be charged a fee of socialization. Zoom still available posting on FaceBook and our United States Navy, thank you Rich Hanson at the Apprentice- Members can gain access to $30.00 and will be suspended if you cannot make it. APP for full descriptions. for your Service! Due to timing, ship office for more information. the meeting at https://meeting from any further Mine Safety Ironworkers Local 25 APP - Organizer’s Minute: Many we were not able to get his name 414-476-9372. .iwl8.org on the afternoon of the classes until the fee is paid. Sign up for our emails via our people ask me, “How do you like listed in the Iron Workers Maga- MEMBERSHIP MEETING: meeting. IRON WORKERS LOCAL website (www.ironworkers the organizer position?” And with zine for Sept. 2021. Iron Workers Local #8 in-person MINE SAFETY TRAINING: #8 ONLINE STORE: Check out 25.org). We continue to commu- our District Council currently The Novi retiree meeting will Membership Meeting will be held The next MSHA Refresher Class Local #8’s swag at the online nicate through the PUSH NOTI- looking to hire more organizers, I be Tuesday Sept. 21, 2021 at 10 on September 22nd, 2021, at 5:00 will be held on Sept. 18, 2021, at store at iwl8.org. FICATIONS – Please download thought I’d take this opportunity am. The Novi retirees Board of the APP if you haven’t done so to answer that question for ev- Directors will meet on Tuesday yet-again, via our website! eryone. This is a great job for Oct. 5, 2021 in Novi at 9 am. Steward meeting(s): The someone who enjoys helping Watch for updates at (www.iron Flint meeting is Wednesday others. There are long days and workers25.org) or the Local 25 app Sept. 15, 2021 at 5:30 pm and weekends, that no one gives you that you can download by search- Flint will not have an October credit for. Many times, the result ing “Iron Workers Local 25” to meeting. The Saginaw meeting of your hard work ends in a door stay informed on union matters. is Thursday, Sept. 23, 2021 at being slammed in your face, or Best Wishes to Jerry Fisher 6:00 pm. The Lansing meeting being lied to. However, when or- #893136 for a speedy recovery is Monday Sept. 27, 2021 at 6:00 ganizing works, it changes from his recent surgery! pm. All members welcome! people’s lives for the better! Per- Jim Hamric started up break- Stewards’ Notes: 1) The link sonally, I can’t think of a better fast on the last Friday of each for Online Steward Report forms reward for my hard work than month at Mom’s Restaurant 9:00 is found in the upper right-hand strengthening our union while at am. Located 2691 Fort St, Tren- corner of our website www. the same time helping ironwork- ton, MI 48183. All are welcome! ironworkers25.org LOG-IN DI- ers fight for the wages and Dan Byers would like every- RECTIONS will follow once you fringes they deserve. If you are one to know that the West Michi- click the link that reads “Elec- thinking of applying for the posi- gan Retirees will have breakfast tronic Steward Reports.” tion and want to know more, on the First Tuesday of each These forms are much easier please don’t hesitate to give me month at 9 am. Located at Red than the paper forms, we encour- a call. In Solidarity, Your Orga- Rock Grille & Café 228 N. Ball age you to give it a try if you have nizer Hank Kiluk #1252798 Creek Rd. NW, Kent City, MI not yet done so. 2) PLEASE be Cell: (313) 600-8242. 49330. All are welcome! THE TIN MAN made his annual appearance at the Ishpeming Labor Day Parade, representing the sure to check dues for members and MANDATORY FACE Memorial service for handiwork of Sheet Metal Workers Local 7. Photo courtesy Michael Laitinen boomers too AND BE SURE ALL MASK IF YOU ARE STILL NOT former Business Agent Richard BOOMERS HAVE SIGNED BOTH VACCINATED & VISIT ANY “Dick” Nesgoda; will be held THE RECIPROCAL AND THE UNION OFFICE OR UNION Sept. 14 at brother Dick Worth’s Iron Workers Local 25, continued ASSESSMENT-TARGETING. 3) HALL. “Sporty’s Wing Shack & Smoke Barrera at (989) 859-1329. August 23, 2021 at the age of 77; of the family and friends as you All members please be sure to FRINGE BENEFIT OFFICE: House” 4502 N Huron Rd., In Memory: Toni He was a 54-year member. Gordie mourn the loss of your dear keep your Union dues paid up to 800-572-8553 or 248-347-3100 and Pinconning, MI 48650 begin- Jaroszewicz passed away Au- Burnham #668295 passed away loved one(s)! date as it is criteria for working. You follow the prompts. Hours 7:30am ning at 2 PM until whenever! gust25, 2021 at the age of 58. She August 27, 2021 at the age of 80. This information is as of can be asked to leave the jobsite if to 4:30pm. The mailing address For more information and a was the Beloved wife of Robert He was a member from 1961 to Submission Time for this Article your dues are not current. for member BENEFIT related mat- headcount, contact Andy Jaroszewicz #1044190. Victor 2001. (09/3/2021 1:00 pm E.S.T.). OCT. 25, 2021 @ 5:00 pm, ters is: Iron Workers Local 25 (Continued next column) Schatzer #752472 passed away Our deep condolences to all AWARDS NIGHT: We are plan- Fringe Benefit Funds, PO Box ning a joint 2020 & 2021 Awards 99219, Troy MI 48099-9219. Blue Night. We are planning a Recep- Cross Health Claims and Cus- tion with food/beverages to tomer Service 877-790-2583. Delta complement the Ceremony. This Dental Claims and Customer Ser- event will be held in October vice 800-482-8915. rather than August. Awards BENEFIT FOR NEW Night is for members who have CHILD: Any member who has a 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50, 55, 60, 65 or newborn child, or a new depen- 70 years of uninterrupted service dent child through marriage and is determined by initiation MUST NOTIFY the Fringe Ben- date with the International. We also efit Office of your new dependent recognize those members who re- within 31 days; otherwise wait tired between June 1, 2019 and May until the next open-enrollment 31, 2021 (normal retirement). period (April 1-April 30). Please save the date of Mon- BENEFIT FOR LIFE day, Oct. 25, 2021. We’ll plan for CHANGE: Any member experi- a social hour starting at 5:00 pm, encing a divorce or a new spouse the Pin Ceremony at 7 pm fol- MUST NOTIFY the Fringe Ben- lowed by the drawing for the efit Office within 31 days; other- Mackinaw Bridge Tour at 8:30 pm. wise wait until the next open-en- INVITE LETTERS WILL BE rollment period (April 1-April 30). MAILED in early September to New Apprentice Applica- those eligible members. tions are being accepted BUT you Pay union dues with per- MUST go to ironworkers25.org, sonal check or money order and print the application, gather mail to: Iron Workers Local 25 – documentation then phone the P.O. Box 965 – Novi, MI 48376- school for an appointment; no 0965. PLEASE include your book walk-in foot traffic. The Wixom number on the face of the check/ Training Center – Phone: 248- money order. Pay union dues in 960-2130. THE TRAINING person at the Novi Union Hall (M- CENTER is NOT DOING OPEN 6 THE BUILDING TRADESMAN September 10, 2021

Plumbers, Pipe Fitters, Service Technicians, Local 190 Gas Distribution Plumbers and Pipe Fitters 190 3:30 p.m. You can reach the ben- Plumbers & ANN ARBOR – UNION efits office Monday through Fri- Pipe Fitters MEETING (SEPTEMBER): day by calling 888-390-7473. Please be informed the awards MEDICARE: When you banquet will take place on Mon- become eligible for Medicare, Plumbers and Pipe Fitters 333 day, Sept. 13 at 6 p.m. at 7920 Jack- please contact Bernadette Maus LANSING – REVISED: son Rd., Ann Arbor, MI. All mem- at our Fringe Benefit office 1-888- September’s union meeting will be bers are invited to attend this 390-7473. held September 15, 2021, at 6:00pm wonderful event. Due to this The Training Center is open at the JATC Lansing Training event, normal business will be to members wishing to update Center, 16180 National Parkway, suspended. Members are urged any certifications, licenses, or Lansing, MI. 48906. This is our to attend and take an active part qualifications. We are following Annual Members Cookout. in the proceedings. CDC, OSHA, MiOSHA, MDHHS, Please attend. FUSING CLASS: Anyone and Washtenaw County Health October’s union meeting will interested in registering for the Department guidelines. Check be held on the second Wednes- class, please contact Business your Certifications to make sure day, October 13, 2021, at 7:30pm Agent Pat Duffy, (734) 368-4423 or that you are current! BEHIND THE BRANCH COUNTY JAIL'S front desk, with future holding cells all around them, are (l- at the Firekeepers Casino, Mbish Roy Musgrove, (734) 369-1432. Lead/Asbestos/Blood- r) project foreman Nick Asher of Plumbers and Pipe Fitters 333 employed by the Positive Trades Ballroom C, 11177 E. Michigan Currently Local 190 is not ac- borne Pathogens Training (4 Group, Local 333 Assistant Business Manager Joe Michilizzi, Clark Project Supt. Jeff Melvin, and Ave. Battle Creek, MI. 49014. cepting any apprenticeship appli- hrs): 2021 Schedule - Monday - Branch County Sheriff John Pollack - who seems absolutely delighted with the new jail.“Clark, their Best wishes to Business cations. A note will be put in the Oct 4, @ 5 pm. Call Retha to be subcontractors, the trades - they have just done a terrific job.,” Pollack said. “We kind of thought we Agent Judd VanCoppenolle who paper when this status changes. put on the list for this last class would have to be watching the project all the time, but that wasn’t the case. Clark has been great - they is officially retired as of Septem- ROBO CALLS: We are of the year. have taken care of whatever concerns we have had had. They have been great. It’s almost scary how well ber 01, 2021. Judd served the sending out Robo calls to keep you First Aid/CPR Training (4 this job has gone.” Local as an Agent and Manager updated and informed, if you are hrs): 2021 Schedule - Monday, for a total of nearly 15 years. We NOT receiving these messages it Oct. 18 @ 5 pm. Call Retha to all wish Judd the best in retire- means we do not have a current be put on the list for this last ment and a speedy recovery with phone number on file for you, class of the year. Local 370 the challenges that lie ahead. please contact the hall to update. Welding Lab: Welding lab Thank you Judd!! MICHIGAN GAS DISTRI- is closed for the summer. Open Plumbers, Pipe Fitters Per the Local 333 By-Laws, BUTION JOURNEYMAN welding lab will resume the week and HVAC Service Region 2 member Brandon WELDERS: Please remember it of Sept. 6 and run Mondays, Snyder has been appointed as is very important to keep your Wednesdays, and Thursdays. Business Agent for Region2 - continuity forms up to date. ASSE Backflow Certifica- Plumbers, Pipe Fitters and HVAC bers in Good Standing. The Joint Jackson for the balance of the MICHIGAN GAS DISTRI- tion (40hrs): This is a 40-hour Service Local 370 Apprentice and Training Commit- term. Brandon’s Cell Phone is BUTION - E-Mail address: class, to become an ASSE Certi- FLINT – The next Member- tee voted to reimburse any active 517-260-4659 Please contact the union hall 734- fied Backflow Tester (5110). ship Meeting is scheduled for member of Local 370 that takes As we are moving forward 424-0962 or Pat Duffy 734-368- Class will begin Tuesday, Sept. Tuesday Sept. 14, 2021, at 7 pm, and passes any training, testing with the Lansing Hall remodel, we 4423 to make sure we have a cur- 14 and run Tuesdays and and has been designated as a re- or certification that may be re- would ask that you all consider rent e-mail address. Wednesdays for 5 weeks, from freshment meeting quired to perform their work. This dropping off anything of your MICHIGAN LICENSE RE- 5pm - 9pm. Congratulations to all Local includes Rigging, Med-Gas, Back choosing that would be practical NEWAL: Plumbing license re- ASSE Backflow Re-Certifi- 370 Scholarship recipients. This flow or any work-related training for a time capsule. We are going newals are done online ONLY!!! cation (8hrs): Re-certification year’s scholarships were worth or certification expense. Mem- to build a time capsule from 6” For detailed instructions and re- for the ASSE Backflow Tester $2,500 each. This is a great pro- bers will be reimbursed after suc- stainless pipe and put it under the quirements, please visit: (5110) will be Tuesday, Oct 19 gram for all our members college cessful completion and verifica- stage floor prior to closing it up www.michigan.gov/bcc. Feel free and Wednesday, Oct 20. Please bound children. tion of the cost. Lost wages will for another generation to find to stop into the Union hall and contact Retha before Monday, Fall Night Class Schedule: not be covered by the JATC. way down the road. pick up a copy of the instructions. Sept 13, to order the tests. Rigging. September 13, 2021 Plumbing license renewal is still Weld Classes will start up ATTENTION MICHIGAN Med Gas Installer and - October 21,2021, Every Monday the responsibility of the member. September 7. 2021. GAS DISTRIBUTION & OHIO Brazer Certification (40hrs): and Wednesday @ 4:30pm. No If you have any questions, please If you’re interested in taking GAS DISTRIBUTION & Next class will be in late winter/ deposit. contact local 370 JATC. the weld class please sign up BUILDING TRADES MEM- early spring of 2022. This is a Night Welding A. September Mobile App. Our mobile app. at www.ua333.org or call Trent or BERS - UA LOCAL 190 40-hour class to be Med Gas cer- 13, 2021 - October 9, 2021, Every Is now available for download on Diana at 517-323-0333. There is a WEBSITE: If you have not al- tified. Must have a minimum of Monday and Thursday @ you cell phone. Go to the app $25.00 fee, please call your re- ready done so, please log in and 4 years, documented experience 4:30pm. Welding Test, Sat Oct store and search UA Local 370. spective hall to pay for the class. look at our website www.ua in the plumbing and/or piping 9th @ 7am. No Deposit Download the app and sign in. Lansing: (Tuesday’s & 190.org Current members will industry. Call Retha to be put CSD-1/Primary Controls You can read the latest Building Thursday’s) Lansing Training be able to log into the “Members on the list for this class. Local 190, con’t Class. Dates are September 8th, Tradesman article, see upcoming Center, 16180 National Parkway, Only” section using your last Med Gas Installer Update CONDOLENCES: Our life- 13th, 15th, 20th, 22nd, and 27th @ meeting dates, or pay your dues. Lansing, MI. 48906. name and UA card number. (8hrs): This class will be time member Martin Rudicil 5:00pm. Prerequisites are: mini- This is a work in progress, and Jackson: (Tuesday’s & NEW ON THE WEBSITE: Wednesday, Sept. 22 and Thurs- passed away on July 30. Martin mum 4 th year Apprentice and we will add more content to the Thursday’s) 3101 Industrial Al- Members can now view and sign day, Sept. 23 from 5pm - 9pm. If initiated March 29, 1969, retired Current on Union Dues. $50 site as we move forward. lied Dr. Jackson, MI. 49201. up for job calls. The same proce- we exceed class size, we will May 1, 2004 and became a life- check deposit for this class is re- Our web site is up and run- Battle Creek: (Monday’s & dure will be used as the call-in schedule another class. Those time member March 1, 2019. To quired ning. Check it out at Thursday’s) (KCC) RMTC, 405 line. If you are laid off or go back wishing to update their Med Gas all family members and friends, Please sign up for all classes ualocal370.org. Hill Brady Rd. Battle Creek, MI. to work, there are forms available installer certification should the loss of someone dear to us is with Kaytlin, 810-720-5243 ex 15 We are now able to accept 49037. to fill out on the website that will call Retha to be put into the next never easy but may you all take Per our By-Laws Article XV, Visa, Master Card, Discover and Weld Tests are the second inform the hall. class, no later than Wednesday, comfort in the fact that you are The Building Tradesman is American Express for window Tuesday of each month at the CREDIT CARD MACHINE: Sept 1, to order tests. surrounded by people that care hereby adopted and subscribed dues. If you want to take advan- Lansing Training Center. You now have the ability to pay Confined Space Class about you. to as our Labor paper for all mem- tage of this service there will be a If you are interested in sign- your union dues or purchase mer- (4hrs): This class is scheduled Our member Ronald Smith bers of Local 370. Said paper to $1.00 per month charge added to ing up for classes please go to chandise by credit card or debit for Monday, Sept. 27, 2021, from passed away on Aug. 17. Ronald be used for all official notifica- the monthly window dues fee our website at www.ua333.org or card. We accept Visa, MasterCard 5-9 pm. Please call Retha to sign initiated on July 29, 1974 and re- tion of membership. and a 3% fee for all other transac- call the Training Center (517) 323- and Discover. A surcharge of up for this class. tired May 1, 2009. To all family Committee and Board meet- tions. 0333. 3.99% is added to your card on Plastic Pipe Fusing members and friends may our ings are as follows: Plumbing, Mechanical and PLEASE NOTE FOR ALL the transaction amount. We will (12hrs): This is a UA Certifica- heartfelt condolences bring you Examining Board – Tuesday, Residential Code Books are now CERTIFICATIONS: Per the UA, then mail you your dues receipt tion and is scheduled for Oct. 25, consolation and peace during September 14, 2021, at 4:00pm available at the hall. The books as of January 2019, all Braze and and credit charge slip. 26, and 27 from 5-9pm. This this painful time. FMR Committee – Tuesday are $75.00 each. Weld Certifications shall be up- IMPORTANT REMINDER class will teach butt-fusing of plas- Our member Donald Thomp- September 14, 2021, at 4:00pm Remember to keep your dues dated within 120 days of their ex- TO ALL MEMBERS – LAID OFF tic pipe using manual and hydrau- son Sr. passed away on Aug. 21. PAC committee – Tuesday current. Any member failing to piration date, or you will lose your OR BACK TO WORK: All mem- lic machines. After successfully Donald initiated on Sept. 16, 1968 September 14, 2021, at 5:00pm pay for 3 months shall stand sus- certifications. Check the date(s) bers who get laid off or report back completing course, students will and retired Dec. 1, 2006. To all Executive Board –Tuesday pended, unable to vote for a pe- of your Certifications, if they to work please immediately con- perform fuses and prep pipe straps family members and friends may September 14, 2021, at 5:00pm riod of 1 year or run for office for have expired please contact Diana tact Karen (734) 424-0962 Ext. for examination and testing to the care and love of those around Building Committee – Tues- a period of 2 years and subject to at 517.323.0333. Though we send #210. Please report the last day acquire UA PE certifications. you provide comfort and peace day September 14, 2021, at 6:00pm a $50.00 reinstatement fee. Dues out everyone’s continuities to be in which you worked. When call- EPRI Rigging and Signal to get you through the days Finance Committee -Tuesday must be paid in 3-month incre- renewed; between changes in ing to report back to work Person Certification: This is a ahead. We send our most sin- September 14, 2021, at 6:15pm ments according to our bylaws. addresses and the Post Office, please let Karen know the 40-hour class, to become Certi- cere condolences. JATC Committee – Tuesday Dues will be accepted up to 6:45 there is plenty of room for contactor and the date you re- fied in Rigging and Crane Sig- Our lifetime member Robert September 28, 2021, at 3:30pm on union meeting nights. error. Ultimately it’s the ported back to work. PLEASE naling. Must have 5 years of ex- “Bobby” Hyde passed away on ALL GM Worksites and Members wishing to take the member’s responsibility to make NOTE: All Members can perience or have went through Aug. 25, 2021. Bobby initiated others require Must Safety and U.A. welding certification test sure their certification(s) are now go to the website under “mem- Rigging Technologies (Appren- on Aug. 22, 1966, retired on July Drug Testing: MUST safety contact business agent, Dan current and updated. bers only” and fill out a “back to ticeship Rigging). Call Retha to 1, 2002 and became a lifetime modules are only valid for 4 Gaudet for application and test- If your Med-Gas Installer is work” form or “laid off” form. sign up for this class. Once we member Aug. 1, 2016. Bobby was years. Call the hall to sign up for ing dates. going to expire within the next INFORMATION - FRINGE have enough to put it on, we will always willing to lend a helping the MUSTBSAFE.com website Local 370 ball caps and win- few months please sign up on BENEFIT OFFICE: schedule it. hand at our annual Christmas and complete all 18 safety mod- ter fleece caps are available at the our website to take the renewal NEW VISION PROGRAM – EPRI Rigging and Signal party and our annual golf outing. ules. Members will not be eligible union offices. Ball caps $10.00 class. DAVIS VISION: Please be ad- Person Re-certification (8hrs): Bobby will be missed, a person to work at any job site requiring and fleece caps $5.00. Pocket Tee vised of the change to your vi- This rigging re-certification will that departs from this earth never them until all 18 modules are com- shirts are available for $10 dol- “When a quiet man is moved sion benefits. Effective Jan. 1, now include the EPRI Signal truly leaves, for they are still alive plete and are current on their drug lars each. Hooded sweat shirts to passion, it seems the very earth 2021, your vision benefits are now person certification. Class will in our hearts, through us they live test. If your drug test is expired, and long sleeve pocket tee shirts will shake.” being offered through Davis Vi- be 2 days and then the written on. To all family members and you must take one before you can are available. The sweat shirts are – Stephanie Barron sion. Welcome letters and cards, exam. Call Retha to put on the friends, we extend our deepest be dispatched to any GM work. $30 and the long sleeve tee shirts detailing your new benefits, were list for the next class. condolences. Drug tests are only valid for 1 year. are $15. Golf polo and golf wind “Saying what we think mailed during the month of De- ICRA Certification RETIREE MEETINGS – Call The hall and we will print you shirts are available for $25. gives us a wider conversational cember 2020. If you have not re- (16hrs): Looking to put on an- **SPADES and BREAKFAST a drug test authorization form If you shop on the internet, range than saying what we ceived this information, please other ICRA certification class. MEETINGS HAVE BEEN CAN- Local 370 office hours SHOP UNION MADE, log on to know.” contact the Fund office at 888- Class is limited to 12 partici- CELED UNTIL FURTHER NO- 7:30am – 4:30pm. www.shopunionmade.com. – Cullen Hightower 390-7473. You can also go to the pants. Call Training Center to TICE. Sub/Sick checks will be pro- T.I.C. fringe administrators’ Local 190 website www.ua190.org get put on the list for the next NOTIFICATIONS FOR THE cessed 8:00am – 11:30 am and toll free number is 1-888-797-5862. “Good breeding consists of and go to the benefit section for class. BUILDING TRADESMAN PA- 1:30pm – 4:15pm daily. concealing how much we think more information. RETIREMENT CON- PER: Please contact Karen Sub Pay. Remember to “An ounce of action is of ourselves and how little we NEW BLUE CROSS BLUE GRATULATIONS: Wishing all Spearin at the union hall, (734) qualify for sub pay when you are worth a ton of theory.” think of the other person.” SHIELD APP FOR YOUR of you a relaxing and happy re- 424-0962 Ext #210, if you would laid off, you must sign the out of –Friedrich Engels (1820 - –Mark Twain (1835 - 1910) SMART DEVICE: Attention all tirement!! We wish all of you and like to put a special notification work list. You can also collect 1895) members: you can download the your families all the best as you in the paper. when you are on Jury Duty and free Blue Cross Blue Shield APP enter into a new phase of your miss work. If you are traveling, $$$ Top Prices Paid $$$ “The important thing in sci- call Karla to see if you need to on your smart device. This will life. May you enjoy the extra time ALL TYPES of NONFERROUS and FERROUS SCRAP METAL allow you to see a copy of your that you will be spending with ence is not so much to obtain new make sub-fund self-payments. BCBS card, review your claims, them. Congratulations to the fol- facts as to discover new ways of All members were sent a Sub-Pay • ALUMINUM • BRASS • COPPER • STAINLESS STEEL explanation of benefits and much lowing, including their initiation thinking about them.” manual in 2018. If you did not • EXOTIC ALLOYS • CATALYTIC CONVERTERS more. Download: BCBSM date and retirement date:: –Sir William Bragg (1862 - receive one, please call TIC at • CARBIDE • HIGH SPEED STEEL • AUTO RADIATORS A REPRESENTATIVE Kelly Crilly: May 31, 1985; 1942) (517) 321-7502 and ask for the 370 COMMERCIAL CONTAINERIZED SERVICE FROM FRINGE BENEFIT OF- Sept. 1, 2021 “Difficulties strengthen the Sub Pay Fund Summary Plan De- RESIDENTIAL INDUSTRIAL FICE WILL BE AT THE UNION Steve Hafner: Nov. 11, 1991; mind, as labor does the body.” scription (SPD) PICKUPS HALL: A representative will be Sept. 1, 2021 – Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD) Attendance award drawing MONDAY-FRIDAY 8 A.M.