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Please allow three weeks for delivery. SHIPPING COSTS City: __________________________ All rings are custom made and require 6-8 weeks for delivery. Virginia residents ONLY add 5% state sales tax to Sub-Total. State: _________ Zip: ___________ All payments must be in U.S. Dollars only. If your order is under $50: - $8.95 Orders shipped to Canada may be subject to GST. If your order is between $50 - $100: $10.95 For more information, visit www.iupatstyle.com If your order is greater than $100: $12.95 Phone: ________________________ or call 703-788-2579 THE PAINTERS AND ALLIED TRADES JOURNAL (ISSN PAINTERS & ALLIED TRADES 1522-2241) is published quarterly for members of the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades by .org T IUPAT at 7234 Parkway Drive, Hanover, MD 21076. Periodicals postage paid at Washington, DC and additional mailing offices. Canadian publications mail agreement IUPA #41479512. Canada Post: Return undeliverables to P.O. Box 2601, 6915 Dixie Rd, Mississauga, ON L4T 0A9. www. APRIL-JUNE 2017 • VOL. 135 • NO. 2 Cover Story: Members of the 18 44 IUPAT Take a Day to Give Back It was the second annual IUPAT Community 18 Day of Action, and what a day it was! Report of the IUPAT Audit Committee 30 Annual report on the financial strength of our union. The FTI Continues March Toward Glazing Certification 44 At work to give our members the competitive edge. Building Trades Chart Course 48 54 of Political Activism Ahead A report on issues and elections that 48 matter to working families. Looking Back and Moving Forward How the Painters and Allied Trades 54 LMCI is working for you. IUPAT Pension Plan Update New plans in place to ensure the 56 continued security of our Pension Fund. DEPARTMENTS The Official Journal of the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades, 6 Union News & Events 52 Organizing Organized March 15, 1887, and the Only Publication TEXT 44 Finishing Trades Institute 54 LMCI Issued Under Its Auspices. 47 Job Corps 56 Retirement & Pension Kenneth Rigmaiden, Editor IUPAT 48 Government Affairs 59 In Memoriam George Galis, Publisher TO POSTMASTER: Send address changes to IUPAT ON THE WEB THE PAINTERS AND ALLIED 48728 TRADES JOURNAL 7234 Parkway Drive www.IUPAT.org Hanover, MD 21076 APRIL-JUNE 2017• JOURNAL 3 It All Works Together for Organizing his issue of the Journal highlights our ing skills in understanding how commercial develop- ment can often adversely affect communities, and the second annual IUPAT Community Day importance of developing a strategic campaign that includes community coalition building and worker-to- of Action with articles on the community T worker organizing. work our district councils performed across Our Leadership Training series includes collective bargaining contract administration and instruction on North America. We are also including a look the many other duties attributed to being a service representative. It also coordinates with recruitment and at our financial state of the union by including retention of current and prospective members. This our annual audit. purposefully overlaps with what the training organiz- ers receive as it relates to community development and This is an opportune time to review what our union worker-to-worker organizing. is doing to be relevant in the 21st Local, state and national legisla- century. Starting with our Day of tion and policy also have an impact Action, it is important to note that not on how we, as a union, represent only do the recipients of the work working families. The introduction of we have performed on schools, Right-to-Work legislation is spread- churches, community centers, ath- ing quickly across the country, as letic fields, parks and the many, are attacks on Davis-Bacon rules many other locations across North and prevailing wage. All serve to America benefit from our labor of undercut the strength of an orga- love; we, as union members, benefit, nized workforce. as well. Sharing our skills and dedi- Actions we are taking on the leg- cation as we give back to our com- islative front include lobbying for munities puts the IUPAT front and required certifications in our crafts, center for our neighbors to see that such as industrial coatings and glaz- our union can provide the oppor- ing, which gives our members and tunity for a sustainable career. My employers a competitive edge in our thanks to every one of you who par- industries thanks to our state-of-art ticipated on this Day of Action in KENNETH E. RIGMAIDEN skills and safety training. April, and please continue to work GENERAL PRESIDENT The importance of our govern- together to remain a positive force ment affairs team coordinating with in our communities. It is a crucial way for us to continue organizing, servicing, training and marketing on a to build the future of our union and the rest of the orga- local, regional, national and international platform nized labor movement. again builds upon our continued relevancy in our indus- Consider some of the other actions we are undertak- tries. ing to achieve the same goal. All training, whether it be skills and safety, building Developing and strengthening existing and new union leadership or contractor development, at some partnerships is a key to remaining relevant in the indus- point or another, goes through the FTI. While trustees tries in which we work, and our lead organizing team are currently restructuring our FTI model, be assured is coordinating with directors of organizing on local, that curriculum development, craft committees related regional and national organizing initiatives to build to that curriculum development, instructor development, those partnerships. This coordination includes, but is not requests for specific training, as well as all current offer- limited to, enhanced training on the utilization of our ings of the training fund continue. Contrack system (our North American-wide database Also undergoing a restructuring plan is the Painters that tracks projects and prospective members), sharpen- Continued on page 45 4 APRIL-JUNE 2017 • JOURNAL GENERAL SECRETARY-TREASURER’S REPORT Justice For All nce again, this year, I had an be strong enough to fight the battles that will make our union a force that improves the lives and standards of opportunity to work side-by-side living for our members. Unions represent 11 percent of with our members during our the United States workforce; the percentage is a little O greater in Canada. We can grow big enough to effect Community Day of Action in April. This change by leading the way in endeavors such as the Community Day of Action, or aligning with community year, I was with leaders and members of groups that also feel they did not get a slice of the eco- District Council 57 as they refurbished a nomic pie. The basic premise of unions has not changed; that community park in Charleroi, Pennsylvania. is, that there is strength in numbers. So, when you are That area has been hard-hit economically, asked to volunteer, to help during the Community Day of Action, or attend a school board, water authority, or like many areas in western Pennsylvania planning commission meeting, attend, even if the issue is not an IUPAT issue. over the last few decades as We are doing this to build manufacturing has declined. power. Only by building that power in the communities, or Again, as the day wore on, politically, will your union have the I felt great pride in our members power to help you and remain rel- as Facebook posts, emails, and evant as your advocate.