BUSINESS MANAGER’S REPORT BY GARY A. PRICE · MAY 2007 VOL. 21 NO. 5 BUSINESS MANAGER’S REPORT...

MAY 2007 VOL. 21 NO. 5

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Business Manager Gary A. Price (sitting far left) and Business Representative Nancy Mason(sitting far right) with the 2007 Phase 1 Class of Leadership attendees.

LEADERSHIP CLASSESThe Leadership classes have

concluded until this coming Fall.We have had people from IBEWLocal 191 and Sprinkler FittersLocal 699 regularly taking Lead-ership classes. Local 191 has de-cided to start having Leadershipclasses in their area for their ownmembers. The Union is part ofyour work environment; you im-prove your success in the workenvironment when you have theknowledge. Please contact NancyMason at 253-395-6526 for ques-tions and to sign up for classes.STEWARD TRAINING

It appears that the InternationalOffice of the IBEW is not able toprovide a trainer for our Stewardtraining. Local 46 will be takingover the responsibility to provideSteward training for Local 46Members. This should improvethe ability to address Local 46issues as well as having timelytraining.INSIDE NEGOTIATIONS

Negotiations have entered theMoney stage. The Membershipwill need to stay informed. Theinformation will be found on theWEB (ibew46.org), by mail, orby word of mouth. The Employ-ers may be asked to post informa-tion at the jobsites. When it istime to address a contract pro-posal, you will be notified of thevote.

• It will start with one or twodays for presentation and dis-cussion.

• It will end with one day ofvoting; 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.at the Hall.

• We will need volunteers tocount the ballots (pizza pro-vided).I sincerely expect everyone to

vote.A WALK THROUGH

Last month (April) was a walkthrough. Books 2, 3 and 4 filledone-third of the Inside Wire Dis-patches, with several calls notbeing filled. It would probably bea mistake to be on unemploy-ment at this time. Each of us hasto take responsibility for the needto have three months of wages set

aside before the next downturn.HOURS TO GET BOOK 1

We are looking at changingthe hours’ requirement for mem-bers requesting to become an In-side Wire Book 1. The existingrequirement is to have 2000 hoursin the last four years. The newrequirement would be 2000hours in one year or average1500 hours across the last fouryears.

Before posting this, I wouldlike to have some feedback fromthe membership.

Information on the Northwest In-vitational Golf Tournament willbe available in forthcoming is-sues of the SPARKS and on theIBEW web.

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INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS - LOCAL 46

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By Dispatch Intern Mark Samuelsen

Hel lo , my name i s MarkSamuelsen and I am the ninth per-son to start the Local 46 internship.Here is a little information aboutmy prior involvement with Local46:

Joined Local 46 in 1993 as aJourneyman Technician.Spent eight years on the Orga-nizing Committee.Served as Chairman of the Or-ganizing Committee for severalyears.Sound and Communications ne-gotiating committee, 1998 and2001.Chairman, Sound and Commu-nications unit.JATC Instructor for 1st and 2nd

year Sound and Communica-tions.JATC Trustee.Exam Board Member.Completed Steward’s Training.Completed all twelve of Local46’s Leadership classes.Completed the Inside Wire Ap-prenticeship.Member of the Unity Commit-tee.In charge of the 2005 picnic.

In my first week as an Intern,Local 46 became a walk through.Yes, the boom is back!!! Rumorhas it that the boom will last for atleast three years. I’m hoping forfive. We have not been able to fillall of our calls since the first weekof April. Word is spreading quickly!So I have been spending time field-ing calls from members in otherLocals regarding the work picturehere in Seattle. One of their mainconcerns is the steps they have togo through to get an 01 Electricallicense so that they are able to workin this state. I’ve started gatheringinformation to help travelers navi-

gate the maze we call the Depart-ment of Labor and Industries web-si te. Soon we will have thisinformation on the IBEW Local 46website to help travelers obtain an01 license.