-5 P.M. AVAILABLE at the union hall each month on Brian Hosler: Oct. 7, 1985; for membership meeting informa- SATURDAY 8A.M.-NOON the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Wednesday of Sept. 1, 2021 “The gem cannot be pol- tion. Member’s present must (248) 960-1200 each month. Members will be able David Powell: Feb. 13, 1989; ished without friction, nor man have dues paid to date to claim to meet with Bernadette from 9 Sept. 1, 2021 perfected without trials.” award. Monthly award is $150. MANN METALS CORP. a.m. to 12 p.m. and 1 p.m. until (Continued next column) –Chinese Proverb Attention All Active Mem- 1011 DECKER ROAD • P.O. BOX 711 • WALLED LAKE 48390 September 10, 2021 THE BUILDING TRADESMAN 7 Plumbers Local 98 Local 357 Plumbers 98 Plumbers, DETROIT – Membership of Plumbers Local 98. Brothers and Local 671 Sisters, I would like to take a moment to thank our Officers and Del- Pipe Fitters & egates who attended the UA’s 40th National Convention in San Diego Plumbers & HVAC Service last week. It is not easy taking time from your families and jobs to Pipe Fitters attend a large and important conference such as that. On behalf of Local 85 Plumbers, Pipefitters & HVAC Sprinkler Fitters Local 704 myself and our membership we wish to thank you all for representing Service Local 357 Plumbers and Pipe Fitters 671 DETROIT – The next regu- 98 in a professional way. KALAMAZOO - UNION MONROE – The next Regu- lar business meeting will be held Just a reminder there is an election here at 98 in December, please Plumbers and Steamfitters 85 MEETING: The next regular lar Union meeting is scheduled Wednesday, September 8 at 5:30 watch this article and email for future information as we get closer to SAGINAW – The Next Union Meeting is Tuesday, for October 7th, 2021 at 7 p.m. P.M. at the Union Hall. The Ex- nominations in November. Union Meeting will be Wednes- Sept.14 at 6:30 pm. Other meet- The Executive Board will ecutive Board will meet the same MEETINGS & Union Hall. The next Union Meeting will be held day, Sept. 22, 2021 at the Union ings that day will be Finance also meet in person on October evening at 4:30 P.M. on Thursday, Sept. 16 at 7 pm, in person. This is a date change to the Hall located at 3535 Bay Road Committee at 4:30 and Executive 7th at 5:00 p.m. If any Member Mark your calendars for THIRD Thursday due to a State Pipe Trades Quarterly meeting. The starting at 7:00 PM. It will be a Board at 5:30. wishes to see them, please con- Sprinkler Fitters Local 704’s 100th meeting will take place indoors at our Union Hall and all Covid re- Special Order of Business for the RETIREE MEETINGS: On tact the Hall prior to the meet- Anniversary celebration. The strictions in place will be adhered too. Masks are required – purpose of By-Laws Change and Oct. 4, 2021, there will be a retiree ing. Until further notice all un- date for the event will be Satur- WHETHER OR NOT YOU ARE VACCINATED, as too many of our vote. Please make every attempt meeting for LUNCH. The lunch vaccinated members will be re- day, October 30th at Motor City members are not adhering to the CDC recommendations as I thought. to attend. will commence at 11:30 am at Trav- quired to wear a mask during the Casino. R.S.V.P.’s will be sent out We hope you will join us before the Union Meeting for our last sum- The next Northern Meeting elers Café & Pub, 5225 Portage Union meeting. later this summer with event and mer BBQ starting at 5:00 pm. Thank you to Chef Wade Kovach and all is scheduled for Wednesday, Oct. Rd, Portage, MI. The phone Apprentices are expected to hotel information. the apprentices who help set up and breakdown afterward. Our next 6, 2021 at 7 pm at BJ’s in Gaylord. number for the location is (269) attend all Union meetings going COVID-19 vaccinations may meeting will be Thursday, Oct. 14 at 7:00 pm Seeking licensed plumbers 775-1775. If you have questions, forward unless otherwise noti- become mandatory on certain E-Board Meetings. E-Board meetings are the first and second to work in Alpena, if interested call Ken Willcutt at (269) 569-3492. fied. jobsites in the Detroit area. No Thursday of the month at 6:30 pm. If you need to contact or see the please call Clint Steele at (231) 499- ORGANIZING: Organizer ATTENTION: This paper is company can compel a member board, please call V.P. Jim Cools at 734-307-9841. 7330. Phil Curtis’s cell number is 269- to serve as official notice to the to receive the vaccine, it is com- Retiree Meetings. The retiree meetings are back up and running. Please note: Our new mail- 330-3267 and his email is membership. pletely a member’s choice. Just Please note, any existing Covid-19 protocols are still being adhered ing address for all correspon- [email protected]. If you Retirees: If any retiree is be aware that if you choose not to. They are continuing to exercise caution so everyone can remain dences has changed to 3535 Bay are working around someone or having issues with their current to get vaccinated, you will not be healthy and safe. The next Retiree meeting will be Wednesday, Octo- Rd. Saginaw, MI 48603. know someone working in our doctor accepting our new insur- th allowed on sites that mandate ber 13 from 12pm – 2pm at the hall. ALL NON-CRITICAL IN- industry who is interested in ance, please call Mike or Carly at this stipulation. EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES. For continuing education TERACTIONS is cancelled until membership, please contact Phil. the Union Hall and let us know. Reminder: Article V, Section opportunities or classes, you can contact Training Center Coordina- further notice. Please utilize email MEDICAL CLAIMS IS- Picnic: The Picnic is now 13 of Local 704’s Constitution, tor Ryan Lyle at 248-585-1435. and phone calls whenever pos- SUES: As a member, TIC Interna- CANCELED. When we decided By-Laws and Rules of Order. Any DUES. You can pay your dues online, over the phone, or by sible. tional provides a dedicated team a couple of months ago to have project that falls into the jurisdic- mailing in a check. You can also set up auto-payments. If you have Justin Pomerville, Business of member advocates to assist the picnic, the Covid cases were tion of Local 704 shall be manned any questions or need to pay dues, please contact Kristina Lodovisi Manager (989) 799-5261 x 8513 with the resolution of any and all very low. We now see the Delta by not less than two members. at 248-307-9800 ext. 4 or on her cell at 248-331-7232. [email protected] medical claims issues. If at any variant coming on strong and it Any member violating this By- IN MEMORIAM. Our heartfelt condolences go out to the friends Jamie Badour, Business time you experience an issue with has even appeared in Monroe Law shall be brought before the and family of Sister Bonnie “Sue” (Standridge) Hill who passed away Agent (989) 799-5261 x 8515 your claims being processed and County with a 30 percent increase Executive Board for a trial and be on Aug. 22, 2021. Bonnie is the sister of retiree Marv Standridge. [email protected] paid correctly, please contact TIC in the last month. I am sorry to subject to a fine. And condolences go out to Brother John Smithson Jr. who passed Tim Danielak, Business international at 1-888-281-3461. If make this change, but please un- Article IX, Section 4 of Lo- away on Aug. 26, 2021. Agent (989) 799-5261 x 8514 you are not satisfied with the ser- derstand the health and well-be- cal 704’s Constitution, By-Laws COVID-19 Information & Vaccine. You can now enter the MI [email protected] vice you have received, please call ing of our Membership is our first and Rules of Order sates: Mem- Shot to Win sweepstakes, worth up to $2 million, if you get (or have Clint Steele, Business Agent me, Ken Willcutt, at (269) 569-3492. priority. Also, we just received bers shall report all job starts to already gotten) the Covid-19 vaccine. More information, the link to (231) 499-7330 WEBSITE INFORMATION notice that the Monroe Labor its local union office. enter, and other vaccination information can be found on our website. [email protected] – FRINGES – TIC: Check out the Day parade has also been CAN- NFPA All Access is available Please visit ualocal98.com/covid-july. Bobby Anderson, Organizer website at www.ualocal357.com CELED this year due to the rise for all 704 members. Please con- SUB APPS/OOW CHANGES/BENEFITS. SUB pay is hit and (989) 799-5261 x 8512 and the FACEBOOK Page @ in Covid cases. tact the Local 704 Training Cen- miss as we are experiencing manpower adjustments. It is always a go [email protected] www.facebook.com/UALocal Union Promotion: We have ter for username and password. for medical or COVID related injuries. It is your responsibility to fill Kristin Tuthill, Office Profes- 357/. You should sign up for ac- Hi-Vis long and short sleeve Phone numbers to remem- out a SUB App when you are laid off, you have 48 hours to report a sional (989) 799-5261 x 8511 cess to your fringe reporting shirts at the Hall as well as black ber: NASI is 1-800-638-2603 for layoff. Call the Agent on the Books or come down to the hall to fill out [email protected] done by TIC via the Union short sleeve. information regarding Health and a SUB App. It is your responsibility to make sure you are on the out Monica Zanotti, Office Pro- website. To gain access, click on Congratulations: to Broth- Welfare or Pension fund ques- of work list and your contact information is correct. If you’re still fessional (989) 799-5261 x 8510 the Members Access Your Infor- ers Jim House and KD Brewer on tions. having unemployment issues call BAs Gary Glaser or Tom McWilliams. [email protected] mation Here, then click on TIC receiving their 50-year life mem- TIC International: 248-645- Both officers are administrators on the Must/Most program, contact Please check the ualocal85 International Corporation and ber status. Thank you both for 6550 for D.C. Fund distribution them if you need help. .org or our Facebook page for the then Register. your dedication to Local 671 and questions. For any issues that are unresolved at BeneSys, please get the most up-to-date information. This is where you will type the UA. Jason May (Merrill Lynch): name of the person you are dealing with and contact Carlo, Jon, or The new website is up and in your Name, Email Address, UA Apprenticeship Informa- 248-655-4048 for D.C. Fund In- the Union Hall immediately. running. Please check out Card # and Create your own pass- tion: Congratulations to Broth- vestment questions. GOOD/WELFARE. Join us for Macomb County Adopt-A-High- www.ualocal85.org. Click on Lo- word. Once you have completed ers Montana Heiss, Jeremy Continuing education way week on Saturday, Sept. 25. Please call BA Gary Glaser (313)580- cal 85 Members to access mem- all the information – click on the Rousselo, Adam Russeau and classes are being formed. Please 0148 or BA Tom McWilliams (248)752-2994 for more information and bers only information. Login in- LARGE REGISTER button that is Zach Hyden on the completion reach out to the training center to sign up so they can assure they have adequate equipment for the formation is username: first ini- surrounded by a Blue Box. Your of their apprenticeship. They are for further information or future number of volunteers. This is a great volunteer opportunity for those tial with full last name. Password User Access will be granted the officially Journeymen as of Sep- classes you would like to see in high school in need of volunteer hours. is 00 with your UA Card Number. next business day. To access tember 6th. Good luck brothers on added. We are currently looking for Residential and Service Plumbers. If you should have any difficul- your account, once it is set up, a long and healthy career. Congratulations to retired This is a great opportunity to expand and grow, as many members are ties logging in, please call Kristin all you need to do is access the Work Opportunities: Work Brother James Neal on achieving looking to retire. If you know anyone working Non-Union or is a past at (989) 799-5261 ext. 8511. Membership Button again – type opportunities may slow down in his 50-year status with the U.A. member that may be interested, have them call Organizer Rob Moses The new Facebook page is in your email address and pass- the 4th quarter of this year. Please and Local 704. Thank you for at 248-763-2187. live. If you are currently on the word – and all your information prepare yourself for being poten- your years of service. In solidarity I remain, Carlo Castiglione Business Manager Local Eighty-Five Facebook ac- will be presented. As a member tially slow until the Fermi outage Please keep your information Plumbers Local 98 count, invites were sent to have via the website, you will be able begins. updated with the union hall. TRAINING CENTER NEWS. Phone # 248-585-1435 you join the new site. UA Local to keep track of all your hours and Mobile App: Our Mobile App A speedy recovery to all of Check out The Training Center’s website www.Plumbers98tc.org 85 page is our public Facebook receive an e-mail when hours are titled “UA Local 671” is available our sick and injured members. The Apprenticeship Application process is closed until further account. UA Local 85 Members posted to your account. This is in the App Store for iPhone or notice. Group is our new members only very important as it is up to you Android. The Username for Lo- “Conscience is the inner The Training Center is open. The mask mandate has been lifted. Facebook. On this page, we will to keep up to date on the hours cal 671 Members is your last voice that warns us somebody We are asking that people still practice social distancing while in the have important messages and re- being paid on your behalf by ANY name and your book number (UA may be looking.” building. Please call Ryan Lyle at 248-585-1435 ext. 122 if you have minders specific to our member- CONTRACTORS. Card Number). The Password is –H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956) any questions. ship. Please like both and let us CHANGE OF STATUS: If just your book number. “Worry is a misuse of imagi- Michigan State Plumbing License Renewal -There is not an know what you think. you have a change of status for We recently have sent Push nation.” update required to renew the Michigan State Plumbing License this JATC News: Congratula- example: married, divorced, re- Notifications out with important –Dan Zadra year. In order to renew your license, go to Michigan.gov/lara and tions on our newest journeyman married, birth, death, workers information such as Covid-19 up- th click on License Renewal. **Deadline was April 30 , you may be Joseph McGuire! comp, address change, etc., dates and Informational Meeting “The self is not something required to pay a late fee. GOD BLESS ORGA- please call TIC at the phone num- notices. This mobile app is a great ready-made, but something in Monthly Code Class – Next class is 9/21/21 at 4:30 pm. Open to NIZED LABOR AND THE LA- ber above and Lori at the Union tool to stay current with all the continuous formation through any member looking to have discussions about the interpretation of BOR MOVEMENT! Hall. It is very important that we latest information from the Union choice of action.” the Michigan Plumbing Code. Great refresher for anyone wanting to SUB Fund: keep all our records up to date. Hall. PLEASE DOWNLOAD – John Dewey (1859 - 1952) take a state plumbing exam. Please call Paul at the Training Center at Print Unemployment Pay- There seems to be a continu- THIS APP SO YOU CAN KEEP 248-585-1435 ext. 123 to register. ment History located underneath ing problem regarding notifica- UP ON CURRENT INFORMA- “Enthusiasm is the great 6010 Medical Gas Installer Recertification – All current Med the Certification Tab when logged tion of divorces. Note that you, TION THAT THE HALL NEEDS hill-climber.” Gas certification holders are required to take this update. Do not wait, into your MiWAM account. the member, will be responsible TO GET OUT. The App is avail- –Elbert Hubbard (1856 - classes are limited. Call Training Center for next available class, to Deadline for submittals is Noon for any bills incurred and paid able in the Google Play Store or 1915) pre-register and pre-pay by check only, $130.00, to hold your spot. on Thursday in order to receive a on claims of an ex-spouse or de- on iTunes. “Why shouldn't things be 40 hour ASSE Backflow Tester Certification – Begins 10/5/21. check that Friday. Checks will be pendents. (See Pages 6 and 27 In Closing: The Summer is largely absurd, futile, and tran- Call Training Center for full schedule. Pre-pay by check only, $229.76 mailed out on Friday. No in person in the Summary Plan Description almost gone and the days are to hold your spot before the deadline 9/24/21. pickups allowed. If a holiday falls Booklet for clarification) Time becoming shorter. This is one of sitory? They are so, and we are so, and they and we go very well ASSE Backflow Tester Re-Certification exams are scheduled on a Friday, checks will be issued limits apply for my favorite times of the year. Fall together.” quarterly. Please be sure to check your expiration date, it is now on Thursday and deadline will be CONGRATULATIONS: is fast approaching and with it – George Santayana (1863 - required that you complete your update class prior to your expira- moved up to Wednesday by noon. Congratulations to the family of brings hunting season. I would 1952) tion. For those who are eligible, please call the Training Center to Where to submit docu- Nicholas Downing on the birth like to wish all my local Brothers register and pre-pay by check only before the deadline September ments: Address: UA Local Union of a baby girl, Lydia. and Sisters that enjoy hunting a 24, 2021. The next scheduled recertification class is October 26 & 27 85 SUB, 3535 Bay Road, Saginaw, Congratulations to Mike successful and SAFE hunting “It is only necessary to make 2021. MI 48603 Fax: (989) 791-3468 Conway on his recent marriage. season. Feel free to send me any war with five things; with the *OPEN WELDING* - Fall is a great time to get some practice Email: [email protected] pick you take while enjoying the maladies of the body, the igno- and upgrade your skills toward a welding cert. Call Chris Opalka 248- SUB Application for Benefits: Local 85, con’t Michigan outdoors. rances of the mind, with the pas- 585-1435 ext.146 to reserve a booth. Looking to try something new? Must be on file in order to receive Mike Jewell: Cell (419) 262- sions of the body, with the sedi- Ideas for a class? We’re here to help. SUB Check. Available at the Hall. tion at (989) 799-5261. 8503 email: [email protected] tions of the city and the discords If your brazing or welding certs are ready to expire, call to sched- 90 Day Rule: The weeks Website Address: Please Vinnie Fenech: Cell (734) 693- of families.” ule an appointment. The next WELDING Tests will be Saturday, Oc- you are claiming must be submit- visit www.ualocal85.org. 4082 email: vinnie@ualocal – Pythagoras (582 BC - 507 tober 2, 2021. You must call to schedule your welding tests at least 3 ted within 90 days of the first Mon- Insurance: When you are 671.com BC) days prior to the class. day following the week in which working out of another Local’s ju- Carly Neely: Insurance Line The next BRAZING Cert Session will be Friday, October 1, 2021. you are eligible to receive a State risdiction it may take up to 90 days (734) 241-6180 email: carly@ BUILDERS LICENSE TRAINING Please note: All members must be dressed appropriately to be in the benefit per the Plan Documents. for your Insurance and Pension ualocal671.com MIDDLETON shop area. Taxes: There are no taxes to be reciprocated back to Local Local 671 Fax: (734) 242-4692 Real Estate Training Inc. 2021 Course Hour reimbursement forms are now available at taken out of SUB Fund Checks, 85, which may cause problems 901 Tower Drive, Suite 120 the Training Center. You must have 8 hours (approved hours credited “We lie the loudest when we Troy, MI 48098 however they are taxable wages with your Health Insurance. AL- www.middletontraining.com may vary from actual hours attended) of verifiable approved classes/ and you will receive a W-2 at the WAYS SAVE YOUR CHECK lie to ourselves.” 248-885-8311 training from January 1 - December 31, 2021 to be eligible for the end of the year. If you want taxes STUBS and fax them in to the hall –Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983) $80.00 reimbursement. withheld from your SUB Fund at 989-791-3468 with the local you OSHA Training - OSHA 10, available as on an online class for Check, please indicate the dollar are working out of indicated. We $25 at www.careersafeonline.com This OSHA 10 class is not affiliated amount for Federal and State on will fax them down to BeneSys with the UA or our Training Center. OSHA 10 and 30 Hour Training is each SUB submittal. to keep your insurance up to date. also offered online through the MUST website. Go to NOTE TO ALL MEMBERS: RETIREE LUNCHEON: All www.mustonline.org. **Be sure to take the Construction Safety Address & Phone Update: retiree luncheons are postponed courses; not the General Industry courses. Please call the Union Hall to up- until further notice. Please check It is each member’s individual responsibility to keep all their date any address or phone num- the ualocal85.org or Facebook for Certifications current. ber changes at (989) 799-5261. all up-to-date information. If the person you are trying to reach at the Training Center is Beneficiary Cards: Please Fraternally, unavailable, please leave a message to ensure we can return your call the Union Hall for any Justin M. Pomerville call. We attempt to return all messages by the end of the business changes in beneficiary informa- Business Manager/Financial day. (Continued next column) Secretary, Local Union 85 8 THE BUILDING TRADESMAN September 10, 2021

