April 30, 2015 - KC Labor Beacon

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TRADES MARKETING CAMPAIGN UNVEILED
ON EQUAL PAY DAY,
REPORT SHOWS
MALE-FEMALE PAY
GAP AT 78 CENTS
PER DOLLAR
WASHINGTON (PAI)--The pay
gap between working men and
women remained at 78 cents per
dollar last year, shorting the median
wage for working women – compared to men with equivalent backgrounds and equivalent jobs – by
$10,876 each year, a new report
says.
Billboards similar to this mock up will begin to appear on billboards around town. The marketing campaign will
start with this and eventually work in radio, television and social media. The Campaign was created by local
marketing consultant Pat O’Neill of O’Neill Marketing and Event Management.
LABOR AWARDS
HANDED OUT
Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank
President Esther George discussed the
national and regional economies, interest
rates, banking regulation,
employment
trends and retirement
concerns with 230
business, labor, government and education leaders at the
Labor-Management
Council of Greater
Kansas City’s (LMC)
36th
Anniversary
Celebration and 16th
Awards Dinner April
Esther George 16 at Argosy Casino.
The LMC also recognized Alise Martiny,
business manager of the Greater Kansas
City Building and Construction Trades
Council, and Don Greenwell, president of
the Builders’s Association. Martiny earned
See LMC GIVES page 2
By KEVIN O’NEILL
Publisher
The Greater Kansas City Building Trades will be breaking new
ground in the near future and it won’t be a new building they are
putting up. It will be an opening salvo in a war that will take its aim
at those who would like to see labor eradicated forever. For the past
several years, big business and their marketing gurus have spent
millions to brand the word union as a terrifying threat to working
people. They have convinced many in America and even right here
in Kansas City that most of the economy’s ills stem from the word
union.
Well of course we all know this is a bunch of crap, but it appears
that many out in the working world who are not familiar with
See MARKETING page 6
The National Partnership for
Women and Families issued An
Unlevel Playing Field on April 14,
Equal Pay Day. On that day, the
median full-time working woman’s
wages, for 2014 and succeeding
weeks and months, reaches the
same figure as the median working
man’s wages at the end of 2014.
The median is the point where half
of the group is above and half
below. And the 78-cents-per-dollar
ratio has barely budged for years.
“At a time when women’s wages
are essential to families and our
economy, persistence of the gender-based wage gap is doing real
and lasting damage to women, families, communities and to our
See WOMEN page 7
UNIONS UNITE AGAINST P1’S USE OF NON-UNION LABOR
Members of the IBEW
Local 124, Sheetmetal
Workers Local 2and
Plumbers Local 8 are
united against P1 using
non-union labor to build
their new headquarters at
97th and Pflumm. All
three locals are picketing
the new location sharing
the duties 2-weeks at a
time. From L-R, Jeff
Russell, Local 2; Jason
Coleman, Local 2; Tony
Keithley, Local 2; Travis
Ragan, IBEW 124; Pete
Raya, IBEW 124; Jason
Duke, IBEW 124; Craig
Mullins, Plumbers 8;
Matt Harris, Plumbers 8;
Gary Huonker, Local 2
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MDA Labor Bowl
Keeps Getting
Bigger and Better
See Page 4
Building Trades McGarvey Pushes
IAM Withdraws Union
Contact With Both Parties, Criticizes
Election Petition At
Too-Close Union Ties To Dems
Boeing in South Carolina
See Page 8
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LMC GIVES MARTINY LEADERSHIP AWARD AT ANNUAL DINNER
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the LMC’s Leadership in LaborManagement Cooperation Award
and Greenwell the Service to the
LMC honor.
Pat “Duke”
Dujakovich, Greater Kansas City
AFL-CIO President ascended to
the Labor Co-Chair of the LMC,
while Tim Bell, Business Manager
of the Western Missouri and
Kansas Laborers District Council,
was elected Vice Co-Chair.
Martiny was reelected Secretary
and Greenwell as Treasurer.
Elected to renewed terms on the
LMC Board of Directors were
Jack
Bainbridge,
Business
Manager, Heavy Construction
Laborers Local 663; Bret Bonge,
Director Employee Relations,
Kansas City Power & Light Co.;
Michael Kitchen, Labor Relations
Manager, City of Kansas City,
Mo.; Dave Lovetere, MC Realty;
Joe Hudson, Business Rep.,
Carpenters District Council; Ron
Johnson, Business Manager,
Teamsters Local 541; and Lindsay
Walker, Kansas City Director,
Service Employees International
Union Local 1.
Dujakovich noted introducing
keynote speaker George that local
AFL-CIOs around the nation were
working to establish conversations
with regional federal reserve
banks, and thanks to George the
dialogue in Kansas City is excellent.
The Kansas City Fed
President makes a real effort to
understand economic conditions
on the ground in the region, he
noted. George expressed optimism that the now five-year
expansion would continue and
gradually improve. A bad winter
and port congestion slowed recent
growth. She noted that consumer
behavior drives the economy and
that consumers have slashed debt.
The labor market is improving at
the best rate in two decades
though challenges remain, she
pointed out.
U.S. economic
growth is envied by most of the
world, and would be aided if
Europe and Japan could see better
performance. Interest rates are a
key issue addressed by the Federal
Reserve. George explained her
See LABOR page 3
Top Photo: John Brown, retired IBEW 124; Pete Raya, IBEW 124;
and Dale Allen, retired IBEW 124
Photo at Right: Alise Martiny and Don Greenwell
Pat “Duke”Dujakovich introducing
Fed Chairman Esther George
David Kirkpatrick, OPCMIA Local 518 with Missouri State Representatives
Nick King and Bill E. Kidd
Top Photo: Kerry Brandt, Pipefitters Local 533;
Cara Sronce, Blake & Uhlig; Ron Talley, Pipefitters
Local 533; Scott Forbes, Pipefitters Local 533; Scott
Grandon, Pipefitters Local 533; Michelle Levine,
Blake & Uhlig
Photo at Left: Bill Galvin, Firefighters Local 42;
Theresa Galvin, Jackson County Legislator; Kevin
O’Neill, Labor Beacon
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LABOR MANAGEMENT AWARDS BACK TO BLUE FOR IUPAT D.C. 3
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position that now is a good time to
consider small, gradual rate increases
so the impact on growth is small and
the economy would be able to adjust
over time to limit inflation. Waiting
too long to raise rates and then having
to do so steeply could harm the economy, as happened in 2003. In any
case, she expects interest rates to be
relatively low for a long time.
Those at or near retirement age
should particularly watch interest rate
developments, she suggested. The
Kansas City-area economy has
avoided the boom-and-bust cycles of
other areas. The local economy has
benefited from strong agricultural
and energy trends and is diversified.
Banking regulations, changed in the
Dodd-Frank legislation five years
ago, have probably been overly strict
on smaller, community banks and not
strict enough on the “too-big-to-fail”
institutions, she said. Without further
addressing the large banks, another
crisis could happen, George fears,
though small banks could use some
regulatory relief. George noted that
employment rates are difficult to
accurately measure, but that it
appears workforce participation is
nearing demographic norms. Unand-under employment, skill mismatches and benefit considerations
continues to be factors, but she added
that monetary policy cannot fix those
issues.
FISHING FOR FREEDOM
ABOVE PHOTO- Leroy
Shull presented several
crafts with plaques to
commemorate their generosity to Fishing for
Freedom. From L-R,
Greg Davison, Sheet
metal Local 2; Robert
Welch, Pipefitters Local
533; Leroy Shull; Alise
Martiny, Building
Trades; Greg Lynch,
sprinklerfitters Local
314
PHOTO AT LEFT-Greg
Davison and Leroy Shull
The heart and soul of Fishing For Freedom Leroy Shull, attended the
April 23rd Building Trades Delegate meeting to begin recruiting volunteers for his 7th annual Fishing for Freedom taking place on October 10th
at Long Shoal Marina on Truman Lake. Leroy was also on hand to present plaques thanking members of organized labor for their work at making this event one of the most successful in the country.
Greg Davison, a Business Representative for the Sheet Metal Workers
Local 2 who recently retired from the United States Navy as a Reservist,
served 2-tours overseas in Iraq and Afghanistan and spoke to fellow delegates of the impact that the program had for him. Greg shared that he participated in Fishing for Freedom the prior year and now truly understands
the impact the program has had and continues to have with his fellow veterans. “It was incredible,” he stated.
Members of IUPAT D.C. 3 recently attended the Cass County Back To
Blue dinner held at the German-American Club on the old RichardsGebauer Airforce base. The dinner brings together the Cass County
Democrats and members of organized labor for an evening of fun and
entertainment.
HUEY VISITS VFW LODGE 8100
PHOTO ABOVEMembers of VFW
Lodge 8100 stand in
front of the Huey
Helicopter flown in
the Vietnam war.
Third from right is
DeWayne Tyler,
retired member of
Pipefitters Local 533.
PHOTO AT LEFTDeWayne Tyler
(right) retired
Pipefitter with his
good friend George
Reese.
Dewayne Tyler, retired member of Pipefitters Local 533 and a proud
retired veteran of the Air Force National Guard was on hand Saturday,
April 24th for the VFW 8100 breakfast which featured a Huey Helicopter
that flew many missions in Vietnam and was actually shot down three
times during rescue missions.
The breakfast was put on with the assistance of Liz Nobilt, who’s husband Guy, was a veteran and retired Teamster out of Local 41 before his
death in 2002. Liz is also the Secretary-Treasurer at the Teamsters Local
41 Retirees Club.
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MDA LABOR BOWL KEEPS GETTING BIGGER AND BETTER
The 20th annual labor Bowl
was held Saturday, April 25 at
Ward Parkway lanes. This
fundraising event, featuring 24
labor teams, goes to assist The
Muscular
Dystrophy
Association (MDA), a nonprofit agency dedicated to
finding cures and treatments
for muscular dystrophy, ALS,
and other neuromuscular diseases. Total proceeds for the
event raised around $15,000,
well over the $12,000 goal set
by organizers of the event.
