04/27/05
card number 1179
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Dear Brothers & Sisters: Here is the bill. Please contact your New York State Assembly and New York State Senators about this very important issue. Tom Moore The can sign on as a co sponsor http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=A07433 | Wednesday, April 27, 2005 | | Bill Summary - A07433 | | Back | New York State Bill Search | Assembly Home | | See Bill Text A07433 Summary:SAME AS Same as Uni. S 4672
SPONSOR John
COSPNSR Eddington, Karben, Ortiz
MLTSPNSR Clark, Millman
Add Art 32 SS925 - 935, Lab L
Requires the licensing of persons engaged in the design, construction,
operation, inspection, maintenance, alteration and repair of elevators and
other automatic people moving devices; provides definitions in relation
thereto; establishes within the special revenue fund--other, an elevator and
related conveyances safety program account; and establishes the New York state
levator safety and standards board.
A07433 Actions:04/18/2005 referred to labor
A07433 Votes:
A07433 Memo:TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the labor law, in relation to
requiring the licensing of persons engaged in the design,
construction, operation, inspection, maintenance, alteration, and
repair of elevators and other automatic people moving devices
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL: This bill establishes the Elevator
Safety Act to provide for the licensing and supervision of any person
who constructs, maintains or inspects conveyances including elevators,
dumbwaiters, escalators, moving sidewalks, platform lifts, stairway
lifts and automated people movers. This bill also establishes the New
York State Elevator Safety and Standards Board which will assist the
commissioner and the Department of Labor in governing the licensing
process and administration of the Elevator Safety Act.
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS: This bill establishes Article 32 of
the Labor Law, "Elevators and Other Automated People Moving
Conveyances: Licenses," and includes the following sections:
Sections 925 and 926 establish the purpose and application of new
article 32; Section 927 define terms; Sections 928 and 929 establishes
licensing and permit requirements and procedures; Section 930
establishes the qualifications, training and continuing education
requirements; Section 931 authorizes regulations; Section 932
establishes guidelines and a renewal process for licensing agreements;
Sections 933 and 934 establish the process for investigations,
complaints and enforcement; Section 935 establishes the New York State
Elevator Safety and Standards Board.
JUSTIFICATION: This legislation calls for uniform standards for
elevator construction and maintenance to assure public safety. The
provisions of the bill require licenses and supervision of those
involved in construction, repair or inspection of elevators and
similar conveyances throughout the state. The bill does not apply to
vehicle mounted lifts used by fire departments: such lifts are already
subject to national and state safety codes and standards including the
National Fire Protection Association and the NYS DOL Public Employee
Safety and Health Program. The bill will also establish an Elevator
Safety and Standards Board to help the Department of Labor oversee and
govern the licensing process and enforce safety and compliance
standards.
Recent tragedies that involved poorly maintained and free-falling
elevators highlight the need for minimum safety standards. Now, a
patchwork of different state and local laws and regulations govern the
installation and maintenance of elevators, escalators and other people
moving conveyances in New York State. Elevator safety today can depend
on where the elevator is and also on the building owner. And, there
are few state laws that address the issue of licenses or permits for
elevator contractors.
This bill will set uniform standards and assure people`s safety in
elevators statewide. It will set minimum standards for training,
licenses and permits for elevator contractors and their employees who
install and repair a variety of conveyances. And, it will enforce the
standards to assure compliance and punish violations.
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: A8110A of 2004: Referred to labor.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS: None. The bill provides for a funding mechanism
to offset costs incurred.
EFFECTIVE DATE: One hundred eighty days after the bill becomes law but
regulations can be promulgated and the board appointed prior to the
effective date.
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04/27/05
card number 293
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I called the NEI health benefits office today at 4PM to get the date my eligibility expires. Darlene said that they were told today to tell everyone who calls that the benefits expire on April 30. She said that we would all be getting a letter in the mail in the next couple of days. She wouldn't tell me what happens May 1 if we present our card to a doctor. She just said to wait for the letter. Anyone know what this letter might say?