Local 174 Plumbers, Pipe Fitters & Service Trades

West Michigan Plumbers, Fitters & Service Trades Local No. 174 COOPERSVILLE - Meeting Notice: Our next meeting will be Tuesday Oct. 5 at 7pm in the Assembly Hall. All pertinent CDC and MDHHS guidelines will be followed. The front office will remain open until 7pm. Attention: This paper is to serve as the official notice to the Plumbers, Pipe membership. Congratulations: Local #174 would like to congratulate Brother Fitters & HVAC Bob Derby on his appointment to the position of Training Specialist Service with the U.A. Thank you Brother Derby for your service to our Union. We know you’ll continue to make Local #174 proud. Local 111 Retiree Breakfast: The next retiree breakfast will be Thursday October 7th at 9am at New Beginnings in Coopersville. We will follow Plumbers and Pipe Fitters 111 restaurant and CDC rules. UPPER PENINSULA –Re- Member Update: Business Manager Ryan Bennett will host a minder: Check your records and member update on the Facebook members group on Thursday, Oct. 7 contact the hall with any changes at 5pm. Brother Bennett will provide a recap of the Union meeting to the following: E-Mail, home ad- and answer questions. SETTING UP A WATER line for installation at the Branch County Jail in Coldwater is Dave Selph of dress, phone number, a new birth, COVID Vaccine Incentive: Local #174 Health Fund will provide Pipe Fitters Local 636. He's employed by the Positive Trades Group. marriage, divorce, or death. a $50 Visa gift card for any member who gets their COIVD vaccine or Please call April or Ann to have provides a doctor’s letter saying they cannot get the COVID vaccine. your information updated. This is for working participants only, not family members. Please Pipe Fitters, Steam Fitters, Local 636 Reminder: It is your respon- provide that information to Cami in person or via email to Refrigeration & sibility to call the hall as soon as [email protected]. Cami will submit a list weekly to TIC and TIC will you get laid off, the day you call mail out the gift cards. Air Conditioning Service in is the date that you are placed DHE Plumbing and Mechanical: We would like to talk to DHE’s on the Out of Work List, if you workers. If you know of a jobsite where they’re working please con- Pipe Fitters 636 Dues: If you do not pay your ences which is still beneficial to do not call in you will not be re- tact Chris Pelton. DETROIT – The Next Union Dues by the end of each quarter. all our members and their fami- ferred to work. Contact Information: If you have a change in contact informa- Meeting is scheduled for Septem- After 2 quarters go unpaid you lies. You can contact her @ 313- Reminder to all apprentices, tion PLEASE CONTACT CAMI so we can keep our system up to ber 21, 2021. It will be held at St. will then be Expelled and have to 580-6887 you must attend 4 union meet- date. Georges Romanian Culture be Re-Initiated and pay a $200 Training Center News. Call ings per year. TIC, Aetna, Labor First: If you have issues with any of our fund Center located @ 18405 W. Nine Re-Initiation fee. Kim at the training center for Reminder to Welders/Weld- service providers please contact Ryan Bennett at [email protected]. Mile Rd. Southfield MI 48075. It Defined Contribution Pen- FIRST AID online class @ 248- ing Forms: The UA Welder Please try to remember who you spoke with, this will help the com- will start at 7pm. MASKS or sion Plan: For those members 585-0636. Qualification Continuity Report pany fix the problem. FACE COVERINGS are optional, who use the Voice Response Unit, Please send all emails and forms are available on our PAC Cards: Since the elimination of prevailing wage, the race to but temps will still be taken at VRU to obtain balance informa- weld continuity’s to info@ website under Training or at the the bottom on wages and benefits for publicly funded projects has the door. tion and transfers funds in your pipefitters636tc.org hall. Certifications expire every 6 begun. Our political focus over the years to come will be electing The Pipefitters Local 636 Defined Contribution Pension, WELDING -4 PM TO 8 PM months and it is YOUR responsi- people who support prevailing wage and wage standards in general. Annual Picnic HAS BEEN RE- the number has changed. The on Mondays & Thursdays. Cost bility to get your welding forms To do that we need to raise our PAC card participation. We currently SCHEDULED TO SATURDAY new number for the VRU is 877- is $50 for 40 hrs. turned in on time. have less than half of the local contributing to our PAC. Your PAC SEPTEMBER 11, 2021… ALL 410-9984. Plan provider number DOWNHILL WELDING- Please update all Non-UA contribution DOES NOT COME OFF YOUR CHECK. When you sign OTHER DETAILS STILL AP- is 7526. Call Kurt to sign up. 6 Saturdays, certifications (Plumbing License, the PAC card it allows us to move money from your working dues PLY. Picnic will be from 11am-4pm You can now login to your cost is $75.00. MUST, OSHA-30 etc.) by send- over to our PAC. Please call Cami today and find out if you have at The Willow Metroparks, Defined Contribution account on GMAW-Sat’s Call Mike to ing a copy of your certification current PAC card on file. Washago Pond Picnic Shelter. the Local’s website. Just click on sign up, cost $50. to the Union Hall Medicare Retirees: Effective January 1st 2021 your insurance Food, Drinks, and Prizes will be the “Defined Contribution login ORBITAL- 3 Sat’s Call Mike Check your dues records! premiums will be reduced by approximately 12.5%. New rates are as available! Bring the whole family here tab” and it will take you to to sign up, $50. You are assessed a $50 reinstate- follows: Single Medicare: $262.55 • Retiree and Spouse Medicare: to enjoy a day of fun with the the BeneSys login page. The HDPE-1 Saturday Call Kim ment once you become 3 months $525.09 •Retiree and Non-Medicare Spouse: $677.55 Pipefitters. Defined Contribution website is to sign up behind. You are automatically Short Term Disability: The Local #174 Board of Trustees Financial Advisor Jason www.yourplanaccess.com/ RIGGING-Thursdays 5 expelled once you are over 6 revoted to increase the short-term disability amount from $300 per May with Merrill Lynch Wealth benesys. All inquiries. weeks- Call Kim to sign up, $50. months behind. week to $400 per week. This increase will be effective Sept. 30, 2019. Management has a new contact Are you “Work Ready”? Starting the week of Oct. 4th Safety Training on Local 111 Dispatch: We will be splitting up the dispatch responsibilities number 248-655-4048. Have any of your safety modules the following night classes will Web Site: When taking the on- between the business agent and the assistant business manager Pipefitters 636 would like to expired? Is your Drug Test cur- be offered. Call Kim now to sign line safety training, go to our web positions. Each person will be on dispatch for 2 weeks. There is a inform the Local 636 members of rent? Check your report card at up, cost is $50 each. site ua111.com and click on Safety dispatch email: [email protected] which both offices have access the current Office Administrative mustbsafe.org and if it is time for CHILLERS 1- Wednesday, Links. Members must take these to. There is a dispatch phone extension that will switch between the Changes they are as follows renewal call the Training Center Oct 6th. 5 weeks safety trainings for each site to two offices depending on who is on dispatch. (please notice the changes in the 248-585-0636 and they will regis- REV IT- Thursday Oct 7th. 5 work at each mill. Please take note New insurance carriers: Active and NON Medicare Retirees SUB FUND correspondence): ter you. Be “ready” when the weeks they are valid for 1 year. Aetna: (888)290-7241 Receptionist/Dues/Address calls come in. Safety modules MES II/Star Prep- Monday MSHA Training: The 2021 Save-Rx: (800)228-3108 Changes/General Inquiries: and drug tests are paid for by the Oct. 4th 5 weeks MSHA schedule is on our web Medicare Retirees Labor First: (616) 345-0788 Craig Harmon email: Contractors Association. MES I- Mon & Thurs 120 site & our Facebook page. Call Organizing Update: Please contact Chris Pelton if you know of [email protected] WHEN YOU STAY CUR- hours Ann at (906) 226-6511 ext. 4 to any jobsites with a non-union plumbing or mechanical contractor or Sub Fund Office: Kristina RENT WITH YOUR SAFETY CSD 1- Monday, Oct. 11th. register. MSHA expires in one if you are interested in actively assisting with our organizing efforts. Springer: Please send all SUB MODULES, DRUG TEST AND 5 weeks year. There are plenty of opportunities available, ranging from a one-day Fund Requests to email: FIRST AID, YOU WILL ride-along with a Business Agent or Organizer all the way up to full [email protected] QUALIFY FOR FUTURE BO- blown salting. 248-538-7065 NUS PAYMENT’S. Dues: Please keep your monthly window dues current. You can Account Management/ Recovery Support Group: find your dues balance on the website or by calling the Union office. Death Notice: Margaret April Pipe Dreamers, a Peer Support Remember that if you are expelled from the UA that you are no longer email: [email protected] Recovery group for ongoing re- eligible to attend Local Union events, such as meetings, picnics, 248-538-6636 extension 102 covery from substance abuse and awards banquets, and Christmas parties. The Hall is now open to all addiction meets the second and Jurisdiction: Remember to always call into the local you are foot traffic. Masks are OP- fourth Tuesday of each month at traveling to. Do not rely on anyone else to call in for you. They will TIONAL. Dues payments or SUB 4:30pm at the office of “Work not get into trouble. It is the member who is working in another local transactions can still be done via Life Strategies” 26789 Woodward who has not checked in that gets into trouble. Please contact Ryan email or by phone. SUB email is Avenue, Suite 3105, Huntington Bennett if you see another local’s contractors/members working in [email protected] Woods 48070. Call 248-545-8301 our jurisdiction. The Retiree Association for details or any questions you Contact Info: Please make sure we have your updated contact Meetings have been cancelled may have. information. Check your info on the website or by calling Cami at the until further notice. The election Also, a Relations/Divorce Union office. has also been postponed until Support Group meet on the sec- Metal Trades, Helpers, and Trainees: Please remember that if further notice. – President David ond and fourth Thursday of the you are working as a Metal Trades, Helper, or Trainee your raises are Evans month at 6pm. MEMBERS, FAMILY AND FRIENDS of U.P. Plumbers and Pipe Fit- based on the day you were first dispatched to work at that classifica- UA password good thru Worker Assistance Pro- ters Local 111 marched in the Sept. 6 Ishpeming Labor Day Parade. tion. If you are not sure of your dispatch date, please contact the September 30, 2021: 40TH UA NA- gram: Work Life Strategies, LLC Thanks to all who showed up in the annual show of solidarity. Union office. It is up to you to let the Union office know. TIONAL CONVENTION are available to our members and Photos courtesy of Michael Laitinen Labor Councils: - Kent Ionia - 3rd Wednesday of the month / Any member that is Retir- their families to provide personal Labor Temple 918 Benjamin / 5:30pm ing contact Benesys @ 248-813- counseling services and when Lakeshore – 3rd Thursday of the month / CIO Hall 490 Western / 9800 for your Retirement paper- needed, referral to other profes- 6pm All members are encouraged to become active in our area Labor work or if you want to meet with sionals. Councils. Please contact a Union Officer for details. the Financial Secretary Trea- Call 248-545-8301 to talk to a FRINGE PLAN THIRD PARTY ADMINISTRATOR: (TIC) surer, please give him a 7-to-10- counselor for issues relating to West Michigan Plumbers, Fitters and Service Trades Local day notice so that he can get all grief, alcohol and or drug addic- No.174 Fringe Benefit Funds, 6525 Centurion Drive, Lansing, MI of your paperwork in order. tion, bankruptcy, financial man- 48917-9275. (517) 321-7502 Phone • (855) 40-PLUMB Toll Free • (517) agement, marital, depression, le- 321-7508 Fax gal and family counseling. Con- BENEFITS WEBSITE: westmichiganplumbers.org is the TIC Local 174, con’t sultations with Work Life Strate- website where you can check your contributions and benefit infor- Monday, September 20, 2021 @ gies are a service paid for by the mation. Click on benefit inquiry. Your username is your social secu- 5p-9p. The class dates are as fol- Insurance Fund. Referrals to rity number. The password for first time users is K4GHB39 (case lows: Sept 20, 22, 25, 27, 29, Oct 2, outside professionals, if needed, sensitive). You will then be prompted to create a permanent pass- 4, 6, and 9 (Exam). Saturday will be paid for according to the word. classes are scheduled for 8a-4p. current health care plan benefits. Forms: The forms for Dollar Bank Reimbursement and Sub Pay MED GAS: For those with a CJ Harrison would like all our are on the www.ua174.org website under the Members Only section current 6010 Medical Gas members to know that she is still and Forms and Links tab. Installer’s certification, we will be available by phone during these “Men are wise in propor- “The great art of giving con- Contract Requirements: Please remember Section 5.7 of our running a short class on UA uncertain times, she is working tion, not to their experience, but sists in this: the gift should cost collective bargaining agreement states, “Persons called from the un- MediTrac training. A factory rep from home doing phone confer- to their capacity for experience.” very little and yet be greatly cov- employed list will report to work with a UA/WMMCA issued drug from MediTrac is scheduled to be – James Boswell (1740 - eted, so that it may be the more card.” Section 18.5 states, “…employees…shall be required to main- at the Training Center on Tues- “Selfishness is not living as 1795), highly appreciated.” tain the following Safety Training Certifications: First Aid/CPR, day, September 28, 2021 @ one wishes to live, it is asking “Any fool can tell the truth, – Baltasar Gracian Bloodborne Pathogens and OSHA 10.” Please make sure you follow 5:00pm. This training is expected others to live as one wishes to but it requires a man of some our agreement. to take approximately 1½ - 2 live.” sense to know how to lie well.” “Men show their characters Out of work list: Please remember to call extension 17 when you hours. Anyone with a Medical –Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) –Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902) are laid off. You must call line 17 to be put on the available to work list. Gas license will be required to in nothing more clearly than in “Here's a rule I recommend: “Hold a book in your hand When you leave a message, please speak clearly. Any member who have this certificate to install csst what they think laughable.” Never practice two vices at and you're a pilgrim at the gates goes to work without a referral is in violation of our Collective Bar- tube for med gas. –Johann Wolfgang von once.” of a new city.” gaining Agreement and Article XXXI of our Constitution and By- If you have a certification Goethe (1749 - 1832) –Tallulah Bankhead (1903 - – Anne Michaels Laws. Please contact the Union Hall to find out your position on the that has expired in the last few 1968) out of work list. months and have questions re- Union Hall extension numbers: Ryan Bennett Business Man- garding recertification, please “Time is the coin of your life. ager ext:12, Nathan Phillips Assistant Business Manager ext. 13, Ja- contact the Training Office. It is the only coin you have, and son Finch Business Agent ext.14, Chris Pelton Organizer ext.15, Lisa Many certifications have ex- only you can determine how it Johnson Accounting Manager 11, Cami Burris Administrative Assis- tended grace periods on expira- will be spent. Be careful lest you tant ext. 10, Training Dept: Jeff Rumsey ext. 16, Nicole Shumaker ext. tion dates. let other people spend it for 30. Please contact Jeff or Nicole you.” Training News if you have questions. Call the –Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967) FIRST AID: First Aid/CPR/BBP class will be the second Thurs- Training Office “If you can solve your prob- day of the month, from 5:00p-9:00p. The next classes will be held @ (616)837-0222 x16 (Jeff) / Nicole lem, then what is the need of wor- October 14, and November 11, 2021. @ (616)837-0222 x30. rying? If you cannot solve it, then ASSE BACKFLOW TESTER: Class is scheduled to begin on Or via text Jeff (231)923-8140 what is the use of worrying?” (Continued next column) / Nicole (231)206-4213. –Shantideva September 10, 2021 THE BUILDING TRADESMAN 9 Bricklayers and Allied Local 514 Craftworkers Cement Masons & Plasterers Heat and BAC Local 2 Heat and WARREN/LANSING – Election for President of Local 2, MI – Operative Plasterers and Cement Masons Local 514 Frost As a reminder, good standing members will receive a ballot for the DETROIT – The next membership meeting is scheduled for Frost election of President of Local 2 when they are mailed on August 27, September 21 , 2021 at 7:00 p.m. will be in person. We will practice Insulators Insulators 2021. If a member doesn’t get a ballot in the mail, they can call the social distancing for everybody’s safety. Masks will be required. Warren office for a replacement ballot until September 9, 2021. Re- Membership gold cards – Congratulations! Local 25 placement ballots will be mailed out on September 10, 2021. Ballots Patrick Landis-25 Years Local 47 are due back by September 22, 2021 at 5:00 pm. The Election Commit- James McKeage-25 Years tee opens and counts the ballots on September 23, Duane Villarreal-25 Years Heat & Frost Insulators Local 25 2021. For purposes of this election, a suspended Louis Walczak-60 Years SOUTHFIELD – The next Heat and Frost Insulators & Al- member who pays through at least August by Sep- Please Welcome Parrish Hill our new Business Representative! scheduled Membership Meeting lied Workers Local 47 tember 9, is restored to good standing status pursu- His number is 313-220-7840 and can be reached by email: will take place Thursday, Septem- LANSING – The next Regu- ant to Article VII, Section 4.A. of Local 2’s Constitu- [email protected] ber 9, 2021 at 6:00 p.m. at the lar Union Meeting will be held on tion and By-Laws, and shall be mailed a ballot on It is important for all members to keep the Local updated on Union Hall. Friday, September 10, 2021 at 7:30 September 10, 2021. addresses, email and phone numbers. If you need to change an ad- NOTICE TO p.m. The meeting will be held at SEPTEMBER 2021 CHAPTER MEETINGS. dress or add an email and phone number please call the Local at (248) ALL: When you the J.A.T.C. Training center lo- HOUGHTON CHAPTER: Thursday, September 16, 548-0800. move into the cated at 906 Terminal Rd., Lan- 2021 at 7:00 PM, Dave Raffaelli’s, 37738 Highway 