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The impact of Proposition B is starting to be felt.

Prop B, which passed last month,

restricts development along San Francisco’s waterfront by mandating voter approval of every project that exceeds height limits.

In response, representatives of Forest City Development presented Pier 70 plans to delegates of the San Francisco Building and Construction Trades Council at the council’s recent meeting. Forest City plans to place an initiative on November’s ballot asking for increased height limits for the project.

In 2011, the San Francisco Port Commission selected For-est City to develop a 25-acre portion of the Pier 70 Master Plan area. The “Waterfront Site” east of Illinois Street between 18th and 20th streets includes 2.5 million square feet of new buildings, a major park, and about 250,000 square feet of existing buildings. Forest City Development has a good reputation for working with union contractors and using union labor. The company worked with the Westfield Group to build the Westfield

San Francisco Centre and de-veloped the Presidio Landmark apartment complex.

The developer’s new pro-posal, the “Union Iron Works Historic District Housing, Waterfront Parks, Jobs and Preservation Initiative,” will ask voters to restore the height limit at the property from 40 feet to 90 feet, which is the height of the tallest existing historic structure on the site now. Forest City executive Jack Sylvan said the ballot measure to allow the 90-foot heights would be submitted to the City in July in order for the measure to be on the ballot this Novem-ber. Sylvan said the developer decided to move forward with

By Paul BurtonContributing Writer

Forest City to Take Pier 70 Project Height Increase to Voters ♦ The $242 Million Development Would Create 10,000 Construction Jobs

All-Union Crews Expanding San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

The challenge of building a complex structure in a tight space is being met by

the all-union construction crews working on the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SF-MOMA) Expansion Project. The museum broke ground on the new building in June of 2013 and began construction on its

♦ Unique Challenges for 235,000-Square-Foot Expansion

new 235,000-square-foot expan-sion. Union contractor Webcor Builders is the general contrac-tor for the project designed by architectural firm Snøhetta in collaboration with the museum.

“The building has some very unique requirements,”

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By Richard BermackContributing Writer and Photographer

With the tag line of “High Per-formance/High Value,” District Council 16 of the International

Union of Painters and Allied Trades is an alliance of the finishing trades unions, including glaziers, floor coverers, tapers and painters. Their logo is a lion, and they are a high-powered organization, united by the goal of finishing buildings with style. They represent workers in Northern California and Nevada.

One of their current jobs is One Rincon Hill, Tower Two, a 49-story residential glass tower with panoramic views of the city and

District Council 16 at Rincon Hill, Tower Two

Forest City plans to develop a 25-acre portion of the Pier 70 Master Plan area. The site includes 2.5 million square feet of new buildings, a major park and about 250,000 square feet of existing buildings.

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is currently undergoing a 235,000-square-foot expansion.

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Google Buses and the Experience of the Tradesby Michael Theriault, Secretary-Treasurer

San Francisco Building & Construction Trades Council

The Building Trades know well that the tech industry, so maligned by many San Francis-

cans, has been good for our work. The protests against Twitter and the tax break that brought it to mid-Market have been held outside a building that put many of us back to work in its re-inforcement and renovation. The Nema apartment building across Tenth Street from Twitter employed hundreds of us because Twitter was there to provide it tenants. Overall, many thousands of Building Trades workers have fed their families from the grand harvest the tech industry has provided.

As to Google, when its Mountain View campus was being built originally for Silicon Graphics, I myself commut-ed there in a company-provided truck to run a crew of Iron Workers.

One effect of rapid growth of any industry in a given area is to disrupt the lives of the residents who were there beforehand. This disruption is often enough negative. An effect of tech industry growth, paired with the long failure of San Francisco to ac-cept an adequate volume of housing construction, has indeed been to push working-class San Franciscans from their homes.

In reaction, then, some members of other unions have participated in the so-called “Google bus” protests, in which busloads of tech workers have been kept from making the same com-mute I made years ago.

If protests reach out to those work-ers, if they are clear that they do not condemn the workers, but seek support in fights like those against the evictions through which some landlords are at-tempting to get tech workers’ business, the protests ask the workers to be more a part of the community in which they now live. This is a message they need to hear.

But it is hard to convey this mes-sage by stopping someone from going to work.

If the message conveyed instead is that those workers should go away, the protests risk alienating large blocks of workers – and, well paid or not, tech workers are just that, workers.

We do not grow or even preserve the labor movement by alienating large blocks of workers.

We in the Trades have learned lessons from having ourselves made this mistake too often. We have in recent years become better at teach-ing our members picketing non-union contractors that we have no beef with non-union workers, but that these workers are potential allies and union members. Our organizers have become better at teaching these workers that our “Area Standards” pickets do not demand that they go away, but that they be better paid.

In years past, though, by confront-ing workers we hardened divisions and made the growth of our ranks far more difficult. And by insisting that non-union contractors that we signed

to union agreements shed their existing workforce and hire a new workforce entirely from our halls we did not just make signing new contractors more dif-ficult – if they felt any loyalty at all to their employees – we made permanent enemies of those employees.

More than a century now of experi-ence has taught us even bitterer lessons.

The arrival of Chinese workers in San Francisco in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and the arrival of tech workers in the early twenty-first differ markedly. Most Chinese workers were poor and viewed as racial outsiders by the City’s white majority. Most tech workers are not at all badly paid, and if they are viewed as outsiders, it will rarely be for race.

But the Chinese were workers, and tech workers are workers, and now as then employers want to maximize prof-its off the backs of workers.

The San Francisco Building Trades at the turn of the last century argued for the exclusion of Chinese workers. We did not want more to come; we wished those already here would leave. We did not believe they could under-stand or belong to our movement. We succeeded in part in our efforts at exclusion, but not in full.

I am personally grateful that our success was only partial. I would not otherwise have my wife of thirty-two years or my two sons.

As the Chinese-American commu-nity grew in size and in political and

economic power, the Building Trades’ early opposition to its very presence became a deep liability for us. We lost market share in both public and private contracting. Only in recent years have we filled the deep rift between us, and even now only incompletely.

Tech workers face real difficulties. Their industry often would rather import workers from abroad than train here. It looks for every opportunity to outsource work. It makes demands on time that do not allow a family life. Its employment is usually temporary and lacks the continuity that we gain from our hiring halls or multi-employer benefit plans. Tech workers might wish some day that they had something like a union. And they are not going away, and their numbers and influence are likelier to grow than decline.

It would be good for all of us then if they did not think we were their enemies.

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Appeals Court Sides with Treasure Island Developers

A state appeals court made up of a three-judge panel rejected a civic group’s claim that an environmental impact report did not accurately explain how it proposed to deal with site cleanup and layout plans for a Treasure Island development. Developers Lennar Corp. and Wilson Meany have plans to build a $1.5-billion mixed-use neighborhood on the island that has been, until recently, the property of the Navy. Construction on the nearby Yerba Buena Island was part of the deal as well.

The group Citizens for a Sustainable Treasure Island brought a suit claim-ing the EIR was inadequate based on lack of detail in street layout and how certain hazardous materials would be removed by the Navy. The First District Court of Appeal rejected the claim, and now the developers can move forward with their project that is expected to take 15 to 20 years to complete.

In all, about 20,000 residents are ex-pected to be accommodated on Treasure Island, with 8,000 residential units, office and commercial space, 300 acres of parks and open space, and 500 hotel rooms. The project will be covered by a Project Labor Agreement with the building trades.

An agreement was executed on July 2 to transfer the land to the Treasure Island Development Authority and will be completed in several phases over the next seven years. In that time the Navy must clean the parcels of land of harm-ful materials like lead paint and asbes-tos, among other things.

Tunnel-Boring Machines Break Through

Big Alma and Mom Chung, the two massive tunnel-boring machines that have been carving their way through the underground of San Francisco, made it to their final destination just last month. The twin tubes for the Central Subway

system will eventually take passengers from Union Square and Chinatown to North Beach and back again via 1.7 miles of new track.

Mom Chung was named after Dr. Margaret Chung, the physician who established one of the first Western medi-cal clinics in Chinatown in the 1920s, and started boring last June. Big Alma, named after “Big Alma” de Bretteville Spreckels, the six-foot philanthropist and socialite known as the “Great Grandmother of San Francisco,” started digging in November. Both made it to a specially created shaft in North Beach within a few days of each other where the 750-ton machines will be dismantled and hauled away in pieces.

According to the San Francisco Chronicle, when all is said and done there will be three underground stations and one above ground, with the opening scheduled for 2019 and a projected daily ridership of more than 35,000 by 2030.

Hunters View Ready for Next Phase

Phase I of the Hunters View rede-velopment project has wrapped up and Phase II of the gargantuan housing venture is firmly in the developer’s sights. New renderings and technical informa-tion was submitted to the San Francisco Planning Commission for Block 10. A five-story mixed-use building will include 72 units of public housing, with a mixed-income daycare facility, community center, leasing office and retail space.

The design is by Paulett Taggart Architects. In their presentation, Hunt-ers View planners write “Block 10 will be the ‘heart’ of the neighborhood and create spaces for Hunters View residents to engage with each other and the broader community.” In all, Hunters View covers 22 acres and will provide up to 800 new residential units after the demolition of all previous housing on the site.

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Block 10 at Hunters View will feature a five-story mixed-use building with 72 units of public housing, a mixed-income daycare facility, community center, leasing office and retail space.

A state appeals court rejected a claim that an environmental impact report for the Treasure Island development was inadequate.

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399 Fremont Gets UpdateThe development of the Rincon Hill

neighborhood continues to shoot up-ward and outward with the two towers of One Rincon Hill, and now the next skyscraper at 399 Fremont. Renderings were released of the building with the latest design changes that do away with the yellow accent panels meant to frame the windows. Once complete, the build-ing will stand out as part a dramatically changing San Francisco skyline.

The development will feature 452 dwelling units, mostly of the ultra-lux-ury type. At 42 stories and 440 feet, the

residents of 399 Fremont will have, on average, 800 square feet of living space each. Residents will enjoy 24-hour valet parking and security, rooftop outdoor sky terraces, a library, lap pool, spa and a state-of-the-art fitness center among other planned amenities.

The union contractor, Swinerton, started the project earlier this year and slates the building’s completion for April 2016 with a goal of LEED silver certification. They also recently demol-ished a building at nearby 333 Fremont in 2008 and erected a new apartment building in its place.

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June 5, 2014The Delegates meeting of the San Francisco

Building and Construction Trades Council of June 5, 2014 was called to order at 5:10 p.m. at the union hall of Iron Workers Local 377, 570 Barneveld Avenue, by Chairman pro Tem Larry Mazzola, Jr.