The EMANY trustees are attempting to deny us health care the way they attempted to deny us access to our money. Hopefully, the arbitrator will be a human being and decide in our favor again. Stay strong.
04/27/05
card number 438
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Does anyone know how to get off EMANY's mailing list?
04/27/05
card number 1613
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Wednesday, April 27, 2005 APPRENTICES NEEDED There are three Apprentice positions available for work in Springfield, MA – Local #41. You will need to be in MA and begin work Monday morning, May 2, 2005. You need to call me directly and speak to me to obtain any of the three positions posted. Call me at 718 767-7004. Selections will be on a first come, first serve basis. Gary Riefenhauser
Local One IUEC – Day Secretary
04/27/05
card number 820
Comments:
Just got off the phone with Annie at our annuity fund office. She was very helpful, answered all of my questions and is sending me all the forms. I just want to thank Ray and all of our other elected officials for this. LOCAL ONE 1, enemy 0. I know this is just the first of many battles but it's a good start. Stay strong. WE WILL WIN.
04/27/05
card number 1623
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Just checked emany website....didn't see anything about losing annuity arbitration.......HUH....That's funny????OH that's right they wouldn't want their people and the public to know what type of lowlife scum they are .......and what they are trying to do to us and our families.
04/27/05
card number 1179
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FREEDOM TOWER FUNK:
PARALYSIS BY PATAKI
Gov. Pataki has a lot of 'splainin' to do when it comes to rebuilding at Ground Zero. All along, the gov has told New Yorkers that everything is hunky- dory with the project — that downright remarkable progress was being made. Yet now — even as excavation work already was supposed to be underway and steel and concrete arriving at the site — New Yorkers are told that "security concerns" are forcing the plan back to the drawing board. "We want Lower Manhattan to be a soaring statement," the governor told The Post yesterday, but it must be built according to "the security standards outlined by the NYPD." In other words, more delay. Which is not just unacceptable. It's outrageous. Just five months ago, Pataki said that by this year "we will begin to see . . . [developer] Larry Silverstein [fulfill] his promise to have steel in the sky for the world's tallest building — the Freedom Tower." By February 2005, he vowed, "excavation will begin for the construction of the tower's foundations. Using hydraulic drills and diesel-powered diggers, workers will break up and remove 18,000 cubic yards of bedrock, creating cavities of up to 25 feet in depth for the building's column footings, which will serve as the roots upon which the tower will grow. "By April of 2005, concrete and steel will arrive for construction. Workers will fill the hollowed-out bedrock with 6,000 cubic yards of concrete that is reinforced with steel rods, forming the foundation for the Freedom Tower." Virtually nothing's happening. No structural steel for the tower has even been ordered. Nobody can say with any certainty when — or even if — the tower will ever be built. So what, exactly, is the hold-up? According to one account, the Port Authority (which owned the World Trade Center) and Silverstein (its long-term leaseholder) had been waiting for a report from the NYPD detailing security threats and recommendations. The report, however, wasn't delivered until April 8 — a day after these pages highlighted delays at the site. Sources say Pataki was extremely "frustrated" that Mayor Bloomberg and the NYPD had failed to provide information earlier on. (Bloomberg spokesman Ed Skyler declined to comment yesterday.) Yet the key players all acknowledge that security concerns were raised early on. Indeed, discussions had been scheduled periodically, sources