June ’23 Labor-Citizen

The IUEC Local 17 Annual Golf Outing will be held Saturday, July 8 at Bunker Hill Golf Course, 3060 Pearl Rd, Medina, OH.  The format will be a lunch served prior to the 2 pm shotgun start with dinner served after play,  Cost is $150 per person.  To sign up for the event visit iueclocal17.org and follow the links to signup your group.

On May 19, Local 17 held the Annual Retirees Dinner at Harry’s Steak House in Independence.   There where approximately 90 retired and active members in attendance.  Gold cards and service pins were passed out to members in attendance.  Notably, there were Gold Cards presented to the father-son duo of Retired Brothers Leon and Ryan Oullette and a special posthumous Gold Card given to Brother Thomas Reitz and accepted by his brother Jerry.  For more photos from the event, go to the local’s website, iueclocal17.org and click on Events.

The local and signatory companies held their first joint quarterly safety meeting.  The committee, made up of representatives from the Locals 17 and 45 (Akron), has the same members as the Collective Bargaining Agreement  requires be designated to handle safety concerns within a given office.  The company members are Bill Scharra for Otis, Dan Schreckengost for Kone, Brian McTaggart for TKElevator, Tom Gombar representing Schindler and Scott Hicks at the table for 3Phase.  Local members can submit safety concerns to Business Manager John Driscoll Jr by emailing him at JEDriscoll@iueclocal17.org or calling the hall at 216-431-8088.

Thank you to retired Brother John Taylor for a successful Hydraulic Controller Troubleshooting class.  Brothers Don Knapik and Tim Narowitz recently returned from Rhode Island after completing OSHA 10 General Industry training.  This certifies them to teach General Industry 10 and 30 hour classes.  Narowitz will be returning to the NEIEP Training Center as soon as the industrial truck certification class is announced in preparation for offering this to Local 17 members.  

NEIEP is offering mentoring opportunities to the apprentices taking online classes.  These mentoring classes are going to be offered over three times zones to those taking classes off site with the same material covered for that week.  If you are working out of town, this is a way to keep up with your school work.

If you are working on a job and suspect Article IV preassembly violations, contact John.  Recently, Otis was cited for violations involving its E-Glide operator.  There were also violations at another job involving 13 cars with 110 doors installed prior to discovery.  The company had to pay to have the violation corrected by our members.

Work at all the majors is picking up as material issues are being resolved.

The Brothers and Sisters of IUEC Local 17 send their condolences to the families of Brother Mike Hogan, retired Brother Mike Moennich and past Local 17 president Brian McTaggart on the passing of their father-in-law Bud McTaggart.

As of this writing there is one mechanic on the bench.