ROLL CALL OF OFFICERS:President Larry Mazzola, Sr., and Vice Presidents

Tim Donovan and Victor Parra excused; Secretary-Treasurer Michael Theriault present.

CORRESPONDENCE – From:San Francisco Board of Supervisors: Notice of

hearing on appeal of the environmental impact reports for the 2004 and 2009 Housing Elements. Delegates take note.

California State Building and Construction Trades Council: California Occupational Safety and Health Administration to visit jobsites. Delegates take note.

SECRETARY’S REPORT:1. As we had all seen, Proposition B had passed. (continued on page 23)(continued on page 23)

Official Minutes of the San Francisco Building and Construction Trades CouncilA Century of Excellence in Craftsmanship

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Turnout in the election had been very low, and even though Proposition B had won by a large percentage margin, as the vote stood now only about sixteen percent of eligible voters had voted for it. David Chiu had won the primary for California State Assembly in District 17 by a few points over David Campos. They would face each other again in November. Some would claim that Chiu had prevailed because the electorate in a low-turnout election tended to be conservative. They couldn’t make this claim and at the same time claim that Proposition B was “progressive.” The Secretary would consult with his co-plaintiffs to decide on whether or not to proceed further with our still-active lawsuit against Proposition B.

2. We had met with Supervisor Mark Farrell to discuss moving toward a Citywide project labor agreement (PLA) policy. The Secretary was reviewing draft authorizing legislation from our attorney, Sharon Seidenstein.

3. We and Clark/Hathaway Dinwiddie had exchanged drafts for a PLA for the Transbay Tower project.

June 10, 2014The Board of Business Representatives meeting of June 10, 2014 was canceled, as the Secretary was

in Washington, DC for meetings of the Emerald Cities Collaborative.

June 19, 2014The Delegates meeting of the San Francisco

Building and Construction Trades Council of June 19, 2014 was called to order at 5:05 p.m. at the union hall of Electricians Local 6, 55 Fillmore Street, by President Larry Mazzola, Sr.

ROLL CALL OF OFFICERS:Vice Presidents Victor Parra and Tim Donovan

excused; President Larry Mazzola, Sr. and Secretary-Treasurer Michael Theriault present.

SPECIAL ORDER OF BUSINESS:A Special Order of Business was called to dis-

cuss possible establishment of a nonprofit for Trades education with attorney Bill Sokol of Weinberg, Roger and Rosenfeld.

The regular order of business resumed at 5:45 p.m.

CORRESPONDENCE – From:California State Building and Construction Trades

Council: State budget a win for Trades. Delegates take note.

SECRETARY’S REPORT:1. The Emerald Cities Collaborative had held

meetings last week in Washington, DC. The Build-ing and Construction Trades Department, AFL-CIO (BCTD) was reevaluating its involvement with the Collaborative, although it had told us that local Build-ing and Construction Trades Councils should feel free to remain involved if it seemed productive to them. Part of this seemed to be a message to the Obama administration. The Administration spoke often of all the jobs that would come through energy efficiency and renewable power work, while few jobs were being produced in these sectors relative to such traditional energy sectors as oil, natural gas, and coal; at the same time the Administration spoke of an “all of the above” energy policy that would support jobs in those traditional sectors, but continued to delay approval of the Keystone Pipeline, even while its own agencies

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the height approval now instead of waiting for the 2016 election in order to determine how to plan for different heights in the project area. He noted that the height limit change has been endorsed by the Dogpatch Neighbor-hood Association, and is supported by the Potrero Boosters Neighborhood Association and some of those who backed Prop B in June.

“Folks are in support of this be-cause they understand that what’s there now is not an asset,” Sylvan said. Still, the project will take advantage of the old buildings once used for manufac-turing or maritime uses. Plans call for converting Building 12 – with its high windows and open floor area – into a maker’s market. The views of cranes at the nearby BAE ship repair facility are also touted as attractions for new residents of the Pier 70 project.

The $242 million project will in-clude rehabilitation of existing build-ings that already exceed the 40-foot limit. Sylvan said Forest City had done “massive outreach” to the public since 2011, including tours of the site and open house events where neighbors could offer their visions for the area, and an open air market attended by more than 5,000 people. Forest City’s plan will include the development of at least 1,000 new units of housing, 1.8 million square feet of commercial space, 400,000 square feet of retail, cultural and manufacturing uses, and nine acres of new parks.

Once the project is approved by voters, the 18 to 24 month approval process through CEQA, the Planning Commission, and Port Commission will culminate with a vote by the Board of Supervisors in late 2016. Prelimi-nary work could start in early 2017, including infrastructure planning and utility work. The entire project would be a 10 to 15 year build out, with an estimated 10,000 construction jobs. Sylvan said that new construction would be wood frame over a concrete podium. There will be approximately 10,000 square feet of historic structure rehab work. Sylvan said the devel-oper is committed to working with the Building Trades on a project labor agreement as well as meeting local hir-ing goals of 25 to 30 percent.

Port documents backing Forest City’s proposal in 2011 noted that it envisions “an innovation cluster that combines high quality office space with diverse and inspiring public amenities for the broader San Francisco community.” It will “at-tract both mature biotech, high-tech and marine sciences companies, and start-up companies, machine shops, prototyping/testing, artist studios, and tech incu-bators for adaptive reuse of historic structures.” It has also attracted around 10,000 residents for its events that give neighbors a sense of what will be and to showcase local artists, artisans and designers who are tenants of the Noonan Building on the site.

“The site is compelling because of its pioneering maritime history, waterfront location, the public ben-efits it is expected to generate, and the opportunity to advance the region’s growth economy in a unique way,” For-est City’s President Kevin Ratner said. The developer added that between one million and two million square feet of new commercial and office space will provide up to 10,000 permanent new jobs at Pier 70.

Along with converting what was once a shipbuilding center into a mixed-use project with housing, shops, restaurants, and small manufacturers, Forest City’s plan will create a new park along the bay. The waterfront is currently closed off to public access. The project also takes into account the impacts of climate change by raising the grade of the site more than three feet to protect against sea level rise.

Forest City’s project fits with the Port of San Francisco’s Preferred Mas-ter Plan for Pier 70 published in 2010. It calls for providing sites for office, research, emerging technologies, light industry, commercial, cultural and rec-reational uses through new construc-tion or preservation of existing historic buildings.

Sylvan said the project will also include affordable housing—with 600 homes affordable to low- and middle-income individuals. He said the proposal to have 30 percent afford-able housing is more than double the amount currently required by city law. A majority of the planned 1,000 to 2,000 residential units will be rentals.

The project will generate approximately $15 million in revenue to support the rebuild of public housing facilities, such as the nearby Potrero Annex and Potrero Terrace public housing com-munities, according to Forest City. The developer will also provide new studios at reduced rates for the artists at the

Noonan Building. Sylvan said since the measure would

be voted on by San Franciscans city-wide, it would be important to inform people about the area who may not realize that Pier 70 isn’t actually a pier jutting out into the bay, like Piers 30-32, but an underutilized asset with potential.

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Forest City’s plans for Pier 70 include converting Building 12 into a market.

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waterfront location, the public benefits

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Museum of Modern ArtContinued from page 1

Webcor Builders Vice President Matt Rossie said. Those include large spans to maintain clear art gallery spaces and unique geometry, with the east elevation curving in two directions. Rossie said the building façade is unique, using a fiberglass polymer composite material for a portion of the curtain wall.

“Structural steel erection has been chal-lenged with the extremely tight site, leaving no room for staging material and requiring just-in-time delivery,” Rossie said.

The steel frame building is currently at the sixth floor and rising. Crews from Webcor Concrete completed a major structural concrete pour in late June, with a series of trucks navigating through traffic along New Montgomery Street to access the site from Natoma Street, a short block that ends at the construction site with limited space to maneuver.

“All of the subcontractors on the project are union employers,” Rossie said. “We currently have just over two hundred craftsmen on the project, ex-ecuting some incredibly complex work.”

Structural steel work is being done by SME Steel, with CE Toland doing the miscellaneous iron work. Other major subcontractors are Cupertino Electric, Allied Fire Protection (sprinklers), Critchfield Mechanical (HVAC), JW McClenahan (plumbing), Lee’s Imperial Welding (metal stairs), RFJ Meiswinkel (drywall), PCI (acoustical ceilings) and Enclos (building façade). Otis Elevator is doing the elevator construction and

modernization. Webcor has experience working on

architecturally unique projects, includ-ing those that have sustainable design features to meet LEED Gold standards. Webcor was the general contractor for the California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park and donated con-struction services for the Museum of the African Diaspora near Yerba Buena Gardens. The new SFMOMA building will feature elements that reduce energy and water use. These include re-circu-lated water, energy-saving LED light-ing systems in the galleries and lighting control systems that respond to changing daylight availability. Building materials are designed to minimize the transfer of thermal energy, the wood flooring in the current fifth-floor galleries will be repur-posed for use in the new art conservation studio, and other recycling of materials will take place throughout the process.

The expansion will add ground level galleries, a central gathering space, a new sculpture garden, and orientation spaces that will be free to the public. The build-ing runs contiguously along the back of SFMOMA’s Botta building, extend-ing from Minna Street to the north to Howard Street to the south. The galleries in the existing and new buildings will be unified and double the current gallery space from 59,000 to 130,000 square feet. The design also features new pedestrian pathways that lead to and through the museum from the surrounding streets. The building also introduces a façade on Howard Street that will feature a large, street-level gallery enclosed in glass on

three sides, providing views of both the art in the galleries and the new public spaces. When the building reopens in 2016, it will provide greater art experi-ences for visitors and support SFMO-MA’s work in education, art conservation and in the international art community. During construction, the museum is pre-senting new art exhibits at different sites around the Bay Area.

The museum raised $610 million, with $305 million for the building proj-ect, $245 million for its endowment fund and $60 million for interim program-ming. The expansion project is entirely privately financed, so there is no local hire requirement as on a public project. Webcor is hiring some local workers in compliance with the City’s First Source Hiring ordinance.

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The Golden State Warriors an-nounced plans to build their new arena in Mission Bay, abandon-

ing an original proposal for the project to take shape at Piers 30-32 on the Embarcadero.

The Warriors did not say directly whether the move was a response to Proposition B, the successful June ballot measure that requires voter approval for projects that exceed current height limits along the waterfront. The team had indicated a willingness to take its arena plan for Piers 30-32 to the voters this November. Now, voter approval will not be needed as the new site is on privately owned land, and the proposed 125 foot height of the arena is well below the cur-rent height limit of 160 feet in Mission Bay. The Warriors have not released any preliminary designs for the arena, but said the basic elements planned for the Pier 30-32 project remain the same: an 18,000-seat arena for basketball games, concerts and cultural events.

