·Master Tech Pact Now Ratified "Serving ·the_men who move the ear!h!" \ * * * 0 ENGINEERS· 'NEWS Union Gains Top PUBLISHED TO PROMOTE THE GENERAL WELFARE OF ALL ENGINEERS AND THEIR FAMILIES • Wage Agreement GUAM, WHERE AMERICA'S DAY BEGINS HAWAII, THE 50T H STATE NORTHERN CAliFORNIA, THE GOLDEN STATE NORTHERN N EVADA, SILVER STATE UTAH. HEART OF THE ROCKIES One of the best Technical Engineer Master Agreements ever ne­ 1, ,.· gotiated went on the books this month following ratification by members of Operating Engineers Local Union No. 3, International Union of Vol. 27-No. 8 SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA ~® August, 1968 Operating Engineers, AFL-CIO. The new agreement will cover mem­ bers working in the forty-six Northern California counties and Northern Nevada. International Vice President and Local 3 Business Manager AI Clem said the new contract went into effect the 1st of August, 1968 and would expire on the 15th of June, 1971. Mr. Clem said he felt both signatories, Bay Counties Civil Engineers & Land Surveyors Associa­ tion, Inc. and the union, had worked hard to hammer out a, fair Master Agreement. "We are satisfied that this is a contract that both the union and the employer can live with," said Clem, "and our main objective now is to • advocate at every level of government and industry the need for non­ stop construction programs that will keep our .economy moving ahead and provide jobs for all our members." Local 3 President Paul Edgecombe worked diligently and on a very short deadline to gain current coverage for the city and county person­ nel working within the jurisdiction of the new technical agreement. Edgecombe's last minute efforts (he had twenty.minutes left for inclu­ sion of the new wages in the annual budget) gained a maximum increase in wages and fringes for some $950.00 annually. , · The new Master Agreement will provide a wage increase of approxi­ mately seven-a:nd-half percent (7J~ %) average per year plus sixty-five cents ($0.65) fringe benefits plus vacation pay, previously based on straight hour computation, will now be based on· gross annual earnings under the new agreement and can boost this f1inge benefit dramatically. For example: By the end of this contract a Party Chief with the reason­ able average of 100 hours oveltime would gain $298 of vacation pay •• more than in the previous contract. Other highlights of the Master Agreement include acceptance of the "test qualifying pl:()cedur!:t ratified. by the membership in February andoih:oviding pi·otection fbr the present labor pool. .2.07 NON-DISCRIMINATION. N~ E~nployee covered by this Agreement shall be discriminated. against by the · Employer, an In­ TECHNICAL MASTER AGREEMENT is signed by ; Engineers and Land . Surveyors Association dric.; . dividual Empldyer or-by the Union by reason of race, creed, color, sex Local 3 Business Manager and International Vice ::and Chairman; Employer$' Negotiating Committee or national origin, membership or non-membership in the Union or any President AI Clem, as Bill Wright, Vice President and Mike Womack, Local 3's Technical Engineers Union, ·except to the extent that membership in the Union shall be a of Wilsey & Ham; Secretary of Bay counties Civil BusinessReprei_sentative, look on. · condition of employnient as provided in Section 2:03 and me.mbership in the Union shall be available to all Employees covered by this Agree­ ment desiring membership in the Union on the. same terms and con­ ditions generally applicable to other members. .Labor, Employers In East 2.09 JOB PLACEMENT . CENTER.. In . the employment· of em­ ployees covered by this Agreement, and providing competency, effi­ ciency, skill and ability are satisfactory, of which the Individual Employer shall be the sole judge, the Individual Employer ·shall call ·the Job Placement Center servicing the job or project for whic~ such Set employees are needed and the Job Placement Minority Center d~spatch Training Plan shalL from the appropriate field survey Out-of-Work List, persons 1qualified under Section 2.15 for the classifications requested by the Individual Employer in accordance with the procedures provided in this Agree­ WASHINGTON* * - *Two multi­ grams in lieu* of* the *conventional operation of* heavy equipment. * * ment, within twenty-four (24) hours (not including Saturdays, Sundays employer programs in Ohio and contract-by-contract approach of Apprentices will also be given and Holidays) of the time they are requested if they are available and, Pennsylvania to hire and train mi­ deciding affirmative action Under the testing, counseling, and serv­ in the event they are not employed or cannot be or are not dispatched nority group members as Operat­ Executive Order 11246. ices necessary to prepare them for within such period, the Individual Employer may employ any person ing Engineers under Federal equal Both the Ohio and the Penn­ enb·y into the industry. In addi­ with the minimum qualifications established for the requested classifi­ employment opportunity regula­ sylvania groups have committed tion, a more effective outreach- cations and shall arrange for a dispatch