1985-06 June IBEW Journal.pdf - International Brotherhood of ...

ats Tht i(SC wOrk f'l,cturt II much Dc llC'r. Two
recem additions to our lair comracmr hst, Man
Electric and Oynalectflc, ha\lc secured (:mJ)' de
ceDI·sue ,OM and have WCII n&h15 KI OD others
Brothcrs •• nc rasJ Icnbd aTe IJBhl Sometimes
It seem s h lte- l,u.51 can't gel .anything 1ft thiS hiud
hat rack 10 write aboul This Is onc 01 those urnes
So, on a h&hler n OIC bel re c1osm& have ),ou evcl
wondered why a time dock 15 $0 named! All clocks
tell timc. Why am't It called a " clock swltch"l
And have you ever Illed to uplaln to the flaky
lady of Ihe house, who e hallway yol.l have 1,151
rewired, why lhose two sWll ches you ,USI In5 lallrJ.
~e called lhree·way ,wnchrs LDstc:ad of Iwo-way
SWll ches·' Cood day
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Home of Hope
hlll _ SYMONS, P .S
posslbilitlcs 01 our lob Wuh prol;rammabll' con
trol1t:rs and solld'slate control, Ihc mdu .. try has
&l'Own Immwsely We must ilHl'nd spccl.1I .. t.hooll
fo r thiS Icchnolo&YJ :11so, with tht dereAubuon of
the lelephone mdustr)', tht: rc IS yet anotl)cr door
oplCncd 10 our Industry. at for@:clilng the:: 8,000
hours of on·the-,ob train,", and four yeats of mght
Ithool to altaln the dnSlficallufl of lourneyman
Wireman, the faCt Ihat we have s.1cnAced paid
v:ac:a tions, paid hohdays, Mck tl mc, etc: . (beneAts
en,oyed by II ma,omy of wo rkersl-no. I don't
thmk that we hllve overpfl(:ed oursdvcs.
On a uddcr note Srothel Alfred " PI:C O" Vann
passed ~way s uddenly on Marc h 17. I-Ic WIll be
dcrply ml"ised We aTI: curre:ntly in negOtliHl()nS
wllh Our cOnS tNCtlOO conuae:t and ho~ 10 ha\c
a new package rn pl:ace soon. Until nrJlt month
CAIIV RA~lllEA U, P.
operallUIIS on ),1.5 own since hiS USIStanl was laid
off He I,! dOing a lob Ibat for many years was
shllfed by tWO ('topic
Some. of the menlloned efltlelSm was recently
levelled ill thr unum oincr: bc:uuse.: of changes
madc 10 thl: n:funl syuemj changes tbat .Ilowed
Ihl: contractor ma le n:ame hue than what they
have had til the pUt I defend Ihl !> change because
indICa lions arc Ihl!l new po lley bu caused can·
tractors tu be more aggrt$5lve and that 15 exactly
whal It 1
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This pbotognph sbow. the newly opC'Dc-d Ron.a ld
McDonald lioun in Knoxville. Tun., for whkh
snenl members of Lo('al 760, Knoxville, Ten n.,
vol unteued thtir labor.
Ronald McDonald House
Opens in Knoxville
I-U. 760 {I,a,a,nsaspa}. KNOXVILLE, TENN.­
Work tn KnOXVille has no' Improved any .h,s yta.
A few lob, ge lllnlt under way have hrlped some·
.... hat to kcol'JI • frw tJI OUI membtn woriunC at
home The)' are workmg with TVA and our local
contractors.
With ,he cm ployment .a nd slow work picture,
some of our members havc been able 10 donate
tbeu ti me to helping nthtllS, O n Ma rch IS, 1985,
one mort thinK came to Kll xvilit The Ronald
Mc:Oon.a ld House opened I" doon to Ihc famihu
01 Kiiousl,. 111 ehlldrtn While Ibe children :Ire
rr-cr-tVln& lIntment ., ont of the are:!; bosplIals,
thr- famthu Will be ablt 10 ltAy ID a friendly place
and not have to uanl loog dtstance.s 10 bt" wah
theu ctuldren and .1so nOI have 10 pay the: high
c"'pense of hvang m hutels and eating In restau·
raOts.
£leven famll lcs can 5tay for a ume with a th:;ugt
of 5500 pcr I11gh! lind household hOtea , II a family
cannot aUOld the fee, It Is w.:alvcd. Th renovation
has taken a yur 10 fInish , The house waS ont! of
Ih e old, tum·of·the·cent\HY VU:t(UHHI :a ructureS
of four stOIlC,. DUring Ihe yeur 25-..l5 people of Ill!
u adu and skills volunteered their tim e .nd enel
SICS to tbucommunllY prolecl, qun:dy gomg aooul
tryang to caSt family suffcnng To our members
who donall:t1lhcu lImc and Skill , thsDks 10 you
all for a lob well Jane
CI..IJ"'oI M cM IU.AN. P S.
Union Labor Better Trained,
Not Overpriced
L.U. 78 1 Ii&. ul, PlA'M'S8 URGH, N. Y.-I Wa S . c~d-
109 an article In the n ewspaper last week on union
b.bor It says that unions only conuol 30 percellt
of lhe constru clion markel, whIch only ,"eludes
' hc mdu$1fIal and commt:,clal ends of the: market.