Rachael
Reddick,
Fundraising Coordinator for
MDA told us the event just
keeps getting bigger and bigger. “This is a very successful
fundraiser for us and for the
first time in several years we
sold all of the spots available
to us and raised well over our
goal.” Reddick loves the association with labor and the energy the teams bring to the event.
“All these people get together
and don’t have to donate to the
MDA, but they do. There is
very good energy among
them.”
The fundraiser is one of organizer Paul Posts favorite activities. “I have been on the com-
mittee for the last 5-years and
love the fact that .77 cents out
of every dollar raised goes to
helping the MDA.” Post, an
organizer with Roofers Local
20, added, “This event is a
great way to get active in the
community and to hangout
with our fellow brothers in the
other trades. It should be about
unions helping the community
and I think everybody here
likes to do that.”
Once again, the Roofers
Local #20 team won the trophy
for the Highest Fundraising at
$4,051. The Roofers have been
the proud holder of the trophy
for 18 out of the 20 years that
the Labor Bowl has been held.
All members of the Pipefitters
Local #533 each received a
plaque for the award of Team
High Series.
Frank Mathews, a participant
on the IBEW 124 team
summed the event up best,
“It’s a part of labor community, and it supports the MDA…
it’s the labor community coming together for a great cause.
Anything we can do to get
labor in front of the public eye.
It takes the negative publicity
off of us.”
Members of the IBEW Local 124 Team
Members of the Elevator Constructors Local 12 Team
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Members of the Roofers Local 20 Team
Members of the Pipefitters Local 533 Team
Members of the Sprinklerfitters Local 314 Team
Boilermakers Local 83 Team
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unions have been drinking the Koolaid for so long they have started to
believe it. With the help of talking
heads like Rush Limbaugh (who by
the way has never worked a day in his
life in a trade), Fox News and other
mediums they mock the working
people as puppets for the unions
greed and corruption. I have even
heard those in the pulpit denigrate the
working-men and women of the
unions.
The UNIONS have had enough.
Finally, organized labor is stepping
up. They are embracing who they
are. They are through being a doormat to the likes of ALEC, right wing
conservatives and religions that
choose to take the donation rather
than speak the truth.
Alise Martiny, Business Manager
for The Greater Kansas City Building
Trades has talked about a campaign
of this magnitude since being elected
in 2012. Garry Kemp, the former
Business Manager for the Building
Trades brought it to the forefront in
2005, but it was shot down as too
expensive. Today the belief is, it is
too important not to do it. “We are
under assault by enemies in the corporate world as well as members of
both national and state legislators.
Candidates and issues are funded by
private companies who are not
required to tell anyone how much
money they give, and they give bil-
Top Photo- A standing room only crowd attended the recent Workers
Memorial 2015 Celebration (Photo above) L-R, Top Row, Daniel
Roach, brother to Eric Roach; Linda Craven and her daughter
Maria Beasley, who lost their father and husband David Craven, a
member of IBEW Local 53; Bottom Row- Kay, Andrea and Ryan
Watzlawick, who lost their husband and father John Watzlawick, a
member of the Letter Carriers union.
In observance of Workers Memorial
Day, the Builders Association along
with OSHA hosted an event at their
training center to honor all those who
have died on the job. The event featured speakers Patrick “Duke”
Dujakovich,
president
Greater
Kansas City AFL-CIO, Alise Martiny,
Business Manager, Greater Kansas
City Building and Construction
Trades and Don Greenwell, president,
Builders Association among several
speakers.
Barb Theriot, Area Director for
OSHA in the Kansas City Office said
it best. “We have 12 fatalities a day
in this country on the job. That is
unacceptable.” Theriot added, “I am
always reminded no job is a good job
unless it is a safe job. We have come
a long way at OSHA, but we have a
long way to go.”
Among those attending the
Memorial was Danny Roach, a
Business
Representative
for
Ironworkers Local 10 who lost his
brother Eric in a work site accident.
Eric was also a member of Local 10
as is his father. Also in attendance
was David Cravens widow Linda
Craven and their daughter Maria
Beasley. David Craven, a member of
IBEW Local 53 passed away in a
work related accident.
Kay
Watzlawick lost her husband John, a
member of the letter carriers union, in
a heat related work accident. Kay
attended with her children Andrea
and Ryan.
lions. We must fight back,” Martiny
stated.
This campaign will focus on getting
us back to what made us great, the
word UNION. Only it will have a
new twist. YOUNION! Several marketing firms were contacted and this
campaign, put together by O’Neill
Marketing & Event Management,
was selected by the Trades. The campaign will start with billboards
appearing in a few weeks and then
transition into television, radio and
social media.
I for one am thrilled that a clever
campaign like this is being funded
and supported by the Building
Trades. The men and women in organized labor are ready to fight back
and I believe this campaign will help
them understand why they are so
important to the success of the middle
class. We first need to get our members feeling good about what they do.
Then we need to give everyone the
facts about unions. That’s right, the
facts. Labor unions are the middle
class. Unions negotiated so many
issues that today people just assume
were given to them out of the blind
kindness of their employers.
It will be a long and expensive road
but organized labor has to start somewhere and the middle class needs a
champion, even if they don’t realize
it yet.
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WOMEN AND FAMILIES LOSING THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS
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nation. It defies common sense that
lawmakers are not doing more to stop
gender discrimination in wages,” said
National Partnership President Debra
Ness. The report is based in federal
wage data from 2014.
“This shows women and families
are losing thousands of dollars in critical income each year that could pay
for significant amounts of food, rent,
gas, child care and other basic necessities. And the very women whose
wages are especially critical to their
families are suffering the most. The
effects ripple throughout our econo-
my,” Ness added.
Organized labor, congressional
Democrats and President Barack
Obama (D) all advocate federal legislation to help close the pay gap,
including the Paycheck Fairness Act,
to put enforcement teeth into 53-yearold federal equal pay laws.
“Fair pay champions in the House
and Senate recently reintroduced the
Paycheck Fairness Act in the 114th
Congress,” the Coalition of Labor
Union Women told its members.
“You can be a critical part of passing
the Paycheck Fairness Act by urging
TRADES VISIT WASHINGTON
Members of the Greater Kansas City Building Trades delegation who
attended the Building Trades Legislative Conference in April, took time out
to visit with Local Congressman Emanuel Cleaver. From L-R are Greg
Davison, Sheet metal Workers Local 2; Alise Martiny, Business Manager
Greater KC Building Trades; Frank Carpenter, IUPAT D.C. 3; Jessica
Podhola, IUPAT D.C. 3; Terry Akins, IBEW Local 124; Pete Raya, IBEW
Local 124; Unidentified; Congressman Cleaver.
APPRENTICES SWORN IN
1st Year apprentices for the 2015-2016 School Year that were sworn in at
the May 21, 2015 Union meeting. Left to Right: Abed Ponce, Michael
Wetzel, Edy Rodriguez, Michael Brown, Nolan Baur, Richard Huge, Cody
Kankey, Nicholas VanBebber, Chase Hackenberg, Larry Neal, Hubert
Dailey, Robert Kern III, Chris Baldwin, Brandon Diehl and Matthew Rand
your members of Congress to be cosponsors. Take action today!” CLUW
urged.
Congress’ ruling Republicans are
another matter: They have pigeonholed prior equal pay legislation in
the House, without even a hearing.
And even when Senate Republicans
were in the minority in the last
Congress, they filibustered it to death.
Single mothers are paid just 58
cents for every dollar paid to fathers,
the report says. African-American
mothers are paid 56 cents per dollar
paid to dads, while Latina mothers
are paid 49 cents per dollar, a chart in
the report says.
Louisiana is the state with the
largest pay gap: 66 cents for every
dollar a man earns. Washington, D.C.,
had the smallest gap: 91 cents/dollar.
New York was second, at 86 cents.
Though the report did not say so,
BLS data on union density and wages
also show D.C. as the only jurisdiction where the pay gap is less than it
is between unionized working women
and unionized working men: Union
women earned 89 cents per dollar of
union men.
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BUILDING TRADES’ MCGARVEY PUSHES CONTACT WITH BOTH
PARTIES, CRITICIZES TOO-CLOSE UNION TIES TO DEMS
By MARK GRUENBERG
PAI Staff Writer
WASHINGTON (PAI)—Declaring
there has been a drastic political
change in both Washington and state
capitals, North American Building
Trades President Sean McGarvey is
strongly pushing his unions and their
members to reach out and work with
the GOP at all levels. And he’s criticizing other, unnamed, unions for
having too-close ties to the
Democrats.
In a hard-hitting keynote address on
April 20 to 3,000 delegates at the
building trades’ legislative conference, McGarvey said the “single
biggest thing that can and will derail”
the construction unions, their members and their hopes for more business “is for us to make the mistake of
having our fortunes tethered to one
side of the shifting winds of
American politics.”
Instead, he set a long-term goal of
building bipartisan “Building Trades
Majorities” both in the states and in
Congress. McGarvey, who spent half
of his address on politics, noted that’s
already occurring, in Ohio and several other states.
The D.C. conference itself saw delegates head to GOP-run Capitol Hill
to lobby both sides on issues as varied
as infrastructure investment, energy
policy, preserving the Davis-Bacon
prevailing wage law, and retaining
project labor agreements (see separate story).
The 14 construction unions at the
conference labeled it “Building
Bridges Over The Political Divide.”