By Organizing InternSusan Lantzy

It’s my first month in Organiz-ing and boy is it a different worldfrom Dispatch! Here’s the mainreason in a nutshell: on my first dayhere, Greg Galusha said he was onlygiving me a bare minimum of direc-tions because he was challengingme to be creative. He went on toexplain that every person and everycompany we attempt to organizeinto the IBEW requires differentstrategies and he didn’t want to re-strict my ‘creative juices’ by out-l ining the a l ready establ ishedmethods. He also said it was pos-sible I could come up with a greatnew idea and didn’t want me guidedtoo much by the old.

This is in stark contrast to theDispatch philosophy where a fre-quently used phrase goes somethinglike this: “We’re in a box here. Wemust apply Referral Proceduresequally and consistently to all mem-bers.”

I felt a little lost at first, but thebold side of me soon stepped for-ward. It took about a week to seesome obvious things that needed tobe done, and my three months inDispatch gave me just enough toolsto move forward. Clearly we hadunfilled Wireman calls, so I got myOrganizing feet wet by visitingjobsites with non-union electricalcontractors and tried a few tacticsfor “stripping” 01 Journeymen andbringing them into the Union.

We also have a great need for 02licensed Journeyman to keep ourResidential contractors going. Thisis due to the great success of thenew R.E.S. (Residential ElectricalServices) program. In the few weeksI’ve been in Organizing, we’vefilled several Residential positions.

This is mostly due to our ‘HelpWanted’ ads in newspapers and onthe web. My cell phone number isprinted in these ads, so I’m reallydeveloping my verbal skills.

Other miscellaneous projects in-clude: Put finishing touches on ournew R.E.S. website, and attendinga contract negotiation from begin-ning to end with the only shop inour Sign Unit, TubeArt (where Ifinally met Steve Washburn).

Moral of the story: It’s fun to bein Organizing when we have lots ofjobs available!

Representative InternTony Doll

I have just started working as anIntern Business Representative andhave found it to be very exciting. Ihave gone on numerous jobsite vis-its from Brightwater, Sound Tran-sit Tunnel, Harborview, LincolnSquare to Timber Ridge. It’s greatto visit our members in the field andsee how they are doing. I have alsobeen to numerous meetings for thedifferent Project Labor Agreements[PLA] and plan to attend the Com-mit tee on Pol i t ica l Educat ion[COPE] in May. If you are workingon a PLA, you should get a copy ofthe PLA Contract - they are differ-ent than our regular contracts.There are many aspects to being aBusiness Representative and as anIntern you get to see many of them.I will also be involved with some ofthe grievances that our membersfile.

Our Hall has been a walk throughsince early April and could staylike this for a while. This should behelpful with the next Wireman’scontract. If you know anyone whois working non-union, let them knowthat we have work here. We want tomake sure that we man our jobs.

Many photos were taken at re-cent jobsite visits. Check out theUnit pages on the Web to see if yourjobs i te o r pho to i s the re !www.ibew46.org. More coming!

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JOB LINE253-395-6516

Call the Job Line directly, any timeof day. It is updated by 5:00 p.m.

weekdays.Online at www.ibew46.net

NONONONONOTICE:TICE:TICE:TICE:TICE:The Marine Apprenticeship Committee has pledged that the recruitment,selection, employment, and training of apprentices during their apprentice-ship shall be without discrimination because of race, color, religion, na-tional origin, age or sex. In order to promote equality of opportunity, theMarine Apprenticeship Committee hereby pledges to take affirmative ac-tion to encourage minorities and women to complete the apprenticeshipapplication and enter into the eligibility pool.

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OFFICERS OF LOCAL 46President Archie

Van ValkenburgVice President William HaydenRecording Secretary Fred MonroeTreasurer Chris KonkerBusiness Manager & Financial Secretary Gary A. Price

EXECUTIVE BOARD MEMBERSBill Baker Rich LehmanShannon Hagen Steve MurphyMaggie Ely Rick Wheeler

BUSINESS REPRESENTATIVESNorman “Bud” Allbery Greg MooreElwood Evans Laura RobinsonJanet Lewis Brett OlsonNancy Mason Jim Tosh