26, Lawrence Nemeth is the Apprenticeship Coordinator; he can be Medicare Ad- sing, MI 48933. CHUCK Toivola, MI 49965 reached at (313) 350-0389. vantage Pro- To combat and limit the KUKAWKA LANSING CHAPTER: Monday, September 13, Attention all Apprentices: now you will need to go to the website: gram, your de- spread of Covid-19, Local 47 en- 2021 at 6:00 PM, 3321 Remy Drive, Lansing, MI 48906 www.micementplasterertraining.com to enter your work hours. When ductible balance courages all members to continue MARQUETTE CHAPTER: Monday, September 20, 2021 at 7:00 you get to the website click the link “About” and then click on “Ap- for the year is to work safe, and if you feel sick PM, 119 S Front Street, Marquette, MI 49855 prentice monthly work form instructions.” You will be able to put in supposed to contact a doctor immediately. SAGINAW CHAPTER: Tuesday, September 28, 2021 at 7:00 PM, your hours so Larry can keep track for your raises. Any questions CURT carry over. Any retirees wanting to go 1300 W. Thomas Street, Bay City, MI 48706 please feel free to contact Larry with any questions you might have. McGLONE Whatever to work, please call the office. The TRAVERSE CITY CHAPTER: Wednesday, September 15, 2021 If you are a Military Veteran please contact the Local so we can you have paid Funds Trustees have waived the at 7:00 PM, 1231 Hastings Street, Traverse City, MI 49686 update our records. Please call (248) 548-0800. toward your annual deductible, 79-hour rule. MEMBERSHIP GOLF OUTING. Local 2’s 8th Annual Member- The Local’s website is: www.opcmiami.org. prior to changing over to Medi- All members should have re- ship Golf outing will be held on Saturday, September 11, 2021 at Hawk O.P.C.M.I.A. Local 514 has a satellite office in Flint, Michigan. care Advantage Program, should ceived a letter from our Interna- Meadows Golf Course in Howel, MI. If you are interested in golfing We welcome Member and Contractors in the Flint area to handle their follow you. As with any system, tional regarding the Asbestos with your fellow Union members, the registration form is next to this business transactions at: 2630 Grand Traverse, Flint, MI 48503. there can be flaws. Please keep Exposure Scientific Study. For article! Appointments may be made by contacting Business Agent Mike an eye out for any charges re- more information on how to par- CRAFTWORKERS NEEDED: We need Skilled Bricklayers, Res- Stanfield at (517) 719-2316, or the Business Manager Henry Williams lated to your deductible balance ticipate in this study, please con- toration workers and Caulkers in Metro Detroit. If you are available at (313) 215-5063. not being carried over, when you tact Business Manager Patrick for work, or know anyone who is skilled in our crafts, contact your Members working for non-signatory commercial contractors are move into the Medicare Advan- Welch at the main Local 47 Office Field Representative on their cell phone. You can also have those having a negative impact on our market share. The work forecast this tage Program. If you receive a no.,517-708-0665 who are interested call either the Warren office (586) 754-0888 or the year looks better than last. Members working non-union will be charge that should have been Per the Rules and Proce- Lansing office (517) 886-9781. brought up on charges and fines will be enforced. Let’s work to- covered by your deductible, dures: Members must notify SIGNING BONUS FOR SKILLED CRAFTWORKERS: Local 2 gether to secure our future!! please contact the Fund Office. the office within 24 hours of be- will pay up to $2,000 as a Signing Bonus for skilled Journey Level We must stay vigilant in our effort to promote our trade. If you APPAREL New Local 25 ap- ing laid off or charges may be craftworkers who come to work for one of our Union Contractors for are working in a crew of 5 or more an Apprentice must be on the crew. parel is available at the Union placed. a month. Also, Local 2 members working with the tools and non- Help out! Call the Local at (248) 548-0800. Training is the key to our Hall. New items include: knit hats Members must notify the supervisory members can get the same amount as a Finders Referral future!! and beanies, new hi-vis short office before ANY overtime is Bonus for each new skilled craftworker who they refer, if they work Please make sure your modules and drug test are up to date, and long sleeved t-shirts and hi- worked. for at least a month for our Union Contractors. For more details and there are some plant jobs that do require the MUST modules. You vis hoodies. Apparel can be Contracts are available at the information, call your Field Representative or either the Warren office can go online at: www.mustonline.org Call the Local if you need a viewed on the Facebook page. Union Office or at the Union (586) 754-0888 or the Lansing office (517) 886-9781. You can view the drug form sent out. M.U.S.T. SAFETY MOD- Meeting upon request. full Signing Bonus policy on our website. Please make sure that we have all of your current contact infor- ULES: It is important to keep OSHA 10: Local 47 will be A SPEEDY RECOVERY: A speedy recovery is wished to all mation, address and phone number so we can keep the fund offices your M.U.S.T. Safety Modules up offering OSHA 10 to any Active those who have been sick or injured. Let’s keep them all in our updated for your health care and pension and also if you are having to date. If you have Modules Member who is not current with thoughts and prayers. your vacation checks mailed out. If you have moved please contact expiring and needing to be com- the program. The course is done *IMPORTANT CHANGE Regarding Union Dues* All Local 2 the Local and we will change your addresses with all of the fund pleted, give the Union Office a online, so if you wish to take the Members are now eligible for a Union Dues discount, regardless of offices. call to have the testing authori- course please contact the Local what month you are paid through currently. This offer is a great way IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR PLASTERERS AND DETROIT zation turned on. Union office with your email ad- to catch up on your monthly window dues by taking advantage of COMMERCIAL CEMENT MASONS: You can track your annuity EMPLOYEMNT dress and we will be more than this annual dues discount. fund status at the Wells Fargo website. You may do so by logging CHANGES: All employment happy to set it up for you. If you We are making available to ALL Local 2 members the opportu- on to: www.retirement.wellsfargo.com or call (866) 640-5138, you changes; hire, lay off, fire, shop do not have a computer at home, nity to pay for 6 months of union dues and receive credit for 12 can also call the fund office at (248) 645-6550 with any related ques- change, disability, etc. must be you are welcome to come to the months. An entire year for half the price!! tions. called into the Union Hall. The Local Union Office to take the UPDATE - BAC LOCAL 2’S TRAINING CENTERS. Both Local PLASTERERS AND CEMENT MASONS: It is your responsi- only way to guarantee you are course. 2 Training Centers are open to our members. Please contact our bility to fill out reciprocity forms if you plan on working out of the on the out of work list and your Local 47 has been receiving Training Centers at the numbers listed below for an appointment for Local 514 area. This will ensure that your hours are sent back to your employment records remains cur- a lot of returned mail from our annual RESPIRATOR FIT TESTS and other services. home fund. If you have any questions, or need any forms, please rent and correct. members. We ask that if you have DETROIT IMI TRAINING CENTER: To schedule appointments contact the Local. LAY OFF/HIRE: Please be a change of address or phone at the Metro Detroit Training Center, please contact Tom Ward di- Please make sure your beneficiary information is up to date. Any reminded, all members shall no- number to please call the Local rectly at (734) 552-7066. changes to your beneficiaries can be made at the Local. tify the Business Manager within Union Office right away so we METRO DETROIT APPRENTICE WORKSHEETS AVAILABLE If you have questions concerning your pension benefits, ROAD forty-eight hours after accepting can update your information FOR DOWNLOAD: Turning in monthly worksheets is a require- BUILDERS can call: Toll Free at 1-877-876-9357 or (517) 321-7502. a job or upon termination of em- throughout our system, TIC’s, ment of your apprenticeship. Metro Detroit Apprentice Worksheets PLASTERERS’ AND COMMERCIAL CEMENT MASONS can ployment. Failure to report will and the with the International. It are available for download at http://bit.ly/Apprentice_Worksheets. call: (248) 645-6550 for pension and annuity, and Toll Free 1-877-876- result in an automatic $50 fine. is very important to make sure If you do not have a printer, you can pick them up during our monthly 9357. All Plasterers and Cement Masons can contact (517) 321-7502 S.U.B. FUND: Please be re- your contact information is al- meeting or contact Tom Ward at (586) 757-6668 to request them by for health & welfare information now through Outstate Michigan minded, in order to receive a ways update with Local 47. mail. For more information on the Detroit Training Center visit: Trowel Trades Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Michigan. For the INTER- S.U.B. Fund check on Friday, all Anyone interested in joining detroittroweltrades.org NATIONAL PENSION Call 1-888-880-8222 Toll Free or (202) 638- paperwork must be submitted to the newly formed Breath Of Life LANSING TRAINING CENTER: To make your appointment 1996. the Office no later than 2:00 p.m. Committee is asked to please call for your annual RESPIRATOR FIT TEST or for other scheduled ap- on Thursday. the Local Union Office. pointments at the Lansing Training Center, please contact Howard SUB FUND TIME LIMITA- Allied Workers’ Local 47 Hipes directly at (517) 749-1102. SOCIAL SECURITY DISABILITY TION: Please be reminded, per Fringe Benefit Funds, 6525 Cen- Go to https://www.michiganbricklayers.org to view the Lansing the Plan Document: Each time a turion Drive, Lansing, MI 48917- Apprenticeship and Training website and register for future 2021 REPRESENTING BUILDING TRADES participant receives a State Un- 9275. Toll Free Number: (800) online training classes. employment check, he/she must 323-8079 MEMBERSHIP ASSISTANCE: During this COVID-19 pandemic, mail or deliver the receipt, check Joshua Kroell will be avail- the IUBAC Member Assistance Program has a number of services BROTHERS & SISTERS OVER 35 YEARS stub, or a copy of the check to able via phone to answer any available for free or at a discounted rate to BAC members and their the Administrator’s office within questions regarding Pension, families. These confidential services can be seen at http://bit.ly/ BIESKE & ASSOCIATES thirty (30) days of receipt of said Welfare and Vacation Funds. MAP-BAC and are also available via telephone at (888) 880-8222 and State Unemployment check. Joshua is the Secretary for the ask for membership assistance Monday – Friday 8 am – 8 pm. These Many people are wrongly Any request for a benefit pay- Pension, Welfare, Vacation and services were established and are intended to help get us through rejected when they apply for ment past the thirty (30) days Special Benefits and can be difficult life situations. Social Security Disability will be denied per the Plan Docu- reached by phone at (989) 385- FACEBOOK: “Like” Local 2 on Facebook “Bricklayers & Allied benefits. Money was taken out ment. 2671, or by mail at: P.O. Box 1498, Craftworkers Union, Local 2 of Michigan.” of their paychecks for Social BENESYS: When calling Mt. Pleasant, MI 48804. E-MAIL ADDRESS: Local #2 wants to use every means pos- Security taxes to ensure that the Fund Office, Benesys, please To all active members, if you sible to communicate with you. Sometimes we have time sensitive they would receive disability be sure to get the name of the have not sent in your Coordina- information (such as job openings, picket lines, funeral arrangements benefits if they could no longer person providing you informa- tion of Benefits Form, your Spou- and other such communications) that would be most efficiently done work full-time. Sadly, the government denies approxi- tion. Lately, we have been expe- sal Form, or your Birth Certifi- via e-mail. Please submit your address by sending an e-mail to mately 60% of those who apply riencing some incorrect informa- cates for your Children, no one [email protected] and in the subject line place “Local #2 for disability benefits. tion being provided to our mem- will be covered on our insurance e-mail address” then type your name, phone number and e-mail ad- Attorneys J.B. Bieske bers. In order to make sure the until these items are sent to TIC. dress in the body of the communication. We appreciate your time and and Jennifer Alfonsi have correct information is provided, Please call TIC immediately at effort in helping us accomplish this task. 55 years combined experience it helps to have a name so the (800) 323-8079 and get the above- BAC 2 MI Texting Program. We have been communicating by representing only Social Security disability clients. And they personally meet Union Office can call Benesys, mentioned forms into the fund text message more frequently with our membership lately. We en- with all clients and appear themself at all court hearings. Many large firms correct the person providing in- ASAP and you will be reinstated courage our members to sign up to receive our text messages by assign inexperienced attorneys to your case. And some of these firms are correct information and find out retroactively - texting 2MI to 877877 located thousands of miles away and only fly the attorney in the day of the why they are providing our mem- Remember that Auto and - You’ll receive a confirmation text asking for your member num- court hearing. Attorneys Bieske and Alfonsi have vast experience before local bers with incorrect information. Motorcycle accidents are not ber (IU#) Michigan judges. SICK AND INJURED: covered by our plan. Auto and - Respond with your six-digit IU number and you will receive Lo- Attorneys Bieske and Alfonsi can often make a winning difference at the Please keep all our sick and in- Motorcycle accidents should be cal 2 Text Messages going forward! application stage. And, if an appeal is necessary they have won several jured members in your thoughts covered by your personal Auto PENSION AND HEALTH INSURANCE INFORMATION: hundred cases before a court date is even set. and prayers. Insurance policy. Bricklayers Metro Detroit Local Pension Fund (248) 641-4954 Those denied can appeal on their own but statistics for many years reveal Members having questions (dvtt.org) that those represented by attorneys win a much higher percentage of appeals. “He who every morning regarding Pension and Welfare Detroit & Vicinity Health Insurance & BAC Holiday Fund (800) And attorneys who specialize in Social Security Disability cases win a much plans the transaction of the day Fund please contact TIC Interna- 435-4080 or (248) 828-6000 (dvtt.org) higher percentage yet. and follows out that plan, car- tional at the numbers below or log MI BAC Health & Welfare & MI BAC Pension (800) 531-2244 In addition to practicing only Social Security disability law attorney ries a thread that will guide him onto their Website: (outstate funds, michiganbac.org) Bieske has written a book for attorneys about the subject and has been through the maze of the most www.heatfrostlocal47benefits.org: Cement Pension & Holiday Funds (248) 645-6550 interviewed on various television programs. 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IBEW IBEW Local 131 Serving Southwest Michigan Local 498 Since 1916 “Powering Northern Michigan IBEW Since 1949” LOCAL 948 IBEW Local 131 IBEW Local 498 KALAMAZOO – In obser- TRAVERSE CITY – Meet- IBEW Local 948 vation of Labor Day, a motion ings. FLINT – Our September was made, seconded and passed Regular E Board- The next Union Meeting will be held on at the Aug. 2 General Member- regularly scheduled E-Board Monday Sept. 13, 2021 at 6:00pm. ship Meeting to move the Sep- meeting is set for Friday, Oct. 8, Our September Executive tember General Membership 2021 @ 6pm. Board Meeting will be held on Meeting to Sept. 13 at 6 p.m. Regular Meeting – Sched- Monday, Sept. 27, 2021 at 4:30 pm. The next Executive Board uled 7pm Friday, Oct. 8, 2021. We The Retiree Club Meetings meeting will be held on Sept. 20, will put the Solidarity Picnic be- will be every 1st Tuesday of the at 5 p.m. PULLING WIRE AT the Branch County Jail project in Coldwater is Rich Kennedy of IBEW Local 131. fore the Regular meeting on hold month at 9 am AND the 3rd Tues- We ask that those coming to He's employed by Swan Electric. for now due to Covid. day of the month at 8:00am – Elec- the Local Union to conduct busi- Attention Golfers – The 26th tions will be held at the Nov. 2 ness please wear a face covering, Annual Scholarship Golf Outing meeting at 9:00am. unless fully vaccinated. for Northwest Education Ser- DON’T FORGET TO RSVP Work Outlook: The work vices (formerly Traverse Bay FOR THE FAMILY PICNIC ON outlook is strong. We expect to IBEW School District) will be on Sun- SEPTEMBER 11. have a busier than usual summer day, Sept. 19 on the Wolverine Do not forget to check our continuing into the fall. If you are Course at Grand Traverse Resort. website for new content. Be sure aware of interested electricians LOCAL 252 It includes 18 holes of golf with to log in to see all the new con- working in our jurisdiction, please cart, lunch and dinner, raffle, tent. www.local948.com. have them visit www.powering prizes which will benefit CTC Schol- You can pay over the phone kalamazoo.com or call the office. arship Fund. If interested contact with debit or credit card. You can We are continuing to fill a IBEW Local 252 Wally Ziemba at 231-632-9660 or also stop by the Hall during busi- large number of calls for “Project ANN ARBOR – BE SURE TO KEEP BENEFICIARY FORM UP- call the office for more info. ness hours (7am-noon/ 1-4pm) Bronco” at Graphic Packaging IBEW DATED: A friendly reminder that beneficiary forms are available at Health Plan Update – Please and pay by cash, check, debit or International for Van Ert Electric. the fund office AND at the hall for anyone that may need to update be aware that the Michigan credit card. Do not wait till you The LMCC has launched a Local 445 beneficiary information. If your information needs to be updated it Health Plan opted into using owe a reinstatement fee (4 new website www.powering needs to be updated at BOTH. Health Plan Advocate (HPA). months behind). kalamazoo.com. This website will IBEW Local 445 TRAINING CLASSES 2021: ALL CLASSES START AT 5:00 This is to save the plan $1 million 2021 – Monthly Dues – Jour- be used to highlight local signa- BATTLE CREEK – The P.M. to reduce the need for raising neyman $43.70 a month – Appren- tory contractors and used as an Sporting Clay Shoot is sched- 1. CPR/FIRST AID: Tuesdays, June 8th & 15th, September 21st & health plan contributions. There tices, CE, Sound Tech $40.70 a month organizing tool. Follow us on uled for September 25, 2021. 28th are only 319 plan participants that 2020 – Monthly Dues – Jour- Facebook @poweringkalamazoo, Please RSVP to the Hall by Sep- 2. Photovoltaic Class: Mondays, August 2nd thru October 11th , will be getting notified to sign up neyman $43.70 a month – Ap- Twitter @PoweringKzoo, tember 17, 2021 if you want to at- (10 weeks) for the prescription drug pro- prentices, CE, Sound Tech $40.70 Instagram @powering tend. We will no longer be able 3. Journeyman License Prep: Postponed until winter 2022 gram, so if you are not on a a month kalamazoo, and LinkedIn @pow- to take additional shooters after 4. Conduit Bending Class: Thursdays, September 23rd thru No- monthly prescription or one of If you are unfamiliar with our ering kalamazoo. Please feel free September 17. vember 9th, (8 weeks) the very expensive drugs you referral procedure, please refer to to share the wage calculator fea- The Retiree Breakfast: The 5. Instrumentation Part A: Mondays, October 18th thru Decem- likely will not be notified. our website @ http:// ture of this site. Retiree monthly breakfast at 9am ber 20th, (10 weeks) It is VERY important for you local948.org/job_referrals/ If you believe we do not have at Lux Café at 2587 Capital Ave 6. EVITP Electric Vehicle: DATE CHANGED: Tuesdays, Au- to sign up if you are notified. If Gregory Remington your email address or correct cell SW. Mark your calendar for the gust 31st, September 14th, September 28th, October 12th, October 26th, you are notified and you do not Business Manager phone number, please email Chris- third Thursday of each month to and November 9th. sign up your prescription costs E-mail and Re-signs: If the tine at cbohms@ibew 131.com attend. 