The Warriors purchased the 12-acre parcel at Third and 16th streets in Mission Bay from Salesforce.com in April. Salesforce had proposed a multi-colored campus complex for the site, but abandoned its plans for the Mission Bay location last year and has leased all the

office space at the tower under construc-tion at Fremont and Mission in the Transbay Transit District.

While Piers 30-32 will remain vacant and still in need of funding for repairs, the Mission Bay location is touted as a win-win and considered ideal as that

neighborhood adds new housing and businesses.

“We believe Mission Bay is a perfect fit,” said Warriors co-owner and CEO Joe Lacob in a press release. “It is a wonderful inland site in a dynamic part of the city that is convenient for fans from all over the Bay Area.”

The new location borders Muni’s Third Street Light Rail and is within a few blocks of Caltrain. BART connects to Muni at the Embarcadero BART station and will also connect to Muni via the Powell Street station once the Central Subway opens in 2018 – just in time for the 2018-19 basketball season.

Lacob noted that the arena will be privately financed and on private land, which he said is virtually unprecedented among major league sports and enter-tainment facilities in the U.S. The trans-action with Salesforce.com involves no public property, he said, and no public subsidy. There are no naming rights or sponsorship rights associated with the transaction, according to the Warriors. The development will also create a new five-acre waterfront park across Terry Francois Blvd. from the arena that will be open and accessible to the public.

“We said all along that we wanted to create a spectacular cultural destina-tion for the City and the entire region,” added Warriors co-owner Peter Gruber.

The team’s Chief Operating Officer Rick Welts commented that since an-nouncing plans to relocate to San Fran-cisco from Oakland, “we’ve spent the last two years listening. We’ve learned a lot. We are proud of the plans we have put forward to date and we’re thrilled to announce this great leap forward.”

The next steps will include more public outreach and public planning and environmental impact reviews before construction can begin. The Warriors expressed confidence that the project would be completed in time for

the 2018 season. The project will be covered by a

Project Labor Agreement with the building trades, with potentially more than 2,000 construction jobs created over the three years of construction and 1,757 permanent jobs created. The team also reached an agreement with UNITE HERE Local 2 in 2012 to “provide a fair process for workers to choose union representation at the food service and hospitality outlets that will be part of the Warriors Arena project on the San Francisco waterfront.” The deal will ensure that restaurant, concession, and food service workers at Oracle Arena preserve their jobs when the San Fran-cisco facility opens.

At the San Francisco Building and Construction Trades Council May Day rally at the Civic Center, Golden State Warriors representative Alix Rosenthal reiterated the team’s commitment to employing union labor.

“The Warriors voluntarily agreed to pay prevailing wages and honor lo-cal hiring,” she said, for the privately funded arena project. “We remain committed to local hire and prevailing wages.”

The team will continue to work with the hotel workers union to keep their workforce at a new arena unionized.

“Our commitment to card-check neutrality remains rock solid,” Rosen-thal said.

The pre-construction contract for the arena was awarded to the union con-tractors Hunt Construction Group and Webcor. Hunt has built many sports facilities around the U.S., including the Barclays Center basketball arena for the Brooklyn Nets, Citi Field in New York for the Mets, and Nationals Park for the Washington Nationals. Webcor com-pleted a major seismic retrofit project for UC Berkeley’s Memorial Stadium last August.

Golden State Warriors to Build New Arena in Mission Bay ♦ Team Moves Proposed Project from Piers 30-32 on the Embarcadero

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The Golden State Warriors plan to build their 125-foot tall, 18,000-seat arena in Mission Bay. The team had intended to build in the Embarcadero.

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Crews of ironworkers are hard at work on the steel-frame office tower at 222 Second Street for developer Tishman

Speyer. Several welders are positioned high above the nearby Marine Fireman’s Hall at the ninth level of what will be a 26-story com-mercial building. Earlier this year, the business networking company LinkedIn announced that it would be leasing all 26 stories – a total of 450,000 square feet with room for 2,500 employees.

Turner Construction is the General Con-tractor for the project, with crews of carpen-ters, laborers and operating engineers. Union employer Malcolm Drilling completed excava-tion last fall. Construction is steel and concrete frame with a glass curtain wall. The exterior skin of the building will be comprised of over-lapping full-floor glass panels. The building will be set back above the 5th floor, and set back further above the 17th floor.

The project on the southwest corner of How-ard and Second streets was approved in 2010 by the Planning Commission. It has been rede-signed since the original approval with the origi-nal design by Tom Phifer modified by Gensler Architects. When completed in early 2016, it will have 447,336 square feet of office space, 5,001 square feet of retail space, two subterranean levels of parking, and 8,500 square feet of public space. The project is registered to meet LEED certification, through the use of sustainable construction practices and building materials. Union contractor Herrick supplied the struc-tural steel and has a large crew of Ironworkers on the project. The company’s logo is visible on I-beams throughout the city.

Steel Rising at Tishman Speyer’s Second Street Office Tower

Once completed, the steel-frame office tower at 222 2nd Street will rise 26 stories and include nearly 450,000 square feet of office space.

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We regret the loss of the following members:

Thomas Bazley – 77, passed away on June 10, 2014 with 52+ years of membership. He is survived by his wife Barbara, son Robert, daughter Belinda and son Martin as well as his three grandchildren Jake, Naomi and Ben. He had resided in Petaluma.

Peter Farragher – 80, passed away on June 13, 2014 with 52+ years of membership. He is survived by his wife Margaret, daughter Marcella (Brian), son Patrick (Randa) and granddaugh-ters Tara and Sarah. He was a native of County Mayo, Ireland and had resided in San Francisco.

50 Year Honorary Members:Raymond R. AyalaMichael A. MartinezFrank Schubert

The following members recently com-pleted their apprenticeship training and were awarded their Journeyperson Certificates:

Ernest E. CanindinJun C. HuangKenneth LowRahsaan McCurnShaun M. Ryan

Political Endorsements At the next regular membership

meeting of Carpenters Local Union 22, a special order of business has been called for the purpose of political endorsements. The format for endorse-ments will follow Section 28 of the Local Union By-Laws. The meeting will be held at 450 Harrison Street, San Francisco on Tuesday, August 5, 2014 at 7 PM.

Endorsements will probably take

place at the beginning of the meeting so be sure to show up on time.

Here’s The Deal by Kenny Lukas

The purpose of the Supreme Court is to insure that human rights, guaran-teed by the U.S. Constitution, are not negatively affected by laws passed by Congress. The Supreme Court’s latest decision seems to be extending these rights to corporations.

The conservative majority on the court decided that a small corporation, Hobby Lobby, was not required to pay for birth control for its employees as

Carpenters loCal 222085 Third Street

San Francisco, CA 94107(415) 355-1322

Fax (415) 355-1422Website www.local22.org

Executive Board

John Finnegan – President Pat Mulligan – Financial Secretary Patricio Cubas – Vice President Frank Masterson – Warden Bob Mattacola – Recording Secretary David Cortez – Trustee Kenneth Ho – Conductor Andrew Devine – Trustee Bill Bergerson – Treasurer Rudy Rodriguez – Trustee

part of its ACA mandated healthcare plan. Hobby Lobby was given this special exemption based on the idea that their religious beliefs were being infringed. The court explained that this decision was tailored to be very narrow and would not affect very many people beyond the Hobby Lobby Corporation. Many folks are nevertheless concerned.

The decision to extend consti-tutional rights to Hobby Lobby, a corporation, was based on the “Citi-zens United” decision that instituted the idea that corporations are people and are entitled to the same constitu-tional protections that were reserved exclusively to individuals. In other words, the court leapfrogged from one questionable decision to another. The question then is, what will the next leap be? Will union actions be constrained? Will unions be considered people in the same way that corporations are? What other human rights will be extended to corporations? There are many ques-tions that have yet to be answered.

Pension Verification FormsIn order to ensure that your form re-

ceives the required union representative signature you may wish to call the hall before stopping by. Due to a reduction in clerical staff hours the finance office periodically experiences closures.

OSHA 10 & 30 ClassesIt is now possible to take OSHA 10

& 30 classes on-line using one of the following websites:www.oshacampus.comwww.oshainstituteofamerica.comwww.myosha30hour.comwww.osha-30.orgwww.osharegulationsafetytrainingonline.org

GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING NOTICE

Tuesday, August 5, 2014 at 7:00PM450 Harrison Street, San Francisco

(located between 1st & Fremont streets)

Parking is available on the street and behind the building.Please bring your current dues card for entrance into the meeting

Gerald Fowler and his wife Derryl stopping by the Local 22 hall.Field Representative Sean McGarry pictured with his son Tristan.

Ivan Lopez was recognized at the July meeting for his completion of the apprenticeship program.

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reminder: All it takes is three events to qualify and to be invited to the annual VAC dinner. Keep in mind friends and family are eligible also. The more the merrier.

A couple of basic things I would like to remind all members. Every third Thursday of every month at 6:30 pm our Local #12 regular call meeting takes place at 2020 Williams Street, San Leandro, CA 94577. I appreciate those members who attend and would like to see new faces and more partici-pation. Secondly, remember to keep all of your check stubs and maintain a daily journal of your work days, hours began to hours ended, includ-

Brothers and Sisters of Local #12,I hope this article finds you well and

I equally hope that you had a fun-filled and safe Fourth of July celebration with friends and family. The work picture has improved immensely and I would like to echo the opportunities available as I wrote in last month’s submittal. Always remem-ber to put your name on the Out of Work list every first day of the month. Currently this month’s list is at a bare minimum, but that should change in the weeks to come. There are a lot of projects out there that are approaching the finished craft stage. Along with these active jobs there are several PLA’s (Project Labor Agreements) in the East Bay area that are being negoti-

ing the job site address. This is a good habit to practice as it can only help you protect yourself. Next I would like to remind you all to stay current with your union dues. If you have not signed up for Automatic Payment of Dues I would advise you to do so. Lastly, remember that you are a reflection of High Performance/High Value and are representatives of your respective em-ployers out in the field. New schedules for STARS are available (July 2014-De-cember 2014) . Thanks for reading, and see you at the next meeting.