The conference program’s cover featured one group of construction workers toiling on top of a stone-arched
bridge to pull the Democratic donkey
closer to its center, while another
group
pushes
the
Republican elephant to
the middle, too.
state capitals, he noted: The GOP now
controls a record 31 state legislatures
and 31 governorships. State control
“is a purple world mostly tinged with
red,” McGarvey said. “This situation
is not likely to change any time
soon.”
That means workers must reach out
to both sides to accomplish their goals. But
some unions are not
doing so, McGarvey
added. And in those
states, singling out West
Virginia,
Indiana,
Nevada and Wisconsin,
politicians are attacking
all union workers – and
not making a distinction
between construction
workers and other workers.
And a video shown to
delegates made those
same points, with construction union leaders
on the state level
explaining how they sat
down
with
ruling
Republicans to find
ways to work together
and issues to agree
upon. The view in Ohio
was “Get on the bus or
“Either we can adapt
get run over,” Ohio
to these political realiSean McGarvey
Building
Trades
ties and start being
Secretary-Treasurer Dennis Duffey smarter and more strate-gic in how
said during the film.
we engage in the political arena. Or
we can do what others in the labor
McGarvey laid out the political movement have historically done:
problems facing unions and their Hitch our wagon to one political
members, and not just construction party, with the hope things will turn
unions.
He noted that when around overnight – and that we don’t
Republican Ronald Reagan entered wither away into irrelevance in the
the White House in 1981, he still meantime,” he said.
faced a Democratic-controlled
Congress of 58-42 in the Senate and
Being more strategic, McGarvey
277-158 in the U.S. House. Now, 34 said, means sitting down with
years later, those margins have almost Republican lawmakers and their
reversed.
staffers and explaining construction
The same reversal has occurred in
See TRADES page 9
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BLDG. TRADES LOBBYING
MIXES DEFENSE, OFFENSE
WASHINGTON (PAI)—Some
3,000 building trades members found
themselves playing both defense and
offense as they made the rounds of
Capitol Hill during their legislative
conference, April 20-22.
On the one hand, they pushed positive measures for job creation, such
as more energy projects, building the
entire Keystone XL pipeline, backing
nuclear power and encouraging
“environmentally
responsible”
hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in
extracting underground gas.
On the other hand, given
Republican domination of the 114th
Congress, they found themselves
defending the Davis-Bacon Act –
which mandates use of local prevailing wages on federally funded construction projects – and project labor
agreements (PLAs). Those goals ran
up against lawmakers and staffers
often interested only in getting the
work done cheap.
Construction unionists from all over
the country faced a daunting task.
This Congress is the most-hostile to
workers in years, and North
America’s Building Trades President
Sean McGarvey warned in his
keynote
address
that
many
Republicans at all levels lump all
unionists together, see the union
movement’s Democratic tilt, and set
out to trash unions and workers.
To counter that he urged the 3,000
delegates to expand outreach and
contacts with the GOP (see separate
story). But while they were on
Capitol Hill, McGarvey sent them out
to discuss, with both parties, a wide
range of lobbying targets. They
included:
• Defending PLAs as economically
beneficial and efficient. Delegates
also had to defend a pro-PLA executive order by President Barack
Obama (D). “Building trades officials are encouraged to tell their
members to support the PLA option
and oppose congressional efforts to
mandate prohibitions on this important construction management tool,”
the Building Trades’ handbook says.
• Defending Davis-Bacon by pointing
out it is “not usually a ‘union’ wage,”
but the prevailing wage for each construction craft in a specific local area.
And “driving wages down will not
help balance the federal budget” by
cutting federally funded construction
costs, as some lawmakers claim, the
handbook adds.
“When workers’ incomes go down,
they have less to spend on purchasing
goods and making investments” and
tax revenues fall, too. “Corporate
interests and their advocates in
Congress oppose Davis-Bacon
because they want to cut workers’
paychecks and pocket those cuts as
profits.”
• Campaigning for “funding and
growing” the federal highway-mass
transit program. The highway-mass
transit law, including the gas tax
which pays for its projects, expires
May 31. “Reauthorization of the
highway bill is the single largest job
creating bill for the construction
industry that Congress will consider,”
the handbook says. Delegates also
campaigned for user fees to pay for
highways and mass transit and PLAs
for the construction work.
IAM WITHDRAWS UNION ELECTION
PETITION AT BOEING IN S.C.
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C.
(PAI)—Citing toxic political hostility and outright threats of violence
against their organizers, the
Machinists reluctantly withdrew
their petition for a union recognition
election at the Boeing 787
Dreamliner
plant
in
North
Charleston, S.C.
The National Labor Relations
Board (NLRB) had
scheduled the vote for
April 22, on a petition
filed March 16. The
election will be postponed for at least six
months, the union said.
to reach, we’ve determined now is
not the right time for an election,”
lead organizer Mike Evans told
IAM. “An atmosphere of threats,
harassment and unprecedented political interference has intimidated
workers to the point we don’t believe
a free and fair election is possible.”
The interference and the danger –
including two organizers threatened
at gunpoint and other
near-violent confrontations – also forced IAM
to file labor law-breaking charges (formally
called unfair labor practices charges) against
Boeing.
Boeing organizers had
“The right to organize
made home visits to
is a legally protected
more than 1,700 workcivil right and no one
ers, out of some 3,000
who chooses to exercise
eligible voters at the
that
right in North
plant. They launched the
Sout Carolina
Charleston should fear
organizing drive after
Governor
for their life or safety,”
Boeing workers there
Nikki
Haley
said Evans. “I hold the
reached out to the union
Boeing Company, South
– which represents tens
of thousands of Boeing workers in Carolina Governor Nikki Haley and
the Pacific Northwest and in Kansas their surrogates responsible for cre– over issues such as forced over- ating an atmosphere of state-sanctime, rising health care costs and tioned hostility toward unions and
union organizers.” Haley, a rabid
lack of respect on the job.
right wing GOPer, tells firms her
“After speaking with Boeing work- goal is to make South Carolina
ers who we were previously unable union-free.
TRADES POLITICS CHANGING
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 8
unions’ business plans to grow jobs,
ensure they’re well-paying and solve
problems such as training the next
generation of construction workers,
including training traditionally
underrepresented groups: Minorities
and women.
“These conversations” about
changing political focus and structure of the building trades “are nec-
to construction of the entire
Keystone XL pipeline, a favorite
building trades cause. On the state
level, he rapped the heavily
Democratic Maryland legislature’s
decision to “water down” a proposal
to increase fines, from $20 per day to
$250 per day, for contractors who
break the state’s prevailing wage
law.
The net result is workers must treat
WORKERS MUST TREAT POLITICS “AS A BUSINESS,”
MCGARVEY SAID, WHERE CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS
WOULD BE BASED ON WHO TRULY SUPPORTS UNION
CONSTRUCTION WORKERS.
essary and imperative if we are to
increase our membership and market
share and to change outdated perceptions” of union construction workers, added Building Trades
Secretary-Treasurer Brent Booker.
McGarvey also told delegates they
couldn’t count on Democrats all the
time any more. On the national
level, he cited the party’s opposition
politics “as a business,” McGarvey
said, where campaign contributions
would be based on who truly supports union construction workers.
And the delegates must return home
to “assess whether we possess a
modern, effective political operation…calibrated not to party politics,
but to achieve building trades
majorities.”
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FAST FOOD AND AUTO WORKERS HOLD
BASKETBALL GAME FOR THE CAUSE
Stand Up KC and the United Auto
Workers of Kansas City hosted a basketball game to strengthen bonds
between the established labor unions
and the new labor movement. The
game is part of low wage workers'
efforts to build toward their largest
mobilization to date, set to take place
on April 15, 2015.
Fast food workers and auto workers
addressed the crowd before the game
started, stressing the importance of the
ties between low-wage workers and
established unions.
"Our fight is your fight", Wendy's
worker LaToya Caldwell said. "We are
all working Americans who want the
same things: decent wages, a voice on
the job, justice and good jobs for all.
That's why we are coming together on
April 15th". Caldwell is a single parent who struggles to raise her five
children on her low wages. She has
been organizing with her co-workers
and low-wage workers across the city
for more than two years to win a living
wage, improved working conditions
and the right to form a union without
retaliation.
UAW, the largest union in Kansas
City, is one of Stand Up KC's longeststanding allies and has committed to
bringing hundreds and hundreds of
members out on April 15th to stand
with low-wage workers. The president
of UAW Local 31 Vicki Hale reaffirmed their commitment, saying,
"Everyone knows the power of coming together and the power of strength
in numbers. We've all walked that
picket line. We've all fought for better
wages. We are here to support you and
on April 15th, we will be by your
side!"
After a high energy game where
UAW Local 31 squared off against
UAW Local 249, the final match
between UAW 249 and Stand Up KC
ended with a victory for auto workers
of local 249.
On April 15th, the auto workers and
fast food workers stood together in
solidarity to improve the lives of all
working people in America. They
were joined by home health care
workers, students, adjunct professors,
faith groups and community groups to
win $15 and a union and good jobs for
all.
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GREASING THE SKIDS FOR FAST-TRACK
What are they afraid of?
That’s a legitimate question to ask
the Democratic Obama administration and the Republican congressional leaders who are greasing the skids
for passage of so-called fast-track
free trade authority for the president –
any president.
After keeping their legislation under
wraps for months, the leaders, with
Obama’s blessing, unveiled their
planned fast-track law in mid-April.
The Senate Finance Committee held
two days of hearings on it: Obama
trade officials spoke on April 20 and
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka
(against) and the president of the U.S.
Chamber of Commerce (for) spoke
on April 21. And then the panel
planned to work on the bill and
approve it on April 22.
