Sheet Metal Workers'
50th Annual Picnic / Booya
September 9th, 2017
Highland Park Picnic Pavilion
11:00 am to 3:00 pm
All active, retired members and their families are invited
Call Dave Holzer @ 651-262-4391 with questions
2017 Metro Area JATC Journeymen Grads!!!
Names.pdf"LABEL IT * SCAN IT * REPORT IT"
Our Union label is a tool for protecting union jobs, wages, and benefits. And it’s an essential tool for enforcing contracts. The labels encourage employers to use union-made products. For individual sheet metal workers, it means more work, better pay, and healthier benefits.
The blue label is used on production products. The yellow label represents building trades products.
Wage equalization removes the incentive for employers to use yellow-label products fabricated by union workers getting lower wage rates. By scanning the labels to report which shop produced a product, everyone in the process from fabricators to installers gets the highest average crew cost rate.
Everyone benefits from wage equalization. From a fabricator in a lower-rate local who gets a boost in pay from wage equalization benefits to the higher-rate sheet metal workers by removing the incentive contractors have to look for fabricated products from areas with a lower average crew cost. Otherwise, contractors could pursue a race to the bottom that puts pressure on all locals to accept lower wages.
For more information: smart-label-toolkit
UNITED WE BARGAIN, DIVIDED WE BEG
Why "Right to Work" is Wrong for Workers
Click here: Understanding what Right To Work isFomer Secretary of Labor Robert Reich gives a short video on why RTW is wrong.Click the link below.
Local 10 and Local 480 Hold Joint Steward Training
Stewards are at the front line of support for the membership of Local 10 and Local 480. Proper knowledge and training for them has always been important.
International Director of Production Mike LaFave and IA Organizer Tim Hintz presented valuable information and training for over 30 stewards of Local 10 and Local 480 here at Local 10 meeting hall. Knowledge of grievances reporting to contact understating to workman comp was presented to the stewards.
Members Ken Young, Tom Osborne, Ron McGuire and Bob Wewers along with MN Sen Al Franken enjoying the MN state fair while volunteering at the Local 10 booth.
CURRENT JOB POSTINGS:
With the retirement of Pete Parris, Local 10 will be accepting applications for the position of Political Director. Please contact the Business Manager @ 651-249-9116
Local 10 is looking for sheet metal workers with experience in HVAC, Residential, Architectural and Sign Hanging. Please contact Paul Martin @ 651-270-3822
Fargo / Grand Forks JATC area is in need of an instructor for the 2017-18 school year. Please contact Ron Nelson @ 701-301-7764
Attn: Willmar Production Members
Special Called meeting to be held Monday July 31, 2017 at 4:00 pm. Location is AFSCME Council 5, 1305 South 1st Ave in Willmar. A negotiations update will be given and available contract offer will be considered at this time.
Local 10 Sheet Metal Workers put new lid on St. Paul’s municipal booya shed
Installing the booya shed’s new roof are Local 10 members (L to R) Travis Rost, Scott Spears, Justin Rost and Scott Berube.
St. Paul’s municipal booya kitchen has a new roof, thanks to members of Sheet Metal Workers Local 10 and union contractor Berwald Roofing.
Four members of Local 10 installed a new standing seam metal roof on the structure in Highland Park today. The contractor donated supplies; Local 10 picked up the labor costs.
The union’s annual booya feed in the park – a late-summer tradition since 1968 – attracts around 1,000 active workers, retirees and family members. According to Local 10, it’s the longest-running booya feed in St. Paul.
Booya chefs began noticing the kitchen’s roof was in need of repair some time ago, and this year the union approached St. Paul Parks and Recreation, which leases the city-owned kitchen, with a proposal for handling the job on its own.
Booya is a savory stew slow-cooked in large batches over an open fire. The Highland Park booya shed – thought to be one of only a few municipally owned booya kitchens in the country – can accommodate six kettles with a capacity to cook 400 gallons at once.
Local 10’s booya feed is set for Sept. 9 this year.
Sheet Metal Workers Local 10 of Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and Northern Wisconsin
Welcome to the Sheet Metal Workers' Local 10. This website was designed for you, our members, our contractors, and potential members and contractors so that you will have a user friendly website where you can access information and make paying dues easier with our Online dues payment system. We have a strong tradition of quality membership that offers training programs and works with superior contractors to maintain the high-quality craftsmanship our members believe in. Our website is designed so that our members can keep in contact, access the latest news, see what is up and coming and remain involved in our Union as a strong brotherhood. Whether you are a member, looking for a career in Sheet Metal, or currently working in the trade but are not yet a union member, this site should help you learn more about Local #10 and the benefits of UNION membership.
“The MN Vikings Horn.”
Sheet Metal Workers from Local 10 and contractor MG McGrath install “The Horn”.
This is a sculpture, consisting of two flowing ribbons. Fully erected, the sculpture is approximately 107 feet long, 25 feet high and 30 feet wide, weighing over 38 tons. It is constructed using structural tube steel and plate steel framing, mirror finish stainless steel and painted metal panels. Embedded LED lighting ensure the sculpture remains visible at night. It is located just 85 feet from the world’s largest glass doors at the stadium’s entrance.
ATTENTION: Reminder to all Sheet Metal Workers.
Anyone that is sent to a jurisdiction of another local union other than Local 10 by their employer shall report to that local union BEFORE starting work, as per the Constitution Article 16, Section 10 (a). As per the Constitution Article 16, Section 10 (c) those who fail to comply shall be subjected to charges and to a trial by the local of whose jurisdiction the offense was committed.
It is the member’s responsibility to check in, not the employer. Please check in BEFORE you work and contact us if you need help with a number to call.
Are you thinking about retiring? Please read this check list below for good planning information.
Thinking of Retiring.doc
UNION MADE VEHICLES: For those who want to support and drive union-made cars, trucks & vans, made by UAW and CAW members, this UAW website can help you.
Buy Union - 2017 UAW Made Cars and Trucks - Voices of Labor
Go to http://www.uaw.org/cars