Millwright Local 1192, Mammoet Industrial Services tackle Gulf Coast airport expansion that represents series of firsts |
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Travel to oceanside communities in Alabama and the Florida Panhandle has increased tremendously in recent years, and millwrights from Local 1192 are helping expand the Destin-Fort Walton Beach Airport to accommodate the growth.
Contractor Mammoet Industrial Services and Local 1192 millwrights have been working at the airport since April as part of a $20 million project that includes a terminal expansion, new baggage-handling system, an additional ticketing counter, and more. Mammoet is handling all the millwright work in partnership with Local 1192.
Watch a video about our members' work on the project below.
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Get to know Robert Strickland, a new business agent for Local 1263 |
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Robert Strickland, a former Marine and an eight-year member of Local 1263, which covers Georgia and the Carolinas, began working as a business agent for that local in September.
Strickland said he will draw on his experiences in the field to help him as a business agent. “When things don't go exactly right, it's not always your work partner,” he said. “Sometimes you’ve got to realize there are things you need to correct with yourself. So being able to adapt and interface with the members and build rapport with the contractors, kind of being that median, I think will be a strong part of continuing 1263’s success.”
Click here to learn more about Strickland's journey and his goals as business agent for Local 1263.
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Carpenters' Helping Hands provides grant to Local 1554 member whose home was flood damaged |
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Flood waters rose so quickly on Aug. 21 in Waverly, Tennessee, that Michael T. Davis had to escape his home by climbing through a window and into his boat, which the water had pushed against the house.
The Waverly flood killed 20 people and damaged hundreds of homes when 17 inches of rain fell in a short time span.
Davis, a member of Millwright Local 1554 who works for partnering contractor Palmer Tool in Camden, Tennessee, had been trying the repair the damage himself. On Oct. 1, Southern States Millwright Regional Council EST Wayne Jennings presented Davis with a $10,000 check from the Carpenters' Helping Hands program.
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Meet Robert Mitchell, the new millwright training instructor in Moss Point, Mississippi |
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Watch the video below to see Jeff Smith, SSMRC Central Region director, introduce Robert Mitchell, the new millwright training instructor in Moss Point, Mississippi.
"I look forward to serving my brothers and my sisters in this craft," Mitchell said. "If you keep the right attitude and a teachable spirit, you can reach your goals."
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Local 216:
Local 216 has had several projects kick off and more are coming up. Kimberly Clark in both Maumelle and Conway as well as 3M in Little Rock have started recently. There is a major outage coming up at Green Bay Packaging in Morrilton that will need between 60 and 80 millwrights. There is also balance-of-plant work coming at Arkansas Nuclear One. Along with these recent and upcoming projects, there are a few millwrights working on the Nucor expansion as it is winding down.
Local 729:
Local 729 expects to pick up a few turbine projects in October, with ongoing work at several locations for Siemens and Ethos Energy. The petrochemical work has kicked off significantly with UPS, TISS, Ethos, and Axis all performing work across Southern Louisiana. The work will not slow down, and if you are a member of 729, please make sure to stay in touch with the hall for work opportunities.
Don’t forget that 729 has a training goal to DOUBLE our wage increase, but we need our journey-level millwrights to get into training when they can. Please contact the school at 225-927-6176 for information on class times for the NCCER basic and advanced rigging.
Local 1421:
Local 1421 has continued to have ongoing work at Tesla, with future possibilities still on the horizon. If you are a stainless MIG welder, please reach out to Thomas Brown as there may be long-term opportunities at Tesla for you. We have multiple turbine outages coming in October for Siemens, APM, and Turbine Pros. Additionally we have had projects kick off at Gatorade, Paper Source (Papermill), and the Comanche Peak nuclear outage.
Be sure to be on the out-of-work list if you are available and check with Business Agent Thomas Brown on your safety and skills training. On Oct. 1, the base journeyperson wage will go up by $2.75 because we were able to reach our first safety and skills goal. If we reach the second one, you could earn even more next year.
Local 2232:
The Gulf Coast of Texas much like Louisiana has been slammed with work in the petrochemical industry. UPS, Ethos, TISS, PowerTec, and Axis have all been working and looking for more millwrights to fill positions. There will also be an October project at Toyota in San Antonio kicking off as well as the possibility of turbine work with Siemens and Turbine Pros.
Don’t forget that 2232 has a training goal to DOUBLE our wage increase, but we need our journey-level millwrights to get into training when they can. Please contact the school at 713-641-0275 for information on class times for the NCCER basic and advanced rigging.