Respectfully,Juan P. Calderon

ated and close to finalization. These PLA’s mean more hours for

our members and exposes our compe-tition to our skilled craftsmen. There are certain provisions in these agree-ments that mandate these non-signa-tory contractors to utilize our mem-bership for the labor to be performed. District Council 16 prides itself on being politically involved and sup-ports labor friendly candidates. These councilmembers, vice mayors, mayors, and school district director’s play a major role on these agreements being passed and in place. This leads me to talk about VAC’s and how your help is always appreciated. Just a friendly

From the Desk of Juan P. Calderon

Carpet linoleum & soft tile loCal 12Carpet Linoleum & Soft Tile Workers Local 12

Administrative Office:2149 Oakland RoadSan Jose, CA 95131

(408) 824-1280 • Fax (408) 955-0150President: Dave Ahern

Financial Secretary: Anthony NuanesRegional Offices:

San Leandro - 2020 Williams St., Suite A1, San Leandro, CA 94577(510) 454-8150

San Francisco - 1939 Market St., Suite B, San Francisco, CA 94103 (415) 625-0225

Monthly meetings held every third Thursday of the month at 6:30 p.m. at 2020 Williams Street in San Leandro.

Business Representatives: Tony Tofani • Gene Hopkins • Juan CalderonOrganizers: Lance Ryken • Curtis Day

The cost of these classes will be re-imbursed by the local to members who have been in good standing for at least three months. Members must submit both their OSHA card and their receipt to the finance office c/o Financial Secre-tary Pat Mulligan.

Journey Level Upgrade Courses

If you are interested in keeping up to date with the Journey Level Upgrade Courses that are being offered, or if you are interested in being placed on a wait list for future classes, please visit www.ctcnc.org or contact Field Representa-tive Gilbert De Anda at the local.

E-mail AddressesPlease update your contact infor-

mation and provide us with a current E-mail address. You may do this by stopping by the hall, E-mailing info@local22.org or giving us a call.

Food BanksFor those of us who are in need of

assistance, Carpenters Local 22 has made donations to the San Francisco Food Bank at the encouragement of the Northern California Regional Council. Use this valuable resource as needed. The three dispensaries in San Francisco are:

Old First Church 1751 Sacramento Street (near Van Ness Ave.)Saturday 9 AM

Providence4699 3rd Street (cross street is Newcomb Ave.)Thursday 10:30 AM

Interfaith 1011 Garfield (between Beverly & Junipero Serra)Wednesday 4 PM

Fifty Year Honorary Member Allan Burge.

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Continued from page 1bay, featuring 298 luxury condos. On the Job Site talked with the workers, who shared their excitement about what they do and being in an organization that combines the different unions in the finishing trades.

Gene SoaresTaper

I’ve been in the trade 30 years. I started when I was 18, and it’s changed a lot since then. The trade has evolved with different materials and a different pace of work. It’s getting harder. They want more volume of production and at the same time more perfection. I’m also getting a little older. I’ll be 50 in November, and then in five more years I can retire.

District Council 16 is great for the trades because we have more members and that makes us stronger. When we started, we were just the tapers and painters, and now we are also the glaziers and the floors coverers. Be-fore, it was tough. It was hard to get anything done, and our voices weren’t being heard. Now we have more members behind us.

It’s a good trade to get into, but it is hard work. You get to meet new people, you go to different job sites. It’s not the same thing day after day.

Cedric HilliardPainter

My favorite part of painting is cutting in the trim. I feel like Picasso. You need a steady hand to paint a straight line. It took me a while. But you have to crawl before you can walk.

It’s a great experience being a painter and meeting people in other trades. While you’re doing your own work, you can see what they’re doing and gain a lot of experience. You get an overall sense of the big picture and how we’re all working together mak-ing the building turn out great. That’s what it’s like being part of District Council 16.

On this job you have a view of the whole city. From up here you can see all the cranes. It’s reassuring. I know there is going to be more work when this job ends. Follow the cranes, that’s the name of the construction game.

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James MartineauTaper

When I started we used to be almost all white and English-speaking, but now we have [more diverstiy]. I think it’s won-derful. You become more open-minded. Diversity is always a good thing, no matter what the group.

It’s the same thing about District Council 16. We have glaziers, floor layers, and all the other finishing guys on the job. They recog-nize you. “James, how you doing? We got a contract coming up...” They give us informa-tion about what’s going on in their union, and we give them information about what’s going on in our union. It’s like a big family.

I remember when we were on our own as tapers. There was a lot of animosity and backstabbing, and more politics. Now we get more representation, and that helps out all the crafts as well. When you see the glaziers on the job site you can let them know, “Hey, we’re doing a good job here representing District Council 16, so let’s get together.” We’re a big family, abso-lutely, District Council 16.

José IbarraFloor Coverer

I like doing a quality job. It’s great being part of the finishing group. We’re all working together to complete the building, like one big family looking out for each other. That’s what I like about being in District Council 16. Every job is different, but you get to work with the crew and we all communicate pretty good. I feel blessed with all the work we have right now.

The unique thing about this job is the radius of the wall, and we need a 6-inch border all the way around. Cutting car-pet on a curve is challenging, but after 15 years in the trade I have the feel for it and know the little tricks. What is the trick? Patience.

Chris PaganettiGlazier

I like working in high spots with an in-credible view like this. On top of Rincon Towers you get an incredible vantage point of one of the most beautiful places in the world, San Francisco.

I’m just one of the worker bees. There are so many things to be done. They just give me a task and I jump right in and do it. I help out wherever I can and let the big-league guys deal with the big picture.

I want to feel confident about my work, so that if my boss or the owner of the building came by I would be proud to show them the work I’m doing. I’d say,“Yeah that’s my work,” and hope-fully they like what they see. I’m about craftsmanship.

Mike SouzaGlazier, Apprentice

The apprenticeship program is pretty good. I go to school every three months to learn more about the trade. Everyone on my job site has been good to me. Overall I’m happy with it. My dad was a glazier, and he’s glad I’m a glazier and in the union.

I like being in a council with the different trades. It bonds us all to-gether as one big team and one big family. That’s what being in a union is all about. We feel like we are all together and not working against each other. It’s pretty awesome.

Ed ColónPainter

Being a painter is lovely, and the people you meet on the job are wonderful. When you start work it’s all bare sheet rock and spackling. When you leave at the end of the day, the walls are painted nice and solid, the trim is done, and it is just a good feeling.

We all get along much better, now that everyone’s in the same organization. Now we’re like one team. Before people argued and fussed a little, but now you get on jobs and it’s organized a lot better.

The benefits are good for the kids, and so is the money. You start the day early, get the job done, and leave early enough to get the rest of the things you need to do during the day done.

German PerezFloor Coverer

I like looking back at the job and see-ing how nice the carpet looks and knowing I did a good job.

My favorite job was doing my church in San Mateo. I was happy I could help them. Every time I go to the church I remember I did the carpet. My kids and my friends know, the carpet looks great, and it makes me feel great.

I’m happy to be in the union with all the benefits and know I have a retirement. And being with all the other trades makes it even better.

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iBew loCal 6International Brotherhood of

Electrical WorkersLocal Union 655 Fillmore Street

San Francisco, CA 94117(415) 861-5752

Timothy J DonovanBusiness Manager-Financial Secretary

Unit Six, Sound & CommunicationsThursday August 14, 20144:30 P.M.

Retired Members-Senior SixesThursday, August 21, 201410:30 A.M.

Unit One, Inside WiremenTuesday, August 26, 20144:30 P.M.

Executive Board Wednesday, August 27, 20144:30 P.M.

Unit One Committee MeetingTuesday, August 5, 20144:30 P.M.

Unit Five, Muni Railway Shop Wednesday, August 6, 20144:30 P.M.

Executive BoardTuesday August 12, 20144:30 P.M.

General Membership Wednesday, August 13, 20144:30 P.M.

MEETING NOTICES 55 FILLMORE STREET

Best wishes to our recently retired members:

DAVID A. BURROWSKENNETH C. GAUCHIRONALD J. GOODINGJOHN M. LAPPIN, IIIBRIAN W. LIVELYREGINA L. PUCCINELLIJAMES E. WHEELER

We extend our sympathy to the family and friends of Joseph D. Lynch, Retired Cable Splicer, who passed away on June 8, 2014, and to the family and friends of Jeff Hope, Retired Material Handler, who passed away on June 23, 2014.

Business Manager-Financial Secretary/Delegate: ................................... John J. Doherty

President:  ...................................................... Michael McKennaVice President: ............................................... Jeff B. HawthorneRecording Secretary: ...................................... Mary Cordes-HutchingsTreasurer: ...................................................... Steve Passanisi

Executive Board:Anthony “Tony” SandovalRon LewisJose Fuentes AlmanzaDavid McCarrollRuss “Big China” Au Yeung

Examining Board:Doug WylderChantel LewisCyrone Byrd

Delegate to International Convention:Stephen M. PowersMatt BambergerMary Cordes-HutchingsTom O’RourkePhil A. FarrellyMichael McKennaJeff B. Hawthorne

Unit One:Carlos Salazar, ChairKevin Tumminia, Co-ChairBrendan Greene, SecretaryIan Rodriguez, Member at LargeJesus Nevaraz, Member at LargeElected 6/24/14 at regularly scheduled Unit One meeting

Unit Five:Unit committee election postponed until Sept 2014 meeting

Unit Six:Joe Hagan, ChairPat Walter, Vice ChairIsaac Lipfert, RecorderMike Arrastio, Committee MemberLouis Lima, Committee MemberElected at June 12, 2014 regularly scheduled Unit Six meeting

IBEW Local 6 2014 Election Results

I recently attended a meeting in San Diego to discuss partnering with the Sierra Club on Clean Energy and Renewables. The Sierra Club can help prioritize and move policies that create IBEW jobs. They will educate key environmental partners about our values and priorities. Together we can tap into new networks in the green industry; the Sierra Club has indus-try relationships we don’t have and can facilitate introductions. Govern-ment directives to improve Energy Efficiency, Clean Transportation and Renewables are initiatives that pres-ent major opportunities for the IBEW to expand into new markets. We can accelerate California Advanced Lighting Controls Training Programs (CALCTP) efficiency retrofit work in California. Electric Vehicle EV charg-ing infrastructure statewide using Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Train-ing Program (EVITP) will be acceler-ated. Supporting policies that would continue construction of utility-scale renewable projects and partner to help

organize the solar-leasing side of the industry. This is another example of how to work together for the better-ment of the industry.

