regarding the otis order.

can someone dumb down all the legal bullshit and make it a little easy to understand.

The world will not be the same without my friend, John Mitchell.  He will truly be missed!  Rest In Peace!

Much deserved thanks and and kudos to Brother Tom Moore. Tom, your dedication to presenting issues to the membership, that are not only very important to us , but to ALL hard working people, is not recognized enough. Thanks for all of your posts.

                            R.I.P. ICE

Dear Brothers And Sisters,

          We as an organization need to open our eyes to how serious the threat of Non-Union work being performed in our area is going to affect us.I recently was on a job in Brooklyn where they just erected their THIRD hoist using a Non-union shop. I am not talking about operating the car, they are doing the installation of these hoists. I challenged the "men" working for the hoist company and they gave me the song and dance about they would not have a problem taking a Local 1 guy on. The B.A. in the area did come to the job the next day and hopefully something could come out of this. The point I am trying to make is, that we need all the help we could get at this time. Every job counts, make sure we as members protect our own work. If we don't no one else will.

                                  Work Safe

REST IN PEACE JOHNNY BOY!!!!!!!

Happy Fathers day to all fathers grandfathers sons uncles and all Fathers. Please enjoy the day with your family. Regarding the last few posts? How do I feel? Not good on the content, but I'm real encouraged that people I finally paying attention with Unions in general , and specifically here in Local 1 and all IUEC locals . Life is full of challenges, Its how we adress these issues that decides our livelyhoods, get involved, the whole idea or strength in Unions is decided by One Thing numbers, how many people are involved ?? Enjoy the day !! Why Not? Its Our futures.

 United We Stand Divided we suffer

                                     Be Part of the solution

                                      Not the problem

                         Respectfully submitted Brother Brian Link

stay educated, involved and concerned in your Local

I think it's time to bring the union meetings back to Queens - Mahattan just doesn't seem to be working.  We got more people to attend on a snowy February night in Queens than we did on a sunny June day in Manhattan.

So much for making it more convenient for the members.

Happy Fathers Day.

Enjoy this time with your families.

Have a safe day,

Brother Tom Moore

tmlocalone@aol.com

Dear Brother Jim:

Local One IUEC is still fighting to retain our stake in the operations of elevators.

We have over 2800 members in this local and the operations of cars is roughly around 150 members. It is less then 10% of the work that we do. So why would you cut out a business agent if we lost 10 percent of our work. Who takes care of the other 90% of the membership?

Work safe and get involved with the process.

Brother Tom Moore

tmlocalone@aol.com

    I've never seen this before. These turnouts are not good at all .What's best for the Organization is a question we must all ask ourselves. Especially our elected officials.
Business Agent=Servant of the membership for all those who didn't know, Organize and service the collective bargaining agreement is their duty.
From what I see at these meeting's it doesn't look like there's a lot of organizing going on with us right now and Brother Moore you have served all of us well and I believe you will continue to. But one man isn't gonna cut it. Your right.
Lets be real here. It was always about the Operators. Whenever I saw a Business Agent running around nine time's out of ten it was over Operator Business. That's Just my personal experience. What I've seen with my own eye's.
I want nothing more than for us to grow strong and come together.But that's not gonna happen if you don't look at the truth. I've seen enough apathy to last me the rest of my life at these last couple of meetings. I only prey for a bigger turnout at the next one. God Bless and ORGANIZE

So your think less REPRESENTATION is better ??

Brother Mario Vic

I have one ?.Why do we still need a 4th Business Agent being that we lost the majority of the outside hoist work to the Engineers.

Dear Brothers and Sisters:

We are sorry to inform you of the passing of Retired Brother James McGoldrick (father of NEIEP Director Jim McGoldrick). The arrangements are as follows:

Connell M A Funeral Home, Inc.

934 New York Avenue

Huntington Station, NY 11746

(631) 427-1123

Viewing: Thursday 6/15 2pm to 5pm and 7pm to 9pm

Funeral Mass: Friday 6/16 9:30am

St. Hugh Church

21 East 9th Street

Huntington Station, NY 11746

(631) 271-8986

Brothers & Sisters,

I am sorry to inform you that Brother Bill Bennet's wife, Kathleen L. Bennet, has passed away. The arrangements are as follows:

Martin Gleason Funeral Home

149-20 Northern Blvd.

Flushing, Ny 11354

718-359-6300

Wednesday 6/14/06 & Thursday 6/15/06

2pm - 5pm  & 7pm - 9pm

The funeral Service will be held at the funeral home on Friday.

Good Morning Brothers & Sisters,

Being an educated union member WE can't ignore how important it is to be prepared! If you fail to plan , you plan to fail. Regarding some posts on change??? Change if planned, usually is a good thing, the "key" word regarding change is not just the thinking part its all about being EDUCATED! Life is full of changes , Change can be "uncomfortable", we become creatures of habit, we sometimes become complacent. I am not only talking about our union or our international, or even our labor affiliation.

   I'm talking about " life". Don't do the same thing over & over and expect different results! Unless of course you are truly happy with the results. We have become so busy and involved in our everyday lives, some of us have given our VALUES a backseat. Do yourself a favor, absorb all that is going on in the world ( in your local community at home and at work) then make an EDUCATED decision and make a positive choice. Ask yourself? Whats important? for yourself? for your family? both at home and at work. If you can assist someone , just do it! the reward of helping others is such a satisfying feeling. Please be a giver not a receiver.

Lets all start as UNION members by attending as many union meetings as possible. I  cant stress enough how important it is to KNOW your contract, how  can you protect our work? when you haven't read your contract ? Keep checking  union cards and make sure our union is doing ALL of OUR work! As people lets all reach out to others less fortunate then us & help out! Why not? Do it because Its the right thing to do.

  We have our 29th General Convention coming up in September, OUR INTERNATIONAL is a direct result of all the brothers who fought for all we have for over 100 years . They were givers , they knew all about change, I am forever grateful for every brother who served our union proud before us, THANK YOU! The rest of the United States I.U.E.C.  locals have their contract due in July, 2007. I was locked out by EMANY on March 17th, 2005. Why not assist & educate these members who will be facing this challenge in 2007? Lets not forget the unconditional financial support we received during our lockout.

Well I said what was on my mind, thanks for reading and letting me vent. I will always remain an extremely involved, educated , concerned and Proud member of Local 1 I.U.E.C. . In closing I would like to commend brothers Fred Mccourt & Mike Halpin not only for their educated posts , but for making me extremely proud to call them both my brothers.

                         Respectfully Submitted

                          Brother Brian Link

**** We are all responsible for what we do when we put on shoes in the morning, United We Stand . Divided We Suffer

Can we narrow this down a little??? 

Key of comment: "Start thinking about change."