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1 Volume 19 Issue 6 Local Lodge 1746 September 2019 357 Main Street East Hartford, CT. 06118 – Telephone: 860-568-3000 50 Years Ago, Machinists Push to the Moon Fiſty years ago, NASA launched its epic Apollo 11 flight placing man on the moon for the first me. The mission was aided by scores of Machinists Union members. The eight-day Apollo mission started with the July 16, 1969 takeoff of a Saturn V rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. On July 20, the 240,000-mile flight to the moon reached the historic milestone with the lunar landing by Neil Armstrong and Edward “Buzz” Aldrin, the world’s first space mechanic and an honor- ary IAM member. The July 20 lunar landing was the achievement of a goal set eight years earlier by President John F. Kennedy, who challenged the naon to place a man on the moon before the end of the decade. In addion to Aldrin, many other IAM members assisted in the Apollo 11 mission. That included IAM members represented by roughly a dozen locals in Florida and Texas. Among those was nearly 1,500 space mechanics, and members of nine IAM locals in Florida. The workers for companies such as Boeing and Trans World Airlines were tasked with orders such as maintenance, inspecon and integraon of the shule. Machinists leaders such as then-Grand Lodge Rep. W. J. Usery dubbed the workers as some of the unsung he- roes who helped NASA reach the Apollo 11 milestone. (Reprinted from goiam.org/news, July 16, 2019) Nominations Coming in September Next month at the monthly membership meeting, LL 1746 will accept nominations for the following positions: Executive Board President Vice-President Recording Secretary Secretary/Treasurer Conductor/Sentinel Trustee (3 positions) Shop Committee (4 positions) You must have one year of experience as a Senior Steward or Shop Steward to be eligible to serve on the Shop Com- mittee Auditor (3 positions) To be eligible for nomination, you must a) be a citizen in a country under the territorial jurisdiction of the IAMAW, and b) have attended a minimum of 50% of the membership meetings over the last 12 months (including the September meeting). All officers are expected to attend all monthly meetings unless previously excused from doing so. If you are seeking nomination but are unable to attend the September meeting, you may submit a letter of intent in writing to the President and Recording Secretary of the Lo- cal Lodge prior to the meeting. Email addresses for both are listed on Page 6 of this newsletter, however it is recom- mended that you submit an actual letter to the hall in their attention.
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Volume 19 Issue 6
Local Lodge 1746
September 2019
357 Main Street East Hartford, CT. 06118 – Telephone: 860-568-3000
50 Years Ago, Machinists Push to the Moon
Fifty years ago, NASA launched its epic Apollo 11 flight placing man on the moon for the first time. The mission was aided by scores of Machinists Union members.
The eight-day Apollo mission started with the July 16, 1969 takeoff of a Saturn V rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. On July 20, the 240,000-mile flight to the moon reached the historic milestone with the lunar landing by Neil Armstrong and Edward “Buzz” Aldrin, the world’s first space mechanic and an honor-ary IAM member.
The July 20 lunar landing was the achievement of a goal set eight years earlier by President John F. Kennedy, who challenged the nation to place a man on the moon before the end of the decade. In addition to Aldrin, many other IAM members assisted in the Apollo 11 mission.
That included IAM members represented by roughly a dozen locals in Florida and Texas. Among those was nearly 1,500 space mechanics, and members of nine IAM locals in Florida. The workers for companies such as Boeing and Trans World Airlines were tasked with orders such as maintenance, inspection and integration of the shuttle. Machinists leaders such as then-Grand Lodge Rep. W. J. Usery dubbed the workers as some of the unsung he-roes who helped NASA reach the Apollo 11 milestone.
(Reprinted from goiam.org/news, July 16, 2019)
Nominations Coming in September Next month at the monthly membership meeting, LL 1746 will accept nominations for the following positions: Executive Board President Vice-President Recording Secretary Secretary/Treasurer Conductor/Sentinel Trustee (3 positions) Shop Committee (4 positions) You must have one year of experience as a Senior Steward or Shop Steward to be eligible to serve on the Shop Com-mittee
Auditor (3 positions)
To be eligible for nomination, you must a) be a citizen in a country under the territorial jurisdiction of the IAMAW, and b) have attended a minimum of 50% of the membership meetings over the last 12 months (including the September meeting). All officers are expected to attend all monthly meetings unless previously excused from doing so.
If you are seeking nomination but are unable to attend the September meeting, you may submit a letter of intent in writing to the President and Recording Secretary of the Lo-cal Lodge prior to the meeting. Email addresses for both are listed on Page 6 of this newsletter, however it is recom-mended that you submit an actual letter to the hall in their attention.
