August 8th Update
Now that we have settled our contract, we have time to focus on other important issues concerning all our members such as work and when will we enjoy full employment again. With the economy in the present condition, we can all agree that even though our contract does not please everyone who is a member of our local, the contractors are not feeling victorious in their negotiations either. We are still in tough financial times and hopefullly with the work we now have on the books, we can get all our members back to work soon and keep them all working for a while. We all know that in the construction business, things seem to go in spurts and this is a very unstable economy to make predictions in. We seem to be on the verge of a spurt in growth of the construction market and that is thanks to the Solar projects that are now under way and will be hiring insulators soon in a big way. San Onofre has a 55 day outage coming up next January and will hire sometime in December in preparation for that.
Some of our members are working in Saint Louis on a refinery which is in full swing now. Chicago still has a hundred men on the bench with hopes of work breaking soon clearing their bench as well. Sometimes it seems as though we take one step forward and two steps back. There is work in Ohio but at present time, it is only 40 hours and hireing is sporatic at best.
There has been a long time from the last update to this one. I need to train someone at the hall to make regular updates so this site does not die like the last one did. We have the tools to keep all our members informed using this website and we need to do a better job at getting that job done. I blame myself for the serious lack of content on this site because I have not kept it up since I built it in February of 2009. I need help to keep it running properly and if anyone has any suggestions as to how to best accomplish that, or if you would like to volunteer your time to help with the site, please call the hall and express your desire as to how to keep this site fresh and up to date.
Some of our members are working in Saint Louis on a refinery which is in full swing now. Chicago still has a hundred men on the bench with hopes of work breaking soon clearing their bench as well. Sometimes it seems as though we take one step forward and two steps back. There is work in Ohio but at present time, it is only 40 hours and hireing is sporatic at best.
There has been a long time from the last update to this one. I need to train someone at the hall to make regular updates so this site does not die like the last one did. We have the tools to keep all our members informed using this website and we need to do a better job at getting that job done. I blame myself for the serious lack of content on this site because I have not kept it up since I built it in February of 2009. I need help to keep it running properly and if anyone has any suggestions as to how to best accomplish that, or if you would like to volunteer your time to help with the site, please call the hall and express your desire as to how to keep this site fresh and up to date.
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