7. Osha 30: Mondays, September 13th thru November 8th. Worth will only be covered at 50%, for Hall does not have your e-mail Dues pricing – The price for The General Membership 30 BICSI CEC’s. some that can be thousands of address it would be a good idea dues in 2021 is $40/month. If Meeting is the second Monday There is a $50 fee to hold a spot in all classes except First Aid/ dollars at a 50% coverage rate. to send us an e-mail to you’re unsure about your bal- of each month and starts at 5:00 CPR. You must register one week prior to class start date. Call the So please do not ignore a letter [email protected] so we can ance, please call the Hall for the ex- p.m. at the Hall. Training Center at (734) 475-1180 to register. Masks must be worn at from (HPA) Health Plan Advocate. add you to the e-mail list. This is a act amount or email Christine. If your The Executive Board meets all times in the school. Call the hall for any questions. great way to keep up with the lat- dues ticket reads paid through Au- the fourth Monday of each month Local 252 Website & App: The Local’s website www.ibew252.org Habitat Update – The Maple est information on job calls and gust 2021, your dues are not current; starting at 4:30 p.m. is up and running. There is also a Local 252 App available to down- City home that Dan Tuttle, Colin other information sent from the Hall. please contact the Hall. Initial Sign and Daybook: load. Search “IBEW 252” in the app store. You must create a new Bush, Tim Babcock, Mark We have finalized our auto- Effective June 1, 2021, with the login and password to access the Members Only section. Your login Leggett, and Dave Fashbaugh mated dues reminders; these re- suspension of the NDERA, nor- for the old website is no longer valid. roughed in will be ready for trim Local 498, con’t minders will be sent ahead of pos- mal initial sign to Book 2, dings M.U.S.T DRUG TESTING: Please make sure your MUST drug out on Sept. 18. If you can come 8:00am – 4:30pm sible late dues. You may receive and the Daybook procedures will testing is current as you cannot work on a U of M project or several and help it would be most appre- Friday November 12th – a message via text or email if you return to normal business as other projects in the jurisdiction without being current. Local 252 has ciated. There will be another Group A 8 am – 4:30pm have not tendered your most cur- usual. If you have any questions, a zero tolerance for alcohol or drug use. house being built in Kalkaska. It Friday November 19th – rent I.O. Dues payments. Dues feel free to contact the Hall. ERTS: Please make sure that you are signed up in the Electronic will likely be ready for a rough in Group B 8 am – 4:30pm payments can also be made PLEASE HELP!! – The Hall Reciprocity Transfer System. You must be signed up in ERTS before by early to mid-October. Remem- Email – Please get an email online; to log in, use your Last is asking for each member to working outside of Local 252’s jurisdiction or your benefits will not ber, apprentices who participate will address to the hall so we can get Name and Card Number. verify their address, phone num- be transferred back. get credit towards their yearly book info out easier and faster, thanks. Life events happen, and ber and email address that we Aflac Insurance: Aflac has teamed up with the IBEW to offer its tuition cost from the union hall. You can email your address to the we’d always like to make sure you have on file. We are looking into members Aflac benefits at a reduced rate. Contact Representative Christmas Party – At the hall at [email protected] . Please have updated beneficiary forms. a texting and email service, and if Lisa Enerson for information about Accident, Cancer, Critical Care, August meeting it was decided put your name in the subject. If you’re questioning whether you would like to be included in Dental and Vision insurance from Aflac. Phone number: (517) 306- to Plan for a kids’ Christmas Party Contracts - We have up- yours is up to date, stop on down those correspondences, we need 0144. with Santa. It has been sched- dated Inside Wireman Contracts to the Hall to get new documents. your current information. Thank AT&T Discount: Union members can save up to 15% on the uled for Saturday, Dec. 11, available at the hall. If you’re interested in receiv- you! monthly service charges of qualified wireless plans, or unlimited call- 12:30pm – 2:30pm. Mark your Resale Items – A new order ing updates from the Hall, please Local Website - Please check ing for $15/mo. for AT&T Wireless Home Phone plans. Visit calendar and watch for postcard of Local 498 shirts are in now. email Christine at cbohms@ibew the Local 445 website for the lat- UnionPlus.org/ATT with discount code 4924966. invites in the mail some time in Stop by to get one while we still 131.com to get your email address est information, including job Retiree’s Breakfast: The Retiree’s Breakfast will resume on April November. This will be Covid have your size! We also have added. postings. The Local 445 web ad- 14, 2021 and will take place the second Wednesday of each month at permitting. There will also tenta- Local 498 Beanie Hats for resale. Retirements: Congratula- dress is IBEW445.com. 8:00 a.m. at Leo’s Coney Island, 160 South Zeeb Rd., Ann Arbor, MI tively be a Christmas party slated Proud Union Home signs are in tions to the following retiring 48103. There is parking and entrances in both the front and rear of the for the December regular member- and available at the hall. Free to members: Adrian DiVisser, July “Nobody can tell you if restaurant. ship meeting. members in good standing. 2020. Michael Chaddock, May what you're doing is good, mean- Union 4 Life Golf Outing: The 2021 golf outing has been sched- Officers, Executive Board, Service Pins – Service Pins 2020. John Magnan Jr., May 2020. ingful or worthwhile. The more uled for Sunday, September 26, 2021 at Stonebridge Golf Club, 1825 JATC & Renew Committee of are still available at the union hall Robert S. Davis, June 2020. Roger compelling the path, the more Clubhouse Dr. Ann Arbor, MI 48108. Registration begins at 8 a.m. IBEW Local 498- Thank you for for those members who have not Clark, March 2020. Patrick Klocke, lonely it is.” with a tee-off at 9 a.m. To complete your team or individual registra- your service: George Shumar, received them. Stop by and get May 2020. Keith Moore, April –Hugh Macleod tion, visit www.union4lifecharity.com. Registration is $100 for indi- President; Dylan O’Dwyer, Vice yours today! 2020. William Slater, July 2020. “Whatever you may be sure viduals, $400 for a 4-person team. President; Ryan Lautner, Record- Made in America Websites Thomas Vrobel, August 2020. of, be sure of this-that you are Retiring Soon?: The NEBF and IBEW Pension Benefit Fund ing Secretary; Jesse Barnhart, – www.theunionbootpro.com - Peter Spreitzer, August 2017. Joe dreadfully like other people.” applications can take 3 months to process, but can be filled out as Treasurer; David Fashbaugh, 100% American made/union Haskins, May 2021. –James Russell Lowell (1819 early as 6 months before your planned retirement effective date. If Business Manager; Robert made. Union member discounts Condolences: Brother James - 1891) you are nearing retirement, please contact Alana at the Union Hall to Everett, Executive Board; Glenn 27% off. Use this code when or- Stewart passed on Jan. 17, 2021. start your paperwork at least 3 months before your planned retire- Stein, Executive Board; Michael dering. Be0498mD or order toll Brother Gary Yack passed on Jan. “Never take the advice of ment date. Jean, Executive Board; Josh free 1-800-723-5384. 31, 2021. Brother Wes Smith someone who has not had your NOTICE TO RETIREES: If your 50-year commemorative watch Brown, Executive Board; Michael Email Addresses - Any mem- passed on March 29, 2021. kind of trouble.” stops working for any reason please contact the hall. Ciszewski, Executive Board; ber that would like to have Local Brother Adam Russell passed on –Sidney J. Harris CREDIT CARDS: The Local is now accepting credit cards to Timothy Kelly, Executive Board; April 22, 2021. Brother James pay union dues. We accept Visa, Master Card, American Express and 498 forward communication to “The habit of giving only en- Jayson Cudney, Examining Wynn, passed on April 14, 2021. Discover. There is a fee of 3.5% to use your card. them from the International, Lo- hances the desire to give.” Board; James Pierce, Examining Brother Wenford Abbs March, UNION DUES FOR 2021: Effective January 1, 2021 union dues cal 498, AFL-CIO or the Building –Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892) Board; Joseph Zionskowski, Ex- Trades, to help stay informed to 11, 2021. Brother Thomas Mor- for “A” members will remain $119.25 per quarter. Union dues for “BA” amining Board; Matthew Ockert, current events, politics, con- gan passed on May 10, 2021. “A celebrity is a person who members will remain $61.80 per quarter. Examining Board; Miles Sepke, tracts, work, etc. Please call or All Memorials (members and works hard all his life to become DUES PAYMENTS – Please look at your dues receipt. If your Examining Board; Scott Ostlund, email your current email address members families) and full obitu- well known, then wears dark dues paid through date shows 6/2021, your dues are not current. “A” Alternate to the International to Local 498 at [email protected] aries can be viewed on the glasses to avoid being recog- members pay $119.25 per quarter for 2021. “BA” members pay $61.80 Convention; Shaine Kuczynski, Thank you! website under the Memorials Tab. nized.” per quarter for 2021. Please mail your check to 7920 Jackson Rd., Ann Renew Committee; William Lee, Important numbers for you FROM THE APPRENTICE- –Fred Allen (1894 - 1956) Arbor, MI 48103. Your third quarter dues (July through Sept.) are Renew Committee; James Pierce, to write in your address book: SHIP: Code Update Classes: it is “One of the lessons of his- due now. Payments for third quarter dues will be accepted no later JATC; Dylan O’Dwyer, JATC; MEEHP (Health) 1-855-633-4584 now required for Journeyman to tory is that nothing is often a than 11:30 A.M. on Thursday, September 30, 2021. Mason Morrow, JATC; Matt or 1-517-321-7502 Fax# 1-517-321- pay in advance to hold your spot good thing to do and always a Ockert, JATC; Robert 7508 in the Code Update Class. We clever thing to say.” “Little by little, one travels far.” Gronostalski, JATC; Mark Griner, MEEPP (MI Pension) 1-517- require 48 hours’ notice for – Will Durant (1885 - 1981) –J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973) JATC; Douglas Rexroat, JATC. 321-7502 cancelations if you need to re- JATC Welding Class – The (New address Michigan Pen- schedule for another available “You must give some time to your fellow men. Even if it's a little following are scheduled Welding sion and Health Plan) TIC Inter- Code Update Course. IBEW 131, con’t thing, do something for others – something for which you get no pay classes being held for Local 498 national Corporation, 6525 Cen- Please visit our website pick it up, please email Nicole and but the privilege of doing it.” members. If you are interested, turion Drive, Lansing, MI 48917 www.kalamazoojatc.com or stop request your form to be emailed – Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965) please call the JATC office or the NEBF 1-301-556-4300 in to sign up for the Code Update to you. [email protected]. Union Hall to get signed up. Each NEAP 1-301-556-4300 Class. Sept. 3, 2020. Call Nicole at Organizing: As much tech- class is limited to 7 persons and IO Pension 1-202-833-7000 269-388-4434 with any questions. nology as we use to track non- all participants are subject to all DUES RATES. Drug Test Renewals: Please union electricians in our jurisdic- COVID restrictions and NMC Jan 1, 2021 – No increase. keep track of your drug test expi- tion, often, our best resources are Policies regarding the pandemic. Still remains $140.10/Quarter ration date through you, the members. If you see a The classes are held at NMC in Info Updates – Any member www.safe2work4you.com. It is non-signatory in the area work- Traverse City and provide 14 with a new address, phone num- your responsibility to stay cur- ing at a location, please let the hours of applied training for over ber, email address, etc. should rent on your drug test. Please Hall know. 2 days. Training excludes food, contact Local 498, contact Nicole (269) 388-4434 to “United we Bargain; di- transportation and lodging. Remember to check the hall get your authorization form vided we beg.” th Friday October 29 – Group recorder at night after 4:00pm for printed for you to pick up. If you Brian O’Donnell mcnicholsscrap.com detroitironandmetal.com A: 8:00am – 4:30pm any jobs that might be available. don’t want to come to the Hall to Business Manager/ (313) 365-6100 (313) 841-5100 Friday, Nov. 5 – Group B: 231-943-4980 ext. 3# (Continued next column) Financial Secretary September 10, 2021 THE BUILDING TRADESMAN 11 IBEW Local 692’s column – See Page 12

IBEW Local 557 SAGINAW – Union News. Hope you had a happy Labor Day Weekend Brothers and Sisters! Hope all of you were able to en- joy this time off with your fami- lies and loved ones. Let’s not for- get the sacrifices and the fights of those before us. Congrats to the newly topped out 5th years: Brian Fisk, Justin Christensen, Cody Burch and Derek Good. Represent your A WIDE RANGE OF wiring – logic control, door lock. audio, PLC – is installed and organized by (l-r) local with pride! Congrats to journeyman Andrew Rapp ad fourth-year apprentice Josh Michael of IBEW Local 445. They're em- Brother Howard Revard on the ployed by Swan Electric at the Branch County Jail project in Coldwater. birth of his daughter, and Brother UPPER PENINSULA IBEW LOCAL 906 members were out in force Ben Smalls on the north of his on Sept. 6 at the annual Labor Day Parade in the streets of Ishpeming. son. Thanks to everyone who attended. Thank you to all the Broth- ers and Sisters who helped make the 1st Annual Labor Day Picnic IBEW LOCAL 58 a success! We had many key po- litical figures turn out in support of Labor. Thank you to Brother Annual Family Picnic. There are rect. We are planning on having Billy Link’s band for great music! IBEW 58 too many names of Brothers and our first luncheon on Oct. 27, at Renew Committee will be DETROIT – The next General Sisters that gave of their personal The Gazebo, 31104 Mound Road, walking in the Hemlock Sawdust Membership Meeting will be held time to list them all here and the Warren, 48092 which is our usual Days Parade on Sept. 18. Parade on Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2021 at 6:30 event couldn’t take place with- east side venue. Of course, send starts at 10am, but line up goes pm. Dinner will be served at 5:30 pm. out you. Once again, Thank you! your checks for $20 per person, from 8:30-9:45am. All members are Electrical Industry Training EWMC of Southeastern MI to Ray. We appreciate hearing invited to show their union pride! Center is offering Continuing – The next chapter meeting is from those attending by the Sun- If any additional information is Education classes. Please check scheduled for Monday, Sept. 20, day prior to the luncheon to se- needed, please contact Matt them out at http://www. at 6pm. Please bring any sugges- cure a solid number of attendees Gulick. detroiteitc.org/continuing-edu- tions that you have for EWMC for the restaurant. At the Febru- Lastly, we remember Brother cation/.We will start to cancel involvement and engagement. ary 2020 Board Meeting, due to ris- Karl H. Payk, who passed away Photos courtesy of Michael Laitinen classes if they don’t meet the mini- What can we safely participate ing costs we voted to raise the lun- on Aug. 15. Born March 29, 1941 mum enrollment requirements, or in that continues to promote cheon price to $20 beginning with and initiated into the IBEW on IBEW 906 will not have Unit more hopefully we will order the IBEW in the community? We the June 2020 event, which didn’t Dec. 1, 1967. Brother Karl was a meetings in September. There will books for those of you who’ve are still waiting on the go ahead happen because of Covid restric- well-respected member of this lo- be a General Membership Meet- signed up. Members on the Storm for the Malcolm X Historical tions. So we are back on track, and cal and will be sorely missed. ing on Sept. 11, 2021. Said meet- Book must secure their training Homesite. We will be moving for- hope to have a great turn out at Please keep his family and friends ing will begin at 1:00 pm at the through the Continuing Education ward on the project as quickly as our first scheduled luncheon. in your thoughts. Hall in Escanaba. Program offered by the school. If we can. We are back to doing in Our Board meetings have There will be a CPR class of- The following members re- you need assistance in registering person meetings at the union hall. resumed, on the second Tuesday fered at the Hall on Oct. 20 at 4pm. ceived service pins: for a class, please call the Training We will continue to have our of the month, at the union hall. All members and their families are 5 Years: Paul Mullen, Jason Center, 586-751-6600. meetings on Zoom as well for We gather in the lower level in welcome to attend. Williams, Bruce Laurilla, Garrett Local 58 Dues Informa- those who prefer or cannot make the “Bill Rushford Room”, our As of July 1, all meetings Lasecki. tion: We are rolling out a new it to the meetings. Please make meeting begins at 10 a.m. All are mandatory for apprentices. 10 Years: Crou Smith, Katie payment program through the sure your cell phone no. and your members are welcome to attend All attendance and Service Coppens. App and website in the next few email address are up to date. The our Board Meetings. The hall Learning policies are back in full 20 Years: Rodney Trudell, weeks. Dues will need to be paid meeting information will be sent has re-issued a mask wearing affect for Apprentices. Please make Carl St Ours, Trisha Plante, Jack no later than the 27th of each out as soon as available. If you policy, with masks worn anytime sure you are checking your emails Olson, Rory Magnuson, Brian month in order for them to be are not receiving the notices, you are moving about in the hall. for updated class schedules. Doran. credited to your account. If it is please make sure that your infor- Upon entering the hall, tempera- MEMBERSHIP MEETINGS- IBEW 35 Years: Mike Hurtubise later than the 27th (especially at mation is updated here at the hall. tures are taken, signing in and an- Our next meeting will be Sept. 7 There are two new retire- the end of each quarter) you will The RENEW Committee swering three questions regard- at 5:30pm. LOCAL ments pending as of this writing. need to call the Dues Depart- meeting will be on Tuesday, Sept. ing your heath that day. These MICHIGAN INITIATIVE- They are Jack Grau and Steve ment. Please keep address, 28 at 5 PM. precautions are in line with the The Michigan Initiative has a new 906 Moreau. We wish these Brothers phone number and email up to The Safety Committee meet- CDC recommendations regard- organizer. Please contact well in their retirement years. The Officers and Staff hope date with the local as we will be ing will be on Monday, Sept. 13, ing mask wearing indoors. Brother Gus Voisine for any or- IBEW Local 906 everyone enjoyed the Holiday. sending notifications using at 5:30 PM. The bottom line is that with ganizing issues you see or UPPER PENINSULA— The next Holiday on the calen- phone and email. Thank you! The Veterans Committee only about 50% of the Michigan have. If our members have any MEETINGS dar will be November 15th. Enjoy. Local 58 Motorcycle Group: will now be meeting monthly im- 16+ population totally vacci- questions or work tips they can MARQUETTE UNIT—First A reminder that the monthly For more information contact An- mediately after the Safety com- nated, getting the shot is your reach out to him on his cell: 989- Tuesday dues are $40.00 We have received thony Anderanin at aanderanin mittee meeting on the 2nd Mon- best protection from getting 941-8046. IRON MOUNTAIN UNIT— some at the old rate of $39 and a @gmail.com or Grace Trudell for day of each month. covid. The Pfizer vaccine is now UNION HALL OPERA- Second Tuesday few members are overpaying. more info. The Political Action Com- FDA approved. Most new infec- TIONS- The Union Hall is now ESCANABA UNIT—Sec- st This makes the bookwork diffi- Local No. 58 Benevolent mittee (PAC) meets the 1 tions are among unvaccinated back and running like a well oiled ond Wednesday Fund: The next Benevolent Fund Wednesday of each month Via people. Incredibly hospitaliza- machine! The State has lifted re- cult. Please if you have a service meeting will be Tuesday, Oct. 5, Zoom. To be added to our email tions have increased 231% since strictions and we will comply and that pays your dues monthly in- 2021, 5 pm. The Benevolent Fund list please contact Jeannette July 1st. Do what’s best for all of lift restrictions in the Hall as well. form them of the correct amount. is excited to announce two events Bradshaw (313-408-1287). PAC us, get your shot, mask up and Business Hours are M-F 7-4:30pm. Local 557, con’t Please remember that ad- dress changes and phone for this fall: contributions can be made be aware of those around you. If BOOK SIGNING- With the Free Health Assessment test and changes along with new addi- Benevolent Fund and through the APP, and at the you haven’t paid your dues for termination of the NDERA agree- find instant results that can lead tions to the families need to be Women’s Committee hosting Union Hall. You can contribute 2021 which are $8 per person, per ment on June 1, book signing will to living a healthy lifestyle. passed on to the Hall and the The Brad Ballard Memorial more than the $4 that is sug- year, associate members are $4 per now be in person. During the last BLUE CROSS APP- Down- Pension and Health Plans. Eastside Golf Outing on Sept. 24, gested on your quarterly dues, year, per person, send your dues year and a half, book signing and load the Blue Cross/Blue Shield of If you have any information at Timberwood Golf Course in but you cannot exceed $175 per to Ray Owen, at the address above. out of work list operations have Michigan app for your you would like to see noted in Ray Township. Shotgun start at calendar year. Stay in touch with one another, and been different than in the past. smartphone. Search for “BCBSM” this article or something you be- 10AM. $500 for Foursome, Lim- Local 58’s Women’s Com- enjoy the rest of this beautiful Sum- Beginning July 1, when a mem- on the Google Play app or Apple lieve should be published please ited to 160 Golfers – pre-registra- mittee-. Our next regular meeting mer here in Michigan. ber is laid off, they must come to store. Benefits to utilizing the app email the Hall with your request. tion required. For more informa- is Thursday, Sept. 23 at 5:30 pm Be sure to keep the Union the hall to place themselves back include: instant access to EOB’s, [email protected] tion contact Mike Bellhorn at 586- at the hall and on Zoom. Please Hall updated with any changes on Book 1 and turn in their