ORGANIZERSGreg Boyd Virgil HamiltonGreg Galusha

INTERNSTony Doll Mark SamuelsenSusan Lantzy

EXAMINING BOARD MEMBERSFrank Forman Teresita RonquilloDebra Jo Kidd Steve SchmeleMark Proudlock


NOTICEAnnual Building

AssociationMeeting

June 13, 2007in the auditorium

immediatelyfollowing the

General Meeting.Please plan to

attend.Congratulations are in order to Ken and Janet Nash

on the birth of their sonLandon James Nash

Born November 21, 2006 10lbs 7 1/2 oz

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BROADCASTBROADCASTBROADCASTBROADCASTBROADCASTby Business Representative

Laura Robinson

KINGKING recently expanded its High

Definition (HD) technology and nowprovides the most local news cover-age of HDTV in Western Washing-ton. Our members at KING workedmany long and hard hours to launchthis project and I would like to con-gratulate all of them for making it asuccess. You can now see all ofKING’s newscasts in wide-screen.Additionally the studio, newsroom,weather center cameras, as well as theSeattle Towercam, are all in full HD.

FOXOn Saturday, April 14, the Mari-

ners vs. the Rangers game was tele-vised nationally on FOX andemployed over a dozen Local 46 mem-bers. Hopefully next year there willbe even more opportunities to hiremembers to work baseball games. Iknow for some freelancers the foot-ball season can’t come soon enough.Hold on, it’s just a few months away.

KIROIBEW members at KIRO showed

their solidarity last month by wearingIBEW T-shirts to work. I want tothank all the members for participat-ing and ask that you continue to wearyour IBEW shirts to work on any daythat Local 46 is in Negotiations/Me-diation with KIRO-TV. Negotiationscontinue to be rough with KIRO, spe-cifically the issue of jurisdiction inregards to the Ignite system.

KIRO has ignored Local 46’s re-quest not to train non-bargaining per-sonnel and began training anyway onApril 16, 2007. The Local has sincefiled a grievance against KIRO, claim-ing non-bargaining personnel are be-ing trained to do bargaining members’work which violates the CollectiveBargaining Agreement. Stay tuned forthe next update as May looks to be avery exciting month for the Broad-cast Unit.

Some people believe labor causesinflation because labor drives up theprice of goods. Actually, the risingcost of labor is an effect of reducedbuying power, caused by an increasein supply of currency. $268 US dol-lars would buy you one ounce of goldin 2001; today it would cost you $687.Labor affected this how?

Inflation: An increase in supply oftotal currency in the economy by theFederal Reserve. The release of new cur-rency without equal removal of currencyvia interest or damaged bills. Increase ofavailable currency in the market placeand the value is reduced. (Economics101- Principles of Supply & Demand)

Recession: A reduction of total cur-rency in the economy by the FederalReserve from the market place in order tokeep the buying power strong. This isaccomplished by adjusting rates of col-lection (Interest). When properly man-aged, the value of the currency remainshigh. (Economics 101- Fiat Currency)

Congress continues to pump currencyinto the system. Interest rates stay low.The dollar loses its buying power, and thecost of goods increases. Property,healthcare, oil and gasoline, constructionsupplies, among many, have nearlyDOUBLED in price during the BushRegime. Prices must increase as a resultof cost to maintain profit margin per-centages. Cost of living has increased asa result - shouldn’t wages, in all fairness,increase also?

We see paying local labor a higherwage does not cause inflation. It is con-trolled by Congress, via the Federal Re-serve. Labors’ wages actually assists inkeeping an economy balanced. Paychecksare spent primarily in the local economy.Local businesses expand, maintain andupgrade their facilities in a thriving localeconomy. Leaving the inflated currencyin the market just invites corporate plun-dering. (Like profit-taking stock marketcorrections or like unethical corporateraiders seen at Enron, Exxon, Worldconand on and on and on . . .)

Supply & Demand: Two factorsused to determine cost. Supply is theamount of available Goods or Services.Demand is the amount of need or request

for Goods or Services. The higher thedemand and lower the supply, the higherthe cost.

Freedom of Speech at Work

You have the right to speak on any-thing! However, it is against the law tosay things at work that create a hostilework environment.