say, ever since December 2003, when the Freedom Tower became the official plan. Clearly, those talks went nowhere. Given the Port Authority's legendary arrogance and inertia, it's easy to believe that the agency simply — reflexively — ignored the warnings. Until now. Frankly, though, that's not the point. Because neither the PA nor the NYPD are in charge. Gov. George E. Pataki is. He is the one leading the reconstruction project — the man in whose hands its fate now resides. For better or for worse. If the NYPD wasn't providing data quickly enough, Pataki should have demanded it. Hell, Pataki should have thrown a table-pounding fit and made sure all the relevant questions were answered. Instead, he led everyone to believe that Freedom Tower, and everything else on the site, were progressing on course. In fact, the tower — the iconic project meant to reclaim the skyline — was already in trouble when word dribbled out over the weekend that the NYPD had raised security objections. Our own warnings earlier this month of a quagmire at Ground Zero came on the heels of a decision by Goldman Sachs to ditch plans for its building across the street from the site. About a week later, Pataki & Co. canceled plans for a tunnel under West Street that had been cited as one of the major reasons for Goldman Sachs' decision. But here's the most worrisome thought: Maybe the gov, finally prodded to try breaking the Freedom Tower logjam . . . discovered that the logjam couldn't be broken. Maybe he discovered that — as insiders have told us — the Freedom Tower as designed and presented to the public was either 1) unbuildable, 2) too expensive for Silverstein even with insurance proceeds and Liberty Bonds, or 3) too bogged down in a turf war between Silverstein and the PA over engineering, cost and infrastructure issues to be realized without a fundamental redesign. Or maybe all three. Despite Pataki's optimistic forecasts of steel rising by 2006 and completion by 2009, insiders knew it was impossible; up to two years of infrastructure work is needed before any steel can rise, and no one could say with certainty when the underground work would even begin. Pessimism was expressed by Ground Zero participants who requested not only that their identities be concealed, but that certain matters involving Silverstein and the PA not be cited lest they be traceable to the sources. However, it didn't take a sleuth to figure out that there was big trouble with the tower. A few months ago, Silverstein himself — asked whether the off-center antenna and the wind turbines might require a redesign — told The New York Times that the "upper portion" of the building was "in a vacuum." A "vacuum" did not augur well for a structure that's supposed to rise soon — and whose "upper portion" is supposed to reclaim the city's skyline. Another story revealed that the antenna spire was especially problematical and that no one knows who's going to pay for it. A few weeks ago, Kenneth Ringler, the Port Authority's executive director, told a breakfast forum that the project was behind schedule in part because the agency and the developer were still grappling over who was to pay for what. In other words, chaos reigned. Obviously, it still does. Again, that's utterly unacceptable. Remember Pataki's words of five months ago: "I have always known that we had only one choice — and that was to move heaven and earth, not only to restore Lower Manhattan, but to transform it into a community that stood taller and stronger than ever before. . . . By our example, we are to be a shining light of freedom and progress to every nation." Or a laughingstock. It's up to Pataki. |
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04/27/05
card number 393
Comments:
TO ALL BROTHER;S AND SISTER OF NEW YORK STATE , LOCAL;S 1,14,27,35,62,138 IT IS VERY CRITICAL THAT ALL OF US GET THE EARS OF OUR STATE ASSEMBLY AND STATE SENATORS TO SPONSPOR AO7433 ,THE ELEVATOR SAFETY BILL .