termi- a virtual ID card on your phone, 612-5964 or Felicia Wiseman at watch for emails with further up- to your phone number, address, nation slip. This was previously information on deductibles, expla- “O, it is excellent to have a 313-963-2130 ext. 3044. dates. The Women’s Committee and email. done over the phone or via e-mail, nations of coverage and other help- giant's strength; but it is tyran- th The 5 Annual Local 58 has paired up with the Benevo- IBEW Pension: Congratula- but with restrictions lifted, its ful tips related to your Health Care nous to use it like a giant.” Poker Run is back and will be lent Fund to host the Brad Ballard tions to the following members back to pre-pandemic operations. coverage. EOB’s can be down- –William Shakespeare (1564 held Saturday, Sept. 11. Registra- Memorial Eastside golf outing. who have been placed on Inter- Many Locals throughout the loaded to smart phones or comput- - 1616) tion will start at 12 PM, at the 7- The outing will be held on Sep- national Pension: Gary Belarski; State of Michigan will continue to ers and used to substantiate WEX “For you to be successful, 11, 45100 N. Gratiot Macomb tember 24th at Timberwood Golf Anthony Dobrowski; Patrick accept fax/email initial book signings. receipt requests. sacrifices must be made. It's bet- Twp, 48042. All are welcome to Club. Flyers with more informa- Dunbar; Keith Klieman; William if you are interested in this recipro- WEX APP- Search for the ter that they are made by others participate. This event is made tion are circulating. We will be Potter Sr; John Rich; & Dino cated benefit and would like to be on “TIC HRA” app in Google or but failing that, you'll have to possible by the great volunteers looking for volunteers to help run Vecellio Jr. some out-of-town Books, please call Apple and download it today. make them yourself.” of Local 58. All proceeds go to the golf outing. Please plan on Members that have Passed the hall to arrange this. Utilization of this app will give – Rita Mae Brown the Benevolent Fund. For more attending the next Women’s Away: Phillip Brenneman, pen- WORK OUTLOOK- All you access to account balances, information contact Mike Committee meeting for more sion member, 57 year IBEW mem- apprentices are out to work. Jolt receipt reviews and submittals, “Progress is the product of Bellhorn 586-612-5964 or Jim information. You can Email us bership; Randall Davis, pension credit union will be sending calls barcode scanning for covered human agency. Things get bet- Peltier 734-277-6661. at: 58Womenscommittee member, 43 year IBEW member- out soon. As well as The Dow items, other helpful services. ter because we make them bet- Members of the Community @ibewlocal58.org, or call commit- ship; Jerry Deaton, pension mem- Event Center and the Caro Men- JOB CALLS- Please stay ter. Things go wrong when we Service Committee: The next tee chairs Angela Panicucci (586) ber, 56 year IBEW membership; tal Health facility. Mary Free Bed vigilant checking the Job Line if get too comfortable, when we fail meeting will be Tuesday, Sept. 14 291-8014 or Kayla Pauli with any Anne M. Diederichs, Mother of continues along. you are seeking work. All work to take risks or seize opportuni- at 5:30 PM. The Wobbly Kitchen questions. Follow us on pension member Joseph HEALTH CARE-The Michi- calls for the day will be available ties.” is up and running again and we Instagram @ibewomen58; Check Diederichs and JIW Jeremy gan Electrical Employee’s Health on the Job Line after 4:30 pm. IF –Susan Rice are assisting them every 2nd and us out on Facebook Local 58 Diederichs; Sister-in-law of pen- Plan continues to cover 100% of YOU ARE SEEKING WORK 4th Sunday with food prep and Women’s Committee. sion member Leonard Diederichs; the costs related to testing for don’t forget to CALL 989-781- “With Epcot Center the distribution at Cass Park. We are IBEW Local 58 Retirees As- Aunt of pension member Paul COVID-19. During this pan- 0516, option 3. Disney corporation has accom- asking volunteers to show up at sociation: We are having our an- Diederichs, Limited Energy Bus. demic, remote care is encouraged STAY CURRENT ON plished something I didn't think the hall at 8 am to help with the nual picnic on Sept. 22 at Rotary Agent Thomas Diederichs, and Blue Cross members can call DUES –Please check to see if you possible in today's world. They Wobbly Kitchen program. To get Park in Livonia, 32184 Six Mile Rd, Admin. Asst. Mary Nielsen and the 24-Hour Nurse Line at 800- are current. The Hall has the abil- have created a land of make-be- involved with future community at Hubbard St., Pavilion #1. The Limited Energy Tech. Joseph 117-BLUE. You may also want to ity to accept credit cards and also lieve that's worse than regular service projects contact Mike cost is $15 per person, and we Diederichs; Theda Dobis, widow inquire if your primary care pro- E-checks. The credit card service life.” Conflitti or Rob Z at the union are hoping to see you all at our of the late pension member Frank vider offers telemedicine. The can accept payments for dues, –P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - ) hall. Local 58 is very active with first gathering in a year and a Dobis, Mother to JIW Richard Health plan continues to meet merchandise, apprentice book “By the time a man realizes community service in the Metro half. We are working toward hav- Dobis; Steve Gruchala, Son of regularly via teleconferences to payments and other purchases. that maybe his father was right, Detroit area and has a variety of ing a solid count by early Sep- the late pension member Steve stay on top of the pandemic and There is a convenience fee to use he usually has a son who thinks upcoming projects that require tember, but can add to our num- Gruchala, Brother to pension update coverage as necessary. either service. Both payment he's wrong.” the help of volunteers and help- bers up to the week before, please member Thomas Gilleran; Leland Don’t forget to schedule methods to pay dues can also be –Charles Wadsworth ing hands. Contact the Union Hall contact Ray with your reserva- Price, pension member, 55 year your annual physical with your accomplished over the phone to (313) 963.2130 for further informa- tions at (248) 348-3626. Send your IBEW membership; Mitchell doctor. By completing your an- ensure you are current “Happiness often sneaks in tion to volunteer or participate. checks, payable to the “Retirees Seeling Jr., pension member, 65 nual physical, you could catch a CONTACT NUMBERS- through a door you didn't know Members of the Entertain- Association” to Ray Owen, 428 year IBEW membership; Alan health concern early and also Michigan Electrical Employee you left open.” ment Committee: The next meet- Welch Rd., Northville MI 48167. Tannous, pension member, 22 help keep the cost of health care Pension fund and Michigan Health –John Barrymore (1882 - ing will be Tuesday, Sept. 14, fol- We start the morning with coffee year IBEW membership; and down. Registering on the Blue Plan (517) 321-7502 or (855) 633- 1942) lowing the Community Service and donuts at 10:30 a.m. This is a James Williams, pension member, Cross/Blue Shield website is 4584. Fax (517) 321-7508, Committee meeting that starts at great event to see old friends. 50 year IBEW membership. highly recommended. Please take website mielectrical health.org. “By trying we can easily 5:30 pm. The Entertainment Com- This is a CORRECTION, We extend our sincere the time to visit www.bcbsm.com. In Solidarity, Breanna DePottey learn to endure adversity. An- mittee gives a heartfelt thank you the luncheon information in the sympathy to the families on Upon registering you can take the Press Secretary other man's, I mean.” to all the volunteers of the 2021 September Newsletter is incor- their loss. (Continued next column) –Mark Twain (1835 - 1910) 12 THE BUILDING TRADESMAN September 10, 2021 Michigan Painters District Council

District Council 1M Business Manager: Robert Gonzalez Meeting date: 2nd Tuesday of every month at 6:30 p.m., with the Executive Board meeting at 6 p.m. Place: 14587 Barber Ave, Warren MI 48088 & 419 S. Washington Ave, Lansing MI 48933 Local Union 312 Business Rep: Tim Schwerin PDC 1M Meeting date: 2nd Wednesday of WARREN – Dear Members, every month at 6:30 p.m. DC1M WEBSITE: www. Place: 1473 N. 30th St., Galesburg, iupatdc1michigan.org MEMBERS of Sheet Metal MI 49053 DC1M FACEBOOK: www. facebook.com/iupat1m Workers Local 7 march in the Local Union 514 Ishpeming Labor Day Parade Business Rep: Scott Mikulen DC 1M UNION CARDS* on Sept. 6. Meeting dates: 1st Wednesday Any questions regarding a lost, damaged Union Photo courtesy Michael Laitinen of every month at 7:30 p.m. Place: 7920 Jackson Road, Ann cards, or have Arbor, MI. dues inquiries or Coffee shop baristas Web site: www.iupat- have not re- local514.org. ceived a card please contact the DC1M of- go union with IBEW Local Union 826 fices at: By Mark Gruenberg Business Rep: Rocky Ackerman Warren Office: PAI Staff Writer Meeting date: 2nd Thursday of (586)552-4474 CHICAGO (PAI) – No, it’s not Starbucks – they may be next – every month at 5:30 p.m. ROBERT extension 100 IBEW 692 but baristas at Colectivo gourmet coffee shops in Chicago, Milwau- Place: 3115 Joyce St. GONZALEZ Freeland Office: BAY CITY - Union Meeting. Due to the Labor Day holiday, the kee and Madison, Wis., voted 106-99 to unionize with Electrical Work- Burton, MI 48529 (989) 695-6888 September monthly membership meeting will be held at 6:00 P.M out- ers (IBEW) Local 494. *DC1M CHRISTMAS side on Monday, September 13, 2021. The vote was tied at 99-99, but the National Labor Relations Local Union 845 PARTY- DEC. 11, 2021- SAVE Executive Board Meeting. The September Executive Board Meet- Board official overseeing the balloting ordered seven challenged Business Rep – Fred Frederickson THE DATE!* Members, our 2021 ing will be held at 6:00 P.M. on Monday, September 20, 2021. ballots opened, and ruled all seven were valid. And all seven backed Meeting date: 1st Thursday of Christmas Party will be held on Message from the Business Manager. With the recent surge in Covid IBEW. The board announced the results on Aug. 23. every month at 7 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 11 at the Soaring 19 cases, please continue to look after your brothers and sisters’ welfare. As The vote makes the Colectivo workers the largest unionized Place: 419 S. Washington Av- Eagle Hotel and Casino Resort. usual, continue to do the right things. We have all lived this before. group of coffee shop workers in the U.S. enue, Lansing, MI 48933 Flyers with the details will be mailed Please remember it is our responsibility to always have our dues “We are very proud of the workers at Colectivo Coffee,” Local Local Union 1052 to the Membership shortly. slip current and on our persons at all times. This is our “Ticket” to the 494 Business Manager Dean Warsh said in a release posted on Twit- Business Rep – Jake Fluty The Detroit Labor Day Pa- middle class. If asked, it is our responsibility to show. ter. It was “a bold and necessary step towards ensuring every em- Meeting date: The Fourth rade for 2021 has been cancelled. Soon you will be receiving a letter in the mail regarding the $3,000 ployee has fair treatment and dignity at their work...They put their Wednesday of every month at FTI of the GREAT LAKES Accidental Death & Dismemberment benefit available through a part- hearts and soul into this organizing effort and left nothing on the 6:30 p.m APPRENTICESHIP SCHOOL nership with the IBEW and American Income Life. The letter states field.” Place: 3115 Joyce St., Burton MI starts Sept. 7. To ALL Appren- that you need to return the enclosed beneficiary card in order to The local will start bargaining surveys among the workers and tices, FTI Apprenticeship classes qualify and name your beneficiary. Please note you are NOT RE- 48529 help them set goals and oversee selecting a bargaining committee. start Sept. 7, 2021. Any questions QUIRED to return this card in order to name your beneficiary; the Ordinarily, after workers vote to unionize, firms throw roadblocks contact D.O.T. Shawn Oneill beneficiary you have on file at the hall is sufficient. Local Union 1803 and delays in the union’s way, attempting to outlast and discourage (517)304-4425 or email at Work Report. Commodity prices continue to have a dramatic Business Rep: Josh Ovalle the workers and preventing a first contract. [email protected] impact on our work outlook. In partnership with our signatory con- Meeting date: 4th Tuesday of ev- That may not happen this time, wrote Jon Levitan in Harvard’s PAINTERS DISTRICT tractors, we continue to be low on a significant percentage of projects ery month at 5:30 p.m. OnLabor blog, which first reported the win. “Colectivo management’s COUNCIL 1M SMART PHONE as of late only to find that the project has gone over budget due to Place: 7677 Midland Road, statement did call attention to a deep and legitimate flaw in the NLRB’s APP. Painters District Council 1M material prices. The good news is these commodity prices are begin- Freeland, MI 48623. processes: The time it takes for workers to actually get their union,” is pleased to announce its’ all new ning to trend in the right way. Hopefully we will see those prices Levitan wrote. “The Colectivo workers submitted their representa- APP. reflected at the supply house soon. Local Union 2352 tion petition on Feb. 3, and worked for another six months to finally For IPHONE go to IOS store, The work picture continues to be steady for our local contractors. Business Rep: Jeremy Haviland achieve recognition. And this case, while not routine, did not even For ANDROID got to Google We are still looking for that one big project that will get our traveling Meeting Date: 3rd Tuesday of include the legal challenges that can draw out elections for years.” Playstore Brothers and Sisters back home where they belong. Zone 2 continues to every month at 6:30 p.m. Oh, about Starbucks...Warsh said he hopes the Colectivo win Search for “Painters and Allied be quite busy for the amount of man power that we have available. If you Place: District Council 1M, 14587 “inspires others in the hospitality/service industry to organize a union Trades” download APP are interested in working in Zone 2, please contact Brother Klele. Barber Ave., Warren, MI. at their workplace!” Username: your member id# The jobs our signatory contractors are performing in our juris- By coincidence, there was an immediate response. The same day Password: painters diction are as follows: Work on the two Bay City bridges will begin Local Union 2353 IBEW announced their win, a group of Starbucks workers in the With this APP you can ac- this fall with a large-scale remodel of the Liberty bridge followed by Business Rep: Keith Anderson Buffalo area formed an organizing committee. The group, SB Workers cess training classes, Local Union the construction of a new Independence Bridge in the spring. Meeting date: 3rd Thursday of United, posted their letter to company CEO Kevin Johnson on their meeting times and dates, receive Master Electric has secured the new Meijer in West Branch as every month at 6:30 p.m. website and on Twitter. alerts, and communications from well as the new Isabella County Jail located in Mt. Pleasant. The Place: District Council 1M, 14587 The organizing committee appealed to the firm’s progressive repu- your Union, etc. Meijer project is underway but has seen delays as other crafts have Barber Ave, Warren, MI. tation and said respecting their right to organize “will help us help GET INVOLVED AND PAR- had problems securing material. The new jail is also seeing some the company serve communities.” TICIPATE IN YOUR UNION! delays, we will keep you posted. Ted’s Electric has been awarded “We see unions as the best way to make Starbucks a place to OUT OF WORK/ BACK TO some of the work at Midland Public Schools with Barton Malow have a sustainable career and a true partnership,” they wrote Johnson. WORK: To keep work placement serving as GC. Ted’s was also awarded the Bay County lift station “We do not see our desire to organize as a reaction to specific poli- efficient, please notify the office project. Alpena Schools have been awarded to Zone II contractor cies but as a commitment to making Starbucks, Buffalo and the world when you are laid off or going John’s Electric. Clements Electric is wrapping up work on the Moni- a better place.” back to work. tor Township Fire Department and also the Bay-Arenac ISD bus ga- “Colectivo lamented the IBEW’s certification ‘is the result of a Warren office# is 586-552- rage. Work continues for them at multiple marijuana dispensaries and process that took place last spring,’ and noted the cafe industry has 4474 or Freeland office# is 989- the new Drift in Bay City. high turnover – though management used a corporate euphemism 695-6888. Countyline Power has secured Midland/Gladwin County dam for high turnover, writing ‘our employee census is dynamic.’” New job starts should be re- work, the Mackinaw City lift station and the Roscommon Airport. ported to the Union office, please Countyline is also low on a very nice project at the Cheboygan Waste- do so water Plant. Consumers Energy work for the summer includes Karn IBEW 692, continued Get involved. Work smart. 1&2 utility separation, and also work on the generator at Alcona ranks. From brainstorming on ways to help out the community, to Local 357 Work safe. Dam. Northern Valley Electrical has the LaFarge PLC upgrade and talking about what they would like to see in the next contract. They Glaziers & also JoBurg Schools. Nelson Electric out of Local 557 has secured a cover it all. nice project at two of the high rises in Bay City. Renton Electric out of The first annual Bags for Brotherhood cornhole tournament is Glassworkers Local 58 has secured a nice fire alarm project in East Tawas. There are scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 18 at 1 PM. The event will be held in Glaziers & Glassworkers 357 also a large number of solar projects that are slated for our jurisdic- Midland’s Barstow Park Woods at the pavilion. Entry fee is $20 per tion. We are currently working on a timeline for all solar work. player and random teammates will be assigned. Cash prizes will be WARREN – Our next regular Rest assured both organizers and myself are working very dili- awarded for 1st and 2nd place teams. Raffles, 50/50, and pull tabs will scheduled union meeting will be on Monday Oct. 4,2021 at 6pm. Sign, Pictorial & gently to secure whatever work is being bid in our jurisdiction for our be available. Lunch will be provided. There is a limit of 20 teams at membership. Work remains very good in Detroit, Ann Arbor, Kalamazoo, this event. If you’re interested in competing, please reach out to the Apprentice School classes Display Local 591 and Lansing. Please contact the hall if you would like to sign any books. hall and we can get you in contact with one of the committee mem- has resumed. If you have a question on a class night, or an –Ryan Charney Business Manager / Financial Secretary bers. If you are not throwing bags but would still like to support the Sign Pictorial & Display 591 Organizers Report. 692’s Organizing team continues to reach 692 RENEW committee you are welcome to attend. assignment please contact your WARREN – The next Gen- out to unrepresented workers in our jurisdiction about the benefits of Fringe Benefits. If you have recently gotten married, divorced, instructor. eral Membership Meeting will be The IUPAT has a new app joining the IBEW. Zone 2 continues to be a priority as we anticipate had children, etc. make sure your beneficiaries have been updated held on Tuesday Oct,5 ,2021 at larger-scale projects coming to the area over the next few years. The accordingly. Beneficiary forms can be obtained from the hall. that you can download for your 6:30p.m. Trustees and union stew- ability to provide adequate manpower to these projects will only REMINDER: If you contact the Health Plan Office about going cell phone. It’s called IUPAT ards meet at 6:20 p.m. Mobile Member Portal. You strengthen our contractors’ chances of securing this work. on short term disability, it is important for you to notify the Hall as Members must be in good The Alpena Hospital and PIE&G service center in Onaway were well. A copy of your paperwork will need to be submitted to the Hall can find this in the app store, standing (dues up to date) with two recent Zone 2 projects that our contractors were not able to for your file. This will also freeze your position on the out of work list. and it is a free app. Once you District Council 1 app or receipt download this app, you will secure. Although this was unfortunate, our contractors have picked Important links & numbers. IBEW Local 692, 989-684-4510 of paid dues to attend meeting up a lot of work that the merit shops have let go while they have been www.ibew692.org • Health Plan, 517-321-7502. www.mielectrical need your union member ID to Anyone possessing a union focusing on manning and completing those bigger jobs. John’s Elec- health.org • Michigan Pension Fund, 517-321-7502, www.michigan log in. You can find your mem- membership and willingly works ber ID printed on your quar- tric, Hardies Electric, Harfert Electric and Northern Valley have all electrical.org. First time logging in, use your Social Security Number at a nonunion shop doing union picked up work as a result. They continue to strengthen the relation- in the “ID Box” terly union card. Once you log work can have charges preferred ships they have forged with this new customer base, and our mem- NEBF/ NEAP: 301-556-4300 • IO Pension: 202-833-7000 into this app it’s a helpful tool against them under Sec. 16.4,and bers will only benefit from these resulting partnerships. to track your hours worked, 19.8 of the District Council By-laws. Please continue to let us know if you have any questions about and it all has a digital copy of Any questions on local upcoming work or if you notice any projects that you think we should Craftsman’s touch sets your union card. union issues, please call Jeremy be aware of. Stay safe and enjoy the Holiday. Keep your working status Haviland at 586-899-0183,or Keith –Brian Klele 989.252.9225 • Brendon Baranek 989.327.4131 current; this helps protect your Anderson at 586-899-7958, your Union Dues. Dues can be paid via phone, on-line, by mail or unique terrazzo floor benefits. If you have a mailing Business Representatives. automatic withdrawal from your bank account. Please note when (Continued from Page 1) address and/or telephone no. Questions pertaining to Lo- change, please notify the Union using a credit card for payments there will be a 2% charge applied. for the offices of company President and Chairman Dan Gilbert. cal 591 Pension Fund issues call and Fund Offices of the 2021Dues. Monthly: $41.20 • Quarterly; $123.60 • 6 months The three-week process to create the floor starts with the set- 248-645-6550 and/or Health Care changes. $247.20 • Yearly $494.40. To avoid a reinstatement fee, please remem- ting up of an under-layment of crack isolation membrane, made of issues call 248-358-3340 or 800-482- Dues payments may be ber to keep your dues current. two-part epoxy, atop the existing floor. Raised aluminum metal strips, 8736 which will then be answered mailed to the Union Office at Death Benefits. We regret to inform you of the death of retired three-eighths of an inch tall, are laid out and create the channels directly through fund office. 