Extras May Be Needed In Early February
Extra workers may be needed to work at AAOS at Moscone Center in San Francisco, or at other Bay Area trade shows in February. It's possible that Extras could be needed as soon as Wednesday, Feb. 2, but the most likely work days will be Friday, Feb. 3 and Monday, Feb. 6 for the setup, and Friday, Feb. 10 for the teardown.click here for more information.
As the end of our contract nears, the members of Local 510 are coming together in "Special" meetings to discuss core issues. In February there will be a meeting on Thursday, the 9th, at the Marine Firemen's Hall (map). The subject will be "Medical and Pension Plans & Benefits".
New Year, New Actions
On Friday January 20th the Labor is again joining forces to support the Occupy Movement to stop corporate greed. Events are scheduled to take place in Justin Herman Plaza and throughout the financial dictrict at various time during the day. For more information please visit the Occupy Wall St. West website.
PAC / Promo
At every regular meeting, we the members of Local 510, decide which community efforts to support. Recently we decided to support the "We Are The 99%" and #Occupy with the above banner.
Signs of the Occupation
UPDATE: This event has been postponed due to rain. It has been tentatively rescheduled for next Sunday November 27.
The Occupy SF Group at Justin Herman Plaza is planning an art construction day on Sunday November 20. They would be delighted if some Local 510 members with expertise in signs, banners or puppets would join them between 8am and 1pm. They have many actions planned over the next few weeks and could use our help. If you would like to join us down there at the foot of Market Street, call Bob Owen (415) 472-0825 or (415) 497-7543.
Contract Proposal Addresses and Numbers
Local 510 Proposals Committee
250 Executive Park Blvd. #4850
San Francisco, CA 94134
Email: jlw510@sbcglobal.net
Fax: (415) 468-4004
Streets of Gold
Roger Clark stands in the middle of a curb-to-curb carpeted Mason Street at the JAVA show.
Lee Nephew
A benefit was held for Lee on Saturday November 5th. For those unable to attend but who wished to contribute; you can send a check to Lee's address, 2555 Sir Francis Drake Blvd. Apt.#23 Fairfax Ca.94930. You can make them out to 'Lee Nephew' directly. He also has a Facebook page click here for updates and more information.
Above It All
Carol Sconzert and Frank Ramirez put the finishing touches on the Intel logo window graphics.
Swing Stage as seen from below, Moscone West.
Happy Labor Day
May The Dreamforce Be With You
The army of Dreamforce Ambassadors poses for a group photograph on the steps of the newly refurbished Moscone North's lobby.
And A Good Time Was Had By All!
As Emmet Corrigan put it so eloquently:
Perfect picnic. Lotsa varied foods. Sun shining. Kids squealing. Our new leaders leading. Volunteers arriving early and staying late to set up and dismantle (just like a gig at Moscone). Lots of hugs and laughs and with no loud music a chance to talk, yeah, actually talk.
We honored Mike Hardeman's 49 years of service (he's a 49er!). Also there was 91 year old Alice Kane, the grandmother of Local 510, humbly accepting our thank yous.
Lee Nephew looking fit and smiling. Larry Kincaid looking dapper. Some blasts from the past: Bala and Helen Matthews.
We have matured as a group and its not just our advancing age. I felt this was a gathering of us not just as co-workers, but as a gathering of friends. I'm proud to be a 510er.
Local 510 Apprenticeship Program
Local 510's open enrollment for apprentice applicants is closed. Please click here to register on our show of interest list and we will notify you the next time enrollment is open. In the meantime you should keep checking our extras tape at 415-675-9707 for the possibility of work.
No Cuts to Social Security or Medicare!
Any national budget deal that allows for cuts to Social Security or Medicare is a non-starter for anyone in the trade union movement. We stand up for working men and women from when they first begin the burden of having to punch a time card and have the responsibility of providing for themselves and their families. We are never rich. Sometimes we have enough to sleep well and smile. But even in America we are never completely comfortable. That's why we continue to fight against the greed of the corporations and the bosses.
The union movement fought for Social Security and Medicare. The simplest safety nets -- the backbone of our accomplishments; the basic pillars of our compassion. Anyone who diminishes these programs is a traitor to the American working class.
Call your Congress members and Senators and tell them that you will not tolerate any cuts to Social Security and Medicare. Look up your Representatives click here or use the local phone numbers below.
Senator Barbara Boxer: (415) 403-0100
Senator Dianne Feinstein: (415) 393-0707
Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi: (415) 556-4862
Congresswoman Jackie Speier: (650) 342-0300
4.9 Decades
Mike Hardeman has been a member of Local 510 for 49 years. At the July 13th Union meeting John Kyle presented him with a lapel pin to honor and celebrate all those years of membership in and service to Local 510.
Election Results
Elected DC36 Business Representatives
Owen Murphy
Joe Toback
Elected Local 510 Trustee
Roger Hoff
Elected DC36 Delegates
Michael Kraemer
John Kyle
Elected S.F. Labor Council Delegates
Paul Greenberg
Agustin Oropeza
A List Dispatch Message
The 800 number for the A List is no longer in service. Please call the 415 number to listen to the A List message.
Local Support for the Wisconsin Protests
The events in Wisconsin (and across the US) are simultaneously terrifying and inspiring. It has been many decades since this many people have poured out to support workers and their simple right to negotiate their own working conditions, but this is also an unprecedented attack on the working class.
Instead of calling public sector unions to the negotiating table in the face of a fiscal crisis (the blame for which falls at the feet of politicians and the bankers who lobby them, not the workers), Wisconsin Gov. Walker's proposed legislation removes the negotiating table....forever.
Similar legislation has been presented in Ohio, Indiana, New Jersey and Oklahoma, and this wave of anti-union finger pointing is sure to intensify. For two weeks now, facing temperatures well below freezing, tens of thousands of demonstrators have descended on the Wisconsin capitol, and have occupied the building day and night in protest. Our hearts are with them in their fight - united we stand, divided we fall.
Here are some links to check out:
The Myth of "Taxpayer Funded" Pension Plans
This article applies to us in 510 as well, and the way we are compensated for our work.
Thousands Protest Anti-Union Bill
An amazing set of photos from the demonstrations in Wisconsin and throughout the Midwest: 100,000 strong in Madison on Saturday 2-27.
First Person Report
A personal account of walking through the occupied Wisconsin State Capitol building.
High School
Local 510 members being trained in the installation and operation of swing stages.
Final Exam
510 members completing the last panel of graphics on the Metreon.
Upcoming Work
November starts off solidly with Audio engneering. Then there's a string of smaller shows but several of them are in the South Bay which create more work opportunities than their numbers might indicate at first glance. Finally the month ends with the Auto Show filling Mocscone Center during the week of Thanksgiving.
For all the times, dates and details please check the Calendar and Schedule.
Reaching High
Chirs Dichtel and Mike Stoltz practice some of the finer points of scaffold assembly during a recent JATC class. Expect more courses to be announced when our work schedule slows at the end of the year.