IBEW Tells Carpenters' Head: Stop the Raids
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Published 2010-06-24
But now local Carpenters' union head Terry Nelson, with the support of UBC President Doug McCarron, is attacking Local 1 and trying to stealing its work.
Instead of organizing nonunion carpenters, Nelson is signing sweetheart deal with nonunion electrical contractors and lowering wage and benefit standards set by the IBEW over generations.
But the IBEW and the Building Trades are fighting back, telling Nelson and McCarron to do their jobs and stop wasting rank-and-file carpenters' dues money raiding other unions.
All Comments (21)
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Im a Carpenter and I approve this message! Carpenters should do carpentry and Electricians should do electrical! We should all work together on Union issues as a team and come up with solutions!
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The problem is that the Union is always training more apprentices and it puts journeyman out of work because now the apprentice is cheaper and they fire the journeyman and have the apprentice do the job cheaper.This is done by the contractors not the Union.If you want to make this decrease in pay you have to get involved and stop training more people because we are over populated as it is and the competition for work is higher each year.Its usually the cheaper or lower bid that gets the job.
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This breaks my heart. I'm a Union Carpenter apprentice, instead of causing a divide, we should stand together in solidarity to make a better life for ourselves and our family. Being in a union used to mean something, taking pride in your labor and your trade. Now, its been infiltrated by politics and corruption. Honestly, we need to work together and stop fighting like 16 year old girls.
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How is Local 57 doing today?
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It may not be the job of the union to test the qualifications of the person preparing to qualify for his or her journeyman's license, but it is part lay the responsibility of the union to prepare that electrician apprentice for the basic qualifications to accomplish his goals in being able to meet those qualifications and be able to pass the Electricians License Test.
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2) It's not the job of the union to test the qualifications of that person to get their ticket, that's the responsibility of the person to pass the standardized test the government gives. But there is no reason the person should fail it. The job of the union is to fight for our rights as workers, secure a good working wage, and over all help provide a better quality of life and work.
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Are the carpenters going to expand this program to other states? I'm looking to join a different union in California.
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@wedontneedaclipnow To expand on that: It's the members job to force their leadership in that direction. I understand many building trades members have the mentality that cutting corners is OK, but remember you're the WORKER not the COMPANY! The company can't fall 500 feet to their death.
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Do you want the job done right, or do you want it done cheap and fast, then have to pay again to have somebody come in after to fix it, as well as other issues caused by it. I'm appalled by your lazy worker comment. I bust my ass on every job, working 6-7 days a week anywhere from 8 to 12 hour days. When I'm finished my work, I know it's right and it looks damn good. I don't know where you're from, but in my Local we are extremely good at what we do.
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Funny, I do directional drilling, and it's funny how electricians think that they can bore. You don't see me trying to rewire a house or commercial building do you? Stick you your trade.
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Are you a part of a trade union?
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This needs too stop.. They are putting brother against brother...
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I belong to the IBEW, and am retired from a private electric utility. Our company decided to hire a non-union line contractor to do work on their property a few years ago as a hedge against a possible strike at contract time. After a short period of time, the company had to fire the scab outfit due to their extremely dangerous incompetence. In other words, they were afraid the untrained dumbasses were going to kill themselves on their property.
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NO CE/CW. NO UNION BUSTING. You don't like what Local 57 is attempting in St. Louis then don't accept what Ed Hill is attempting within the IBEW Locals.
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Carpenters are the most scab union there is. They'll do everyone's work.
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Wow @ 2:15. It sickens me when people who are paid to represent workers don't care about that workers safety.
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Does not the state lic the electrical trade not the union. here two years of school. then two years working as apprentices under a person that has masters lic. and then if the boss sign off you can take another state test to journeyman lic. they don't trust the unions to test the electricians.
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@1alfie131 THE LIGHT WAS BUILT IN THE CABINET . Now do you understand? Or do I have to draw you a picture?
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In Canada, everything is regulated by the government. Even though we work through the different organizations, we still have to write the same tests and meet the same standards set for everybody else in the trades (union and non). We have 1.5 years of schooling and then 9000 working hours (works out to be about 5 years) before we're eligible to go write our test.
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Scabby....