HOW SAD IS THAT THE PERSON CUTTING YOUR HAIR NEEDS A LICENSE, BUT HIGHLY SKILLED PEOPLE LIKE OURSELF DON;T NEED ONE , RIGHT NOW ANY SCAB CAN GIVE THIS GREAT TRADE A TRY . KEEP UP THE FIGHT
JOHN RALPH
04/26/05
card number 2358
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THANKS TO OUR HARD WORKING, ASS KICKING UNION OFFICIALS- WE WON A SMALL BATTLE IN A BIG WAR. THANKS TO THE ARBITRATOR WE CAN NOW WITHDRAW OUR F--K--G HARD EARNED MONEY FROM OUR ANNUITY. EMANY SEEMS TO BE GOING THROUGH THIS LEARNING CURVE AND STILL DOES NOT UNDERSTAND THE MEMBERSHIP OF THIS UNION. MAYBE THEY CAN HEAR THIS-OTIS, SCHINDLER AND KONE- GO HOME AND GO BUY YOUR SHINE BOXES, BECAUSE WHEN WE ARE FINISHED WITH YOU, ALL YOU WILL BE ABLE TO DO IN OUR CITY IS SHINE SHOES. THEN YOU COULD INCORPORATE YOUR NEW ADVANCES IN TECHNOLOGY AND THEORIES ON SHIFTWORK IN THE SHOE SHINE INDUSTRY WHILE YOU BUFF MY BOOTS. WHEN I FIRST STARTED IN THIS BUSINESS MY FIRST MECHANIC TOLD ME- IF ITS NOT BROKE THEN DONT FIX IT. SO OTIS, SCHINDLER AND KONE , WHY WOULD YOU TRY TO FIX SOMETHING THATS NEVER GIVEN YOU A PROBLEM OTHER THAN HIRING MORE ACCOUNTANTS TO COUNT ALL THE MONEY AND CALCULATE THE PROFITS AND POST NEXT YEARS PROFIT GOAL? LOCAL ONE IS HERE TO STAY, DEAL WITH US NOW OR DEAL WITH US LATER. PROUD TO BE A UNION ELEVATOR CONSTRUCTOR, NOT SOME SPINELESS, HEARTLESS AND SOULLESS SCAB RUNNING AROUND LIKE A RAT FROM TRASH CAN TO TRASH CAN TRYING TO MAKE MORE MONEY BEFORE THEY ARE LET GO. LOCAL ONE MEMBERS HAVE DIGNITY, PRIDE AND MOST OF ALL- WE ALL HAVE EACH OTHERS BACK. OTIS, SCHINDLER AND KONE NO TO YOUR G.P.S. NO TO YOUR SHIFTWORK NO TO YOUR HOISTING NO TO YOUR 5YR DEAL 7%,7%&7% JUST LIKE THE OTHER HALF OF THE UNION THAT IS WORKING IS ENJOYING. COME BACK TO THE TABLE, COME BACK TO YOUR SENSES AND MOST OF ALL COME BACK UP TO EARTH BECAUSE ITS GOTTA BE HOT IN HELL
04/26/05
card number 1347
Comments:
Just wanted to say hello to all my brothers and sisters from Local 1 and throughout the country. Today is April 26th Tuesday its our 41st day since emany decided to LOCKOUT the brothers and sisters of Kone Schindlerer & Otis> We will continue to educate the public ,we will continue to stay together we will continue to fight for WHAT WE DESERVE !! Fair wages Fair Work Conditions and to once again be treated with respect. I will continue to be an educated ,informed ,qualified UNION MECHANIC! I will continue to fight the fight. I am extremely grateful for the support locally here on Long Island NY and all the unconditional efforts of all the brothers and sisters and our elected officers here in NY & NJ . The support for Local 1 by all the locals around the country & Canada has been tremendous !!! We will never forget ! We will prevail!!! Local 1 is here to stay.I just wanted to take afew minutes & let everyone know how I feel. Once again a proud Local 1 IUEC UNION Brother. Looking foward to getting back to work , looking foward to going back to my SKILLED TRADE. Respectfully Submitted Brother Brian Link Aka Captain America.....God Bless All and KEEP THE FAITH Tough times dont last .....But tough people DO
04/26/05
card number 1961
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This has gotten to a point that i refuse to speak to my father. My father {retired} was vice president construction division for H. J kalikow Inc . Mr kalikow is now the chairman for the MTA appointed by Gov. Patiki. Mr. Kalikow raises our monthly train tickets, subway & bus fares. He recently sells 195 broadway for over 300 million dollars, cause he approved the new subway hub downtown accross the street making the building's value worth more. But what discussed me more was that scabs worked in his building last weekend at 101 park ave.
04/26/05
card number 1961
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hats off to liz neilson. liz has done a great job fighting the fight. keep it up liz.
04/26/05
card number 108961
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Keep up the fight guys were with you all here at local 21 Oh yeah go get em scab hunters scabs suck...