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE NEW OFFICERS

Congratulations to all the new officers at Local 6. As new officers, you are the life blood of the Local and many responsibilities are now yours. The charge of spending your members’ money wisely, of investing sensibly and maintaining conditions and respect for our members that so many members have fought for in the past. Although all of you new leaders come from the Inside branch of Lo-cal 6 please remember that you have the responsibility to represent every IBEW Local 6 member when mak-ing decisions. Reach out to the other branches; Sound & Communications, Residential, Material Handlers, Pacific Fire Alarm, City and County of San Francisco, Golden Gate Bridge, MTA, BAE Ship and Marine, CBS Outdoor and Golden Gate Sign and others to educate and support them in follow-ing our Bylaws and Constitution. Our strength is in unity. We are the premier Local in the whole IBEW, from coast to coast. All the Collective Bargain-ing Agreements have been bargained for and approved by the members and need to be enforced and interpreted consistently. I’m sure you’ll do a good job protecting and advancing Local 6.

The election had a rather large turnout this year. It is great to see younger members turn out to support the very important process of elect-ing the decision makers for the Local. This involvement shouldn’t stop now.

Ask questions, volunteer and see how you can help out. Thanks to the Election Committee of Bill Cirimele, Election Judge; and members Jerome Pagan, Greg Montarano, Troy Acev-edo and Jeff Ranta, for all the work running a complicated process and working such a long day.

At this time I would like to thank the membership for allowing me to serve you as Business Manager-Financial Secretary over the last two and one half years. Also thanks to the staff that have worked so hard with me during the last fifteen years pro-tecting the conditions that have been established in Local 6 over the years.

Leaving office along with me are Ramon Garcia, Organizer/Business Representative, a member in good

standing since 1999; Luz Maria Rodriguez, C&CSF Rep/ Business Representative; Tom O’Rourke, Dis-patcher/Assistant Business Manager; and Steve Cloherty, Organizer. All these representatives will continue to be loyal members of Local 6 and productive employees for our signa-tory contractors. I appreciate their service and commitment to our union cause.

A special thank you goes to John O’Rourke, International Representa-tive for the Ninth District, and Emily O’Rourke-Russie for years of dedica-tion and energy given so generously to Local 6.

In BrotherhoodTimothy J. Donovan

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Senior SixesGreetings from the Local 6 retiree

club. We wish all our brothers and sisters a good summer with your family and friends.

The Senior Sixes gather every third Thursday of each month. Social hour begins at 11:00, and lunch is served at noon in the Local 6 auditorium. An exception is September 18th. That day the retirees and their guests will meet for this years’ summer barbecue at Junipero Serra County Park in San Bruno.

Our lunch menus are prepared by the seniors in the hall kitchen, if you have an idea for an entrée let John Walsh know. We welcome new cooks, and the Senior Sixes will reimburse for the cost of supplies. Thanks to the volunteer chefs who have stepped forward this year, especially the Cendak family and

Ken Mesita for the great meals they have put together for us.

Each month EISB mails a notice to the retirees with that month’s luncheon menu and who will be cooking. If you’re not getting this mailing, call EISB and let them know to add you to the list.

Remember to let John Walsh know a week ahead of time if you plan to attend the meeting. It is important that the chefs get an accurate count for the lunch menu. John’s phone number is (415) 337-6158.

A few of us got together after June’s meeting to play golf at the Golden Gate Park 9 hole golf course. It was fun and relatively quick, and we made plans to do the same after July’s meeting, so bring your sticks and join us.

See you at our next meeting.

— Steve Walsh, PS.

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Total Pension – $12.77 per hour [1.35 per hour: $9.02 DBP; $3.75 RSP]

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Apprentices Wages Pension1st 12 months 40 % $23.53 $0.003rd 6 months 45 % $26.47 $5.754th 6 months 50 % $29.41 $6.395th 6 months 55 % $32.35 $7.026th 6 months 60 % $35.29 $7.667th 6 months 65 % $38.23 $8.308th 6 months 70 % $41.17 $8.949th 6 months 75 % $44.12 $9.5810th 6 months 80 % $47.06 $10.22

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SIGN DISPLAY & ALLIED CRAFTSLOCAL UNION 510

Established March 10, 1900250 Executive Park Blvd., Suite 4850

San Francisco, CA 94134(415) 468-7280 – Fax (415) 468-4004

Joe Toback, Business RepresentativeOwen Murphy, Business Representative

Josh Ende, Field Representative

Office hours: 8:30 am – 4:00 pm Monday through Friday

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Novem ber N A S S 2014 Mo s co n e S FD C 11/ 7 12- 14 900 S a m s u n g D ev el o p ers Mo s co n e W 11/ 8 11- 13 S p eci a l SF A ut o Mo s co n e N , S FD C 11/ 18 22- 29 F u ll Ha ll C he c k w w w .l oc al 510.or g f or t he m os t r e c e nt s how and t r ai ni ng s c he dul e i nf or m at i on.

Our e-mail addresses have changed

Please note and change in your ad-dress books:JoeToback, jtoback@local510.orgJosh Ende, jende@local510.orgOwen Murphy, omurphy@local510.orgJean Wisecarver, jwisecarver@local510.orgJanet Cacherelis, jcacherelis@local510.orgJohn Kyle (JATC), jkyle@local510.org

New contractors with Local 510:

We have several recent additions to our signatory contractors: Beyond Exhibit Logistics, Tru Services, Tricord, OnSite Exhibitor Services

As the paper goes to press, we’ve just passed through the 80th anniversary of Bloody Thursday. On July 5, 1934, in the heart of the Great Depression, there was a fight on the waterfront when striking Longshoremen confronted strikebreakers at the port and the police responded with teargas and shotguns to an angry scene. Ultimately two men died and many were injured. Thousands of union supporters turned out on July 9 in a funeral proces-sion that stretched for a mile and a half down Market Street to mourn the deaths

of Nicholas Bordois and Howard Sperry. The San Francisco Labor Council voted on July 14 to call for a general strike. The strike lasted four days and paralyzed the city. The Longshoremen eventually won a decent contract with improvements to wages and benefits, and most important-ly a Grievance procedure and an end to the “Shape-up” with the establishment of a Hiring Hall. The results of the General Strike were that San Francisco became recognized as a Union city and all work-ers benefited from the unity of action that followed the death of two men and the sacrifice of many. It’s important for us all to pay tribute to that effort. Our own Local may not have seen the estab-lishment of its hiring hall if it weren’t for the precedent of unity set in that general strike of 1934.

We’ve seen the results of unity in our successful fight against Proposition 32. That was a defensive struggle to protect our rights to have a collective voice in the political process. We now need to turn our attention to the assertive struggle for better wages, benefits, and working conditions. Most importantly, we need to find a way to deliver our message that we are an essential part of the local community and to reach our members in more effective ways.

In the upcoming November election it is important for us to focus ourselves in unity, to support the politicians who work for working people. We will be reaching out to our members in the next few months to come together and put in time for the candidates and the issues that affect us all.

Respectfully Submitted,Joe Toback

Our August 13th Union Meeting is cancelled. Joe Toback, Owen Murphy, and Richard Doyle will be represent-ing Local 510 that week at the IUPAT General Convention. Our next regular Union Meeting will be September 10th at 150 Executive Park Blvd.

Local 510 PicnicOur annual summer picnic is scheduled for Sunday, August 3, 2014 at McNear’s Beach in San Rafael. Please RSVP to 415-468-7280, ext. 14 or e-mail jcacherelis@local510.org

LOCAL 510 ELECTION RESULTSJUNE 11, 2014

President: Michael Kraemer

Vice President: Esteban Ferrey

Financial Secretary: Ann Worth

Treasurer: Chris Dichtel

Recording Secretary: Morgan Worth

Trustee for Local 510: Roger Hoff

Warden: William Taylor

Pac/Promo Comm.: Chris Wren, William Taylor, Richard Doyle

Delegates: San Francisco Labor Council – Esteban Ferrey, Michael Kraemer (Esteban Ferrey resigned after the election and Augustin Oropeza was appointed with the approval of the membership) to replace him

Delegate: Alameda Labor Council – Morgan Worth

Delegates: District Council 36 – Michael Kraemer, John Kyle

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Looking Up the HatchInternational Union of Elevator

Constructors Local No. 8690 Potrero Avenue

San Francisco, CA 94110-2117(415) 285-2900 • Fax (415) 285-2020

Eric W. McClaskeyBusiness Manager/Financial Secretary

Greg HardemanInterim Business Representative

Larry BarulichOrganizer

Matt DoranBusiness Representative/Recording Secretary

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SPECIAL CALLED MEETING ITEMS FOR JULY•Swearing in of new Officers•Voting on the 2014/2015 Budget•Purchasing half-page ads in the Organized Labor newspaper’s Labor Day and Holiday editions at a total cost of $2,080.00•Donating $2,500.00 to the Nevada Democratic Caucus to support Local 8’s interests pertaining to changes in the Nevada Administrative Code•Nominations to fill the vacant posi-tion of Business Representative•Donating $20,000.00 to the Local 82 Defense Fund

PER DIEM RATE INCREASEIn accordance with Section VI of the

Traveling Expense Agreements, there will be a $1.50 increase to the current Per Diem rate. Effective July 1, 2014, the new minimum rate will be $79. Please make a note of this on your current wage

card. Minimum means that if your daily expenses are greater than $79, receipts should be turned in for the days that exceed the minimum. If you have any questions, please call your Union Hall.

VACATION PAYVacation Pay accrued from January

1, 2014 through June 30, 2014 is due and payable in full by July 15, 2014. Those who have worked less than five (5) years in the business shall receive Vacation Pay credit on the basis of 6 percent of his/her regular hourly rate for all hours actually worked. Those who have worked more than five (5) years in the business shall receive Vacation Pay credit on the basis of 8 percent of his/her regular hourly rate for all hours worked.

In addition, USE YOUR VACA-TION TIME. The Contract is very spe-cific that all members must use at least the minimum vacation time accrued. Life is too short. Take those vacations.

ELECTION RESULTSCongratulations to the following

newly elected officers for the 2014/2015 terms of office:

President – Jim Leonard, IIIVice President – Kevin WrightTreasurer – Dave GrenfellExecutive Board – Darrin Arbasetti, Pete Tanzillo, Mark Thomas, Nick UrbanWarden – Ray GalvanTrustee – John LeathamJournal Correspondent – Eric Mc ClaskeySan Francisco Building Trades Council – Matt Doran, Del Garner, Greg Hardeman, Eric McClaskeySan Mateo Building Trades Council – Larry Barulich, Del Garner, Dan WiegandSanta Clara Building Trades Council – Terri Carroll, Nick HessSan Francisco Labor Council – Bruce Agid, Matt Doran, Mike Hansen, Greg Hardeman

I would like to welcome Mark Thomas to our Local 8 Executive Board, our new Warden, Ray Galvan, and con-gratulate all returning members. I look forward to working with our new group of officers in the coming year. As Elected Officers, you represent Local 8 and the

IUEC; do so with pride and profession-alism, our membership deserves no less.