A hostile work environment existswhen an employee experiences work-place harassment and fears going to workbecause of the offensive, intimidating, oroppressive atmosphere generated by aharasser. This conduct is objectively of-fensive and alters employment when itends in quitting or receiving a spitefultermination.

Legally unacceptable behavior in-cludes: Sexual harassment (unwantedand unwelcome, words, deeds, actions,gestures, symbols, or behaviors of a sexualnature, involving gender and/or sexualorientation); Bullying (physical and psy-chological harassing behavior); Psycho-logical harassment (humiliating or abusivebehavior that lowers a person’s self-es-teem or causes them torment); Racialharassment (targeting of an individualbecause of their race or ethnicity); Reli-gious harassment (verbal, psychologi-cal or physical harassment to those whopractice a specific religion); and Hazing(persecute, harass, or torture in any delib-erate, calculated, planned manner). Thesebehaviors are the basis for many discrimi-nation suits. ASSAULT refers only to thethreat of violence or reasonable fear ofinjury (the actual violence itself is BAT-TERY). Assault is committed when (1) athreat is made (2) it creates fear (3) thethreat can be acted on if not prevented.

We, as Union Members, must nottolerate or create hostile work environ-ments. Encourage and support those inneed, and submit a COMPLAINT INWRITING to your supervisor AND yourUnion when you see offenses of hostilityoccur. Things can’t be fixed until peopleare aware it is broken.

Unity Committee

Unity Committee proposes to meetafter General Meeting, 2nd Wednesdayof the month. Join us!

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WANT A LABOR DEGREE?WANT A LABOR DEGREE?WANT A LABOR DEGREE?WANT A LABOR DEGREE?WANT A LABOR DEGREE?By Business Representative Nancy Mason

Several of the Leadership graduates and some of our members who havecompleted the apprenticeship program have asked about how to get a Labordegree. There is a potential for applying the 12 Leadership classes and yourapprenticeship work toward a George Meany NATIONAL LABOR COL-LEGE degree. The process in applying for experiential learning credits is afull two day course (Friday/Saturday) taught by David Alexander, our

instructor for several of the Leadership classes. The tuition cost is approximately $450.00 (3 credits x $150.00 each)per person for the two days and it is one of the credit courses that will lead to the degree.

The National Labor College course, LBST 2990 Educational Planning, will teach each member how to prepare acomprehensive portfolio with documentation for receiving credit for Apprenticeship, the Leadership Course, Unionactivism, community involvement, political action, and other life experiences. The class will be held here at the hallin June. I will need twenty people signed-up to run this class. Please give me call at 253-395-6526 or email [email protected] and let me know if we have enough interest to run this class.

MARINEMARINEMARINEMARINEMARINESHB 2378 (building of Washington State Ferries),

which allows the two bidders for the ferry constructioncontract to sit down for 30 days to work out a plan for ajoint bid, was approved Wednesday, April 11, 2007 in theHouse on a vote of 91 – 6. The Bill has language toexpedite the process in the case of only one bidder. TheBill passed the Senate 45 - 0. To see the language in theBill, go to www.leg.wa.gov, click on “Bill Information”(left side of screen) and follow the instructions. Be sure toread the ‘Substitute Bill’ language.

Washington State Ferry (Eagle Harbor)We have been assured that the Washington State Ferry

Collective Bargaining Agreements for all bargaining unitsfor the past biennia and the 2007-2009 biennium will beincluded in the final Transportation Budget.

On Tuesday, April 10, 2007, the Senate approved HB1693, which adjusts the dates for bargaining and choosingan Arbitrator. The Bill has now passed both the House andthe Senate. It is on its way to the Governor’s desk forsigning.

As you can see, we have been spending a lot of time inOlympia (successfully).

We have been meeting with the Labor Relations officein Olympia to obtain training funds for the apprenticeship.More information to come.

MEC Survey Committee has been meeting twice amonth trying to correct and adjust the survey for the workbeing done by our Eagle Harbor employees. The goal is forthe members at Eagle Harbor to receive higher wages.