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Fall outage work is very busy for our members across the Central Region. We have many power-generation projects taking place now or coming up at various sites as well as paper-mill and refinery work.
Please reach out to your business agent and put yourself on the out-of-work list if you are available for work. If you are traveling outside of your home local jurisdiction for work, check in with the local that has jurisdiction where you are procuring work.
Please take advantage of all opportunities to enhance your skill sets (forklift, welding, aerial lift, rigging) through the training department. As always, let's do things right the first time, on time, every time while being safe, professional, and productive!
We are working with the following contractors at the listed facilities.
Local 1554:
APM
- John Severe Plant – Oct. 11 (21 millwrights needed)
- TVA Allen Plant – Nov. 1 (eight millwrights needed)
GM
- Main kick off of work began Oct. 4 (around 300 millwrights)
- Battery plant work will start around the first of the year (approximately 150 millwrights needed)
Williams Plant Services
- Millwrights will report to TVA CIP for in processing Oct. 25.
Local 1192:
APM
- Theodore: beginning Oct. 20 (12 millwrights needed for two weeks)
- Washington County: beginning Oct. 24 (four millwrights needed)
UPS
- Shell Saraland, began Sept. 22 (eight millwrights for two weeks)
FLUOR
- Plant Barry: A crew is there and work will be ongoing until early December.
Siemens
- Plant Daniels: A six-millwright crew is there until Oct 22.
Boldt
- Pennington Papermill, job was pushed to Oct 2021. No start date as of yet. 2-3 months 10-13 millwrights.
CR. Meyer
- Will be needing approximately 30 millwrights at Pennington Papermill in mid-November.
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Local 1263:
We are working with the following contractors at the listed facilities.
- Vulcan – Plant Bowen outage work through late November
- Southern Air Specialist – Plant Bowen fan replacement
- Ashton – Plant Bowen maintenance
- RCC – Plant Vogtle work in Waynesboro, Georgia, is ongoing.
- APM – Plant Bowen Outage work starting Oct. 14 and Plant Yates maintenance
- Action – Pepsi Stone Mountain, one week remaining
- Atlas – Honda HPPG
- Ethos – Graphic Packaging starts Oct. 14
- IPC Lydon – Hartsfield Airport maintenance
- Western Industrial – two locations, Marietta & Ellenwood
- Griffin Industrial – Amazon in Mebane, North Carolina
- CR Meyer – welding cladding at Greif Paper in Taylors, South Carolina
- Ethos Energy – We will begin work at Plant Wilson in Waynesboro, Georgia, on Oct. 6.
- Griffin Industrial – We will begin machinery installation at Purina Mills in Eden, North Carolina, on Oct. 21.
- CCC – This contractor is currently doing civil work at the Goodyear tire plant in Fayetteville, North Carolina, with UBC members and is actively pursuing the machinery-installation work.
Local 1000
- We have been working power-generation jobs with SGS, APM, and TOPS Field Services.
- Western Industrial is working on a FedEx project at Miami Airport.
- Western Industrial is also working on another FedEx Ground facility in Miami.
- We're back working on the Miami Transit project doing warranty work with Sissco Hoist.
- We are working in Orlando Airport with Vanderlande.
- We're also working at Fort Lauderdale airports with Jordim.
- We are working in the phosphate industry with Central Maintenance, Gulf Coast Industrial, and Preferred Maintenance. There is an ongoing need for millwrights with phosphate mine cards.
- A&B maintenance work at Gopher Recycling is ongoing.
- We have a brand new can plant (Florida Can). We are installing all the conveyors and mechanical equipment.
- We are working in a shingle facility (GAF) for Central Maintenance and Welding.
- We have been doing maintenance and some new installs of equipment in several operational Amazon facilities in Central and South Florida.
- We have upcoming work with APM and SGS for our fall outages.
- Vanderlande is pursuing the maintenance work on the conveyors we installed at Orlando airport
Local 2411
- Coker has picked up some work in Tampa. They are doing one-day outages locally.
- Milton J. Wood has won the bid for GP Palatka. They will be needing 20 millwrights, 10 on days and 10 on nights. We are currently looking to add manpower for this project.
- WW Gay has picked up some work at the JEA Northside plant and will be needing about 10-15 millwrights on both day and night shifts for about three weeks, along with their one-day outages.
- J Williams is continuing with the GP Brunswick maintenance contract. They have picked up the outage every Monday at USG and they are pursuing all other local outages.
- GenIndustrial is working at a local plant and is actively pursuing more local projects.
- Cogburn is currently bidding a project down in St. Augustine, and they will be looking to add about six millwrights to work on that project if the bid is awarded to them.