SPECIAL ELECTIONAt our June general meeting, Del Gar-

ner announced that he will be returning to the field at the end of June. I would like to take this opportunity to thank Del for his service to Local 8 as Business Representa-tive. Del has done an excellent job repre-senting our membership and handled the many responsibilities of the Office with professionalism. He represented us well. I wish Del the best of luck at his new posi-tion and thank him for the outstanding job he did for the membership of Local 8.

The departure of Del creates a va-cancy in the office of Business Repre-sentative that will be filled by a special election. Local 8 will hold a special election in accordance with our Consti-tution and By-Laws to fill this vacancy. As stated earlier, the July 16 meeting is Special Called for nominations to fill the vacant office of Business Represen-tative. By the end of August our newly elected Business Representative will begin serving the members of Local 8. The results of the special election will be announced in the coming months.

Enjoy your summer and be safe,Eric W. McClaskey

MEETINGS

San FranciscoDATE CHANGED DUE TO IUEC NATIONAL MEETING Wed., August 27, 2014, 5:30 p.m.690 Potrero Ave.

SacramentoWed., August 6, 2014, 5:30 p.m.Sheet Metal Apprentice and Mechanic Training Building1624 Silica Avenue.

RenoThurs., July 31, 2014, 5:30 p.m.Nevada Building Trades Hall1819 Hymer Ave., Sparks, Nevada

FresnoWed., August 13, 2014, 5:30 p.m.Piccadilly Inn Airport5115 East McKinley Ave., Fresno.

We are now using the Local 8 website as an additional means of notifying our members of upcoming Special Called Meeting Items at our General Meetings. The website address is www.iuec8.org.

plasterers and Cement masons loCal 300

Plasterers and Cement Masons Local 300

Main Office: 8400 Enterprise Way, Suite 111, Oakland, CA 94621-1310

Tel: 510-430-9492 • Fax: 510-430-9183Michael J. Moylan, Acting Business Manager

West Bay Office: 150 Executive Park, Suite 1000, San Francisco, CA 94134

Tel: 415-468-4411 • Fax: 415-468-7121David Johnson, Business Agent

Field Reps: Emilio Aldana, Gary Clark, Henry Jimenez, Greg Levy, Jose Mendez, Chris Knerr, Keith Shanks, Marshall Vasquez

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sprinkler fitters loCal 483Sprinkler Fitters and Apprentices Local No. 483

Of the United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipe Fitting

Industry of the United States and Canada, AFL-CIO

2525 Barrinington Court, Hayward, CA 94545(510) 785-8483 – Fax (510) 785-8508

Business Manager/Financial Secretary: STAN M. SMITH

Business Agents:Rick Mangan, Tony Rodriguez, Tony Santana

Organizer: Michael Murphy

Meetings are held onthe 4th Wednesday of each month at 5:30 p.m.

SPRINKLER FITTERS U.A. LOCAL 483 OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT

APPLICATION INFORMATION FOR THE APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAMVisit our Website @ www.sprinklerfitters483.org

TO: All Interested PartiesSUBJECT: Application for Apprentice Sprinkler Fitter U.A. Local 483

WHEN: APPLICATIONS ARE CLOSED UNTIL JANUARY 2014VISIT OUR WEBSITE FOR UP-DATED INFORMATION WHERE: SPRINKLER FITTERS U.A. LOCAL 483APPRENTICESHIP TRAINING CENTER2531 BARRINGTON COURT HAYWARD, CALIFORNIA 94545(510) 782-9483

REQUIREMENTS: At time of application, applicants must bring proof of comple-tion of high school (diploma or transcript). G.E.D, certificate of proficiency or DD-214 is acceptable.

Applications must be filled-out at the Training Center.

Applicants must be at least 18 years old, and must show proof of age at time of application.

Driver’s license, picture I.D., passport or birth certificate will be accepted.

A valid Drivers License is required at time of indenture and dispatch to employer.

Applicants must be physically fit to do the work of the trade, and will be required to work anywhere within the nine (9) Bay Area Counties. Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY: Recruitment, selection, employment and training of Apprentices will be without discrimination because of Race, Color, Religion, National Origin, Age, Sex or Physical Handicap as required by Ca. Admin.Code, Chapter 2. Veterans are encouraged to apply.

WRITTEN TEST: Only qualified applicants will be notified by mail regarding date, time and location of the next written test. Check our website for current information.

ORAL INTERVIEW: Only applicants who successfully pass the written test (Mini-mum of 70%) will be eligible for the oral interview.

ELIGIBILITY LIST: Applicants will be placed on the apprentice program eligibil-ity list based upon the written examination and oral interview. Hiring is usually done in February & August.

HOURLY WAGE: Starting Wage: $20.70 Per Hour plus the fringe benefit package.

THIS ANNOUNCEMENT DOES NOT GUARANTEE EMPLOYMENTWE ARE AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

(Revised 11/08/2013)

roofers loCal 40United Union of Roofers, Waterproofers

& Allied Workers Local Union No. 40150 Executive Park Boulevard

Suite 3625San Francisco, CA 94134Phone: (415) 508-0261

Fax: (415) 508-0318

STEVEN TUCKER Business ManagerBRUCE LAU Secretary/Treasurer

LARRY HAMILTON President

It is July and just about everyone is working. There was a little rain forecast at the end of June, which was encourag-ing news.

Special Call MeetingThere will be a Special Call Meeting

July 17 at 7 p.m. at the Union Hall for the allocation of the 2014 pay raise.

Dues and Death Benefit‘Monthly Dues’ in July go up from

$26 to $27 (working dues), $20 to $21 (non-working dues), and dues for re-tirees from $10 to $10.50. The increase all goes to the International to fund the ‘death benefit’ tied to the ‘Membership Card’, which can be between $1,200 and $5,000 depending on how long you have been a Member. If you are more than 3 months behind on your dues (consid-ered ‘in arrears’) your family will not get the ‘death benefit.’

Member MilestonesThere are seven members getting ‘20

Year Pins’ this year. Jimmy Gomez at Western, Martin Medrano at Izmirian, Daniel Orta-Diaz at Rainbow, Leo Soto at Lawson, David Molina, Walter Grigsby and Juan Morales. They all became Members in 1994. Of the 2,900 guys who became Union Members nationwide in 1994 about 300 are still active, about 10 percent.

What did the Local look like in 1994? Stan Warren became the new Business Agent in April 1994. We were just com-ing out of the 1991 recession. Locals 40 and 81 didn’t get a pay-raise in 1992. Na-tional unemployment was a little under 7 percent. The Union Meeting nights were changed from the 2nd Tuesday to the 3rd Thursday of the month (so this marks the 20th year of Thursday night meet-ings). Dues were $21/month and retirees dues $7.50/month. The ‘door prize’ was

changed from .50/member to $1.00/mem-ber at the meetings.

The President of the Union was Leo Juarez who would continue until 2010 as leader – a record 21 years (the aver-age President serves for four years). The Vice President was Larry Hamilton who would also continue until 2010 – a record 29 years (the average Vice President serves about 5 years). Larry Hamilton was the Sec-Treasurer, the Warden was Marlin Thompson (who has been in that position for a record 23 years – the average is nine).

In RemembranceAs a side note, four officers have died

while in office: Business Agent Thomas Tarpey (born 1898), the 3rd Internation-al Vice President out of San Francisco (1942-1947), died July of 1947 at age 51. When Tom died James T. Reilly (born 1910) who was the ‘Recording Secre-tary’ for Local 40 and President of the ‘Western States Council’ took his place as the 10th International Vice Presi-dent. Jim would continue until 1953. At that time Local 40 was allowed two delegates to the 1954 ‘Chicago Roofers Convention.’ He lost the delegate seat to Thomas Moore (Local 40 Sec/Treasur-er) by one vote. At that time you had to be elected by your local Union to go to the Convention in order to be an Inter-

national Vice President, thus, he lost his ‘International VP Office.’ At the 1954 Convention a resolution was drafted and passed which stated a VP no longer had to be elected by a Local Union in order to be seated at a convention, but it was too late for Jim. He was President of Local 40 eight times and in 1945 was the Sec-Treasurer. He was very much in-volved with the Apprenticeship Program and later, I believe, went to work for the State Apprenticeship Board. He pulled a Withdrawal in 1967, and his Card expired in 1971. I will discuss the other three officers in August.

I am saddened to have to mention the passing of Manuel Tirado of West-ern Roofing. He worked his entire 19 years there.

Keep CoolIt is summer and I hope everyone

has a good one. It is often quite hot in the Bay Area, so here’s a small roofing tip: a hose with a nozzle on a shingle job works quite well. If you hose down the shingles you are working on, they will not ‘markup.’ You can mist your buddies also. I learned that trick from Ernie Andrews at ACME in 1979. Never forgot it.

Bruce

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2014 Chapter MeetingsAll Chapter Meetings are cancelled in September

Union Annual Picnic Sept. 13, 2014 at Great America

First Tues., 6 pm Monterey, 3120 Del Monte Bl., Marina (Round Table Pizza) First Wed., 6 pm San Jose, 2102 Almaden Road,

First Thurs.,7 pm Sacramento, 2840 El Centro Road First Fri., 6 pm Fresno, 324 E. Shaw (Ramada Inn)

Second Tues, 5 pm San Fran, 4935 Junipero Serra, Colma (Round Table Pizza) Second Thur., 5 pm Oakland, 10806 Bigge Street, San Leandro (Union Hall)Third Thur., 6 pm 1120 North Main Street Manteca (Mountain Mikes Pizza)

Come share your ideas, concerns and suggestions!

BAC 3 Bricklayers & Allied Craftworkers10806 Bigge St.

San Leandro, CA 94577Phone: (510) 632-8781

Website: www.bac3-ca.org

David Jackson, PresidentTony Santos, Secretary-Treasurer

Field Representatives – Gary Peifer, Troy Garland, Randy Smith, Steve Kantoniemi

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From Steve’s Desk:As of July 1, 2014 I was told that

there are currently 49 construction cranes in San Francisco. I am not sure if this is true, but what I am sure of, and as anyone who may have driven through San Francisco knows, there are many cranes and construction sites through-out our beautiful city by the bay. A few notable tall tower projects currently under construction with multiple B.A.C. contractors working on them are One Rincon Hill Tower II, D & J Tile Co. is currently on-site; 45 Lansing (an all-union project), CMU being done by Fitzgibbon Masonry; 535 Mission Street, a new office tower, tile and stone installed by Rinaldi Tile & Marble Co.; and 100 Van Ness, 400 units of living space, tile and stone work installed by Premier Stone and Tile.

