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| Local Union 1347 IBEW |
Posted 09/16/07 By Walt Howard
Attached is a message from our business manager Steve Feldhaus.
It went out in the mail on Tuesday 9/11/07 to all Kentucky members.
Message from the business manager
Posted 09/10/07 By Walt Howard
I know everyone is used to me reading the very exciting Financial
report at our regular monthly Union meetings, but I also serve on
the Kentucky state AFL-CIO steering committee This year Kentucky
has a very important election, on Nov. 6th we will be electing a
Governor. The AFL-CIO and the IBEW has endorsed Steve Beshear
for Governor and Dan Mongiardo for LT. Governor. We DO NOT
endorse political parties, we DO endorse political candidates who
support us and our issues, please open and read the attached
document on Steve Beshear, these work site leaflets are already out
at some locations, they will be distributed at all work locations
before Nov. 6th. Who you choose to vote for is a personal and
private decision, so get the facts and make an informed decision on
Nov. 6th.
Message From Local 1347
Posted 09/03/07 By Walt Howard
Attached is the link to the Kentucky State Board Of Elections, it has
everything you ever wanted to know about Registering and Voting
in Kentucky but were afraid to ask, it even has a printable
Registration card you can fill out and mail in, so if your not
Registered or know some one who is not Registered, open the
attached link and check it out. " Elections belong to the people. It is
their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn
their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their
blisters. "--- Abraham Lincoln
http://elect.ky.gov/registrationinfo/infoguide.htm
Posted 09/04/07 By Walt Howard
Attached is a Labor Day Message from the Kentucky State AFL-CIO
President Bill Londrigan
Monday, September 3, 2007
Oped / Bill Londrigan
Workers face squeeze
By Bill Londrigan
Special to The Courier-Journal
By Bill Londrigan
Special to The Courier-Journal
For children, Labor Day means heading back to class and saying
goodbye to summer. For too many adults in Kentucky, Labor Day is
just another day spent searching for work. In fact, almost 120,000
people in Kentucky are without jobs this Labor Day.
Across the board, it's getting harder and harder to make ends meet.
The median family income in Kentucky has dropped by 10.7 percent
between the year 2000 and 2005 -- that's over $4,000 lost! The cost
of living itself is getting out of control. Even a simple trip down to
the grocery store or gas station is enough to have people
scratching their heads and wondering, "When did it get so hard to
get by?"
Dwindling retirement benefits are forcing grandparents to move in
with their adult children. Students and their families are staggering
under the weight of college tuition and loans.
Meanwhile, CEOs and other corporate insiders turn a blind eye.
Whereas CEOs used to be paid 42 times more than the average
worker, today they make 411 times as much. The average CEO
earns more on the first day of the year than the average worker
earns all year.
This Labor Day, the health care crisis in America has reached an
apex. Rising health costs are battering families and leaving
businesses struggling to compete. Forty-five million Americans
don't have health insurance, including 639,000 in Kentucky. If
nothing is done, that figure will continue to spiral upward.
This can't be right. American workers are the most productive in the
world and work longer hours than workers in any other developed
country.
We deserve an economy that meets our needs and allows us to
participate in the prosperity our work helps create. And in America,
no one should be without the security of health care for the family.
Ninety percent of Americans believe it is time to reform our broken
health care system. Business is getting on board. Many of the
presidential candidates have heard this cry for help and are
proposing sweeping health care plans that only a few years ago
might have seemed unrealistic. Leaders elected will enter office with
a mandate for change on health care.
But while the ground is fertile for reform, there's no guarantee it will
happen without a major push from working people. That's why this
Labor Day union members are ramping up a major health care drive,
committing the AFL-CIO's full resources to ensuring not only that
this is indeed a turning point in history, but that it turns in the right
direction. We demand high quality, secure health care available to
all. Nothing less will do.
Making health care available to anyone who needs it will benefit
everyone in the long run, giving a tremendous boost to our
economy, allowing businesses to compete in a global marketplace
and create the kind of good jobs we so desperately need.
It's time to put the interests of working families first, not continue to
transfer millions in taxpayer dollars to billion dollar corporations for
illusory promises of good jobs.
We want to hear politicians speaking out about the issues that
concern us -- stagnant earnings, growing income inequality and
insecurity, spiraling health care costs, and disappearing pensions.
We also want more laws to make sure corporations act responsibly
and honor workers' freedom to improve our lives through unions.
After all, unions are the best middle-class booster program in our
nation. Union members earn 30 percent more than workers without
a union, and are much more likely to have health benefits and
pensions. Gov. Ernie Fletcher hasn't done enough to stop the slide.
One of his first actions in office was to make it even harder for
people to join unions.
It's time that our nation's laws and economy worked for everyone.
Working families are watching our elected leaders closely, and we
will keep their actions in mind the next time we head to the ballot
box. This Labor Day, working people are ready to be heard loud and
clear, and we're ready for an America that works for all.
