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Sunday March 28, 2004

Hiring Hall statistics for the week ending March 27: 68 Ironworkers (49 Journeymen, 19 Apprentices) were dispatched last week, 12 rows of journeymen on the out of work list.

Hiring Hall at a glance:
Dispatches were issued to the following companies at the listed projects.

*BAR-MOR Steel at Skinner Building Seattle
*Building Specialty System at Eastgate Parking Garage Bellevue
*Erection Co at Battle Simulation Center Fort Lewis, Village at Alderwood Mall Lynnwood
*Evergreen Erectors at 9th and Mercer Seattle
*Garco Construction at Foss High School Tacoma, Madison Middle School Seattle
*George Third at Radar Tower SeaTac, Terminal 46 Seattle
*Howard S. Wright at T-Mobile Bellevue
*International Steel at Auburn High School, Pierce College Puyallup, Washington Veterans Home Retsil
*K & L Rebar at 428 Westlake Seattle
*Lease Crutcher Lewis at Seattle Genetics Bothell
*Northwest Steel Erectors at Mary Bridge Hospital Tacoma
*Pacific Erectors at Safeway Distribution Center Auburn, Home Depot Aberdeen
*Pacific Road and Bridge at Chehalis River Bridge Aberdeen
*ProBell Ontario at Tacoma Convention Center
*Rainier Steel at Sound Transit Seattle, Bellevue Access, Pierce County Terminal Tacoma
*R2M2 Rebar at Life Science Center UW Seattle
*Sellen Construction at Rainier Pacific Bank Tacoma, St. Peters Hospital Olympia, Assumption Church Seattle
*Skanska at Bellevue Square Bellevue
*Southern Steel at Snohomish County Jail Everett
*Sowles Company at Music Ed Building CWU Ellensburg
*Statewide Steel at Everett Water Treatment Facility
*Steel Systems at Marysville Water Treatment Facility
*SW Erectors at Central Terminal Expansion SeaTac
*Triad Mechanical at Wanapum Dam Beverly
*Twin Erectors at Green River Headworks Pump Station Cumberland
*University Mechanical at Nucor Steel Seattle
*West Weld at Parking Garage SeaTac

March 29, Monday morning at dispatch there will be a need for a connector/wire welder in Cumberland, two rodmen in Bellevue, a stick welder at SeaTac and a connector and a boltup at Fort Lewis. Check out the work orders page or option 4 on the phone menu for details on job listings. 206.248.4246 or 888.212.6252

Next Local 86 regular meeting will be April 15, Thursday 7pm at the Labor Temple, 2800 1st Ave, Seattle.

We regret to inform you that George Sindelar past away on March 19. Brother Sindelar was born on July 30, 1940. No other information is available at this time.

On July 1, a $2.10 per hour increase becomes effective. In the counties of Yakima, Kittitas and Chelan the increase will be $1.40. $0.80 is allocated to Health & Welfare. $0.05 is allocated to Apprenticeship. Where do you want the remaining monies allocated? Wages? Pension? Annuity? Please mail in those cards.

On Wednesday May 5, to maintain your name on the out of work list, you must come to the hiring hall and sign-in between 7am and 9am. Sign in will be declared complete at 9am. Sign in by phone is not an option. If you will be unable to come to the hiring hall on Wednesday, you may fax #206.439.1069 or email tabiggins@hotmail.com your request to remain on the out of work list on Tuesday May 4. Members that do not sign in will be removed from the out of work list and will be required to contact the local office to have their name placed back on the list.

To receive online weekly reports and bulletins, email your address to tabiggins@hotmail.com. If you have any questions or if I can be of assistance, please call or email. During business hours, 7 am - 4 pm: 206.248.4246, other times cell 206.510.2327.

Book of the Week: The Great Unraveling by Paul Krugman

If I had a tenth of Paul Krugman's brain and a twentieth of his courage, I'd be the happiest person on the face of the earth. James Carville

If you are going around in circles, maybe it is because you are cutting corners.

God Bless

Red