Sunday September 4, 2005

Wednesday is sign in day.

Matthew Maguire, while serving as secretary of the Central Labor Union in New York, proposed a Labor Day Holiday. The first Labor Day Holiday was celebrated on September 5, 1882 in New York City in accordance with the plans of the Central Labor Union. The idea spread and by 1885 Labor Day was celebrated in many industrial centers of the country.

Hiring Hall statistics for the week ending September 3: 46 Ironworkers (30 Journeymen, 16 Apprentices) were dispatched last week, 8 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.

*Aluminum & Bronze at North Seattle Residence
*Benson Industrial at Washington Mutual Tower Seattle
*Biwell Construction at South Seattle Community College
*Central Steel at Advance Water Burlington, 2200 Westlake Seattle
*Columbia Basin Rebar at Yakima River Bridge
*Corona Steel at Evergreen Hospital Totem Lake, Issaquah Highlands
*Cruncher Construction at Kearney Road Reservoir Bellingham
*Dahlgren Industrial at Goodrich Aviation Everett
*Enclos Corp at Lincoln Square Bellevue
*Erection Co at Maintenance Facility Seattle, Cancer Care Seattle
*EJ Bartells at BP Cherry Point Ferndale
*George Third at Glacier Concrete Kenmore
*G&T Conveyor at Seatac Airport
*JH Kelly at BP Cherry Point Ferndale
*Norsar Services at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard Bremerton
*Pacer Steel at Kitsap County Credit Union
*PCL Contruction at C755 Sound Transit Tukwila
*Rebar International at C755 Sound Transit Tukwila, C710 Sound Transit Seattle
*Sellen Construction at Washington Mutual Tower Seattle
*Skanska at Aberdeen Hospital, Stadium High School Tacoma, Lincoln Square Bellevue, Cascade #1 Seattle
*Statewide Steel at East Hill Village Kent, Walgreens Des Moines
*University Mechanical at Nucor Steel Seattle, Pioneer Americas Tacoma

September 6, Tuesday morning at dispatch there will be a need for two welders in Everett and two structural hands in Auburn. 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 September 15, Thursday 7pm at the Labor Temple, 2800 1st Ave, Seattle.

On Wednesday September 7, 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 September 6. Members that do not sign in will be removed from the out of work list and will be required to contact dispatch 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.

As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone,
So to yield with life solves the insoluble:
To yield, I have learned, is to come back again.
But this unworded lesson,
This easy example,
Is lost on men.
         Witter Bynner

God Bless,

Red