Good day, industry partners. As regional manager covering the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida, I would like to report on the business-development resources available to you as well as some examples of successful campaigns. Three years ago, the SSMRC leadership team put in place the regional directors’ positions. These positions allow the directors the time and […]
Until 2018, Local 216 journeyman Trampas Jackson had spent all of his adult life serving in the military or in a federal job, but when it came time to chart a new course in his life, he chose the work of a millwright in the SSMRC.
The pandemic has caused accelerated attrition rates for experience and talent across a variety of industries. Whether due to safety restrictions, health risks, or simply workers discovering they can make do with less, we are facing a serious shortage of labor far ahead of the time we expected. The education system in this country has been slow […]
Business Partners, First, I would like to say thank you to the many great SSMRC business partners, whether you are a partnering contractor or a facility owner. My staff and our members thank you as well. Without you, our membership would not have the opportunity to support themselves and their families under the conditions they […]
There are hundreds of millwright positions coming up in March spread out between the four states of the Western Region of the SSMRC. We have multple power generation projects kicking off the first week of March and the petrochemical industry has been running hard since January and will increase exponentially as we get into March. […]
Spring outage work is very busy for our members across the Central Region. We have many automotive and 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. […]
Local 1263: We are working with the following contractors at the listed facilities. Vulcan- Plant Bowen Emergency Outage. Cleveland Electric- ongoing maintenance. Ally Rigging- shop work ongoing. RCC – Plant Vogtle work in Waynesboro, Georgia, is beginning to downsize Player- shop work IPC Lydon – Hartsfield Airport Maintenance. Openings available Action – ongoing work […]
Q1 2022 Civic Action E-News: Council leaders meet with Georgia gubernatorial candidate and Alabama politicians; Right-to-work amendment on Tennessee ballot; Rule unjustly burdening unions overturned; and more
Helmets to Hardhats has partnered with Milwaukee tools to offer giveaways for its weekly Worksite Wednesday posts. Each veteran featured in the posts will receive a free tool package from Milwaukee Tools consisting of a jobsite speaker and a compact cooler.
The new millwright and carpenter training center in Russellville, Arkansas is about 85% complete. With square footage between 20,000 and 30,000, the new center will provide two-to-three times the space of the existing facility.
A bill in the Georgia House of Representatives would change the definition of “employment” to include “services performed by an individual for wages” unless the individual is free from control or direction over the performance of such services.
Workers at a Bessemer, Alabama, Amazon warehouse are voting for a second time in less than a year on whether to join a union. If they vote in favor this time, the Bessemer facility will be the first unionized Amazon warehouse in the United States.
President Joe Biden signed an executive order Feb. 4 requiring project labor agreements on federal construction projects that cost more than $35 million. Project labor agreements are collective bargaining agreements between building trade unions and contractors that determine wages, employment conditions, and dispute-resolution processes.
A law enacted in Tennessee last year with the help of the Southeast Carpenters Regional Council will make it tougher for unethical contractors to get away with not paying workers’ compensation insurance premiums.
The Office of Labor-Management Standards has rescinded a Trump-administration rule that imposed unjustified and burdensome paperwork requirements on labor unions.
Focusing on a case that began in Iowa with the North Central States Regional Council of Carpenters giving aid to six construction workers who were starving, NBC Nightly News broadcast a special segment on wage theft in the construction industry.
In a meeting with Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams on Jan. 31, SSMRC leaders discussed labor issues including visa-program abuses, project labor agreements, and tax and workers’ compensation fraud by unscrupulous contractors.
In a blog post in January, U.S. Secretary of Labor Mary Walsh shared news of a report that was sent to Congress that highlights the Employee Benefits Security Administration’s commitment to ensuring access to treatment for mental health conditions or substance abuse disorders.
A provision of the American Rescue Plan Act allocated $65.1 billion to every county in the United States. According to the National Association of Counties, this funding is providing “direct, flexible aid.”
Efforts continue in the U.S. Congress to pass Build Back Better legislation that would assist working families with child- and elder-care costs, reduce health-care costs, housing, and education costs, and invest in union apprenticeships, rural communities, and union-built clean-energy projects including wind-turbine installation.