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Local 103, IBEW - Election of Officers - May 3, 2008
Total Members Voting: 2856 (49.33%)
256 Freeport Street, Dorchester MA 02122
(617) 436-3710 · Fax (617) 436-3299
(617) 436-3710 · Fax (617) 436-3299
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All NewsChair of Organizing Roundtable NamedBill Corley, an Organizer with IBEW Local 103, was named the new Chair of the Organizing Roundtable this week. Brother Corley has had a long and distinguished career organizing workers and bringing them into the Labor Movement. "Bill Corley will be a great steward of the Organizing Roundtable as we seek to move the Organizing agenda of labor in Massachusetts forward. We understand that Organizing must be linked to everything we do - politics, legislation, community service, everything. Bill Corley understands that and will help the Organizing Roundtable continue to be a very effective endeavor of this State Federation. Bill Corley will be a great chair and will work closely with current members of the Roundtable, as well as recruit new members so that we keep heading in a positive direction for workers," said President Haynes. Last Year's Signings Reap This Year's Gains for California Locals and ContractorsWhen Corporate Construction Services signed a letter of assent with Martinez, California, IBEW Local 302 in May 2005, the firm scored a double play. They recruited highly-qualified electricians and installers for their projects. Then co-owner Gary Bauer switched his twin sons, Mark and Paul, from an open-shop apprenticeship to the IBEW's joint apprenticeship training program. "Our instructors and journeymen working with the Bauer brothers are impressed with their determination and desire to become qualified IBEW journeymen inside wiremen," says "Bart" Barton, Local 302 organizer. "Gary Bauer is the kind of guy you want to work for," Barton states. "He follows our agreements." Florida Open Shop Workers Strike Over Unsafe ConditionsFired up by unsafe conditions on a school construction project in thinly-populated south Florida, over a dozen nonunion workers walked off the job and turned to IBEW's Florida Initiative for help. "Nonunion workers going on strike is unheard of," said IBEW organizer Jon Dehmel of Tampa, Florida IBEW Local 915, praising the courage of the crew, who stayed off the job for three days. Workers for Tampa-based Energy Electric have reported that scaffolding on the job was held together with tie wire. Painters were using gas-powered sprayers without proper ventilation, spreading fumes. Workers on the roof were throwing concrete blocks to the ground. Concrete was being ground without proper dust control. Bush Suspends Davis-BaconProclamation by President Bush, Dated Sept. 8, Suspending Proclamation by the President: To Suspend Subchapter IV of Chapter 31 of Title 40, United States Code, Within a Limited Geographic Area in Response to the National Emergency Caused by Hurricane Katrina A Proclamation by the President of the United States of America 1. Section 3142(a) of title 40, United States Code, provides that "every contract in excess of $2,000, to which the Federal Government or the District of Columbia is a party, for construction, alteration, or repair, including painting and decorating, of public buildings and public works of the Government or the District of Columbia that are located in a State or the District of Columbia and which requires or involves the employment of mechanics or laborers shall contain a provision stating the minimum wages to be paid various classes or laborers and mechanics." |