What’s the rush? That’s an easy one
to answer: The more that workers and
citizens learn about fast-track – and
the so-called “free trade” pacts it
spawns – the less they like.
Already majorities of poll respondents oppose fast-track. So do lawmakers concerned with ceding unlimited bargaining rights and power, in
secret, to Obama and his U.S. Trade
Representative.
“There’s a lot of things in this agreement to hide,” adds Sen. Sherrod
Brown, D-Ohio.
“The (Obama) administration is
knocking on doors and calling us” to
approve fast-track, Rep. Keith
Ellison, DFL-Minn., said last week.
“When I ask ‘How is it going to affect
wages and jobs of American workers?’ they don’t have anything to say
about that – except the
same old lame promises” of job creation
through free trade.
pact, not the treaty itself. Lawmakers
have little debate time, can’t amend it
to protect worker rights – or anything
else – and must take one up-or-down
vote on the whole thing. A simple
majority passes it, not the two-thirds
of the Senate alone that must pass a
treaty.
• The notorious TransPacific Partnership pact
includes a secret mechanism, called the Investor
State Dispute System, to
“Our message to the
let companies override
White House is: We
federal, state and local
don’t trust you, and neilaws in secret trade
ther should Congress,”
courts. The other side
added Letter Carriers
gets little notice, and
President
Fredric
there’s no appeal. And
Rolando.
all the firm must do to
kill a law – think the
There are good reasons
minimum wage or Buy
for that lack of trust, and
America laws or safety
for the Obama-GOP Richard Trumka and health protections –
attempt to grease the
is to “prove” the laws
skids for fast-track. Even though the might harm future profits.
legislation was under wraps until
now, and even though the so-called • Enforceable worker rights aren’t in
“free trade” pacts – including the the trade pacts fast-track would allow,
notorious one with Pacific Rim despite what Sen. Ron Wyden, Dnations – still are, here’s some of Ore., a key Democratic fast-track
what we know, based on news stories, supporter, says. The fast-track law
hearings and leaked language:
only has guidelines for U.S. trade
negotiators. One guideline is to tell
• Fast-track lets any president bargain our bargainers to urge other nations to
a trade pact in secret and then not enforce their own laws, such as
even send it to Congress. He or she Vietnam’s wage of 60 cents an hour.
can send legislation implementing the But fast-track doesn’t order our bar-
gainers to insist on enforcement of
any laws -- or else.
• U.S. workers lose jobs in such freetrade pacts not just because other
countries have no worker rights and
because firms move there to take
advantage of cheap labor. We also
lose jobs because the other nations –
China and Japan chief among them –
artificially keep their currencies low.
That underprices their exports to the
U.S. and drives U.S. competitors out
of business. Fast-track has no standards making currency manipulation
illegal under trade rules.
There’s more, much more, but you
get the idea.
So what are fast-track backers really
trying to hide? The fact that’s in plain
sight: 20 years of so-called “free
trade” pacts, with or without fasttrack, have cost U.S. workers millions of jobs. Every single such pact
has been a job loser here – and a job
gainer abroad for multi-national corporations.
That’s why fast-track backers want
to grease the skids and push the law
through before we the public realize
it. But we do realize it. So now, with
the Senate almost gone to the socalled “free traders” but the House up
for grabs, is the time to mobilize more
than ever.
BUYING ELECTIONS, LOCAL STYLE
on the far Southeast Side. After last
week’s runoff, Garza leads by 30
votes, out of 12,000 cast, pending a
recount.
$600,000 still doesn’t sound like a
lot? You haven’t been on the
Southeast Side lately.
John Pope
If you weren’t concerned about the
burgeoning swamp that is the socalled “campaign finance system” in
the U.S. before, here’s a figure that
should interest you: $600,000.
Doesn’t sound like so much? Wait
till you hear the context.
Susan Sadlowski Garza
The $600,000 is the campaign
spending estimate we heard about for
the aldermanic race between incumbent John Pope and challenger Susan
Sadlowski Garza, daughter of famed
Steelworkers local leader Ed
Sadlowski, in Chicago’s 10th ward,
Two generations ago, the 10th ward,
wedged between Lake Michigan,
Lake Calumet, the Indiana border and
expressways on the west, housed
Chicago’s steel industry – and its
workers.
Big mills lined the
Michigan lakeshore. The workers, of
every ethnic hue, toiled 24-7 over the
blast furnaces, turning out the steel
that made our autos, rails, trucks, and
more.
Many, if not most, were union members, like Susan’s dad.
Now the 10th is a hulk. All its mills
have closed. They’re either vacant
buildings or vacant lots. Its residents
are poor, its population has crashed.
Its alderman has to cope with a lot. A
campaign is, or should be, cheap in
the 10th ward. Yet outside interests –
many of them corporate and shadowy
– jumped right into the Pope-Garza
race. And Pope’s war chest alone, not
counting his allies’ dollars, was
$345,000.
It’s this type of outside spending
and outside corporate influence that
entitles you and me to justly ask
‘Who’s buying elections?’ and ‘What
are they getting for the money?’
Take the Pope-Garza race and multiply it by thousands of state and local
elections nationwide: Millions of dollars in an off-off year election for two
constitutional targeting the chief justice of the Wisconsin State Supreme
Court; Hundreds of thousands in
secret corporate cash to oust a circuit
judge in the county that includes
Missouri’s state capital because that
judge had the temerity to rule against
company interests; And, of course,
other aldermanic races, mayors’ races
See WORKERS page 12
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WORKERS FACE UNPRECEDENTED DONATIONS FROM CORPORATE INTERESTS
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 11
and city council races.
Pope made the top 10 list in
Chicago aldermanic spenders. The
#1 campaign chest in those races was
$8.04 million. It belonged to the
city’s most-powerful alderman, Ed
Burke. He was virtually unopposed
for a fourth term. Again, who gave
and what are they getting?
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel
spent $23 million to get re-elected in
that same runoff – more than six
times as much as challenger Jesus
“Chuy” Garcia.
And last year’s U.S. Senate race in
North Carolina cost $100 million,
combined, with unpopular GOP State
House Speaker Thomas Tillis and his
corporate allies outspending, and
ousting incumbent Sen. Kay Hagan
(D).
This is the campaign cash flood that
workers and their allies face nationwide, thanks to the U.S. Supreme
Court and its infamous 2010 Citizens
United ruling. That 5-4 decision lets
corporations hide behind dummy
“charitable organizations” and other
dodges and give millions, if not billions, of dollars in cash to favored
candidates and causes.
It also produces tsunamis like the
10th Ward tilt and buys state lawmakers who can vote out anti-worker proposals, in Michigan, Wisconsin, West
Virginia, Pennsylvania and elsewhere.
What can workers do about such
floods of corporate campaign spending? Well, we sure can’t beat it. Even
in congressional elections – a higher
level – corporations and their lobbies
outraise and outspend unions by 12 or
13 or 16 to one, and that’s just what’s
disclosed.
The answer, until we can change
this corrupt system, is shoe leather.
The politicians “are marinated in
money” says Steelworkers President
Leo Gerard.
Such “marinade” produces everything from so-called state right to
work laws to selling off Indiana’s toll
road to overseas investors to congressional approval of fast-track and trade
pacts that provide bonanzas for the
already rich corporate class while
giving workers the shaft.
“But we can have our feet beat their
money,” Gerard says.
We don’t know who will win that
10th ward race on Chicago’s
Southeast Side, but SadlowskiGarza’s candidacy proves the point,
even in an area such as hers: Our feet
can beat their money. That happened
in other Chicago aldermanic runoffs,
too, but not in the Emanuel-Garcia
tilt, where unions split.
That last result is relevant, too.
Regardless of who we think is best
for workers, we must get out there,
now and all the time. That’s the only
way, right now, until we get public
financing or a constitutional amendment limiting the contributions to all
races, federal, state and local, to beat
the enormous tide of corporate campaign cash.
THE BUILDING TRADES
emphasized
bipartisanship in
their lobbying
both in D.C. and
in the states, as
this cover of
their legislative
conference program shows.
Graphic courtesy
North Americas
Building Trades
via PAI Graphic
Service.
BLAKE & UHLIG, P.A.
47 New Brotherhood Bldg., 753 State Avenue, KCK 66101
“Advocates for Labor”
Proudley Representing Unions, workers, And Their
Fringe Benefit Funds for More Than 40 Years.
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Membership Meetings:
2nd Wednesday of each month at 5:30
PM, 8600 Hillcrest Road (Lower Level)
Kansas City, MO 64138
Executive Board Meetings:
2nd Wednesday of each month at 4:00
PM prior to membership meeting, 8600
Hillcrest Road (Upper Level) Kansas
City, MO 64138
Retiree Club Meetings:
4th Wednesday of each month at 10:00
AM, 8600 Hillcrest Road (Lower Level)
Kansas City, MO 64138
Retiree’s Executive Board Meetings:
2nd Wednesday of each month at 3:30
PM, 8600 Hillcrest Road (Upper Level)
Kansas City, MO 64138
Business Office:
8600 Hillcrest Road, Suite II
Kansas City, MO 64138
PLUMBERS LOCAL UNION #8
Telephone: (816) 363-8888
Fax: (816) 363-8890
Website: http://plumberslocal8.com
Email address: [email protected]
Items for sale: hats, lapel pins, writing
pens, patches, winter stocking caps, tShirts, sweatshirts, button up shirts, and
moisture wicking t-Shirts.