MOTOR SHOPMOTOR SHOPMOTOR SHOPMOTOR SHOPMOTOR SHOPI have met with two people in the Motor Shop world

who are willing to come in and teach the apprentices forMotor Shop. I am in the process of building out an area fortheir apprenticeship in the lab.

HVHVHVHVHVACACACACACGood News!

Pipefitters and Sheetmetal Workers Unions have pulledtheir objections to our Apprenticeship Standards forHVAC. On April 20, 2007 we were before the StateApprenticeship Council for final approval and itPASSED!!!!!

Build Out ProgressWe have made MAJOR PROGRESS in the build out

of the Lab. The involvement of retirees, apprentices, staffand active members and contractors has been amazing. Ithank God everyday for all the help that has come to ourapprenticeship build out. Thanks again!

Here are a few members who are helping with the build out of theApprenticeship.

METAL TRADES UNITSMETAL TRADES UNITSMETAL TRADES UNITSMETAL TRADES UNITSMETAL TRADES UNITSBy Business Representative Brett Olson

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By Business RepresentativeLaura Robinson

More and more Local 46 members arebeing interviewed all the time for the HistoryProject. A total of 34 members have beeninterviewed to date.

April interviewees included: Brett Olson,John Walsh (pictured), Fred Schwyhart, BobPedroncelli (RIP), Jim Tosh and HerbertLindberg.

Just a reminder that any Local 46 memberwho would like to share their Union memo-ries, please contact Laura Robinson at 253-395-6500.

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By Business Representative Janet Lewis

KING COUNTY: Congratulations to the KC Facilities Maintenance crews for their excellent work oncomplex special projects. Mark Murphy’s crew did a fantastic job on the installation of the new SecurityElectronics system throughout several county buildings. Trish Coley’s crew helped with the ISP installation inseveral buildings, which is still in progress. Keeping the work in-house is crucial in building the skills of unitmembers. Finally – all Appendix negotiations for the new bargaining agreement are completed. A summary ofthe contract changes and a ballot to vote on the contract will be mailed in early May. Make sure your dues arecurrent so you can vote. All wage increases are retroactive! Talks continue on the sale of the King CountyAirport to the Port of Seattle, including the transfer of employees to the Port. We will keep you posted.

PORT OF SEATTLE: Approximately 120 electricians, electronic techs, and light fixture maintenanceworkers are working at the Airport and the Seaport. All three bargaining agreements are currently in negotiations.The Port Electrician Unit has not had a wage increase in more than three years due to the change over from theWireman Agreement to a stand-alone maintenance agreement. We are looking forward to negotiations.

CITY OF SEATTLE: The Joint Crafts are starting to meet to discuss upcoming city negotiations. I willbe meeting with all of our department units to get feedback on your particular issues. SPU has been hiring pumpstation electricians.

SCHOOL DISTRICTS: Building Trades has been negotiating with Seattle School District for anincrease to the dollar amount of small works which can be performed by in-house trades’ workers. The amountwill be increased and a better tracking method will be implemented. The entire contract will be opened this yearfor negotiations. The Lake Washington School District contract will be opened this year, also.

UNICO: Local 46 has two grievances against UNICO: one for firing a bargaining unit member; the otherfor laying off the entire crew and shifting all of the trades work to another union. Both grievances may end upin arbitration. Unfortunately, UNICO took action before talking to Local 46 or to the other building trades beforeterminating all maintenance workers.

TRADESHOW UPDATE: Contract talks begin in May for Edlen and GES. I have volunteers for thebargaining committees and will begin pre-meetings with them in the near future. Congratulations to Edlen forwinning the Convention Center contract bid.

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TELEDATELEDATELEDATELEDATELEDATATATATATABy Business Representative

Jim Tosh

Many of you know we try to giveaway $100.00 at every Sound and Com-munication Unit meeting and we havebeen successful in doing so once. Yes,just ask Ron Nobuyama. Ron won lastyear, then donated his winnings toMultiple Sclerosis. This year, TobiasNelson and Joseph Fulton were pickedto win the $100.00. Unfortunately, nei-ther of them were present, as required,to win. Can you use an extra $100.00?Don’t miss yourchance to win; attendthe Sound and Com-munication Unitmeetings. They areheld on the firstWednesday of eachmonth at 5:00 p.m.Now that it’sbarbeque weatheragain I suspect we’llbe eating morebarbeque items. TheJuly meeting will bean exception. Assoon as the unitmembers vote onwhen to reschedulethat meeting, a no-tice will be sent out.