The amele allJlbuted this 10 unionl outpneln~
th em5~JV("f
As far lIS tbr elcctrlcal Hade ~C)(! •• I don', feel we
have. In the (ofCVrt·"owmS elCC lrical industry,
we must become m Ole .. nd m Clfe spcclahzed In OUt
field IUM Ihe computer age has increased the
Reprtst'n ta live.'i fro m Iht community collrge, con·
traC':10rs, Ie:,ac hcrs aod the lBEW in :lIlrndance
durins Ihe lol":l l's Achie"ement f'oi ghl.
Despite Unemployment
Local's Morale Is High
LU. 80. li&'a), KITCHE ER. 0 T.- Whlle Local
8()J 15 entenng Its scvc:n th year of unemployment,
Ine local 15 Mill a very good One. Hopefully we
Will nOt enter 3n eightb year wondering where the
work. IS :m d how pl enu ful It Wi ll be. fortunately,
there is so me reason for opti mism loc;llly and in
Olh er pans of the province: as projects arc an·
Il ounced. Also, we arc iO betiCI shape rnan we
were as of the Jast le[lci because lhe Hydro SlnkJ:!
wu sen led; and some of our people wcrc able 10
get bac:k on that prolect in the Bruce
In Ihe last letler we made rdetenee 10 the
numerou.5 counes hosted by the loca l Stnet" Utl:n,
on Februuy 7, 1985, an Aeblcvemenl NIght wa.s
held and was attendcd by ow m embersl represtn·
tallVes from Ihe c:omm unalY eollcse, leachers from
Katlyn Systems, who taught the course, representatives
fr om the conu actors' IlSS0Cl attoni aod olh·
ers . 11115 was an excellent evening a! cerutic,a tes
wele awarded, foll owed by a SOc::illl, all held to our
hall, which is pe rfect for lhe OCCI-SIOO .
In DeclI:mbe, once agalO We held our Annual
Xmas p,uIY. A new tWist this year for tbe ebll·
dle.n-roller skaung In the afternoon In Ihe .:vcniog
all adults galhr.cd, and Lhey a re co be con·
gt4LU"" ~d lor thell ",cry 6nt ,,!lilt;lnd behavlour­
It WIlS a 8ort.! 1 nlgbl.
Mllny IIrn~ s a buslnr.!& manal\er IS cntlclzc:d but
few tUllC! compllmerncd It II ILIne to commend
Bruthel McKenue: lor pelsC'venng with all Ib e
l..U. 806 U,c6.t'rn), ELU VILlE. '.Y.- Tht Ie'
sulu of the B.I Hubouf confer~nce~ le.ad us 10
hore that • n~1oy aWillrndS may come to the
movement We .a lt In a 101 of trouble with the
admlDl5lUllon In 0 C. and we can't Ielax our
&ulird La r IS cOnlllde.ed thr most dangerous
sC8meni of SOCIt."ty by Ihe Ideologlcs of those lJl
the Oyal O ffi ce. nUl hetaulle we .He too liberal tour
mcrnhels hoyt' the lull spectrum of poli tical loy·
ahH!!! I, hut b4:ellusc of our speelfl t- aim lO help
we'ktngpcople lind beCllu se 111 our numbers we
hlll'r'c the power lind the nrganlzullon If) do so.
OU f :uatr', lecord III pro· worker leglslallan dur-
10K the tilDe whc.1l thr reU of the COUntry has bee.n
fighllng II) keef'l What they have, 15 ~methtn& to
crow aboUt As emblyman Frank Barbaro h,n C2.r ­
ned tbe banner an Ihe 'itate legISlature, ISswog
rtp;m5 IU h,ghhght Ihe abuses to the collcctl\·c
bargaining process thal hll\'e gO llen worse In reclCo t
years He hu IOl loduccd J ~'JS J 'llOn fO sllengthc:»
the state'. preyailmA w:rge law and helped us In
many othcl ways The TOXIC Toft Bi ll, If passed,
wal l give ..... o rkers who 've been Iniured by asbestos
and other substolo ces Ihe c hance to open up tbell
compcn~a U on elISe, after Ihe long·term effects of
tbell Illness corne to light
These time" requlle tnc.rcucddetcrtDlnauon and
a new awarene51 ,hat flexlblhty 150' 1 weakncss.
The goal 1.5 Imponllnt .and the mUn.5 must speak
to thc ,usuee we 'ict'k 00 I sound lik.e tbe laIC
8,o ther Louey Dubrnrti
R MOlDOVU" p.s
Think We When
Thinking of the Union
L.U, 846 {o,l&ul. ItATTANOOGA, TENN.-By
the IlInc thL S arllcl Is printed, Loul846 Will haye
conducted the e1ecllon of ofAcer5 a,nd delegateS to
the Intern. Ilona I Convc-.nllon. I am sure we will
havl:qullea numbel leektns these pQSlUons, which
WI ll prOVide a sood seleclion for everyone [0 choose
from.
At ,hc pruenl time negollatlons arc UDder way
wllh several of Our eo·o ps 2nd conUaetors.. It )(,)Oks
:II If we an In for some hard umes as evuyone
wan IS concessions of ,orne dcscrr puon. lohn and
I of len heat, " Wha. hus the umon done for meJ"
Everyone seems to think of I in stead 01 we. " I"
am limited :)1 to what " I" c.an do, but " we" can
d o a lot. When was the lISt lime you attt;nded a
UDlon m ectlng! Afe you Ictllngsomeone else make
your deCISions fo r you Or afe you participating In
your lucal unton l
In cloJlng, everyone plc-lSe buy "mcne an·made
productt 1'll1s IS the besl w.ay to suppo.t your
fello ....· wo.ker ~nd eounlly.
See you II the union mcetlng.
Rocu . TIIOI'>II'SON, ASST. 8 .M .