Employee Benefit Office:
8600 Hillcrest Road, Suite 1
Kansas City, MO 64138
Telephone: (816) 361-0666
Fax:
(816) 523-6816
Lisa Ogrizovich – Administrator
Stacy Kuhl – Administrative
Assistant/Sr. Claims Processor
Kelli Adney – Claims Processor
Employee Benefit Office:
8600 Hillcrest Road, Suite I
Kansas City, MO 64138
Telephone: (816) 361-0666
Fax: (816) 523-6816
Training Center:
9876 Hickman Mills Drive
Kansas City, MO 64137
Telephone: (816)761-8800
Fax: (816) 761-8801
Richard “Frank” Murray,
Training Coordinator
Website: www.trainplumberslocal8.com
BANK OF LABOR: (Vacation Savings
Accounts for members of Plumbers &
Gas Fitters LU #8)
756 Minnesota Avenue
Kansas City, KS 66101
Telephone: 913-321-4242
For 24 hour service regarding your
Bank of Labor Vacation Savings
Account, please call 855-245-2267.
TRAINING CENTER NEWS
BACKFLOW REPAIRER
CERTIFICATION
a backflow repair certification class will be
held at the training center. Classes will be
from 5 PM to 9 PM, Tuesday and Thursday
beginning May 19, 2015 and will run for
three weeks. This course is open to all who
enroll, however only current certified backflow testers will be eligible to take the
Repairer certification test.
SUMMER WELD SHOP HOURS
FOR ALL MEMBERS
STARTING MAY1ST
7:00 AM-3:00PM MONDAY,
WEDNESDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAY
7:00AM-9:00PM TUESDAY,
THURSDAY
We have limited booth space on Tuesday
and Thursday evenings, call ahead to verify
availability.
MEDICAL GAS/BACKFLOW RECERTIFICATION COURSES
We recently held back flow Recertification
courses (40 members) and medical gas
Recertification courses (160 members) here
at the training center. We did have a handful of members miss these classes due to
work commitments. We will be offering
makeup classes on February 24 and 26. We
will be reaching out to those members,
however if you know you missed and we
have not yet contacted you please give us a
call to get you on the schedule.
To prevent the closing of your account
and delaying the receipt of your money,
please leave a minimum of $5.00 in your
account at all times.
FIVE YEAR APPRENTICESHIP
PROGRAM:
The Training Center takes applications
for the Apprenticeship program the first
Monday of each month from 8:00 AM to
4:00 PM. If the first Monday is a holiday, it will be the following Monday.
Applications can only be picked up that
Monday, but may be returned any
Monday through Friday between 8:00
AM to 4:00 PM. If you know anyone
interested in applying for the apprenticeship, please have them call the Training
Center and ask for the information line
where they can get additional information about the program.
NEED PLUMBING
SERVICE WORK?
CALL 816-326-8643
or visit
www.plumbers911.com
We offer the best plumbing
service in the KC Metro!
Call us for any of your plumbing needs 24/7!
ROOFERS NEWS
Please visit us at www.rooferslocal20.com
JEFFERSON CITY AREA – May 1, 2015 at 7:00 p.m.
Carpenters & Joiners Hall located at, 230 W Dunklin,
Jefferson City, MO
SPRINGFIELD AREA – June 12, 2015 at 5:30 p.m.
Painters Local #203, 1540 N. Barnes Ave. Springfield,
MO
ST. JOSEPH AREA – June 10, 2015 at 6:30 p.m.
IBEW Local #545, 421 S. 8th Street, St. Joseph, MO
KANSAS CITY AREA - May 25, 2015 at 6:00 p.m.
Roofers Local #20, 6321 Blue Ridge Blvd., Raytown,
MO
APPRENTICESHIP CLASSES
Red Class #1 – May 4th – 8th
Black Class #2 – May 11th – 15th
HEALTH & WELFARE FUNDS OFFICE
Michelle 816-313-9427
Kira
816-313-6235
Tom Cash
Financial Secretary/Business Agent
Mike Pratt
Business Agent
Kevin King
Business Manager
816-313-9420
YET ANOTHER STUDY CONCLUDES PREVAILING
WAGE LAWS ARE GOOD FOR TAXPAYERS
Prevailing wage policy works for middle-class families
MEETING SCHEDULE
Meeting Dates:
APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAM
Matt Lloyd
(816) 333-2527
FAX: (816) 333-8488
5100 E. 59th Street, Kansas City, MO 64130
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Smart Cities Prevail, the
state’s leading research organization on prevailing wage policy, studied the effects of
California’s prevailing wage
policy, and the results strongly
confirmed what the Middle
Class Taxpayers Association
has been saying for years.
Prevailing wages are good for
both families and taxpayers. In
fact, if prevailing wages were
eliminated, the consequences
would be painful throughout the
economy and would leave taxpayers holding the bag.
If prevailing wages were eliminated, the state would immediately lose 17,500 jobs across the
economy. The job losses are
only the beginning. A loss of
$1.5 billion in real income to
working people in California
would also result, combined
with a further loss of $1.4 billion in statewide economic output.
Fewer workers would have
benefits, firms would pay more
in the form of materials waste,
and billions would evaporate
from our state’s economy.
When these new findings are
placed in the context of what
previous research has revealed,
prevailing wage policy is even
better. One study found that
many non-prevailing wage construction workers would qualify
If prevailing wages
were eliminated,
the consequences
would be painful
throughout the
economy and
would leave
taxpayers holding
the bag.
for more than $8,000 a year in
public assistance; a further hidden cost to taxpayers if the prevailing wage policy were eliminated.
The same study revealed the
local prevailing wage policies
can keep public works investment dollars working in local
economies, with local contrac-
tors being used more than 70
percent of the time, six times
that of the non-prevailing wage
project.
Already, taxpayers are indirectly paying for high profits in
many different businesses that
pay substandard wages. For
example, NPR reported on April
13 that 52 percent of fast food
workers and 25 percent of
adjunct college professors actually receive public assistance
such as food stamps (SNAP),
Medicaid or Children’s Health
Insurance Program (CHIP).
The total evidence that prevailing wages benefits the entire
California economy is not just
compelling but overpowering.
The bottom line is that prevailing wage policy works for
middle-class families and for
taxpayers. That is why it has
been reaffirmed year after year
since the 1930s by elected leaders from both political parties.
Requiring prevailing wages is
good for taxpayers, living-wage
jobs and the economy of
California.
BRICKLAYERS AND ALLIED CRAFTWORKERS LOCAL #15
REPRESENTING THE FOLLOWING TROWEL TRADES:
Bricklayers, Stone Masons, Pointer, Caulker, Cleaners, Tile Setters,
Terrazzo Workers, Marble Masons, Refractory Workers
CRAIG HYDEMAN
President
Secretary-Treasurer
Don Hunt
Apprenticeship
Coordinator
816-471-0880
Builders Association
12th Burlington
BENEFIT
INFORMATION
TIC International
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toll free-800-542-4482
KANSAS CITY
CHAPTER
3rd Tuesday
Feb, Apr. Aug. Sept.
Biannual meetings
June and Dec.
5:30 pm
632 West 39th St.
CONTACT INFO
632 W. 39th Street Kansas City, MO
64111
phone (816) 241-6695
fax (816) 241-1630
toll free 877-967-5415
visit our website at
www.baclocal15.org
SPRINGFIELD
OFFICE
John Creller
Field Rep.
toll free-866-831-6362
(417) 869-7951
KANSAS CITY OFFICE
Ed Wehrle
Field Rep.
816-241-6695
Rick Riley
Organizer/Field Rep.
CENTRAL MISSOURI
OFFICE
Mark Williams
Field Rep.
toll free-877-358-1717
KANSAS OFFICE
Representing the
Witchita & Topeka
Chapters
Field Rep.
toll free-(866) 870-3305
(314) 946-5600
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CARPENTERS DISTRICT COUNCIL NEWS
• Local 315: Third
Wednesday of the month
7:00 P.M. at Finnigans
Hall
503 East 18th Avenue
North Kansas City, MO
64116
• Local 1127: Second
Wednesday of the month
7:00 P.M. at the Builders
Association 105 W. 12th
Street , NKC, MO 64116
• Local 1529: First
Wednesday of the month
7:00 P.M. at the Builders
Association 105 W. 12th
Street , NKC, MO 64116
• Local 1181: Last
Tuesday of the month
5:30 P.M. at the Builders
Association 105 W. 12th
Street , NKC, MO 64116
• Local 777: First
Wednesday of the month
7:00 P.M. at the
Word of Life Church
303 East Pearl Street
Harrisonville, MO 64701
• Local 1445: 2nd
Wednesday of the month
6:30 P.M. at the Training
Center
212 N.W. Norris
Topeka, KS 66608
• Local 110: 3rd
Thursday of the month
8:00 P.M. at the local
address (Dues Collection
5:00-7:00 P.M.)
310 South Belt Highway
St. Joseph, MO 64506
• Local 918: 3rd
Monday of the month
6:30 P.M- New
Members/7:00 P.M.Regular Meeting
710 Moro Street
Manhattan, KS 66502
• Local 945: 2nd
KC BUSINESS REPRESENTATIVES
Thursday of the month
7:30 P.M.- Regular
Meeting
230 West Dunklin Street
Jefferson City, MO
65101
• Local 201: 1st
Thursday of the month
6:00 P.M. at the Training
Center
DENNIS JOYCE,
1225 Carey Lane
Director of Jurisdiction
Wichita, KS 67217
and Research
• Local 1925: 2nd
Wednesday of the month
6:00 P.M. at the local
office
404 Tiger Lane
Columbia, MO 65203
Frequently Called
Numbers
• Health &
Welfare/Pension
(Wilson-McShane)
816/756-3313
• Local 978: 1st
Thursday of the month
7:30 P.M at the Training
Center
4639 West Pfeiffer Court
Springfield, MO
• Carpenters
Apprenticeship:
816/471-0883
• Local 311: 3rd
Thursday of the month
7:30 P.M. at the local
office
719 ½ South Main Street
Joplin, MO 64801
• Carpenters District
Council of St. Louis &
Vicinity (Kansas City
office): 816/931-3414
• Kansas City Central
Dues Collection:
816/931-7265
Clay and Ray Counties in MO.