As the temperature rises we need to discuss HEAT SAFETY. Water, rest, shade; all are needed on projects expe-riencing extreme heat to help keep you and co-workers safe and help prevent heat illness. Heat related illnesses, such as heat exhaustion and heat stroke, oc-cur when your body can not keep itself cool.

HEAT EXHAUSTION: Happens when your body gets too hot. It can be caused by physical exercise or work-ing in hot weather or hot weather in general. You may experience such things as: heavy sweating, feeling weak and/or confused, dizziness, nausea, headache and fast heartbeat. Dark-colored urine also indicates dehydration. If you think you have heat exhaustion, get out of the heat and sun quickly. If possible, get in a building with air-conditioning, if there is not a cool building find a cool shaded area and drink plenty of water. Do NOT drink alcohol or caffeinated drinks, these may make it worse. Try to cool down by applying cool water to skin and take off tight and unneces-sary clothing. If heat exhaustion is not treated, it can progress to heat stroke.

HEAT STROKE: Is when the inter-nal temperature of the body reaches 104 degrees F. This can happen from strenu-ous exercise or work, or when exposed to very hot temperatures. It can also happen after heat exhaustion that isn’t properly treated. Heat stroke is much more serious than heat exhaustion. Heat stroke can cause damage to organs and brain. In extreme cases, it can kill you. Symptoms of heat stroke are: high fever (104 degrees F or higher); severe headache; flushed or red appearance of the skin; lack of sweating; dizziness and feeling light headed; muscle weakness or cramps; nausea and vomiting; fast heartbeat; fast breath; feeling confused, anxious or disorientated; or seizures.

If you think someone might have heat stroke, call emergency medical personnel immediately.

Get them to any cool or shaded area available to you. Cool them down with cool water, ice or ice packs and fan them down until help arrives.

In closing I just want to remind our members with the coming hot months to work SAFE, work SMART, and when working in the heat and sun, do not forget, you need WATER, REST, and SHADE. And please inform the Union or representative of any jobsites where cool clean drinking water is not available.

Regards, Steve Kantoniemi, BAC LOCAL 3.

BAC LOCAL #3, CA is now on Facebook and Twitter. You can get our tweets to your phone by texting Follow baclocal3ca to 40404. You do not need a twitter account to get our “Tweets”; they will come to your phone. Or you can check on your home computer by setting up an account at www.facebook.com or www.twitter.com: Search for BA-CLocal3CA You can also “like” us from our website at bac3-ca.org

Out of Work ListAll BAC active members please

remember to call the hall at 1-800-281-8781 whenever you’re out of work to be put on the out of work list. This is important, especially, for one who is collecting unemployment benefits, or on self-pay. To qualify for self-pay, your name must be on the Union’s out of work list during the time period you are not working. You may call in any day to be put on the out of work list but we have a weekly check in on Mondays before noon, to maintain your name on the list. Lists are updated every Monday afternoon; and then distributed to all Field Reps. If you are collecting unem-ployment insurance you must register as out of work with the union in order to qualify for benefits. The Employment Development Department (EDD) can call to confirm a members’ registration as out of work. While this has not hap-pened recently, we are obligated to use the out of work lists that are on file. If you have any questions regarding our policy about the out of work list please call us. • Please notify the Union office at 1-800-

281-8781 if you have any changes in your personal information such as; Address; Phone Number; or Change of Beneficiary.

• Important Dues Information – Please be aware that BAC Local 3 no longer accepts cash for dues or initiations. All payments must be by check, money order, Visa or Master Card.

• The following Administrators should be notified if you have a change in your marital status or have a child. (New dependents must be added within 30 days of qualifying events such as marriage, divorce, birth or adoption of a child.For all Tile members; Allied Ad-

ministrators at 1-888-877-8363; For the Brick, Marble, PCC and Refrac-tory members; BeneSys at 1-888-208-0250.

SERVICE AWARDS (JULY 2014)25 year members: Richard Mattei,

James Ridge.Congratulations to you all for your

many years of service. Thank you for your dedicated service!

IN MEMORIAM I am sorry to announce the passing

of our Brothers:

Donnie Barnes, 19CA Metal Polisher5/22/14 13 yrs member

Paul Duran, Jr., 07CA Marble Mason2/10/14 44 yrs member

heat & frost loCal 16Heat & Frost Insulators and Allied Workers

Local Union No. 16, AFL-CIONorthern California – Northern Nevada

3801 Park RoadBenicia, CA 94510

Office: (707) 748-1616 • Fax: (707) 748-1620

MELVIN BRESHEARS .....BUSINESS MANAGERCHRIS GREANEY ............BUSINESS AGENTMARK PLUBELL .............BUSINESS AGENTBILL HODGES .................PRESIDENTDALE HUDEC ..................VICE PRESIDENTFORTINO CURIEL ...........ORGANIzER

SEPTEMBER 2014

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Madison Hull – Business RepresentativeJosh Ferguson – President

glaziers loCal 718 Glaziers, Architectural Metal & Glass Workers

Union Local 718 of San Francisco1939 Market St., Suite BSan Francisco, CA 94103

(415) 625-0225Fax (415) 553-5955

Madison Hull – Business RepresentativeJosh Ferguson – President

Meeting DatesGeneral Membership:August 12, 2014 – TBDSeptember 9, 2014 – 6:00 PM

North Bay:August 19, 2014 – 7:00 PM1180 Industrial St., Petaluma, CA.

Executive Board:August 26, 2014 – 6:00 PMSeptember 23, 2014 – 6:00 PM

DDO/HOLIDAYS:August 29, 2014 – DDOSeptember 1, 2014 – Legal HolidayNovember 11, 2014 – DDO

In Memory:Our Condolences go out to the fam-

ily and friends of Jeffery Tomich.

Sick/Injured:We wish a quick and speedy recovery

to Dan Stachel.

From the Desk of Madison Hull:As we pass the halfway point of 2014

and head into the third quarter we hope everyone has had a positive, productive and active year thus far. The Bay Area market continues to boom and we are slowly starting to see our out-of-work list start to move guys back out into the field. At the time of writing this article we have 37 Journeyman and six Appren-tices on the out-of-work list. Some of the BIG projects expected to break (for our craft) anytime soon are as follows.• Lumina 655-unit condo development

at 201 Folsom Street• 222 Second Street 26-story office tower

• 1400 Mission Street 190-unit devel-opment

• 350 Mission Street 30-story office tower

• Arden by Bosa 300-unit develop-ment at Mission Bay

• 45 Lansing 320-unit development• Transbay Block 6 406 Luxury units

and 147 af-fordable units at Folsom & Fremont Street

• 399 Fremont Street 452-unit development

• 2558 Mission Street 114-unit developmentThe new STAR

training sched-ule for July 2014 through Decem-ber 2014 is now available online at www.dc16star.org. Also, the new SCT I & SCT II class schedule was just recently released for the West Bay cycle - the next SCT II class will be held in Petaluma at; 1180 Industrial Street. If you have not yet had a chance to attend this series of training I encourage you all to do so.

In closing, all of our thoughts and prayers are extended to the family and friends of brother Jeffery Tomich. Jef-fery started his apprenticeship in the early 1980’s in Los Angeles and ven-tured to Northern California shortly

Members of Glaziers Local 718 on the job site at 535 Mission Street.

thereafter. He last worked for Enclos as the Quality Workforce Safety Manager at the San Francisco General Hospital Expansion. Jeffery was a 2nd Genera-tion Glazier, a skilled craftsman, a son and a brother. He is greatly missed.

We are always looking for more members to get involved with our Union. I understand it’s not always easy or convenient to come to every meeting,

but try to attend a few. See you at the next meeting, which

is always the second Tuesday of the month at 6:00 P.M.

Fraternally,Madison HullBusiness RepresentativeGlaziers Local 718District Council 16

All members classified as active and working at the trade should have received by the U.S. Postal Service a notice of a special-called meeting to discuss and vote on the proposed language changes to the Master Labor

Agreement. The Executive Board voted unanimously to accept the proposed language changes and forwarded them to the members of Local No. 34. The Executive Board is recommending a yes vote. The meeting will be held on Thurs-

pile drivers loCal 34Hammers and Leads

PILEDRIVERS LOCAL 3455 Hegenberger Place

Oakland, CA 94621Phone: (510) 635-4227

Fax: (510) 635-1234Jim Johansen, President Richard Foster, Vice PresidentPat Karinen, Financial Secretary-Treasurer, Senior Field Rep.

Field Reps.: William Burton, Martin Espinoza, Jim Johansen

day, July 24, 2014 at 8:00 p.m., so please show up and make your voice count.

Also, you should see an increase of $1 per hour on your paycheck beginning July 1. If you don’t see the increase on your paycheck, please contact us at the union hall and we will work to straight-en the situation out. The one dollar is across the board for all members work-ing under the terms and conditiosn of the Pile Drivers Master Labor Agree-ment.

Don’t forget about our annual Old Timers Benevolent Motorcycle Run, which is coming up on Saturday, September 20. It will start at the hall

and proceed through unknown areas and end up at the Wild Idol Saloon in Byron. This event gets bigger and better every year and the prizes are nothing to laugh about.

I want to express our condolences to the family of Jack Nixon, long time member of Pile Drivers Local Union No. 34. Brother Jack passed away on June 17, 2014 and was a member for 49 years.

That’s all for now. Keep it safe. We don’t need any more accidents out there. If you think you are working in an unsafe environment, pick up the phone and let us know.

From the Desk of Pat Karinen:

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Deadline for the Next Organized Labor: Aug. 4

Unions Belong to Us All

Lately I’ve been studying the words of labor figures of past times who had the greatest success at achieving results

that improved the quality of life for working people and their families.

Without a doubt, there is a constant theme in their words and their approach. It is in their understanding that the essence of what a union is comes from no one person or single narrow concern. Rather, a union is defined by its course, its mission, to bring working people together, united, to bring better lives to all.

That mission never changes, even if some-times, individual workers and leaders may lose sight of it. Individual workers and leaders do change. Leaders come and go. Some hang around too long. Others burn out too quickly. The mission remains consistent.

Murray Kempton, a great journalist and a union activist with the Communications Workers of America, told his fellow workers:

“The union is not for yourself but for your children. It does not arise to avenge the past but to claim the future. It is an expression not of the dignity of its leaders, but the dignity of all. It was not called into being to celebrate the majesty of one person; it does not live to serve the self-indulgence of another. It is not property but mission. Anyone can belong to a union; but a union belongs to no one, and least of all to anyone who is ashamed of where he or she came from, and is indifferent to those he or she left behind. The union leader is not the owner of an institution; he or she is the caretaker of a tradition.”

