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2011 Union Meeting Schedule

Meetings begin at 6:00 PM at the Empire Room on the NYS Fairgrounds

July 5^th Tuesday

August 2^nd Tuesday

September 6^th Tuesday (Retirees Dinner)

October 4^th Tuesday

October 31^st Monday (November Mtg)

December 6^th Tuesday (Christmas Party)

Apprentice Fund Raising Efforts

Apprentices Donate Toys at Auburn Memorial Hospital

The First and Second Year Apprentice Classes have been busy helping the needy this season through their fund raising efforts. They organized and implemented a bottle & can drive to raise money, a canned food drive, and collected   donations from various donors.  They donated food and money to the Food Bank of CNY, purchased toys for children unfortunate enough to be hospitalized during the holiday season and donated hats, gloves, mittens and other necessary items to area school children.

The result of those efforts are:

• $5,000.00 total donations from the Can Drive
• $2,350.00 in toy distributions to four area hospitals
• 1,695 pounds of food delivered to the Food Bank of Central New York
• $500.00 in hats, mittens, scarves, boots and coats to various schools

The apprentices are proud of their communities, and when asked why they decided to shoulder these projects, the reply was, “Because someone has to.”

2011 NEC Books

2011 NEC Books are in and they are available for distribution to active Journeyman Wireman members at this time.  If you are an active Journeyman Wireman working with an apprentice you can authorize your apprentice to pick yours up while (s)he is at the Training Center attending class to save yourself a trip.  There is a card in the Training Center that you can fill out and sign.  Your apprentice can just trade the card for your copy of the 2011 NEC Book.

NEC Tabs

NEC Tabs are available for purchase, they are still $7.00.

• • Apprentice Email Notices
  • Union Meeting Dates
  • 2008 NEC Books
  • OSHA 10 Hour Training

Apprentice Email Notices

If you are an apprentice interested in receiving up to date notices from the training center, and we do not already have your email address on file, please email your current email address to Melissa Caldwell.  If you have a change of email address let us know.

Union Meeting Schedule

2008 NECBooks

The new code books are still available to qualified members at the training center. Feel free to call with questions.

OSHA 10 Hour Training

As you have probably already been made aware, the New York State Department of Labor has made some changes regarding OSHA training requirements. The change states that on projects of at least $250,000, all laborers, workers and mechanics on the site must be certified as having successfully completed the OSHA 10-hour construction and health course.   The OSHA 10 legislation does not apply to projects advertised for bid prior to July 18, 2008, and only applies to workers on a public work project that are required under Article 8 to receive the prevailing wage.  For more information please refer to NYSDOL Worker Protection.

You can enroll in an open course by going to the Course Info page of this site and following the instructions given there. Apprentices – do not enroll in this course, your training will be scheduled within your class. Questions can be directed to Peter Dulcich, Training Director.