14587 Barber Avenue, Warren, MI Brother George Snyder Jr., Card Number C89845, who passed away for the design. The floor itself consists of three different size OUT OF WORK: BACK TO 48088. Make checks payable to: on Aug. 27, 2021. Brother Snyder was born on June 17, 1930 (91 years types of marble chips, in colors green, gray and black. WORK: procedure for out of and DISTRICT COUNCIL 1M in care old). He was initiated on Feb. 24, 1953. George resided in Lupton, MI. The chips are set in the epoxy, and troweled into what be- back to work: When laid off or of Glassworkers #357. #328 Local death fund assessment $5 each (due within 30 days) comes a bumpy floor just above the level of the aluminum strips. going back to work,call the office When traveling to work out payable to: IBEW Local 692, 1300 W. Thomas Bay City, MI 48706. After the epoxy dries, the floor is ground until all the aluminum is 586-552-4474. of town, all members are reminded Local 692 Retirement Party. The party originally scheduled for exposed. After several different rounds of grinding, with progres- that they must check in with the May 2021 has been postponed to March 11, 2022. It will be located sively finer grit pads, the floor is ready for polishing. local that you are working in as Local 357, con’t at the DoubleTree in Bay City. Please mark your calendars and make Terrazzo has been around since the Egyptians used it, although per the International Constitution modules, please contact your em- every effort to attend this great event to honor our retirees! it was rediscovered by Italian masons in the 18th Century who set and our local C.B.A. ployer if you are employed or the Retirees Lunch. The monthly retiree lunches have resumed. We the marble in a concrete base. Gillean said epoxy base came along The Fund Office address union office, 586-552-4478, if you’re will continue to post information as the dates become available to us. about 20 years ago – a material which has speeded up and eased is Michigan Glass and Glazing not. Any questions call the hall or Renew. The RENEW committee has been meeting once a month installation tremendously. But he said the long-wearing marble on Joint Funds, P.O. Box 966, call the Council, 586-552-4474. at the union hall discussing issues that they feel need to be ad- top is the key part of the floor – and the floors usually look good Troy, MI 48098-066; phone Participation is very im- dressed. That’s the whole point of the RENEW committee, getting for decades. number: 248-641-4957; fax 248- portant to keep your union our younger brothers and sisters involved in the local union. These “What’s great about terrazzo is it lasts forever,” Gillean said. 813-9898. strong, so try to make it to a young men and women have the drive to make a difference within our “And then when it wears down, you can revive it by just polishing If you are in need of safety meeting. (Continued next column) it.” (Continued next column) Business Rep- Don Stepp September 10, 2021 THE BUILDING TRADESMAN 13 Local 80 Local 7 Sheet Metal Workers Sheet Metal Workers Local 292 Sheet Metal Workers Sheet Metal Workers Local 80 Sheet Metal Workers 7 SOUTHFIELD – This paper serves as official notice for all LANSING – NOTICE. This Newspaper Article shall serve as Sheet Metal Workers’ Local 292 meetings and elections. Official Notice of ALL meetings for Local 7! TROY - MEETING NOTICE: The next general membership meet- MEMBERSHIP MEETING: The next general membership meet- The next Statewide Meeting will be, October 14, 2021 at 6:00 p.m. ing will be held on Wednesday, October 13, 2021. ing is scheduled for September 21, 2021 at 5:30 pm. Meetings are held *Zone 1- September 9th -6:00 p.m. Member meetings are held every 2nd Wednesday of the month at at the union hall, 17100 W. 12 Mile Rd. Southfield, *Zone 2 –September 21st -6:00 p.m. The Knights of Columbus in Clawson. Check out the calendar tab at 48076. *Zone 3- (Saginaw) September 8th -6:00 p.m. www.sheetmetal292.com for the location and date. EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING: The *Zone 3- (Traverse City) September 16th - 6:00 p.m. The E-Board/Stewards meeting is scheduled for September 28, next Executive Board meeting is scheduled for *Zone 4- September 7th - 6:00 p.m. 2021 at 6:00 pm at the Union Hall. Tuesday, September 20, 2021 at 5:00 pm. Execu- *Zone 5 –October 7th - 6:00 p.m. 2021 ANNUAL CHARITY GOLF OUTING: What tive Board meetings are held at the Local 80 Hall, Please register on our website at an amazing day! Thank you to all who volunteered 17100 W. 12 Mile, 2nd Floor, Southfield, MI. www.sheetmetal7.org for the most up to date infor- their time to help make our outing run smoothly. SEPTEMBER RE-REGISTRATION: If mation on meeting schedules for 2021. Once you We couldn’t have done it without you! Thank you you were laid off prior to Sept. 1 you need to re- are registered it must be approved in order to be to the participants for coming out and spending a register by the end of day Sept. 21, 2021 to keep able to log on. Please contact your representative if beautiful, albeit excruciatingly hot, day on the your spot on the out of work list. You may do so at you are having issues registering. course. And last, but certainly not least, thank you the hall, by email [email protected] SMART Union Labels: Make the union label work to our sponsors and donors for making our Annual TIM or fax 248-557-0297. You CANNOT re-register for you! The new and modernized SMART Labels Charity Golf Outing such a huge success. This spe- MULLIGAN over the phone. Please call the hall with any ques- SAM are an essential part to wage equalization, which PAUL cial day can’t happen without the generosity of all tions. FULLER means more money and work for you. Make sure GUALDONI involved. UNION HALL REGULAR HOURS: Monday through Friday that you are scanning labels in order to equalize pay ADDRESS UPDATES: If you move, please con- 7:30 – 4:00, unless otherwise indicated in holiday hours. and eliminate the incentive to subcontract outside tact the union hall to update your address. RETIREE MEETING SCHEDULE: Membership meetings have of your area. For more information visit the official website at RETIREES NOTICE: MARK YOUR CALENDARS: After a year been reinstated. All membership meetings will be held at the Local 80 www.labelitscanitreport.com and download the official app by texting and-a-half, we are back to meeting for lunch in person. Please join us hall. Please enter the hall through the ramp entrance. The remaining “SMART” to 90975. for lunch, great conversations and story telling. Looking forward to 2021 meetings will be held on Mondays, October 18, 2021 (Annual ZONE 1 Info: Work is strong in the Zone 1 Area and looks to seeing all retirees, new and old! The retirees luncheon will be held Party) and December 20, 2021. All meetings will start at 12:30 pm. Any continue. Please remember to call James or Eric of your employment Thursdays at: Tavern on the Main, 235 S Main, Clawson MI 48017. (248) questions regarding joining the Retirees Association please contact status if you become laid off. Apprentices please remember to inform 588-1696. Located 3 blocks south of 14 Mile on the east side of the street. Steve Murzen at 248-652-0593. Kevin at the Zone 1 Training Center of your employment status also. Next luncheon: Oct. 7, 2021 at 12:30 pm. 2021 luncheon dates are as follows: SUB CHANGES: As of May 1, 2021 the sub fund has been raised If you are experiencing any problems with unemployment or health Oct. 7, Dec. 2. Please contact Gary Simon at [email protected] if you to $250 per credit for building trades journeyman. Bereavement & insurance, please contact James or Eric for further assistance. Any would like to be added to the retiree email list. Jury Duty is now $500 but you must be off 2 days. Journey-person interested in up-grade classes, please contact Kevin CONSTITUTION AND RITUAL: The Constitution and Ritual Effective immediately you will need to start sending your unem- Dowdy at the Zone 1 Training Center (269) 781-7183 (class availabil- of the 2nd SMART General Convention is now available online. Go to ployment proof to [email protected] or fax it to 248-557- ity depends on the level of interest). www.sheetmetal292.com, click on the Constitution/Ritual tab located 0297. Your unemployment proof needs to be in by 2pm on Tuesdays ZONE 1 Retiree monthly meetings: at the top of the home page. The Union Hall will also has hard copies to be paid on that Friday. Local 80 will be handling all of your proof 1st Wednesday 8:30 am at Bob Evans 1725 N W Ave, Jackson, for members who want one. now. If you have any questions please call us at 248-557-7575. MI 49202. SAFETY MODS AND DRUG TESTS: To access your MUST THANK YOU TO MEMBERS WHO HAVE PAID THEIR DUES 2nd Tuesday 1:00 pm at Rocky Top 1900 Lansing Ave, Jackson, account, please go to www.mustonline.org or access it through the A YEAR IN ADVANCE: Michael Ward, Robert Bates, Owen Vannatter, MI 49202. “links” tab at www.sheetmetal292.com. Members, please note that if David A. Collar, Robert Jablonski, James McPherson, Mitchell Weir, –In Solidarity, James Callahan and Eric Farrington. you cannot access the MUST site to complete your safety mods you John Morrow, Anthony D. Stocker, Chet Lewandowski & Robert Field. ZONE 2 Info: Work in the HVAC sector has seemed to slow a need to contact Laura or Lee Ann at the Union Hall. DUES PAYMENTS: YOUR DUES PAYMENTS ARE DUE PRIOR little bit. Once again your next scheduled meeting 9/21/2021 at 6:00 PM, MEMBER ASSISTANCE: Local 292 is now partnering with TO THE FIRST OF THE MONTH. The books will close at the end of is in Muskegon at the VFW Post 3195, 5209 Grand Haven Road, Norton Ulliance, an employee assistance program designed to assist active the business day on the last day of the month. Payments made on Shores, MI. 49441. Please contact me if employment status changes and members and their eligible family members who may be struggling the 1st of the month are considered late for that month. There will be also keep up on your dues. Thank You and Work Safe, Mike Adams with emotional, domestic or substance abuse issues, as well as legal no exception, once the books are closed it cannot be undone. Mem- ZONE 3 Info: (Saginaw) Work in the Saginaw area is slowing and financial referrals. If you and/or a family member feel this may bers will receive a text message dues reminder prior to the end of the down a little with some of the school work finishing up, if you are laid benefit you, contact Ulliance at 1-800-448-8326 or www.Life month. If you are not receiving our text messaging please call the off please let me know so I can add you to the ready to work list (989) AdvisorEAP.com for completely confidential assistance. Ulliance is hall. REMINDER: We ONLY take Visa, Master Card & Discover and 225-0095. Our next Zone 3 meeting is Sept 8 in Freeland. Retiree available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Services are of no cost to do not accept American Express. meeting is Sept 28 at the Ponderosa on Wilder Rd in Bay City, we will active members and their dependents. BENEFICIARY REMINDER: Please remember to designate or be celebrating a few birthdays, hope everybody can make it. Enjoy SUBSTANTIATION REQUEST: Many members have been receiv- update your beneficiary choice on all of your Local 80 and interna- the rest of your summer Thank You Joe Dotson ing Substantiation Request letters from the Local 292 Benefit Fund of- tional benefits. The law requires that in the event of an untimely ZONE 3 Info: (Traverse City) Work in the area is starting to fice. IRS regulations require that every use of the Benny Card be sub- death your benefits go to your spouse first and if there is no spouse slow down; some jobs are being pushed back because of the steel stantiated or validated as an eligible covered expense under the Plan. to your children UNLESS you designate otherwise in writing with delays. However, during this slowdown it is a great time to fine tune This validation is required by the IRS, the Fund cannot make exceptions. each specific benefit. Depending on your classification you could our future: our apprentices. The on-the-jobsite training reinforces It is the member’s responsibility to ensure all requested documentation have benefits due to your heirs from Local 80 pension, insurance, what is being taught at our training centers. Our next meeting will be be returned to the Fund office in a timely manner. By not responding to annuity and from international and SASMI. Each individual benefit Sept. 16 at the IBEW hall at 6.00pm. I am available to anyone that the Substantiation Request letter, your Benny Card may be suspended needs to have a designated beneficiary unless you want it to go to needs assistance and if anyone gets laid off during this slow down until all requested documentation has been received. If you have any your spouse or children. As always seek the advice of an attorney. and wants to travel, contact me at (231) 590-1112; as we have other questions, contact BeneSys at 248.641.4992 or the Union Hall. ADDRESS CHANGES: If you have a new address please make work across the state. If you haven’t done so, please update me with DUES: Membership dues are required to be paid in advance of the sure to let the hall know. We will take care of your account with the your current phone number and address for work month for which they are due. The union hall is not open on Saturday or union hall which includes the tradesman paper. You will need to call opportunities. Regards, John Amalfitano Sunday, therefore, if you pay dues on either of those days, it will not be Benesys at 800-400-7710 and update your address with them as well, ZONE 4 Info: Work in our area is slowing down a bit with the processed until Monday. If you are on suspension warning, your dues that is not done through the hall. school work finishing up here. There are lots of smaller projects still are 60 days late. To avoid suspension, dues must be paid online or at the ACCIDENTAL DEATH and DISMEMBERMENT INSURANCE ongoing. Night classes will be resuming this fall make sure to get union hall by 4 p.m. on the last business day of the month. Payments FROM OUR INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION: Members who have signed up. Have a safe Labor Day! Your Brother, Larry Kinzie received after 4 p.m. on the last business day of the month will not be their dues paid in advance (prior to the month of the accident) are eligible ZONE 5 Info: Work in the area remains busy so if you are off processed and you WILL go suspended. All members are responsible for accidental death and dismemberment benefits up to $7,500. This please contact my office to be placed on the out of work list. We will for making sure any required fees, i.e. late fees or service fees, are in- benefit comes as a dues paying member of SMART International. be participating two Labor Day parades this year on September 6th. cluded if paying online (sheetmetal292.com). WEEKEND WORK ASSIGNMENTS: Saturday and Sunday work Ishpeming will be the 32nd annual Labor Day parade and Escanaba UNION HALL HOURS: Hall office hours are 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 assignments. Please remember that when performing work on a Sat- will be the 1st annual Labor Day parade. All members and their fami- p.m. Monday through Friday. urday or Sunday the steward must report it to the hall, give each lies are welcome to participate so come out and enjoy the festivities. OUT OF WORK: If you become laid off, you Must complete an members name and obtain a form for signatures. Each member must Respectfully Greg Faust Out of Work List Registration /SUB form. SUB forms are available at sign the form along with the number of hours they worked. The SASMI Information – Zone 3 and 5: Underemployment – Filing the Union Hall and also through all shop stewards. This is the only completed form must be sent back to by hall by the end of the day on for period 2020-B is from July 1, 2020 through Dec. 31, 2020. Eligible way your name will be added to the Out of Work List. the following Monday. Weekend work assignments must be called members who worked less than 750 hours from July 1, 2020 through TEXT BLAST NOTIFICATION: We have recently updated the or emailed into the hall prior to 3:00 pm on Friday. December 31, 2020 may receive an underemployment benefit. Health text blast contact list. All members have been added. If you haven’t WORK ASSIGNMENTS: Everyone must obtain a work assign- and welfare benefits paid on your behalf will be deducted from your been receiving texts and would like to be added or wish to opt out of ment prior to starting work. If you fail to do so you could be written benefit. NOTE: Members who received an Emergency Advance Ben- text blast, please contact the Union hall and we will make the change. up on charges. efit must file for Underemployment to receive the remainder of that FACEBOOK & TWITTER: Be sure to check our website – LAY-OFFS: All members must report to the Union Hall immedi- benefit for the stabilization period. www.sheetmetal292.com; Facebook page - Sheet Metal Workers Lo- ately upon lay-off, even if you only work one day. These are the By- In addition, you must provide copies of all W-2 forms for the cal 292 and Twitter - @SMW292, for updates and information. Law rules for the Out-of-Work List. Your name will be removed from entire year of 2020. THE 4 PLUS MEMBER PROGRAM: The “4-plus” member pro- the list 14 days after receiving an assignment. It is very important to Dues Department: *Online dues payment is now available* Dues gram is for any Local 292 member who has achieved four (or more) report to the union hall immediately after your layoff. Members get of all members of local unions shall be paid monthly or quarterly, but welding certifications. These certifications can be in any welding pro- confused because the S.U.B. Fund allows you a period of up to seven always in advance. To better serve our membership, we accept Credit cess. Members who qualify will receive a shirt (one shirt for every four days to apply for S.U.B. benefits after lay-off. Card Payments in lieu of your monthly dues. If you would like to take certs) with the 4 Plus logo, along with hard hat stickers and bragging LAY-OFF SLIPS/TERMINATION NOTICES: Lay off slips must advantage of the Credit Card Service, a finance charge will be applied rights. If you would like to be a “4-plus” member contact your Local 292 accompany all applications for sub pay. Without lay off slips you – Please call the Lansing office during regular business hours at 517- Training Center at: 313-623-9390 (Dave) or Quintin 248.495.6764. cannot collect sub pay. It is the member’s responsibility to make 882-4064 to make your payment. Attention all Welders! We are looking for any member inter- sure they get one from the contractor when laid off. Your application Address/Phone Changes: Article 8, Section 1 of Local 7 Work ested in a Saturday welding classes Sept. 11, 18 and 25. These classes cannot be submitted without one. It is the contractor’s responsibil- Rules: Address Changes: All members are required to keep the Financial would be for members that are ready to try and obtain an AWS weld- ity to issue one in accordance with our contract. Secretary informed of their correct address. A noticed mailed to the last ing certification, learn how to weld, or just need to practice welding. S.U.B. BENEFITS: Report to the hall promptly upon layoff. You address shall be sufficient and legal. If you have moved or changed Note: Anyone that signs up for a class, must pay a $40 registra- must complete a S.U.B. Application within seven days from your your telephone no., please contact the union hall to update your records. tion fee that will be refunded on the completion of the class. These layoff date or you will forfeit S.U.B. benefits. Lay-off slips must BENEFITS: For Benefit questions please contact the area of- deposits are NON-Refundable if you do not show up for the classes. accompany the application to be eligible. Proof of UIA benefit pay- fice. Zone 1 – BeneSys 866-822-7037, Zone 2 – TIC 866-887-4338, You can drop off the deposit between the hours of 7:00 and 3:00 at ments must be submitted within 21 days of when you were paid in Zone 3 – BeneSys 800-451-5733, Zone 4 – BeneSys 800-842-2690 and the Apprentice school. order to receive SUB benefits. Do not submit your sub applications Zone 5 – Wisconsin H & B Fund 800-654-2329. Call the Apprentice School at 248-589-3237, Dave’s cell 313-623- directly to the fund office. Your application must be signed by the DEATH