Time to clear upsome rumors regard-ing the letter sent toeach electrical train-ing program andtraining agent fromthe State of Washington Department ofLabor and Industries. In December2005, then Apprenticeship ProgramManager, Nancy Mason, sent a letter toall of the electrical training programs inWashington, stating that there may beviolations occurring with some trainingagents (contractors are training agents)because they are mixing Installers andApprentices. Because of this letter theWashington State Apprenticeship andTraining Council convened a specialsub-committee. I was very fortunate tohave been appointed to represent theIBEW on this committee. Other repre-sentatives included Labor and Indus-tries Electrical Licensing and the

Apprenticeship division, the non-unionIndependent Electrical Contractors andNECA. After the first meeting therewere several recommendations madeto the WSATC. The Council held apublic meeting to allow public inputand then a period of accepting writteninput. Throughout the entire processthe IBEW Local Unions have been con-cerned with training. Education andtraining are crucial keys to our futuresuccess in the electrical industry. With-out training and ongoing education wewill become stagnant and lose our com-petitive edge. Once we lose our edge,we lose - period.

During the January WSATC meet-

ing, the Council took action on severalrecommendations and on April 9, 2007Elizabeth Smith, current Apprentice-ship Program Director, mailed a letterto all Apprenticeship Program Spon-sors and Training Agents. This letterserves as a reminder that mixing elec-trical trainees and registered appren-tices is a violation of the ApprenticeshipStandards. It also states that the Coun-cil is particularly concerned that workrequiring a 06 electrical license is beingperformed by trainees (Installers) andnot by registered Apprentices. Her let-ter went on to state that the practice ofmixing trainees and registered Appren-tices shall cease and desist immediately

and failure to do so may result in sanc-tions or cancellation of Standards.

Having an Installer supervising anApprentice is also a violation.

In addition to the current JourneyTechnician Exam, IBEW Local 46 hasproposed some “Grandfathering” ideasas well as direct entry into the Appren-tice program in an effort to address thisissue. Local 46 wants to ensure severalthings; every Installer will be takencare of and not suffer economicallybecause of these changes, and that ourcontractors are able to continue doingbusiness. Without the contractors do-ing business we all suffer the conse-quences.

A short historylesson. Installerswere not part of theoriginal contractsigned in 1989. Infact, they came aboutseveral years laterdue to a shortage ofqualified workers.Installers were onlyallowed to pull cablewhen they first cameinto existence. Sincethen there has been asteady progressionof needing the In-staller to do moreand more. The In-staller position, as Iunderstand it, was togo away if and whenan apprentice pro-gram was started.With the begin-ning of our Ap-p r e n t i c e s h i p

program changes should have beenmade then. During the last several con-tract negotiations, IBEW has offeredseveral different ideas on how to re-solve the Installer and Apprentice is-sue. Some of the ideas were haphazardat best and they weren’t accepted; somehave been well thought out ideas andplans. Along the way, IBEW has askedfor ideas and help in addressing thisissue from management and a couple ofcontractors have been very helpful; giv-ing us ideas and feedback. We listenedand adjusted to what we’re being toldby those contractors. Please send meyour feedback and ideas to:[email protected].

Teledata Unit Members working at the Lincoln Square site.

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By Retired Member Karl Krul

Hey! Have you been sendingpackages to Brother Lukehart?

Hey! (Again!) All of you activeworking members – anytime you havea contract coming due, make sure youput money into your (our) Health &Welfare and Pension Funds. Putmoney for retirees into your Health &Welfare. That’s right. I’m retired. Andif you’re lucky, you will be too! With-out that money put away while you’reworking you’ll be SUNK! Not justmy opinion – FACT!