Bill Londrigan is president of the Kentucky AFL-CIO.
Attached is a message from our business manager Steve Feldhaus.
It went out in the mail on Tuesday 9/11/07 to all Kentucky members.
Message from the business manager
Posted 09/10/07 By Walt Howard
I know everyone is used to me reading the very exciting Financial
report at our regular monthly Union meetings, but I also serve on
the Kentucky state AFL-CIO steering committee This year Kentucky
has a very important election, on Nov. 6th we will be electing a
Governor. The AFL-CIO and the IBEW has endorsed Steve Beshear
for Governor and Dan Mongiardo for LT. Governor. We DO NOT
endorse political parties, we DO endorse political candidates who
support us and our issues, please open and read the attached
document on Steve Beshear, these work site leaflets are already out
at some locations, they will be distributed at all work locations
before Nov. 6th. Who you choose to vote for is a personal and
private decision, so get the facts and make an informed decision on
Nov. 6th.
Message From Local 1347
Posted 09/03/07 By Walt Howard
Attached is the link to the Kentucky State Board Of Elections, it has
everything you ever wanted to know about Registering and Voting
in Kentucky but were afraid to ask, it even has a printable
Registration card you can fill out and mail in, so if your not
Registered or know some one who is not Registered, open the
attached link and check it out. " Elections belong to the people. It is
their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn
their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their
blisters. "--- Abraham Lincoln
http://elect.ky.gov/registrationinfo/infoguide.htm
Posted 09/04/07 By Walt Howard
Attached is a Labor Day Message from the Kentucky State AFL-CIO
President Bill Londrigan
Monday, September 3, 2007
Oped / Bill Londrigan
Workers face squeeze
By Bill Londrigan
Special to The Courier-Journal
By Bill Londrigan
Special to The Courier-Journal
For children, Labor Day means heading back to class and saying
goodbye to summer. For too many adults in Kentucky, Labor Day is
just another day spent searching for work. In fact, almost 120,000
people in Kentucky are without jobs this Labor Day.
Across the board, it's getting harder and harder to make ends meet.
The median family income in Kentucky has dropped by 10.7 percent
between the year 2000 and 2005 -- that's over $4,000 lost! The cost
of living itself is getting out of control. Even a simple trip down to
the grocery store or gas station is enough to have people
scratching their heads and wondering, "When did it get so hard to
get by?"
Dwindling retirement benefits are forcing grandparents to move in
with their adult children. Students and their families are staggering
under the weight of college tuition and loans.
Meanwhile, CEOs and other corporate insiders turn a blind eye.
Whereas CEOs used to be paid 42 times more than the average
worker, today they make 411 times as much. The average CEO
earns more on the first day of the year than the average worker
earns all year.
This Labor Day, the health care crisis in America has reached an
apex. Rising health costs are battering families and leaving
businesses struggling to compete. Forty-five million Americans
don't have health insurance, including 639,000 in Kentucky. If
nothing is done, that figure will continue to spiral upward.
This can't be right. American workers are the most productive in the
world and work longer hours than workers in any other developed
country.
We deserve an economy that meets our needs and allows us to
participate in the prosperity our work helps create. And in America,
no one should be without the security of health care for the family.
Ninety percent of Americans believe it is time to reform our broken
health care system. Business is getting on board. Many of the
presidential candidates have heard this cry for help and are
proposing sweeping health care plans that only a few years ago
might have seemed unrealistic. Leaders elected will enter office with
a mandate for change on health care.
But while the ground is fertile for reform, there's no guarantee it will
happen without a major push from working people. That's why this
Labor Day union members are ramping up a major health care drive,
committing the AFL-CIO's full resources to ensuring not only that
this is indeed a turning point in history, but that it turns in the right
direction. We demand high quality, secure health care available to
all. Nothing less will do.
Making health care available to anyone who needs it will benefit
everyone in the long run, giving a tremendous boost to our
economy, allowing businesses to compete in a global marketplace
and create the kind of good jobs we so desperately need.
It's time to put the interests of working families first, not continue to
transfer millions in taxpayer dollars to billion dollar corporations for
illusory promises of good jobs.
We want to hear politicians speaking out about the issues that
concern us -- stagnant earnings, growing income inequality and
insecurity, spiraling health care costs, and disappearing pensions.
We also want more laws to make sure corporations act responsibly
and honor workers' freedom to improve our lives through unions.
After all, unions are the best middle-class booster program in our
nation. Union members earn 30 percent more than workers without
a union, and are much more likely to have health benefits and
pensions. Gov. Ernie Fletcher hasn't done enough to stop the slide.
One of his first actions in office was to make it even harder for
people to join unions.
It's time that our nation's laws and economy worked for everyone.
Working families are watching our elected leaders closely, and we
will keep their actions in mind the next time we head to the ballot
box. This Labor Day, working people are ready to be heard loud and
clear, and we're ready for an America that works for all.
Bill Londrigan is president of the Kentucky AFL-CIO.