CERTIFICATES: Please submit to the Union Hall a 9390 or Quintin’s cell 248-495-6764 to reserve a spot. Remember we hall or you will not collect benefits. copy of a Death Certificate for deceased members. Additional ben- must have the deposit before you will be scheduled in the class. OUT-OF-WORK LIST: You must be on the out-of-work list to efits from the International may be available. APPRENTICE APPLICATION NOTICE, SHEET METAL collect S.U.B. benefits or SASMI. Members must re-register bi-annu- CONTACT US: 4931 Contec Drive, Lansing, MI 48910– 517- WORKERS LOCAL 292, APPRENTICE TRUST FUND, 64 PARK ally: March 1 through March 20 and Sept. 1 through Sept. 20. If you 882-4064 ST. TROY, MI 48083-2752. www.smwl292jatc.org fail to re-register you will be removed from the list. Local 7 Officers: NOTICE OF NON-DISCRIMINATION POLICY. The Appren- SHORT WORK WEEK SUB PAY: If you work 16 hours or less Samual Fuller (Business Manager/Financial Secretary-Trea- tice Training Program operated by Sheet Metal Workers Local 292 in a week or have a short work week due to weather you may collect surer) 517-882-4064 Joint Apprenticeship and Training Committee (JATC) admits quali- sub for that week but only if it is at the beginning or the end of a Eric Farrington (Agent-Lansing/Jackson) 517-242-3223 fied applicants without discrimination because of race, color, reli- layoff. You may NOT collect if you are not laid off. You must com- James Callahan (Agent-Battle Creek/Kalamazoo) 269-342-8842 gion, national or ethnic origin, age, sex, disability (except to the ex- plete a sub application at the hall, provide a pay stub for that week Mike Adams (Agent-Grand Rapids/Muskegon) 616-299-3752 tent that such disability actually affects the applicant’s ability to and the hall will submit it to the fund office. If you are not laid off and Joe Dotson (Saginaw) 989-692-0002 work at the trade or craft), marital status, or other classification pro- it is due to weather the company MUST provide written documenta- John Amalfitano (Traverse City) 231-943-5150 tected by federal, state or local law or ordinance. (You must be 18 tion that it was weather related. Larry Kinzie (Agent-Flint) 810-785-6831 years old at the time of application.) MEMBERS ASSISTANCE PROGRAM: If you are experiencing Greg Faust (Agent-Upper Peninsula): 906-372-9288 Application must be made in person. No faxes or emailed appli- problems in your family, marriage or relationships, stress or emo- cations will be accepted!! tional difficulties, grief or loss issues or problems with alcohol and Sheet Metal 80, continued Applications for Apprenticeship are accepted all year every busi- drug use please contact our assistance program. Ulliance is there to by email at [email protected], as well as in-person or by mail to the ness day, however we have scheduled a testing day for Saturday help you with your needs. They can also help you with legal issues, Training Director at 32700 Dequindre Road, Warren, MI 48092. Re- Nov. 6, 2021 beginning at 10 A.M. If you would like to be considered financial concerns, elder care referrals and child care resources. Con- sumes will be assessed at the September 16 Joint Apprenticeship for the Apprenticeship, you must take the exam. The last day to make tact them at 1-800-448-8326 or www.LifeAdvisor EAP.com. Make sure Committee meeting and should be received at the training center out an application for this test day is Thursday, Nov. 4, 2021 at 2:00 you mention Sheet Metal Workers Local 80 when calling and not prior to the meeting. P.M. Any application not submitted by that time will put in the next the contractor you are working for. Training Center News. Part-Time Instructor. The Joint Appren- available test day, which has not been scheduled at this time. NOTARY: We have a notary public available at the hall at no ticeship Committee is accepting applications for a part-time instruc- If you have taken the test at Macomb and want a chance to charge. Please call to confirm availability. tor to teach the Trade Math class. Ideal candidates would have a better your score feel free to contact David Pistotti. You cannot just Training Center News. strong understanding of mathematics and experience in using it in show up. You must register by calling the Training Center. Part-Time Instructor. The Joint Apprenticeship Committee is the sheet metal trade, along with an interest in educating Local 80 All applications must be filed in person at the Training Center accepting applications for a part-time instructor to teach the Trade members in order to improve their skills. Interested Local 80 members and a copy of your High School diploma, or GED certificate, along Math class. Ideal candidates would have a strong understanding of can submit their resume to the Sheet Metal Workers Local 80 Joint with a picture ID must be submitted with the application or it will not mathematics and experience in using it in the sheet metal trade, along Apprenticeship Committee by email at [email protected], as well be accepted. At the time of filing you will be registered for a written with an interest in educating Local 80 members in order to improve as in-person or by mail to the Training Director at 32700 Dequindre test at Macomb Community College, at a cost of $60 (Non-Members their skills. Interested Local 80 members can submit their resume to Road, Warren, MI 48092. Resumes will be assessed at the September Only) which you must pay at time of testing. Cash only will be ac- the Sheet Metal Workers Local 80 Joint Apprenticeship Committee 16 Joint Apprenticeship Committee meeting and should be received cepted. If you have any questions, call Dave at (313) 623-9390 or (Continued next column) at the training center prior to the meeting. visit www.smwl292jatc.org for more information. 14 THE BUILDING TRADESMAN September 10, 2021 September 10, 2021 THE BUILDING TRADESMAN 15 Local 149 Center Information. The Mid- Local 36 Michigan Apprentice classes are Roofers and Waterproofers scheduled for: Elevator Apprentice 1 thru 8- will start all sincere Trade Unions and with the Hall and call the Local in that on Monday, Sep. 13, 2021, at 6:00 Constructors Roofers 149 the Rank and File members of the area to avoid fines against you. p.m. DETROIT – Main Office – Carpenters Union, who should Union Dues. Make sure you Journeyworkers upgrade Elevator Constructors 36 Southeastern Lower Michigan – openly condemn these heinous pay your monthly dues before classes to improve your skills, DETROIT – ALL MEMBERS ARE INFORMED that our next Regular Membership Meet- actions by their leadership in their the end of every month to stay in your worth, and our Brotherhood/ regular Membership Meeting is planned for Monday, October 25, ing. The regular membership name. good standing. You can pay dues Sisterhood is available at no cost 2021 at 5:30 pm, as the September meeting is cancelled due to the meeting is scheduled for Tues, Website for announce- at the Hall with a cash, money to all Mid-Michigan LU 149 mem- General Convention. As of this printing we are having an in-person Oct. 5, 2021 at 7:00 p.m. ments, news, and updates: order, credit, or debit card. Union bers. meeting, also we will have the radio station going for any health and Executive Board meeting. www.rooferslocal149.com dues can be paid over the phone Dues must be current in or- space concerns. Keep watching your email for possible changes! The next Executive Board meet- Moving? If you have a new with a credit or debit card. der to enter the Training Center. Attention all Apprentices, monthly OJL forms are now online ing is scheduled for Tues., Sep. address please make sure to let Monthly dues can be taken If you are interested in any th at NEIEP which must be completed before the 9 day of the next 28, 2021 at 5:00 p.m. the Union Hall know. We will take out of your vacation check by fill- of these classes, contact Rick month. If you are working out of our jurisdiction, laid off or a proba- The 2021 Detroit Labor Day care of your account with the ing out a form at the Hall (active Baird at the Union Hall/Training tionary, OJT forms must be filled out and turned into the Hall. This Picnic was a huge success! Busi- Union Hall that includes the Members only). The mailbox is Center, 810-687-1368, or is a requirement of the Department of Labor. Reminder to All that the ness Manager Brian Gregg thanks Building Tradesman Paper, Inter- only to be used for checks and [email protected] NEIEP website is available to All interested in Reviewing and Con- all volunteers who busted their national Union, and Trust Fund. money orders do not put cash in to make arrangements. tinuing Education. Go to the NEIEP website for the status of your butts on Labor Day to make this Reminder. Members please the mailbox. To be eligible for the Notice. When contractors apprenticeship. School is in person at the hall for this semester, fol- picnic was a huge success. call the Hall when you see a roof- International Union Burial Ben- call the Union Hall for help, we lowing NEIEP’s Infectious Disease Policy. Continue to watch your A special thank you to the ing project whether it is one of efit, a member must be in continu- need to know who is available, NEIEP and personal emails for further information, this is a responsi- 2021 Labor Day Gift Sponsors: our signatory companies or not. ous good standing. and have an up to date phone bility of your apprenticeship. AsherKelly Attorneys at Law, The Hall needs this information If you have any questions number. All Mid-Michigan Area Attention all Members, All Testing must be done according to Benesys Inc., Detroit Roofers for recruitment purposes, and please feel free to call the Hall at members who are out of work Code and your Companies Maintenance Control Program. Document Training Center Instructors, hopefully to get a picture of our 313-961-6093 need to call the Hall at (810) 687- all tests that are due and only tasks you have completed. Keep all job Health Plan Advocate, Humana, members for Facebook. MID-MICHIGAN AREA – 1368 to be put on the out of work logs current with this information. When you need assistance, tech- Louis T. Ollesheimer & Son, Lutz CLEARANCE CARDS. Are Clio Office. The next Mid-Michi- list. nical or for safety. Request, receive and document. Roofing Co., Inc., O’Sullivan As- you scheduled to go out of town gan regular membership meeting The publication above is as All Members, Local 36, Local 85 and the EIWPF are holding sociates, RAM Construction Ser- for work in another Local’s terri- scheduled for Tue., Oct. 12, 2021 9/3/2021, 8:00a.m. outreach sessions on Monday nights, 6:00 – 8:00 pm. Reviewing and vices, Royal Roofing, Schena tory? Clearance cards are needed at 6 p.m. at 810 Tacoma Ct. Clio –In Solidarity, Brian Gregg answering any questions pertaining to Michigan and Detroit Eleva- Roofing & Sheet Metal, Schreiber when you are sent out of town to MI, 48420. Business Manager, Roofers & tor Codes. Contact the Hall if you are interested. The link will be sent Roofing Corp., The Brice Group, work. Get a clearance card from Mid-Michigan Training Waterproofers Local 149 to you for either online or phone participation. We are holding code Wrubel Wesley & Co., Officers, book layout sessions monthly, call the hall if interested. Maintenance Trustees, and Members of LU Control Programs (MCP) reference the Codes, are you being Code 149, Office Staff of LU 149. compliant? Know what the MCP is referencing for you the Licensed Congratulations to ALL of Journeyperson. If anyone is interested in a class for QEI training, our winners and participants! please call the Hall so we can build a potential class list. Pictures of the 2021 Labor Reminder: Your next quarter dues cards are available and must Day Picnic will be posted on be in hand before October 1 and include an extra $10.00 for the loss of Facebook @ United Union of 2 International Brothers. Keep your State of Michigan and City of Roofers, Waterproofers, and Al- Detroit licenses current. Sign up to receive Safety Alerts at IUEC.org lied Workers Local 149 for safety and product alerts to your phone. SHAME ON THE All Construction and Modernization work is Teamwork. Keep CARPENTER’S UNION LEAD- the hall informed of all jobs and have permit if required before start- ERSHIP! The Carpenters Union ing. Inform the hall on any employment status changes as we need to (UBC) has targeted the Roofer’s inform the International. When your Company Assignment takes you & Waterproofer’s Union and Bricklayers and Allied outside our jurisdiction it is your responsibility to report in to that other union trades in an attempt Local before you start, as stated in the International Constitution to destabilize and bypass the ju- and By-Laws. risdiction of not just our indus- Craftworkers Local 2 members: Get well wishes are extended to all our Brothers and Sisters who try, but other unionized construc- are on our sick list. Be Safe and Be Healthy! tion trades as well, to raid our $2,000 Signing Bonus for Skilled Journeyman Bricklayers! Pension Funds. “Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you BAC Local 2- Michigan is offering up to a $2,000 Signing Bonus for If you are on a jobsite and could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget any RAT Carpenter Agent ap- Skilled Journeyman Bricklayers and Masonry Restoration Workers them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and proaches you or anyone in your who join now and who stay working for our contractors! serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old crew about monopolizing the nonsense.” Our Members who refer these new members will get the same bonus as well! Roofer’s & Waterproofer’s Union, –Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882) PLEASE NOTIFY THE UNION Journeymen Bricklayers in the Metro Detroit Area get $35.54 an hour, “When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found IMMEDIATELY at 313-961-6093! plus fully paid Health Insurance, and Tell the RAT Carpenter to go out them.” 2 Pensions. Our Contractors have immediate opening for –Rodney Dangerfield (1921 - 2004) and organize the carpentry mar- ket that is currently unrepre- Skilled Bricklayers, and Masonry Restoration Workers. “Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and hap- sented. pier.” We stand in solidarity with For more information go to: bricklayers.org –Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997) 16 THE BUILDING TRADESMAN September 10, 2021 Outdoors Tracking trout in remote U.P. lakes By John Bauman Michigan Department of Michigan Department of Natural Resources Natural Resources fish- The Michigan Department eries technician Jerek of Natural Resources manages Gutierrez, of the Alpena many inland lakes in the Upper Fisheries Research Sta- Peninsula for brook, brown and tion, is pictured with a rainbow trout. brown trout found on a These trout lakes – less than DNR trout lake survey 100 acres each – are often con- in the Upper Peninsula. sidered small compared with other inland lakes. Depending on the lake, vari- As Frog Bit spreads, boaters ous regulations are in effect for anglers hoping to catch trout. In should clean, drain, dry some of these lakes, anglers are European frog-bit, an inva- restricted to the use of only artifi- sive aquatic plant, has been found cial lures or all tackle is permitted, in the lower Lincoln River in Ma- except minnows. On other lakes, son County. The Michigan De- all tackle is allowed. partment of Environment, Great Again, depending on the Lakes, and Energy also has con- lake – designated by letters A firmed the presence of European through D in the Michigan Fish- LET’S GO FISHING - angling on the small remote lakes in the Upper Peninsula can be a rewarding frog-bit in several other locations ing Guide – there are minimum experience. And you might have the lake all to yourself. across the state. size limits for trout, ranging be- MDNR photos “Because aquatic invasive tween 8 and 15 inches. There are ing guidelines.” Creel clerks are staffers who Mi-HUNT application depicts plants like European frog-bit are dif- also seasonal restrictions on For evaluating trout-stock- talk with anglers, collecting valu- Michigan’s landscape in detailed, ficult and costly to control, we are some lakes, while others are open ing measures on these remote able information that helps the layered geographic information reminding boaters, waterfowl hunt- year- round. wilderness lakes, DNR fisheries DNR make decisions about man- systems maps and satellite pho- ers and anglers to remove plants These regulation variations personnel use several methods. aging Michigan’s fisheries, at less tographs. and debris from boats, trailers and provide anglers with diverse fish- Determining biological crite- remote fishing locations around These maps and photo- gear after each use to prevent the ing opportunities. ria requires gathering information the state. “Therefore, DNR Fish- graphs can show the presence of spread of this and other invasive “Many of these small inland on trout abundance, growth, sur- eries Division staffers are rou- trails, campgrounds and parking species,” said Joanne Foreman, in- lakes are also remote and provide vival and water temperature and tinely deploying ‘trail cameras’ to areas that can help anglers find vasive species communications co- an exceptional wilderness experi- is typically accomplished using monitor these waterbodies to en- and access these remote lakes. ordinator with the Michigan DNR. ence,” said Darren Kramer, a DNR netting surveys. sure resources are being utilized In addition, the DNR’s European frog-bit was first fisheries biologist in Escanaba. Social criteria are assessed and a continuation in stocking is website provides a wealth of in- detected in southeast Michigan “For example, a series of remote by talking with anglers about the justified,” Kovacs said. formation on fishing, including a in 1996 and has since spread wilderness lakes located in Alger quality of their catch, accessibil- Trail cameras are also known database showing fish stocking along the coastal areas of lakes County have been managed for ity of fishing sites and whether as game cameras, are remote mo- locations, dates, types of fish and Erie and Huron up to the eastern brook trout since the 1950s.” they are generally satisfied with tion-activated cameras often used number and size of fish stocked. Upper Peninsula. The remote wilderness as- the fishery provided. Web-based by hunters to scout game. These The website also provides a The plant resembles a minia- THE EUROPEAN FROG BIT, in- pect of many of these lakes pre- surveys have also been helpful cameras are providing valuable collection of 2,700 DNR maps of ture water lily with leaves about dividually and collectively. sents challenges for DNR fisher- in gathering reliable information information about the number of Michigan lakes that show water the size of a quarter. or be transported to new loca- ies biologists seeking to monitor about anglers’ overall satisfaction trips anglers are taking to these depths, shorelines and some ad- The problem: European frog- tions. European frog-bit also pro- anglers’ use of these waters. of lakes the DNR has stocked remote lakes, in addition to the ditional features, like roads or ac- bit can form dense mats on the duces seed-like structures called “A principal component of with trout. time spent on each lake. cess points. surface of slow-moving waters turions that may remain dormant fisheries management includes Economic criteria include The use of trail cameras has There is also a good deal like bayous, backwaters and wet- for multiple seasons. Activities evaluating fish stocking programs comparing the amount of angler also provided useful information more information on Michigan lands. These mats can impede like boating, waterfowl hunting using established fisheries crite- use of the remote lakes, or num- for fisheries biologists by docu- fish species, tactics and more at boat traffic and movement of large and fishing can unintentionally help ria that, when met, help justify ber of angler trips, to the general menting the presence and abun- Michigan.gov/Fishing. fish and diving ducks. spread the invasive plant because costs associated with stocking cost of stocking trout in these dance of predatory bird species, A journey to an inland trout Many of the bodies of water plant parts and turions can attach and ensure resources are utilized locations. like great blue herons, osprey and lake in the U.P. is a great opportu- where European frog-bit is being to boats, trailers and gear. for their intended purpose,” said “Remote wilderness lakes bald eagles. This helps ensure nity to enjoy a wilderness experi- found are popular destinations for Boaters, anglers, and water- Jen Johnson, a DNR fisheries bi- stocked with trout are typically numbers of trout stocked suffi- ence amid remote and rugged fishing, hunting and water recre- fowl hunters are being asked to ologist in Norway. “Trout pro- difficult to access, and funding ciently counter the amount of fish scenery. The experience you ation, which means there is a high clean, drain and dry any boats, trail- gram evaluations can be accom- resources are not available to preyed on by these birds. gather on your trip will likely be potential to spread European ers and other gear prior to use in an- plished by considering biological, monitor all of these lakes using In some cases, anglers them- memorable and may inspire future frog-bit from these locations to other body of water to help prevent economic and social criteria in line creel clerks,” said DNR fisheries selves may also use hunting tools outings. It may also contribute to other areas of the state. the spread of European frog-bit and with DNR Fisheries Division biologist Cory Kovacs in to aid them in fishing these remote future DNR trout stocking and Because European frog-bit is other aquatic invasive species. policy and recommended stock- Newberry. locations. Specifically, the DNR’s assessment efforts. free-floating, it can easily spread (From the Michigan DNR)