We’ve been having a good turn-out for the Retiree Meetings. Seven-teen attended today at the JATC.

I was going to ask this guy fromCleveland what they thought aboutglobal warming back there. A Mari-ner told me not to bother.

Last I heard, the westside branchdidn’t have a new leader yet. I hopesomeone steps in.

Retirees’ pins will be handed outat the May meeting. We will also havea presentation for Retiree Dental cov-erage.

Retiree decals $2.50 each.83oF on my back porch in the shade

the other day.

COSTCO Prescription mailorder phone number 1-800-607-6861.

My Opinion: Dino Rossi WILLrun for Washington State Governor.Organized labor MUST NOT let himget elected.

Retirees’ Club elections inMay.

Call 206-684-0500 for Seattle/King County Gold Card and directoryof Special Discounts for seniors andadults with disabilities.

Retirees are welcome at Unit andGeneral Meetings. We have a voicebut no vote, unless paying dues.

Call 425-432-1072 for infor-mation on hunter educationclasses.

Long term survival tip: (My Opin-ion) Learn Chinese. Some of youwon’t like this one. Tough nuggets.You will need it after we totally GIVEour country to China because thatknowledge will be necessary to be-come a ‘Quisling’ (look it up) or Col-laborator to survive under Chinesetotalitarian rule. I looked it up, itmeans suck*** to your conqueror.Where do I get these wild ideas? Lookaround you. Go to a hardware or cloth-ing store and buy something, ANY-THING, made in USA.

I have the COOLEST brief-case anywhere!

I don’t believe anybody worksharder or is more conscientious thanour elected, hired and appointed of-ficers, volunteers and staff. Thankyou all.

Take a class.Remember our museum.

Volunteer.My Opinion: We need a strike

fund. Start out as symbolic and thenget SERIOUS. Co-Op Electric ofPuget Sound. We learned a lot the last

time. Our younger members are a lotsmarter and I bet a few of them couldmake it a go, especially with RES.

BEST BUY owns Magnolia Hi-Fi.

At the Boeing Spares job the elec-trical inspector wrote a $500 ticket tothe laborer doing electrical work andanother to the General Contractor re-sponsible. The laborer said, “I surewon’t do that again.” I forget whocalled the electrical inspector.

Seattle Poison hotline:206-386-1218.

U.S. National Poison Hotline:1-800-222-1222.

Retirees can get eight hours ofcontinuing education free eachyear at the JATC.

Bob Book took us on a tour of theJATC building. OUR JATC building.It gets better every year.

Thanks to the Fluke Company forthe equipment in the power qualitylab. Platt Electric donates a lot ofstuff too. As of today there are 80apprentice calls that we can’t fill.We’re recruiting.

Pet Tip: Some non-sugarsweeteners can be fatal to dogs.American President Lines isfrom Singapore.Eldercare locator office:1-800-677-1116.

Graduates from our 5-year pro-gram can take with them an Associ-ates degree.

We have been invited to haveour April meeting at the JATCevery year. Thank You!

Bob Book says our NECA is verysupportive of our JATC. Thanks.Bill Bowser led a good discussionand answered all of our questionsabout our JATC. If you want to knowwhat’s going on you have to show up.

Thanks to all of you for beingthere.

Love Karl. 206-937-4757. Whatever I forgot, call and tell me.

Name Initiated Date of PassingTerry L. Combes 10/12/1988 2/11/2007Shirley K. Henderson 2/1/1979 3/31/2007David Sneiderman 7/1/1994 3/20/2007

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UNION MEETING SCHEDULEEffective: May 1, 2006

Building Managers 1st & 3rd Tue 5:15 p.m. Executive Board RoomExecutive Board 1st & 3rd Tue 7:00 p.m. Executive Board RoomGeneral Meeting 2nd Wed 5:30 p.m. Auditorium

