n rtn· 70's "Serving the men who move the earth!" * * * ENGINEERS NEWS Apprentice Method .....SHED TO ••OMOll , •• GENERAL WELfARE OF ... ENGINEERS ~N. THEIR FAMILIES Still Key To Entry By· AL CLEM International Vice President · Business Manager and Editor Employment of operating engineers is expected to increase rap­ Vol. 28-No. 3 SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA March, 1969 idly, all through the 1970's assuming relatively full employment nationally and the continuing high level of economic activity needed to achieve this goal. An estimated 250,000 were employed as excavating, grading and road machinery operators in early 1967, and many thousands more of these operating engineers.held jobs as operators of other types of construction machinery such as cranes, derricks, hoists, diesel engines, air-compressors, trenchpipe layers and dredges. Thousands of additional oppor­ tunities will come in the years just as the best way to qualify for ·immediately ahead because of the journeymen status as an operating anticipated growth in consb·uction engineer. Many men with mechan­ ical aptitude do enter this occupa­ $ activity, and the growing volume of highway work along with main­ tion by obtaining jobs as oilers tenance and ·repair will be espe­ (operating engineers' assistant) or cially important in the develop­ as helpers to heavy equipment re­ ment of employment. pairmen. Workers on these jobs The trend toward the increasing gain a knowledge of the ma­ use of construction machinery chinery, how to keep it · in good shows every indication of continu­ running order and how to make ing. repairs. Oilers and helpers must We must also take into account perform their work well and dern­ technological development. The _onstrate initiative before they are increased size, speed, mobility given the instruction from experi­ and durability of construction ma­ enced operaters that is necessm·y chines has expanded operator ef­ for advancement. They also must ficiency. (Mobile tluck cranes are demonstrate interest in and ability now in use that can lift 125. tons to learn the correct methods of to a height of 330 feet, equivalent handling equipment and be able of a 33-story building; and scrap­ to recognize hazards that must be ers are in use that cai1 scoop up avoided. , · . Some men with mechanical ex­ ·' and carry 75 to 100 tons of dirt in one load. Emthmoving machines perience, such as that obtained now move many times the ·amount .from operating farm equipment, of · material that could be moved may get jobs operating the simpler by the largest machine just a few construction machines. years ago.) Still, operating knowledge of Operating Engineers operate broad range of related equipment WINNER of the "Apprentice of the Year (1968) (left) made the presentation of the trophy and various types of power-driven con­ and attachments is usually neces~ Award" for the State of Hawaii was Brother Alva war bond at a ceremony chaired by Ed Hulihee, struction machinery-power· shov­ sary to obtain continuous employ­ Blake (center). International Vice President and Chairman of the Joint Apprenticeship Committee els, cranes, derricks, hoists, pile ment, and this is best obtained Local Union No. 3 Business Manager. AI Clem in Hawaii. drivers, concrete mixers, paving through a formal apprenticeship ·----------------------------------~--~----------- machines, trash excavators, bull­ program or, as mentioned earlier, dozers, tractors, pumps, etc.- and by working as an oiler or helper; must have a wide range of skills, although tl;lis usually takes more 0 even though they generally be­ time than to complete an· appren­ Rules Stay " Job as a craftsman ticeship. High Court come identified · Or ·Lose Pay with the one machine in particular Apprenticeship standards pro­ which they operate most often. vide b·aining in operation of each . So employment opportunities of the following types of equip­ Fringes Payable Says UIAB underscore trai·ning-and most ment: Universal equipment tr~ining authorities, including the (hoists; shovels, cranes and re­ The Supreme Court, reversing the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of The Unemployment Insurance National Joint (labor-manage­ lated equipment); grading and plant Appeals at San Francisco, ruled that the National Labor Relations Appeals Board, which is an inde­ ment) Apprenticeship and Train­ paving equipment; and Board has the power to enforce a contract against an employer who pendent division in Human Re­ ing Cominittee for Operating En­ equipment (such as material mix­ These refused to abide by its terms, including fringe benefits. sources Development Department gineers, recommend the comple­ ing and crushing machines). The court, with Justice William 0. Douglas dissenting, upheld a of the· Human Relations Agency, tion of a three-year apprenticeship See FUTURE BRIGHT page 2 • 1965 labor board order against has issued a precedent decision in Joseph T. Strong, doing business ployer has refused to sign and which it held that an individual as Strong Roofing & Insulating honor, particularly when the em­ who terminated his employment Co. The board directed Strong to ployer has refused to recognize prior to the effective date of dis­ sign a conb·act with Roofers Lo­ the very existence of the contract charge voluntarily left his work. cal 36, Los Angeles, stop refusing providing for the arbitration on · In the case considered, the indi­ to bargain with the union, and which he now insists." vidual was informed by his em­ ·pay his share of the pension and To this extent, the court said, ployer on February 15 that he was welfare funds agreed upon by the the "contract is the board's affair, · to be discharged on February 29. union and the Roofing Contrac­ and an effective remedy for re­ The employer was willing to per­ tors Association of Southern Cali­ fusal to' sign is its proper business." mit the individual to work through fornia. February 29, but on February 26 Justice Byron R. White, who the individual told his employer wrote ·the majority opinion, said local 3 Rep that he was leaving work on that Strong sought to withdraw hom day in order to take care of some the employers' association a few At Safety Meet private business. days after it completed negotiat­ Local Union No. 3 Vice Presi­ The Appeals Board held that • ing a four-year agreement · with dent Dale Marr was among the the individual voluntarily left his Local 36 in 1963, and "refused 1,500 delegates from labor, in­ work because, had he so desired, repeated demands from the union dustry and business that attended he could have continued working that he sign the contract." the Governor's Industrial Safety at least three days more. In 1965 the NLRB ordered Conference in Los Angeles last Chairman .Robert , W. Sigg Strong to abide by the contract. month. pointed out that this case was The 9th Circuit appeals court Marr co-chaired the section on · somewhat different than a recently enforced the NLRB order. ex­ Mineral Industries and reports issued precedent decision in which cept for the payment of fringe that the conference was one of the employer told his employee benefits, which it said was ''be­ the most successful in the nine­ that she needed to work nQ longer yond the powers_of the board." teen-year history of the meetings. when the employee submitted her TECH ENGINEERS of Local Union · No. 3 get an in-depth reading The NI:;RB app ~aled. "Einar 0. Mohn, Director of resignation to be effective within on a new microwave distance ll!.easuring instrument at union-spon­ "The board is ~ not trespassing the Western Conference of Team­ a two-week period. Sigg pointed sored session in Oakland. Tech's came from all over to hear com- · on forbidden territory," the high sters, made an outstanding key­ out that in that case the employer pany experts explain the use of the new Tellurometer. Above Jim court ruled, "when it inquires note address," said Marr, "and continued the individual's salary Vick of the Lietz Company answers questions of Don Long, of whether negotiations have pro- Labor played a key . role in every through the effective date of her R. M. Towill Co., and Wallace Schissler of George Nolte Co. Ad­ • duced a bargain which the em- session." resignation. ditional pictures and story on page 7. 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State and Federal Laws govern ing the operation of Credit Unions. Apprenticeship applicants gen­ A brief outline of the legal limits that the lending operations of erally must be between the ages the Credit Union must be confined to, together with additional re­ The month of February has not been too kind to many of the mem­ of 18 a nd 25 and must be physi­ strictions that have been imposed by the Credit Union Board of bers of our Union in mostly all parts of our jurisdiction, but we are cally able · to perform the work of Directors, is as follows: hopeful that the politicians and those who appropriate money for the b·ade.