- Cogburn is also working to secure more local outages and projects throughout the rest of the year.
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Local 1263 member Jessie Patterson has achieved goals quickly in her millwright career and has discovered a passion for helping others do the same. |
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Finding the millwright trade after leaving the military in 2012 took Jessie Patterson several years, but she’s been on a fast track ever since. Patterson joined Millwright Local 1263 in Georgia in 2016, topped out of the apprenticeship program in 2018, and accepted a full-time position as the millwright training coordinator at the Savannah training center in 2020.
“I have had the opportunity to track Jessie’s career from when she first joined the apprenticeship to her journey through it,” said Logan Brown, Eastern Region director of the Southern States Millwright Regional Council. “She has completed every goal that she has set for herself and has done well on every project she’s been on. Jessie has taken ownership of the Savannah millwright apprenticeship program and brings energy and a fresh perspective to the program.
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Congratulations to the following members, who became journey-level millwrights between Aug. 16 and Sept. 15, 2021. |
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Local 216:
Randy Harman
Local 1000:
Omar Diaz
Jason Duckworth
Justin Payton
Local 1421:
William Linton
Local 1554:
Christopher Kyle Marsh
David Wayne McKinsey
Local 2232:
Antonio Gonzalez
Alan Legros
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Local 1192:
Ben Donovan
Markus Hicks
Grant Gable
Stephen Cadle
Jacob Rogers
Robert Ushman
Jerry Copeland
Jamie Olds
Cully Campbell
Sawyer Russell
Karla McGee
Bailey Lowery
Scott Tucker
Corey Norris
William Mahan
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The SSMRC mourns the loss of the following members, who passed away between Aug. 16 and Sept. 15, 2021. |
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Local 1000:
Antonio B. Deguiseppe
Bradford J. Guglietta
William T. Mitchell
John A Palmer
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Local 1554:
Carl Wright, Jr.
Jason Michael Schwall
Local 2232:
Bobby Barnette (passed June 12)
Daniel F. Fortenberry, Sr.
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Labor Department reinstates Advisory Committee on Apprenticeship |
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The U.S. Department of Labor announced on Sept. 20 the appointments of 29 members to serve on the newly reinstated Advisory Committee on Apprenticeship, which will provide advice and recommendations on issues related to registered apprenticeship (union apprenticeship programs are "registered apprenticeships").
William K. Irwin Jr., retired executive director of the Carpenters International Training Fund, is one of the appointees.
“Apprenticeships are a proven learn-while-you-earn method for equipping workers with the skills and knowledge they need to compete and succeed in a growing economy,” said Pam Eddinger, chairperson of the committee.
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Unemployment rate drops to 4.8% |
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In September, the unemployment rate declined from 5.2% to 4.8% and the economy added 194,000 jobs, with upward revisions for the previous two months totaling 169,000. Approximately 78% of jobs lost during the pandemic have been recovered.
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New online course covers U.S. government and labor law |
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All SSMRC members now have access to the United Brotherhood of Carpenters' online course "101 Constitution: U.S. Government and Labor Law," which is hosted online in the Department of Education and Training's Learning Management System. The self-paced, five-part course includes sections on:
- The U.S. Constitution
- How Laws are Made
- Parties and Elections
- State and Local Government
- Labor Law
SSMRC members can play a role in electing candidates who care about issues affecting union workers, our families, and our communities. This course provides valuable information that can shape an understanding of how the U.S. government and its labor laws operate.
You should be able to self-enroll for 101 Constitution at https://ubc-det.carpenters.org/ or by clicking the button below. You will need to log in using your carpenters.org user ID and password. If you have any issues, please reach out to Ron Fritzemeier, IT director for the SSMRC, at rfritzemeier@ssmrc4070.org so he can help you register. |
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UBC vaccine verification system now available |
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To meet the demands of contractors, the UBC has launched an online portal to upload proof of COVID-19 vaccination through Training Verication Cards. The portal can be accessed through the UBC Mobile App or from your TVC Card.
After you upload a photo of your vaccination card and your local training center approves your submission, the image of your card will be removed from the system and no one will have access to it. Learn more and read answers to frequently asked questions here. |
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COVID-19 cases down, but transmission rates still high; public health experts urge continuing precautions |
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COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths are declining nationally and in the South. Still, transmission rates remain high and tens of thousands of Americans are getting sick every day. More than 700,0000 people in the United States have now died of COVID, and deaths continue to average around 1,700 per day. The vast majority of people dying are not vaccinated.
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