B.A. View

May 2008

We are now having food after our monthly meeting. The June and July meetings are important, so attend, it’s your chance to make your voice and vote count. By-law changes will be read for the second time at the June meeting. At the July meeting they will be read for the third time and voted on. Some changes need to be made to correspond with recent standard agreement changes. Several other choices have financial impacts on you and our local union. These choices that we make will affect our day to day business, and long term mission. We and the members that preceded us have worked long and hard, for all us as local 9 members have. As current members we need to acknowledge all that was given to us through hard work and sacrifices made by our predecessors. We need to insure that we work to leave nothing less, and much more to those following in our footsteps. The first step is to make wise choices here at local9, when we make these wise choices we become stronger. As a link in the International Union of Elevator Constructors our goal is to be the strongest link, the chain is only as strong as the weakest link. We make an excellent wage and have a benefit package second to no other trade. We must strive for Local 9 to be better everyday; it very well could be your sons and daughters that make their living as local 9 union elevator constructors tomorrow.

Fraternally Yours

Dave Aaserud