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Help for Our Flailing Cities
As we head into September, our thoughts have turned to events that will signify an end to a brutally hot summer: back to school shopping, preseason football, and Labor Day travel plans. Major league baseball prepares to enter its annual home- stretch run to the playoffs, and in the division most relevant to Connecticut fans, the AL East, the New York Yankees hold a double-digit lead over the Tampa Bay Rays, while the defending champion Boston Red Sox wallow in 3rd place with an uphill climb for a wild-card position. The Toronto Blue Jays are all but eliminated from post-season contention, while the last-place Baltimore Orioles have been out of the picture since 2017.
Things haven’t been well in Baltimore for much longer than that, and its problems extend far beyond the Orioles’ ineffec-tive pitching staff. The third largest majority-black city in Ameri-ca (behind Detroit and Memphis), Baltimore is no stranger to racially-driven civil unrest, first with the riots of 1968 following the assassination of Martin Luther King, and most recently in 2015 after the death of Freddie Gray at the hands of Baltimore police. Stories of arson, looting, and assaults on police officers ensued as a troubled nation looked on. Maryland Governor Larry Hogan declared a state of emergency that year which last-ed eleven days, and for the first time in major league history, the Orioles hosted a game without an audience at Camden Yards, as the city could not guarantee the safety of its fans.
Baltimore’s woes over the decades are well documented. Last year, the Baltimore Sun reported the city had the 2nd highest violent crime rate and the highest homicide rate of the 50 larg-est U.S. cities, with murders on a pace to top 300 fatalities for the fifth straight year. Poverty, blight, aging infrastructure, lack of jobs, and inadequate education have all contributed to the city’s plight, which inspired award-winning singer-songwriter Randy Newman (he of Short People fame) to pen these lyrics about its residents in his song Baltimore: “Hard times in the city, In a hard town by the sea. Ain't nowhere to run to, there ain't nothin' here for free. Hooker on the corner, waitin’ for a train. Drunk lyin' on the sidewalk, sleepin' in the rain. And they hide faces, and they hide their eyes. ‘Cause the city's dying, and they don't know why.”
Still, when the President called the city a “rodent and rat-infested mess” where “no human being would want to live”, congressional and city leaders alike took umbrage to his re-marks. Alan Mallach, a senior fellow at the Center for Commu-nity Progress in Washington and a noted Baltimore researcher, spoke to the Sun of Baltimore’s problems, “It’s sort of middle of the pack,” he said. “It’s far from the most distressed city in America.”
Baltimore is not alone in its distress, as many cities—especially along the east coast— have dire needs that are only getting worse with inaction. Indeed, there are plenty of other cities
across the country—Detroit, Chicago, Atlanta, St. Louis, Oak-land, Memphis—that share many of the issues that plague Baltimore. And like these cities, solutions for Baltimore have been complicated and evasive, and often do not have the in-tended impact on the city. “Baltimore does not have the in-tense economic energy that would push revitalization across the city,” Mallach told the Baltimore Sun.
When we think of infrastructure, we often think of potholes on our roads, collapsing bridges, or perhaps failing electrical grids or perhaps even slow broadband capabilities. But the problems go far worse and strike at the hearts of our hub cities. Newark, New Jersey is experiencing deadly lead levels in its drinking water that rival the woes of Flint, Michigan. New York City’s subway system is in dire need of repair and upgrade. Philadelphia is dealing with crumbling gas and water lines. And the list goes on.
A strong America needs strong cities, whose citizens have good schools, good jobs, affordable health care, and decent housing. It also stands to reason that some of these needs could be improved with investments in infrastructure, includ-ing clean water, sewage, roads, bridges, schools, libraries, telecommunications, transportation, and so forth. But while the president and Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer have agreed as recently as April that $2 trillion dollars is needed in infrastructure across America, talks have gone vir-tually nowhere and no advancements have been made. It’s gotten to the point where “Infrastructure Week” is a running joke on Capitol Hill, with the understanding that nothing is going to get done once again.
Is there a role for unions to play here? $2 trillion is enough of a horse pill to make any senator or congressman gag, but a scaled-down approach targeting a handful of key projects in a needy city like Baltimore could serve as pilot projects to demonstrate the value of incorporating union labor into infra-structure projects on a grander scale. Unions already have the ability to negotiate Project Labor Agreements, or PLAs, with municipal governments that promise projects will be com-pleted on time and on budget. Protections for prevailing wag-es and hometown hiring guidelines are often incorporated into the PLA, as well as measures to prevent general
(See Baltimore, page 3)
The beauty of Baltimore’s Inner Harbor belies the city’s infrastructure woes.
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It’s a Fact, Machinists Union Members Live Better
Your District 26 organizing committee is looking for workers who need a union in their workplace. It can be any worker doing any type of job. The Machinists union represents all kinds of workers including healthcare, auto mechanics, maintenance workers, truck mechanics. Machinists members build some of the most advanced military and commercial products in the world.