JOE HUDSON,
Representative, Contractor
Development and Politics
FRANK ANDERSON,
Millwright Representative
ROCKY KLOTH,
Floor Laying Representative
JOE AVILA,
Representative
RONNIE CRISS,
Representative for Southern Jackson,
Cass and Bates Counties in Missouri
DAVE EARLEY,
Representative for Downtown and
Midtown Kansas City, MO
MIKE GAVOLI,
Representative for Millwright shops and
Johnson, Henry and St. Claire Counties
in MO
KIM GILLIHAN,
Representative for shops and Platte,
GERALD SHROPSHIRE,
Representative for Eastern Jackson,
Lafayette, Saline and Carroll Counties
in MO
DAVE WILSON,
KEITH WINN,
Representatives for Wyandotte,
Leavenworth, Johnson, Miami and Linn
Counties in KS
To reach the Representative on call, or
to be added to the out of work list,
please call (816)931-3414.
You may also visit our website at
www.carpdc.org
ELEVATOR CONSTRUCTORS LOCAL 12 NEWS
ELECTION NOMINATION
NOTICE – At the May 14, 2015
General Area Meeting, nominations
will be accepted for the following
executive board positions: Financial
Secretary Treasurer and (2) two
Trustee positions. The Election will be
held at the June 11, 2015 General
Meeting. Members who are on authorized vacation, working out of town
and staying overnight in the area they
are working in, registered sub-primary
members and Service Office members
will be permitted to vote via absentee
ballot.
MEETINGS AND
IMPORTANT DATES
May 4 Topeka Area Meeting
5:00 pm
May 5 Wichita Retiree Breakfast
7:30 am
May 7 Executive Board Meeting
5:30 pm
May 14 General Meeting
5:30 pm
May 25 Memorial DayPAID HOLIDAY
May 28 JAC Meeting 5:00 pm
May 26 Wichita Area Meeting
5:00 pm
June 4 Executive Board Meeting
5:30 pm
June 10 Quarterly Retiree Meeting
10:00 am
June 11 General Meeting 5:30 pm
June 15 Springfield Area Meeting
5:00 pm
June 15 Joplin Area Meeting
5:00 pm
June 18 JAC Meeting 5:00 pm
June 30 Wichita Area Meeting
5:00 pm
Member News
The new address for the Springfield
meeting location is 1540 N. Barnes
Ave., Springfield, MO.
Annual Fishing Tournament -will be
held on Saturday, June 6th and
Sunday, June 7th, 2015 at Marion
Lake in Kansas. Tournament fee is
$25.00 plus $5.00 per pot. Start time is
7:00 am at the Cottonwood Point Boat
Ramp, with weigh-in between 4:00 pm
to 4:30 pm Saturday and 12:00 pm to
12:30 pm Sunday. Cash awards for 1st
thru 5th heavy stringer, Big Bass, Big
Catfish, Big Crappie and Big Walleye.
Deadline entry is May 24, 2013.
Contact the Local 12 office or Todd
Gragg at (785) 392-0561 for an entry
form (no money will be accepted
without the entry form).
Sidney Whitfield Memorial
Scholarship-Applications are available at the Local 12 office for the
2015 Scholarship. Applicants are to
submit a 400-500 word essay. The
Essay subject this year is “What are
your dreams of the Future? What
would it take for you to consider your
life successful? What people, things
and accomplishments do you need?
How does this particular scholarship
fit into your plans for the future?” The
application deadline is June 1, 2015.
Topeka Area Meeting has been
rescheduled for MONDAY, MAY
4TH. Mark your calendars.
Apprentice News
May JAC meeting has been rescheduled for May 28, 2015 and 5:00 pm.
Kansas City Distance Learning Class
is scheduled for May 9th.
NEIEP CERTIFIED SIGNAL PERSON AND RIGGER LEVELS 1 AND
2 (CSPR-1/2) PROGRAM FOR
CRANE RIGGING AND
SIGNALING
IUEC members may earn their certification card through NEIEP’s Certified
Signal Person and Rigger Levels 1 &
2 (CSPR-1/2) program, which was
designed specifically to meet the
needs of the elevator industry. For
more information about NEIEP’s
Rigging and Signaling training or the
ANSI-accredited CSPR-a/2 program,
please contact Tim Daly, Certification
Director, IUEC Local 12, 6320
Manchester Ave. #44, Kansas City,
MO 64133. 816-358-1312 or certifications. [email protected]
Retirees
Retiree’s Birthdays
Salvatore Bonsignore SR
Charles Rhynerson JR
Nick Baustert
Greg Mertens
Byron Ollendike
Scott Walker
Scott Gibson
Mike Jensen SR
Norman Weatherd
James Koontz
Sam Fish
David Carpenter
May 1
May 1
May 3
May 5
May 15
May 23
May 25
May 26
May 26
May 29
May 30
May 30
Kansas City Monthly Retiree
Luncheon- at 11:30 am
Phil Zeller is the contact in regards to
the monthly KC retiree luncheons. He
can be reached via email at
[email protected] or of course
the Local 12 office with any questions.
May 28, 2015
Ryan’s Cafeteria
10810 W 75th St
Shawnee, KS 66214
June 25, 2015
Golden Corral
8800 NW Skyview Ave.
Kansas City MO
(NE corner of I29 and 152 Hwy)
July 30, 2015
Golden Corral
19120 Northwest Valley View Road
Independence, MO 64057
Wichita Monthly Retiree BreakfastThe breakfast starts at 7:30 am on the
1st Tuesday of every month. Retirees
are encouraged to bring their significant others. Contact Billy Geier at
316-943-3507 for any other info.
Spears Restaurant, 4323 West Maple,
Wichita, KS
Items for Sale- Local 12 Beanies are
now available. Long Sleeved Black
and Long Sleeved White Pocket TShirts. Also available are Black
Hoodies with IUEC Local 12 Logo in
Red.
Committee Members-If you are interested in being on the Entertainment
(Picnic, Retiree Dinner, Golf
Tournament, Float Trip, Etc) PAC,
Resolutions or Budget Committees
contact the Local 12 Office.
Personal Information Changes
Notify the office of any address
changes, phone number changes, new
spouse, change of beneficiary, job
changes, etc.
IUEC Local #12
Elevator Constructors
6320 Manchester Avenue – Suite 44
Kansas City, MO 64133
(816) 358-1312 -- Kansas City Office
(816) 898-2217 – Eric Rogers’s cell
(816) 898-2213 – Ray Ducharme’s
(816) 313-5645 -- Fax number
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SHEETMETAL LOCAL 2 NEWS
Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and
Transportation Workers’ Local Union
No. 2
Physical address:
2902 Blue Ridge Blvd., Kansas City,
MO 64129
Mailing Address:
P.O. Box 300378, Kansas City, MO
64130
Phone: (816) 254-8021
Toll-free: (888) 340-8021
Fax: (816) 254-0018
Web site: SheetMetal2.org
GENERAL MEMBERSHIP NEWS
• SPECIAL ORDER OF BUSINESS MEETING will be held to
discuss and vote on the allocation of
monies for the Mo-Kan Sheet Metal
Workers’ Welfare Fund. All members
were sent a postcard with the following details: Increase would be effective July 1, 2015. Meeting to be held
Saturday, May 2, 2015 — 9 a.m., at
SMART Local 2 Union Hall, 2902
Blue Ridge Blvd., Kansas City, Mo.
• UNION VEHICLE FOR SALE –
2012 gold Ford Escape with sunroof
and 97,213 miles; Minimum Bid is
$7,500.00 – All bids for the vehicle
must be sealed and from members of
Local Union No. 2, only Members of
Local Union No. 2 are eligible to
Members of SMART Local Union No. 2 enjoy the fish fry at the Local’s
annual fishing tournament held April 11 at Lake of the Ozarks’ Osage
Bluff Marina
• RESULTS OF THE 2015
LOCAL 2 FISHING TOURNAMENT – The SMART Local Union
No. 2 annual Fishing Tournament
was held Saturday, April 11, 2015,
with 18 fishermen taking part at
Osage Bluff Marina, Lake of the
Ozarks. Results are as follows:
Catfish 1st Place: Larry Schieb, 2nd
Place: Bryan Schieb; Crappie 1st
Place: Joey Franke, 2nd Place: Dave
Strawn; Bass 1st Place: Caden
Mucciacco, 2nd Place: John Scarlett,
3rd Place: Steve Franke. A very special thank you to Bill and Matt
Scarborough for the fish fry!
• The “Over 55” Golf Tournament
will be held September 9, 2015, at
Winterstone Golf Course in
Independence, Mo., near 291 Hwy
and Kentucky Road. Tee-off is at 8
a.m. Cost is $35.00 per person and
includes a round of golf and meal.
For more information, contact Jay
Lind or Greg Davison.
• The annual SMART Local Union
No. 2 Golf Tournament will be held
September 12, 2015, again at Eagles
Landing in Belton, Mo., $65.00 per
person $260.00 per foursome.