COMMITTEE MEETINGS

Exam Board 2nd Tue 5:30 p.m. Classroom 2EWMC 1st Thu 5:00 p.m. Classroom 4PAC 3rd Mon 4:30 p.m. Executive Board RoomRetired Members - Seattle 2nd Wed 10:00 a.m. Classroom 3Retired Members - Peninsula 2nd Thu 9:30 a.m. SilverdaleRetired Members - Sequim 3rd Thu 10:30 a.m. SequimSalting 1st Mon 5:00 p.m. Classroom 2Safety Committee 1st Thu 5:00 p.m. Conference Room 1Sick & Visitation 3rd Thu 5:00 p.m. Classroom 2Unity Committee 1st Wed After Unit Meeting Executive Board Room

UNIT MEETINGS

Apprentice Only Meeting Thu / Mon following General Meeting5:00 p.m. Auditorium

EJB 1st Wed 4:30 p.m. SilverdaleMarine 1st Wed 5:00 p.m. Classroom 4Marine Apprenticeship Classes Every Mon1, Tue, Wed & Thu(Summers Off) 5 - 8:30 p.m. Classroom 2 & 31

Motor Shop 1st Thu 5:00 p.m. Classroom 2HVAC (No Meetings June - August) 1st Thu 5:00 p.m. Classroom 2Residential 1st Wed 5:00 p.m. Classroom 2*Stockman 1st Wed 5:00 p.m. Classroom 4*Teledata 1st Wed 5:00 p.m. Classroom 1 & 2Wiremen

Bremerton 3rd Wed 7:00 p.m. Bremerton HallPort Angeles 4th Wed 6:00 p.m. Port Angeles HallSeattle 1st Wed 5:30 p.m. Auditorium

Office and Dispatch Hours 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.Lunch Closure 12:30 - 1:30 p.m.

Wireman Dispatch - Book 1 8:30 a.m.Tradeshow 9:00 a.m.All other Books & Units Dispatch 9:30 a.m.

You Must Re-Sign Your Number within Thirty (30) Days - DO IT TODAY!Check out the WEB CALENDAR for Events, Meetings, Classes, Room Schedules at

www.ibew46.org - click on Calendar.*Depending on amount of members showing up, Unit meeting may be moved to Conference Room.

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PAIDSEATTLE, WASHINGTON

PERMIT NO. 1162

IBEW LOCAL UNION NO. 4619802 62ND AVE SKENT, WA 98032GARY A. PRICE, BUSINESS MANAGER

253-395-6500WWW.IBEW46.ORG

JOB LINE 253-395-6516MAIN NUMBER 253-395-6500FAX 253-872-7059DISPATCH FAX 253-395-6539TOLL FREE 866-651-4600

Dispatcher Bud Allbery 253-395-6531

Organizers ~ Greg Boyd 253-395-6515Greg Galusha 253-395-6512Virgil Hamilton 360-373-0808

Representatives ~Wire Elwood Evans 253-395-6514

Nancy Mason 253-395-6526Greg Moore 253-395-6517

Broadcast Laura Robinson 253-395-6520Maintenance Janet Lewis 253-395-6519Teledata Jim Tosh 253-395-6528Marine, Motor, HVAC Brett Olson 253-395-6521

Office Manager Kathi Scott 253-395-6524

Dues ~ Sue Smithson 253-395-6502Tani Healey 253-395-6501Maureen Darrah 253-395-6503

Dispatch Secretary Ronda Highfill 253-395-6530

Interns ~ Tony Doll 253-395-6522Susan Lantzy 253-395-6511Mark Samuelsen 253-395-6529

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Business Manager’s Report .............................. 1

Intern Reports ................................................... 2

Bulletin Board ................................................... 3

Notice ............................................................... 3

Vice President’s Message ................................ 4

Broadcast ......................................................... 4

The KIRO member photos................................ 5

Want a Labor Degree? ..................................... 6

Metal Trades Report ......................................... 6

Maintenance Shop Report ................................ 7

History Project .................................................. 7

Teledata ........................................................... 8

Basic Energy Auditing Class ............................. 9

Bremerton Picnic Flyer ................................... 10

Annual IBEW 46 Golf Tournament ................. 11

Seattle Area Picnic Flyer ................................ 12

REBOUND Scholarship Information ............... 13

Retirees’ Corner ............................................. 14

Meeting Times ................................................ 15

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