to be obtained for him from a tions have been announced by La- themselves to: . or recruiting-program will;l:ie de­ Job Placement Center within twenty-four (24) hours of the commence- • bor Secretary Willard Wirtz. • Positive programs of appren­ veloped to attract pqten.n ~ l'>ap- . ment of such employment to .such employee and such dispatch shall The programs, sponsored by ticeship recruitment and selection prentices. ··'-..:·;~> : ::-.,, .. upon request be issued to the employee. The Individual Employer shall contractors' associations and local which will attract minority groups In a letter to head~ ;:'-6'£ Federal within twenty-four ( 24) hours of the employment of such employee, unions of the Operating Engineers to the apprenticeship programs. agencies, OFCG Acting' :~ Director arrange for such employee to establish his qualifications pursuant in both states, will place special • Joint training programs which Ward McCreedy said that where to Section 2.15. If found not qu.alified, such employee shall emphasis on reaching persons who will provide journeymen with suf­ a bidder in this program is a mem­ be terminated immediately and not perform any fmther field might othenvise be ·disqualified ficient skills needed to operate a ber of a participating trade as'so­ survey work. ' and preparing them for entry into variety of highway equipment, ciation, this activity constitutes ac,. 2.11 REQUEST BY NAME-"A" LIST. Upon the Individu ~l Em­ the industry as "apprentices-in- thus expanding their opportunities ceptable affirmative action wit;h player's. calling the Job Placement Center if he so requests, he shall be b:aining." · for work. respect to his employees who are advised of the names of the Employees registered for employment in Those involved in the training Each program will have its owri Operating Engineers. the classifications requested and may request any Employee on ~e "A" .. prOgrams are: The Ohio_ Conb·ac­ Joint Apprenticeship and Train­ A statement of such pa_rticipa- List by name. After such request, the Individual Employer s~~ll fur- tors Association, in conjunction ing Committee, which will provide . tiori, he said, should be accepted. · nish the Job Placement Center with written confirmation of ther~ qu~st. with Local Unions 18, 18A, 18B, the training sites and the necessary in lieu of that portion of a required · 18C, and 18RA, International equipment to prepare the appren­ affirmative action plan which 2.12 REQUEST BY NAME-"B" LIST. If there are no Employees Union of Operating Engineers tices for immediate employment . would otheFWise be directed to on the "A" List satisfactory to him, then any Employee on the "B" List ' (IUOE); AFL-CIO; and the Con- as "Apprentices-in-Training." The this job category. may be requested by name .. After such request, the Individual En1- • tractors Association · ·of - Eastern committees will ·be composed of If the low bidder inte:nds to use ployer shall furnish the Job Placement Center with written confirma- Pennsylvania, United Contractors representatives from both the con­ construction craftsmen in other · tion of the request. .. · ' · Association, and the Pennsylvania tractors' associations and the.loc;:ll . categories usually described as the <·;i· ' Excavating' Contractors Associa­ unions. mechanical crafts' ( elecb·ical, iron­ 2.15 JOB PLACEMENT REGISTRATION. tion; in conjunction with Local ' While· journeymen will be of~ work, plumbing, pipefitting, sheet­ (b) All employees who have earned ·one ( 1) Employment Credit Union 542 and its affiliates, IUOE, fered traming on a variety of high­ metal), alternative means of de­ · or more prior to March 1968, employed under an appropriate Te-chnical AFL-CIO. way equipment, apprentices will termination for affirmative action Engineer Agreement, or the equivalent thereof as detem1ined by the The Labor Department's Office be offered remedial training and programs will apply, unless simi- Northern California Surveyors Joint Apprenticeship Committee, are of Federal Contract Compliance will be given the exposure mices­ . lar multi-employer programs have qualified and eligible to register for -employment on the Out-of-Work . ( OFCC) . accepted the two pro- sary to familiarize them ·with the . S~e MINORITY page 4 SeeTECH AGREEMENT page 4 August 1968 Page 2 ENGINEERS NEWS 1 lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll lll lllll lllllllllllllllllilllllllllllllllllllll!ll!llllll!llll' lll l!llllllllllllllllllllll!llllli!lllllllll!llllllllllllllillll!lllllllll 1111'11111 111 1!1111!1111!111 1:1111!1111!111111111111111 Union Brothers Warned To Beware • C~ffecfivef¥ ce By SIDNEY MARGOLIUS full cost of hospital room and' of unconditional "no medical ex­ c£rakint . ·Con,Sumer Expei,t for board and incidental fees . amination." 1n the three policies ·Engineel's News Even the "only $1 for the first cited, the FTC said that the com­ month's coverage has limitations. pany reserved the right to ex­ · waft AI Clem Viith medical and hospital costs Elsewhere, the ad says, "New amine the policyholder if he later skyrocketing, mail-order insurance sicknesses covered after your pol­ made a claim.