Registration starts June 1.
bid. We will begin accepting bids on
Wednesday, April 15. Anyone interested in viewing the vehicle may
contact the Union Hall. Bids will be
opened by the trustees at the May 11
meeting. All bids MUST be submitted by the close of business Friday,
May 8. No late bids will be accepted. The HIGH bidder for the vehicle
will be accepted. We are asking that
all bidders submit their best bid, not
multiple bids. The successful bidder
will be required to be the purchaser
of the vehicle. For more photos, visit
www.SheetMetal2.org, and log into
the secure members’ section of the
site.
o Mr. Harry J. Sparks, Born
11/27/1925, Died 4/19/15,
Indentured in 1955
• THE LAST 2015 MO-KAN
WELL-SCREEN DATES – Refer
to the following dates, locations and
times to schedule your annual wellness screening. Dates listed are
based on participation, and subject to
change. Members must register in
advance to take part at www.corporatewellness.mymosaiclifecare.org.
More screenings will be announced
in upcoming issues of the Labor
Beacon. If you have questions about
registering your account, taking your
Personal Health Assessment online
or about scheduling your appointment, please contact Wellness
Connections at (816) 271-7094.
Program Details and Benefits may
also be found online at www.mokansheetmetal.org/wellness.htm.
Tuesday, 5/5/2015
KC Apprentice Hall
1:00-4:00 pm.
Saturday, 5/9/2015
Kansas City Union Hall #2
8:00 -11:30 am. & 1:00-3:00 pm.
Wednesday 5/13/2015
Springfield
2:00-7:00 pm.
JOURNEYMAN
UPGRADE TRAINING
• The current DEATH BENEFIT
number is 885. Keep up to date on
the Memorial Page of the Local 2
Web site, www.SheetMetal2.org.
Obituaries are listed, when available
(links provided.) Please remember
your fellow Union brothers who
have recently passed away.
Enrollment Instructions – All students must enroll two weeks in
advance of scheduled class. A
deposit of $100 is required at enrollment, which will be fully refunded
upon course completion. Deposit
will not be returned for incomplete
classes. Send deposit or bring to
JATC for classes desired, 9703 E.
53rd Street, Raytown, MO 64133. A
reminder letter and/or e-mail will be
sent the week before the class. A
minimum of eight students is
required for each course; classes
may be cancelled due to low enrollment, and deposit applied to future
class or refunded. Students will be
notified of cancellations on
SheetMetal2JATC.org, Facebook
(under Sheet Metal Workers Local
#2 – JATC) and by e-mail. Call the
JATC at (816) 353-0038, with any
questions or to enroll.
Welding Certifications and Online
Testing for Fire Life Safety – Next
test dates will be July 11 and
October 10, from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Anyone interested in testing should
sign up at least 2 weeks in advance
of the test dates above.
Welding GMAW/FCAW – 5-week
class starting May 5, held 5-8 p.m.,
at the JATC. Class is for people at all
skill levels. Student will begin
course performing GMAW, and
advance to FCAW based on proficiency. Course is both theoretical
and hands-on in nature, with classroom and welding shop instruction
nightly. Topics covered include
welding safety, terminology, symbols, advantages and disadvantages
of GMAW, power sources and
GMAW equipment, different polarities, GMAW equipment setup, filler
material, gasses and welding using
push and pull methods. Student will
also learn how to weld various
joints, in various positions, GMAW
metal transfers, welding aluminum
and more. Advancing, the course
will also teach FCAW, advantages
and disadvantages of FCAW, how to
weld with FCAW, filler materials,
gasses and welding in different positions with FCAW. Student will have
the opportunity to take welding test
for certification at the discretion of
instructor. Successful completion of
class will fulfill yearly Local 2 continuing education requirements.
Master Mechanical Preparation
Class – Class dates: Saturdays,
October 10 and 17, held 7 a.m.-3:30
p.m. This is a 16-hour test preparation course. Successful completion
will fulfill yearly Local 2 continuing
education requirements.
KANSAS CITY-AREA
RETIREES NEWS
• The next Kansas City Local No. 2
Retirees Club meeting will be held
Wednesday, May 13, at Golden
Corral, located at 19120 E Valley
View Pkwy., in Independence, Mo.
To print a map to the restaurant, go
towww.sheetmetal2.org/retirees.html. Any and all Local 2 retirees are
invited to join the Kansas City
See SHEETMETAL page 17
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SHEETMETAL NEWS CONT...
Bob Blackmore, President
Kansas City Local No. 2 Retirees
Club
TOPEKA-AREA
MEMBER NEWS
Area 6 Office Location:
Mark Shughart, Business
Representative
5990 SW 28th Street Suite F,
Topeka, KS 66614
Phone: (785) 608-0978
Mark’s Kansas City Direct Line:
(816) 836-6523
E-mail: [email protected]
Retirees’ Club! Dues are $12.00 per
year. Monthly luncheons are held at
the Kansas City Union Hall the second Wednesday of the every month
at Noon, unless there is a special
outing planned. Luncheon meetings
feature a $25.00 attendance prize!
We encourage you to bring any old
sheet metal tools and work photos to
share. Come join the club for some
good fellowship, food and fun.
Upcoming meetings: June 10, July 8,
August 12
• Topeka Production Workers’
Meeting – Production workers in the
Topeka area will hold their upcoming meeting May 21, (always the
third Thursday of the month), at 3:30
p.m., at the I.B.E.W. Union Hall,
1620 NW Gage, Topeka, Kan.
• Anyone who will be performing
work at Lawrence, Tecumseh or
Jeffrey Energy Centers, POWERSAFE is a special Required Class for
Members. Contact Mark Shughart
for more details. Training classes are
taking place now.
TOPEKA-AREA
RETIREES NEWS
• The Topeka-Area Retirees Club
will hold its next meeting
Wednesday, May 6, 2015, at the
I.B.E.W. Union Hall, 1620 NW
Gage, Topeka, Kan., at 10 a.m. All
Local 2 retirees are welcome to join
us.
Jim Dodge, President
Topeka-Area Local No. 2 Retirees
Club
ST. JOSEPH-AREA
RETIREES NEWS
•
The St. Joseph-Area Retirees
Club breakfast is held the first
Tuesday of every month at 8 a.m., at
St. Joseph Frontier Casino. Come
spend some time with old friends
and make some new ones. There is
always an extra chair, so come and
join us for breakfast each month!
Upcoming meeting dates: May 5,
June 2, July 7
St. Joseph Frontier Casino,
777 Winners Circle
Take I-29 North to 229 North exit;
then Highland Ave. Exit 7
George Beckwith, President
Randy Norris, Secretary
St. Joseph-Area Local No. 2 Retirees
Club
UNION CALENDAR
OF EVENTS
Tuesday, May 5
Executive Board Meeting
Monday, May 11
General Membership Meeting
Supplemental Dues/Building
Committee
Tuesday, May 19
Executive Board Meeting
Wednesday, May 20
Union Picnic at Kauffman Stadium
Tuesday, June 2
Executive Board Meeting
IBEW LOCAL 124
BUSINESS OFFICE
Business Office
301 E 103rd Terrace
Kansas City, MO 64114
(816) 942-7500
(816) 942-8805 Fax
www.ibewlocal124.org
Director
[email protected]
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MEETINGS
BUSINESS REP.
General Meetings
Ralph Oropeza
2nd Wednesday @ 7PM
[email protected]
EWMC
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1st Thursday@6:30pm
Executive Board
BUSINESS REP.
2th & 4th Monday @
Business Office - Monday
Travis Ragan
5:30PM
thru Friday,
[email protected]
PAC Meetings
8 AM to 5 PM
Financial Office - Monday 2nd Wednesday @ 5 PM
BUSINESS REP.
VDVS Division Meetings
thru Friday,
Pete Raya
2nd Monday @ 5 PM
8 AM to 4:30 PM
Open until 7:30 PM the Retirees' Club Luncheon [email protected]
3rd Wednesday of March,
2nd Wednesday of each
BUSINESS REP.
June, September and
month
Billy Robinson
December
(excluding holidays).
[email protected]
at 11 AM
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BUSINESS MANAGER
BENEFITS
Terry Akins
Benefit Fund Office
RETIREES' CLUB
[email protected]
305 E 103rd Terrace
Meeting held at 11:00 am
Kansas City, MO 64114
the 3rd Wednesday of
FINANCIAL
(816) 943-0277
March, June, September
SECRETARY
Bill Barbieri, Benefit
and December.
BZ Parscale
Administrator
[email protected]
ELECTRICAL
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TRAINING
CODE OF
IBEW / NECA Joint
EXCELLENCE
BUSINESS REP.
Apprenticeship Training
TRAINING
Jason Duke
Center
[email protected] Will be held the SECOND
303 E 103rd Terrace
Tuesday of each month
Kansas City, MO 64114
from 8 AM - 11 AM.
(816) 942-3242
BUSINESS REP.
www.kcjatc124.org
Bo Moreno
Jim Cianciolo, Training
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in The KC Labor Beacon
If you are an individual or a union
and are looking to subscribe to the
Labor Beacon newspaper just call
Kevin O’Neill at 816-820-5930. If
you are an advertiser and would like
to find out about rates at the
Beacon just call the same number
above or go to our web site at
KCLaborbeacon.com
International Union Painters & Allied Trades D.C. 3
District Council #3 Delegate Meeting-Once a
month (first Thursday of each Month) Beginning
at 5:00pm.
Painters and Drywall Finishers
Local Unions
2014, 2015, 2012
Saturday in Witchita, 8:00 am
Local #2015 meets the 2nd Monday, 5:00 pm,
1540 Barnes Ave., Springfield, Mo.
Local #558 meets the 2nd Wednesday, 5:30 pm,
9904 E. 62nd St., Raytown, Mo.
Local 2012-meets 2nd Tuesday of every month
at 5:30 pm
Local #558 Topeka- Meets 2nd Mon., 5:00 pm,
first month of each quarter.
Local #2014 meets the 2nd Monday, 5:30 pm,
3301 Van Buren, Topeka, KS and the 3rd
Local #558 Wichita- Meets 3rd Monday, 5:00pm.