People want to work in IAM union-represented shops like Pratt & Whitney, Electric Boat, Stanley Black and Decker, and UTAS (now Collins Aerospace). Non-unionized supply chain shops continue to com-plain about workers leaving their current jobs to work in these IAM shops because of the pay and ben-efits.
Under an IAM contract we can negotiate for job se-curity, better wages, health & safety, and respect on the job. If you’re a new hire and the place you used to
work needs a union, we can help. If a family member, friend or coworker is unhap-
py with their job or has a good job and want to make it better, we can help.
It’s as simple as taking the first step of getting the person contact information to an IAM District 26 representative or local lodge organizing chairperson. If you provide contact information which leads to an election at their place of work, we will give you $125. If we win the union election, we will give you another $125. If you have a person who is interested in sitting with us, you can contact me here: Tony Walter Organizer/Business Representative Text or call at 860-752-9480 Email [email protected] If you or anyone else has any questions about the IAM, and want a description of our union at work, down load a free QR reader app on your smart phone
or tablet and scan the logo below, or copy and paste the link to your web browser.
Baltimore, cont. contractors from hiring cheap scab labor that undercuts un-ion wages, cheapens quality of work, and often produces costly delays.
Imagine an army of union bricklayers, pipefitters, electricians and other trades workers working on city infrastructure pro-jects across America, earning good wages and spending mon-ey in the cities where they work. Money that goes right into the hands of people who need it, not in some billionaire’s offshore account. Imagine a lifeline to distressed cities, where disadvantaged residents can get training and strive to land a good job with real benefits, and earn their way to a better life without social safety net programs. Presidential candidates of late often fall over themselves to tout the unions’ ability to regenerate the middle class. Infra-structure spending may be delayed but it is inevitable, and when its time does arrive then politicians and legislators need to pay unions more than lip service and make them an inte-gral part of project management. Troubled cities need strong unions to lift them up, because a strong America needs a strong middle class, and unions have proven to be the back-bone of the middle class.
Artwork courtesy of infrastructure_reimagined.com
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The Lost-Time Tug-of-War By John Hanusovsky, Chief H&S Rep
Recently an employee had been injured at work on a Thursday. He was directed by the treating physician at Hartford Medical Group (HMG)to stay out of work Friday until his follow up visit on Monday. The directions were given to him in writing on HMG letterhead. You would think that, in the best interest of the employ-ees recovery, that the company would honor his treat-ment plan. In short time, however, Workers Comp got involved. They contacted HMG to inform them of Pratt’s “robust” Return-to-Work policy. Soon afterward, the employee was contacted by P&W Medical as well as his supervisor. The goal was to have the employee take a cab to work and the company would find some work to accommodate his restrictions, or at least assist in an investigation of his incident. After an hour or so, he could return home in an hour or so. The employee contacted the Union and was advised to follow the written directions of the treating physician, which was to rest and heal. In follow-up conversations between the Union and the Company. it became clear that “robust” meant getting the employee back in the shop to punch in so it would not count as a “Lost Time injury”. This only benefited the Company’s metrics and could have caused undue pain and stress to the employee. A written Health and Safety complaint was submitted by the union, and the negotiated binding resolution was “ For Lost Time injuries, the treating provider will contact employee for work status changes.” What this means to you is that, if you are injured on the job and your treating doctor advises you to stay out of work, your Return-to-Work date will be negotiated be-tween you and your treating physician only. Not Workers Comp, not the P&W Medical department, and not your supervisor. If you are injured on the job and find yourself being tugged in different directions on your Return-to-Work date, and you be-lieve it conflicts with the written instruc-tions from your treating physician (even if it’s a com-pany-referred physi-cian), then contact your H&S Repre-sentative directly, or call me at extension 5-3748. We will work to ensure that your right to a robust recovery takes precedence over other agendas.
The Rich History of Labor Day By Therese Hervieux
Labor Day has been celebrated for over 100 years in America on the first Monday in September. There is some dispute on the origi-nator of the idea of honoring union laborers. Some say it was pro-posed by Matthew McGuire, a machinist and co-founder of the Central Labor Union, while others credit his namesake Peter J. McGuire, general secretary of the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners and a co-founder of the American Federation of Labor. To this day, there is still no definitive answer.
While all Americans are able to enjoy and celebrate Labor Day, it was first proposed by Union leaders. Its creation is “dedicated to the social and economic achieve-ments of American workers.” The first Labor Day was celebrated on September 5, 1882 but it became a federal holiday on June 28, 1894 as part of reparations to the American union workers, after 13 workers were killed and 57 wounded during a strike by the Pullman Palace Car Company in Chicago.