A hundred years ago, labor leader Samuel Gompers spoke of unions bringing a recogni-tion of the interdependence of working people upon each other to work together to improve life for all. In his era, that recognition was necessary to improve terrible working conditions we now consider unthinkable, but were then very real.

“We aim to establish a normal work day, to take the children from the factory and workshop and give them the opportunity of the school and the playground. In a word, our unions strive to lighten toil, educate their members, make their homes more cheerful, and in every way contribute an earnest effort toward making life the better for living.”

These goals could be reached, he explained, through the unified, economic and social power of the workers. “Through the devel-opment, the organization, and exercise of this economic power, the workers themselves establish higher standards of living and work.” Giving employers a streamlined well-trained work force through a partnership, not through oppression and degradation, the employer is entitled to a profit, and the workers are entitled to a life.

Yes, those century-old words and thoughts still matter greatly today. Samuel Gompers would surely be outraged by the recent com-ments of Paul LePage, the Republican gover-nor of Maine, who wants to put children back in the factories. Maine’s child labor restric-tions date all the way back to 1847, but here in 2014, LePage is advocating putting children as young as 12 to work. Even worse, he said he would allow employers to pay them less than the minimum wage. The unthinkable could become real again if we let guys like Governor LePage undo what past generations of unified workers and enlightened employers accom-plished together.

A half century after Samuel Gompers, la-bor leader George Meany saw it the same way:

“The basic goal of labor will not change. It is, as it has always been, and I am sure always will be, to better the standards of life for all who work for wages and to seek decency and justice and dignity for all Americans.”

He added: “Labor never quits. We never give up the fight, no matter how tough the odds, no matter how long it takes.”

These profound words from the great labor figures of the past remain as true and relevant as ever today. The journey never ends and the job is never finished.

By Robbie Hunter, PresidentState Building and Construction

Trades Council of California

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A half century after Samuel Gompers, labor leader George Meany saw it the same way:

“The basic goal of labor will not change. It is, as it has always been, and I am sure always will be, to better the standards of life for all who work for wages and to seek decency and justice and dignity for all Americans.”

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affirmed that failure to build it would not stop the oil it would carry from coming from the ground or being used. Additionally, the BCTD was seeing opportunities to organize in the Southeast through relationships with the petroleum industry, which saw its workforce aging and retiring and needed us for our training programs. As the Emerald Cities Collaborative in San Francisco was on the verge of producing more work for us, the Secretary believed that our continuing involvement was worthwhile.

2. The Land Use and Economic Development Committee of the Board of Supervisors had sent on the transfer agreement for Treasure Island from the Navy to the City to the full Board, where its approval was likely.

3. The Secretary and our attorney, Sharon Se-idenstein, had met with Supervisor Malia Cohen on the Schlage Lock project. We had discussed issues of prevailing wage on the project and the concessionary counterproposal Universal Paragon had made to our draft project labor agreement (PLA). We had also told the Supervisor that she should expect a letter from our community allies next week on a possible community benefits agreement.

4. Supervisor Jane Kim had introduced for the November ballot a so-called “metering” measure that would tie approvals for market-rate housing citywide to the production of thirty percent “affordable” hous-ing in any given year. The Mayor had introduced a countermeasure with a “poison pill” that would void Kim’s measure if his obtained more votes, and his was said to poll better. Supervisor Kim had introduced two identical measures, one in a form amendable until July 22. It was possible, then, that after a cooling off period Supervisor Kim and the Mayor would negotiate to bring their two measures into accord.

5. The Board of Directors of the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway, and Transportation District, on which the Secretary served, would decide next week on funding of a suicide barrier.

6. In a grassroots move unsanctioned by their locals or the Council, Iron Workers had stayed home from work on several jobs June 18. When we received word of the action, we had used the mechanisms available to us under our project labor agreements to assure that the covered jobs would be crewed.

7. A ceremony for the completion of tunneling for

the Central Subway had been held June 16 at the tunneling machine extraction site. Outside the event several Trades representatives had participated in a rally to extend to the subway to Fisherman’s Wharf. Politicians at the ceremony had noted this and ex-pressed support for the extension.

8. The Secretary had attended the campaign kickoff June 14 for Supervisor Cohen’s reelection.

9. Approvals for a major tenant improvement project at 2 Henry Adams had been continued three weeks at the Land Use and Economic Development Committee of the Board of Supervisors while issues of business tenant displacement were addressed.

10. Forest City had decided to go to the ballot in November for approvals of its project at Pier 70. The developer would present on the project at the Board of Business Representatives meeting June 24.

11. The State Lands Commission might decide today on whether or not to proceed with a lawsuit against Proposition B.

It was moved, seconded, and carried to approve the Secretary’s report.

PICKET SANCTIONS:It was moved, seconded, and carried to approve

the following sanctions:1. Plumbers 38 against Terry Mechanical at 1355

Market;2. Operating Engineers 3 against the Aggregates

and Concrete Association of Northern California citywide; and

3. Operating Engineers 3 against Crane Owners Association citywide.

NEW BUSINESS:It was moved and seconded to authorize the

Secretary to work to establish a nonprofit for Trades education and to use the Member Communication Fund for this purpose. The motion was defeated.

REPORTS OF UNIONS:Greg Hardeman of Elevator Constructors 8 re-

ported that he had been appointed on an interim basis to replace Del Garner as Business Representative.

The regular delegates meeting adjourned at 6:30 p.m.

Respectfully submitted,MICHAEL THERIAULTSECRETARY

DELEGATES MEETING MINUTESJune 24, 2014

The Board of Business Representatives meeting of June 24, 2014 was called to order at the union hall of Electricians Local 6 at 10:05 a.m. by Chairman pro Tem Tony Urbina.

ROLL CALL OF OFFICERS:President Larry Mazzola and Vice President

Victor Parra excused; Secretary Michael Theriault present.

SPECIAL ORDER OF BUSINESS:A Special Order of Business was called to listen

to Jack Sylvan, James Ostrom, and Kelly Pressler of Forest City Regional present on the Pier 70 project and their measure for the November ballot.

Vice President Tim Donovan arrived at 10:25 and assumed the chair.

After answering questions from the Representa-tives, Mr. Sylvan, Mr. Ostrom, and Ms. Pressler were thanked and excused.

Benita Benavides, local hire coordinator under our project labor agreement (PLA) with the San Francisco Unified School District, presented on the program. After answering questions from the Representatives, Ms. Benavides was thanked and excused.

The regular order of business resumed at 10:45 a.m.

SECRETARY’S REPORT:1. Negotiations for a PLA for the Schlage Lock

project faced several hurdles, chief among them the developer’s insistence on a “three bidder” requirement that we viewed as an open door to non-union con-tractors. The Secretary recounted his conversations concerning the project with Supervisor Malia Cohen, our attorney Sharon Seidenstein, and Ken Rich of the Mayor’s Office of Economic and Workforce Develop-ment. The Secretary was seeking another negotiating session this week.

2. Mary Jung, who had stood with us against

Proposition B, would face a challenge to her chairman-ship of the Democratic County Central Committee at its meeting June 25. We needed to turn out to back her.

3. The Secretary discussed measures heading for the November ballot: Supervisor Jane Kim’s “metering” law, which would tie approvals of market-rate hous-ing to a requirement that thirty percent of housing produced citywide in any given year be “affordable;” the Mayor’s countermeasure to Supervisor Kim’s; Su-pervisor Eric Mar’s “anti-speculator” tax, which would impose a transfer tax of up to twenty-five percent on small apartment buildings sold within five years of hav-ing been purchased; and a measure that would sharply restrict Airbnb-type vacation rentals of housing.

4. We had employed mechanisms under our various PLAs to assure that covered work was spared the effects of a recent unsanctioned job action by Iron Workers.

REPORTS OF UNIONS:Tony Tofani of Carpetlayers 12 reported on issues

concerning demolition of flooring. He reported also on an altercation with a representative for developer J.S. Sullivan on a Mission District jobsite.

Vince Courtney, Jr. of Laborers 261 asked that our endorsements for November go on the first page of our website.

James Ruigomez of Painters 913 reported that his local had arrived at a three-year deal for their master agreement, which now faced a ratification vote.

Tim Donovan of Electricians 6 reported that their master agreement had been ratified. He reported also on election results for his local; his successor would be John Doherty.

The Representatives applauded Brother Donovan for his service to the Council.

The meeting adjourned at noon.

Respectfully submitted,MICHAEL THERIAULTSECRETARY

Delegates MinutesContinued from page 5

Delegates MinutesContinued from page 5

4. The Board of Business Representatives had approved an alliance with ACCE, the San Francisco Organizing Project, and the A. Philip Randolph In-stitute to move on parallel tracks toward a PLA and a community benefits agreement with Universal Paragon for the Schlage Lock project. The Secretary and Sharon Seidenstein would meet with Supervisor Malia Cohen to discuss the issue of prevailing wage on the project.

5. Ms. Seidenstein reported progress on a letter of commitment from Giants for a PLA on the Seawall Lot 337 project.

6. Supervisor Avalos had carried legislation to bring San Francisco’s prevailing wage law in line with the State’s under Senate Bill 7 from 2013. The legislation was additionally to extend prevailing wage to private projects on city-owned land. With this, of course, came a requirement for adherence to his lo-cal hire ordinance. The Giants’ Seawall Lot 337 and Forest City’s Pier 70 projects fell thereby under the local hire ordinance. Supervisor Avalos had refused to accept the 25% requirement the two projects had self-imposed under our letters of commitment, but in a last-minute negotiation with the Giants, Forest City, and the Secretary he had accepted the current 30% requirement, along with language clarifying enforce-

ment. The Secretary had reiterated the necessity of tweaks to the “off ramps” in the ordinance.

PICKET SANCTIONS:It was moved, seconded, and carried to grant

sanction to Electricians 6 against the San Francisco Electrical Contractors Association citywide.

NEW BUSINESS:It was moved, seconded, and carried to purchase

one ticket at $35 for the Secretary to the annual awards dinner of the San Francisco Living Wage Coalition.

It was moved, seconded, and carried to contribute $250 to the Humboldt/Del Norte Building and Con-struction Trades Council.

It was moved, seconded, and carried to contribute $250 to the Archie Green Fund for Labor Culture and History.

REPORTS OF UNIONS:The Delegates reported on the out-of-work lists

of their respective locals.The regular delegates meeting adjourned at 6:00

P.M. with a moment of silence for a member of Glaziers 718 who had passed away on a jobsite.

Respectfully submitted,MICHAEL THERIAULTSECRETARY

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