General Membership Meeting Minutes
January 24, 2008

The meeting was called to order at 4:30 pm with 37 members present.

The minutes from the previous meeting were read and accepted.

The treasurer’s report was read and accepted.

All Officers except Jeff Bentley were present.

Recognition of new members -

There were no new members sworn in.

Reports of accidents sickness and death –

Doug Loudens Mother passed

Tim and Jim Bredernitz’s dad passed

Tom Chenoweth’s dad passed

Glenn Nicholi (old foreman) passed

The President’s report –

The Presidents report is as follows –

Grievance summary under the president’s report –

Discipline letter heard October 24th reduced to verbal.
Contractor worked Overtime grievance heard November 13th. Denied Submitted.
2nd Contractor O.T heard on the 21st. Settled
Transfer Issue heard Dec 12th. Denied and submitted to arbitration.

Arbitration Summary –

Discharged employee scheduled for Feb 19th.

Other Business under the president’s report –

Problem with Shps card. Everything should be resolved. Log on to the account to check balances.
Contract negotiations suggestions for stewards and e-Board.
First Meeting should be end of April.
Employees should review the contract.
Construction services vacation issues with denials report them to your stewards.

Vice Presidents report –

The vice president didn’t have anything to report.

Committee reports –

Scholarship Committee – Is accepting applications for scholarships until February 29th.

Apprentice committee – online applications until March.

Safety Committee –The safety committee discussed steel toe shoes.

Unfinished business –

The big buck winners are in order Carol Logan, Earl Milton, and Kyle McClure. The top 3 winners will get a jacket and other entries will get a hat a mug or a tee shirt.

New Business –

There was a motion to purchase training books for the new stewards and the legal rights for union stewards. We need $1000.00. The motion was seconded and that motion passed.

There was interest in having a spring fling there was a committee formed and they will explore John Nichols will head. Mark Worsak, Fred Preshell, John Sartori, and Cal Hornback.

Contracts ideas – It was suggested to look at other Universities policies and try to recover part of our benefit that was lost in previous negotiations.

Good of the Union –

Talk with members and encourage them to attend the meetings to talk about interest for negotiations.

The jacket drawing was held and number196 was drawn. John Henderson wasn’t present.

The Meeting was adjourned at 4:58 pm