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04/26/05
card number 67189
Comments:
stick with it brothers i support all of you 100% it bothers me deeply what the company's (that locked us out )think of our talent.god bless and stay strong john roberts local 27 rochester ny jatc member
04/26/05
card number 438
Comments:
Nice
04/26/05
card number 2726
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JUST GOT OFF THE PHONE WITH THE ANNUITY FUND, AND THEY ARE TELLING ME THEY ARE NOT PROCESSING LOAN APPLICATIONS AT THIS TIME...THEY SAID MAYBE TOMORROW, MAYBE THE NEXT DAY... THAT IS BULL... THIS IS OUR MONEY IF WE NEED IT WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO GET IT... THOSE SCUM AT SCHINDLER, OTIS AND KONE, LOCKED US OUT. WHICH MEANS INVOLINTARY UNEMPLOYMENT. WHY SHOULD WE WAIT... IT'S OUR MONEY F.U. EMANY. YOU WON'T BREAK OUR UNION... STAYING STRONG... HANGING IN THERE...
04/26/05
card number 8526
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We have ten days to Appeal from mailing date of final determination, for unemployment in NJ.. APPEAL RIGHTS A DETERMINATION BECOMES FINAL UNLESS A WRITTEN APPEAL IS FILED WITHIN SEVEN CALENDAR DAYS AFTER DELIVERY OR WITHIN TEN CALENDAR DAYS AFTER THE MAILING OF THE DETERMINATION. YOUR APPEAL MUST BE RECEIVED OR POSTMARKED WITHIN ONE OF THE APPEAL PERIODS. IF THE LAST DAY ALLOWED FOR THE APPEAL OCCURS ON A SATURDAY. SUNDAY OR LEGAL HOLIDAY. THE APPEAL WILL BE ACCEPTED ON THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY. THE APPEAL PERIOD WILL BE EXTENDED IF GOOD CAUSE FOR LATE FILING IS SHOWN. GOOD CAUSE EXISTS IN SITUATIONS WHERE IT CAN BE SHOWN THAT THE DELAY WAS DUE TO CIRCUMSTANCES BEYOND THE CONTROL OF THE APPELLANT WHICH COULD NOT HAVE BEEN REASONABLY FORESEEN OR PREVENTED. TO FILE AN APPEAL, YOU MAY EITHER MAIL YOUR APPEAL TO THE LOCAL UNEMPLOYMENT OFFICE AT THE ADDRESS SHOWN ON THE REVERSE OF THIS NOTICE OR REPORT TO THAT LOCATION. IF YOU MAIL YOUR APPEAL, GIVE YOUR REASONS FOR DISAGREEING WITH THE DETERMINATION, AND IF LATE, THE REASON FOR THE DELAY. BE CERTAIN THE CLAIMANT'S NAME, SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER AND ADDRESS, IF AVAILABLE, ARE CLEARLY WRITTEN ON YOUR APPEAL. FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION OR ASSISTANCE ABOUT FILING AN APPEAL, PROTEST OR REQUEST FOR RECONSIDERATION, CONTACT THE LOCAL OFFICE.
04/25/05
card number 2178
Comments:
I would like to give a shout out to the AA guys great job, great fight and you guys won....I wish all you guys the very best of luck. TYSSEN you guys got a good crew there. My phone is always on if you need anything..
04/25/05
card number 393
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Hi BROTHER;S AND SISTER WHILE DOING MY DAILY SCABHUNTING, I WAS AT LGA AIRPORT IN THE UNITED TERMIAL AT 630 SUNDAY EVENING,I CAME ACROSS 2 SWINDLER SCABS. SCAB1 WAS JONATHAN FISHER AND SCAB 2 WAS CHRIS SHILDT, AND THERE WERE JUST SO KIND AS TO GIVE ME 1 OF THERE TIMESHEETS. SO TO ALL YOU SCABS WHEN YOUR SCABBING AT THE MAJOR AREA AIRPORTS SMILE AND ''SAY CHEESE'' TO THIS HERE LIMODRIVER WHO ALSO HAPPENS TO BE A PROUND MEMBER OF LOCAL1 AND IF EVERY BROTHER AND SISTER SETS OUT A TRAP WITH CHEESE ,THE RATS DO COME OUT AND BY DOING SO WILL RID THESES COCKROACH SMELLING RATS OUT OF HERE , KEEP UP THE FIGHT
JOHN RALPH
04/25/05
card number 1899
Comments:
There is a new hotel on W13th and 9th Ave. I think it is called the Metro.
Danbo
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