“On May 11, 1894, employees of the Pullman Palace Car Company in Chicago went on strike to protest wage cuts and the firing of un-ion representatives” according to History.com. Then in June, Eu-gene V. Debs of the American Railroad Union organized a boycott of the Pullman railway cars, which effectively hampered all rail-road traffic. President Grover Cleveland sent in troops to break the strike. Riots ensued, resulting in the deaths of 13 union brothers.
This year, we celebrated Labor Day on Monday, September 2nd . We hope all of our brothers and sisters enjoyed a safe and enjoya-ble holiday. Across this great nation, many of our brethren in labor marched in parades to exhibit "the strength and esprit de corps of the trade and labor organizations" of the community, followed by festivals for the recreation and amusement of the workers and their families, to honor that which we contribute to a free society. Labor unions and its workers are the driving force for a higher standard of living and contributes to our traditional ideals of economic and po-litical democracy. “It is appropriate, therefore, that the nation pays tribute on Labor Day to the creator of so much of the nation's strength, freedom, and leadership — the American worker.”
Citations: https://www.unionplus.org/page/labor-day-history https://www.dol.gov/general/laborday/history https://www.history.com/topics/holidays/labor-day-1
An Illinois National Guardsman fires upon striking Pullman workers in 1894.
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For the second straight year, Insight has been recognized by our peers for excellence in the IAM Newsletter and Website Contest!!! We fol-lowed up last year’s Honorable Mention for Best Layout and Design with another Honorable Mention, this time for General Excellence, in which submitted issues were judged on overall effectiveness, with con-sideration to “content, appearance, consistency, effective writing, and editing.” Of our August 2018 editions, the judges wrote: “Good mix of local and national news, the writing is of high quality. The Congressman Larson interview is excellent. Member photos are always a winner.”
Insight also took 2nd place in the Best Feature category for its June 2018 article, “Right-to-Work is a Wrong Turn”, which the judges called, “a dead-on timely piece, a strong argument that adds a lot of depth with-out getting lost in the weeds, paired with a great vintage cartoon.”
Past issues of Insight can always be found on our Local Lodge’s web-site, www.iamll1746.org. Thanks to all of our contributors, supporters, and readers who help to make this newsletter a success!
We Did it Again!!!
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LOCAL EXECUTIVE BOARD: President Kirby Boyce; Vice President Chuck Rek; Howie Huestis, Recording Secretary;
Kurt Burkhart, Secretary Treasurer; Roy C. Chambers, Conductor/Sentinel; Trustees: James Bullock, Brad Chase
NEWSLETTER CONTRIBUTORS Editor: Joe Durette. Contributors: Tony Walter, Therese Hervieux, John Hanusovsky
WEBSITES:
www.iamLL1746.org
www.iamdistrict26.org
www.goiam.org
www.ctaflcio.org
Monthly Meeting Schedule September 7, 2019 11 a.m
No October meeting (elections) November 10, 2019 11 a.m.
Here are some of the officers email addresses to contact with your concerns and suggestions.
Kirby Boyce [email protected] Chuck Rek [email protected] Howie Huestis [email protected] Kurt Burkhart [email protected]
Insight welcomes your opinion! Send your feedback to [email protected] !
The EAP Coordinator for IAM LL 1746 is Lenny Ward.
Contact Lenny with any personal issues or concerns and be assured that he will work with you with respect and com-plete confidentiality. Phone 203-444-0267 Fax 203-787-4180
Make Your Voice
Heard!
July RIDII Winners Collette Wilde
Roland Burgess Michael Bigda
Michael Tyszka Erik Swan
Robert Gallipeau Ryan Bailey
Zachary Miller Nanette Peach Kelsey Desso
In Memory of Pangie McCotter Eddie Jackson
RIDII Reminder The RIDII program is a Hazard Reporting system. We want to know about Unsafe conditions and Processes. The RIDII program is not for Behavior-Based reporting. Do not turn in your Co-workers for their behavior, especially if it is a Cardinal Rule. Our goal is to provide a path to a safer work place and not a path to the unemployment line. Behavior-Based RIDIIs will be voided out.
May RIDII Winners Mark Becker
Michael Lester Joseph Muszynski
Pamela Gauvin Mario Sierra Alan Pranka Mark Wright
Michael Oziomek Thomas Egan
Kenneth Russell
June RIDII Winners James Harrison, Jr.
Joshua Kimball Dennis Morgan John Vincent
Robert Deane, Jr. Jesse Ruminer Ray Howard
Thomas Fortuna Pawel Goliszek Daniel Nevue
Insight joins District 26 and LL 1746 in thanking Administrative Maestro Bridget Karchere for all of her excellent work over the years, and we wish her best of fortunes as she begins a new chapter in her career. You will be missed, Bridget!