Local #820 meets the 2nd Wed. Olathe Deaf
Club at 1:30 pm and 4:00pm
For Painters Apprenticeship questions call Dan
Hink at 816-471-0880 ext. 309; for Floorlayers
Apprentice info contact Clay Rogers at 816-3582440; and for Glaziers Apprenticeship call Chad
Dalton, 816-471-0880 ext. 338.
For Health and Safety questions, call Dan
Hink at 816-471-0800 Ext. 309.
For questions concerning Painters or Glaziers
fringe benefits call Wilson & McShane, 3100
Broadway, KCMO 64111, at 816-756-3313.
YOUR IUPAT D.C. 3
STAFF REPRESENTATIVES
Todd Doree
Business Manager/Secretary-Treasurer
Kevin Bayless
Business Representative
Frank Carpenter
Director of Servicing
David Cox
Business Representative
Demetrio Garcia
Business Representative
Kenny Nichols
Business Representative
John Tompson
Business Representative
James Woodson
Director of Organizing
Jessica Podhola
Director Governmental Affairs
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PIPEFITTER LOCAL 533 NEWS
SPECIAL ORDER OF BUSINESS at
the Regular Membership meeting on
Tuesday, May 5, 2015 at 7:00 p.m.,
Pipefitters Union Hall at 8600 Hillcrest
Rd., Kansas City, MO, lower level. The
distribution of the $1.50 increase of our
current agreement due June 1, 2015 will
be discussed and voted on.
NOTICE OF NOMINATIONS
A Special Order of Business Meeting
will be held following the Regular
Membership Meeting on Tuesday, May
5, 2015, to accept nominations for all
Officers, all Board Members, and for
Trustees whose terms expire on July 7,
2015, one for each of the following positions. The term of office for each
Trustee position will run for three years.
Positions/Terms Expiring
H & W Fund Trustee –
Ronald J. Talley
Pension Fund Trustee –
Kevin Hendrickson
Savings Fund Trustee –
Manuel P. Herrera
NOMINATORS
Only eligible Journeymen Pipefitters in
good standing, as provided in Local
Union 533's By-Laws and the United
Association Constitution, who have paid
dues through the month of February
2015, prior to 7:00 P.M. on May 5,
2015, are eligible to nominate candidates
for the positions listed. Any member
who owes or have paid a reinstatement
fee (a late payment penalty) one year
prior to the date of the election will not
be eligible to nominate candidates or to
vote at the election.
NOMINEES
Candidates must be in good standing as
indicated for nominators for two years
prior to the date of the election and must
accept nominations at the meeting.
The ELECTION will be conducted
Saturday, June 6, 2015 from 12:00 noon
through 7:00 p.m. at the Pipefitters’
Union Hall, lower level, 8600 Hillcrest
Road, Kansas City, Missouri. The election will be supervised by the Election
Committee appointed by the President.
Voting will be done by secret ballot.
Only eligible Journeymen members, as
provided in the Local Union 533's ByLaws and the United Association
Constitution, who are in good standing,
who have paid dues through the month
of March 2015, may vote. In the event
of a tie vote and a run off election is
necessary, the run off election will be
determined at a later date.
CURRENT DEATH BENEFIT
NUMBER IS AT N29
BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS
Andrew Swearingin and his wife are
proud to announce the arrival of Addilyn
Rose Swearingin who was born April
14, 2015 at 12:43 p.m. She weighed 7
lbs. 12 oz. and 18 ½ inches long at birth.
Andrew is a 3rd year apprentice.
Travis Myrick and his wife are proud to
announce the arrival of Kyler Azaliah
Myrick, who was born April 18, 2015 at
5:15 p.m. She weighed 8 lbs. 4 oz. and
21 inches long at birth.
Travis is a journeyman pipefitter.
WEBSITE www.local533.com
TRANSAMERICA
INVESTMENT REMINDER
Bob Burks is at the Union Hall every
Tuesday afternoon from 1:00 p.m. to
4:30 p.m. and from 1:00 p.m. to 8:00
p.m. the first Tuesday of each month,
during regular Membership Meetings.
He is available to meet individually with
members who have questions or who
need assistance with their Diversified
portfolios. If you wish to discuss your
portfolio, stop by and visit with Bob, or
give him a call at 913-451-3546 to
schedule an appointment.
SICK COMMITTEE
AND DEATH NOTICES
To report death notices, or if you know
of a member who is ill or injured, please
contact Skip Hedges at
[email protected].
INFORMATIONAL UPDATES
Please notify the business office of
address, telephone number or beneficiary changes, including email addresses,
mobile numbers and pager numbers.
These updates are critical in case of
emergencies. Please note that our business office will always notify members
of emergency calls from their families,
but we are dependant upon members to
update our office with current contact
information. Please send your updated
information to the Pipefitters Business
office at 8600 Hillcrest Rd., Kansas
City, MO 64138 or call us at (816) 5231533.
PIPEFITTERS FRINGE BENEFITS
Questions or information regarding the
Health & Welfare or Local Pension
Funds should be directed to WilsonMcShane at (816) 361-0206, fax number
(816) 444-4275, 8600 Hillcrest Rd.,
Suite A, Kansas City, Missouri 64138.
Wilson-McShane can also be reached at
(816) 756-3313, toll free (866) 7563313, 3100 Broadway, Suite 805,
Kansas City, Missouri 64111. Questions
regarding the National Pension call 1
(800) 638-7442. United Association
Website: www.ua.org
Fraternally,
Scott A. Forbes, Financial Sec'y-Treas.
RETIREES
The Pipefitter Retirees will meet the
third Wednesday, May 20TH at the
union hall, lower level. Doors open at
11:00 a.m. and Lunch served at Noon.
As usual we ask you to bring a covered
dish, salad and/or dessert and your own
place settings, drinks will be provided.
Come early and do a lot of visiting. A
OPCM L.U. #518 NEWS
OPERATIVE PLASTERERS’ &
CEMENT MASONS’ LOCAL
518 WESTERN MISSOURI,
KANSAS, AND OKLAHOMA
301 S MAIN ST,
INDEPENDENCE, MO 64050
PHONE (816) 833-5900
FAX (816) 833-5959
WEBSITE:
WWW.OPCMIA518.ORG
CONTACT INFORMATION:
KANSAS CITY *KEVIN
SEXTON, BUSINESS
MANAGER EMAIL: [email protected]
*BOB GARD, PLASTERERS
BUSINESS AGENT EMAIL:
[email protected]
DAVID KIRKPATRICK
CEMENT MASONS BUSINESS
AGENT
EMAIL:
DKIRKPATRICK@OPCMIA518.
ORG
*STACY DIAZ, OFFICE
MANAGER
EMAIL:
[email protected]
CENTRAL MISSOURI
*DAVE WILLETTE,
BUSINESS AGENT (417) 8304550
[email protected]
SPRINGFIELD
SOUTHWEST
*DAVID WILLETTE,
BUSINESS AGENT
(417) 830-4550 [email protected]
APPRENTICESHIP OFFICE
*BRIAN RANDLE,
APPRENTICESHIP
COORDINATOR (816) 5954132
*MELISSA MEDVED,
SECRETARY
(816) 595-4147
FRINGE BENEFITS
TIC INTERNATIONAL
6405 METCALF, SUITE 200
OVERLAND PARK, KS 66202
PHONE (913) 236-5490
FAX (913) 236-5499
WICHITA & TOPEKA AREA
BENEFITS KANSAS
BUILDING TRADES
PO BOX 5168
TOPEKA, KS 66605
PHONE (785) 267-0140
FAX (785) 267-9514
special invitation is extended to our disabled members to attend along with
retirees, wives, widows and guests for
great food and company. See you there!
PresidentBBill Evinger
Vice President-Bill Benson, Treasurer–
David Smotherman
PIPEFITTERS CONTINUING
EDUCATION CLASSES
Journeypersons interested in continuing
education classes should contact the
Training Center for details. For a full list
of classes offered, contact the Training
Center at (816) 761-8800. Call the
Training Center to register.
Upcoming Classes:
• OSHA 10 & 30 - Starting June 1
• Backflow Recertification – May 27
PIPEFITTERS APPRENTICESHIP
PROGRAM
Applications for the Apprenticeship
Program are available on the first
Monday of each month, if that Monday
is a holiday, applications will then be
available on the following Monday. An
application can be picked up at the
Training Center from 8:00 A.M. until
4:00 P.M. on the specified Monday only.
An application can be returned to the
Training Center Monday through Friday
from 8:00 A.M. until 4:30 P.M. The
recruitment, selection, employment, and
training of apprentices during their
apprenticeship, shall be without discrimination because of race, color, religion,
national origin, or sex. The Pipe Fitters
Local 533 Educational Training Fund
will take affirmative action to provide
equal opportunity in apprenticeship and
will operate the apprenticeship program
as required under title 29 of the Code of
Federal Regulations, part 30. Anyone
interested in information regarding the
Training Center or the Apprenticeship
Program may call for information at
(816) 761-8800 or check the Training
Center web site at www.pftc533.com.
2015 GOVERNOR STUMPY’S ANNUAL
GOLF TOURNAMENT TO BENEFIT
WORKING FAMILIES’ FRIEND
LOCATION: THE DEUCE at the National Golf Club
6415 N. National Dr.
Kansas City, MO 64152
WHEN:
Tuesday, June 16, 2015
Registration at 8:00 AM
Shotgun Start at 9:00 AM
WHAT:
Four “Man” Scramble
Continental Breakfast
Lunch served on the course and after the
round. Beverages offered on the course
for donations. Prizes and good times for
all.
To sign up call 816-842-5600 or e-mail:
[email protected]
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