"Individual commitment to a group effort--that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work." --Vince Lombardi
Today is Monday, April 23, 2018. I hope everybody who views this site has a great day today and a great week.
Please remember to work safe, work hard and take pride in you work.
Please remember to work safe, work hard and take pride in you work.
EARLY WITHDRAWAL VACATION FUND CHECKS WILL BE PRINTED TODAY FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 2018
IF YOU WANTED TO GET AN EARLY WITHDRAWAL VACATION FUND CHECK THIS FRIDAY YOU WOULD HAVE NEEDED TO SUBMIT AN EARLY WITHDRAWAL VACATION FUND FORM BY NO LATER THAN THIS PAST
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 2018.
THE NEXT EARLY WITHDRAWAL VACATION FUND CHECKS WILL BE PRINTED ON FRIDAY, MAY 18, 2018.
IF YOU WANTED TO GET AN EARLY WITHDRAWAL VACATION FUND CHECK THIS FRIDAY YOU WOULD HAVE NEEDED TO SUBMIT AN EARLY WITHDRAWAL VACATION FUND FORM BY NO LATER THAN THIS PAST
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 2018.
THE NEXT EARLY WITHDRAWAL VACATION FUND CHECKS WILL BE PRINTED ON FRIDAY, MAY 18, 2018.
ON APRIL 14, 1865 PRESIDENT ABRAHAM LINCOLN WAS SHOT AND MORTALLY WOUNDED. HE DIED THE NEXT DAY APRIL 15, 1865.
On this day in 1865, John Wilkes Booth, an actor and Confederate sympathizer, fatally shoots President Abraham Lincoln at a play at Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C. The attack came only five days after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his massive army at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, effectively ending the American Civil War.
Booth, a Maryland native born in 1838, who remained in the North during the war despite his Confederate sympathies, initially plotted to capture President Lincoln and take him to Richmond, the Confederate capital. However, on March 20, 1865, the day of the planned kidnapping, the president failed to appear at the spot where Booth and his six fellow conspirators lay in wait. Two weeks later, Richmond fell to Union forces.
In April, with Confederate armies near collapse across the South, Booth hatched a desperate plan to save the Confederacy. Learning that Lincoln was to attend a performance of “Our American Cousin” at Ford’s Theater on April 14, Booth masterminded the simultaneous assassination of Lincoln, Vice President Andrew Johnson and Secretary of State William H. Seward. By murdering the president and two of his possible successors, Booth and his conspirators hoped to throw the U.S. government into disarray.
On the evening of April 14, conspirator Lewis T. Powell burst into Secretary of State Seward’s home, seriously wounding him and three others, while George A. Atzerodt, assigned to Vice President Johnson, lost his nerve and fled. Meanwhile, just after 10 p.m., Booth entered Lincoln’s private theater box unnoticed and shot the president with a single bullet in the back of his head. Slashing an army officer who rushed at him, Booth leapt to the stage and shouted “Sic semper tyrannis! [Thus always to tyrants]–the South is avenged!” Although Booth broke his leg jumping from Lincoln’s box, he managed to escape Washington on horseback.
The president, mortally wounded, was carried to a lodging house opposite Ford’s Theater. About 7:22 a.m. the next morning, Lincoln, age 56, died–the first U.S. president to be assassinated. Booth, pursued by the army and other secret forces, was finally cornered in a barn near Bowling Green, Virginia, and died from a possibly self-inflicted bullet wound as the barn was burned to the ground. Of the eight other people eventually charged with the conspiracy, four were hanged and four were jailed. Lincoln, the 16th U.S. president, was buried on May 4, 1865, in Springfield, Illinois.
TTODAY IN LABOR HISTORY APRIL 19
More than 6,000 furniture workers went on strike in Grand Rapids, Michigan, over hours, wages, working conditions, and the right to bargain collectively. The strike – which affected nearly all of the 60+ furniture manufacturers in the city – lasted throughout the summer, bringing much of the city to a standstill for four months. A monument, “The Spirit of Solidarity,” was dedicated in 2007 to the striking workers. – April 19, 1919
An American domestic terrorist’s bomb destroyed the Oklahoma City federal building, killing 168 people, 99 of whom were government employees. – April 19, 1995
IMPORTANT MESSAGE
Important Notice
Please be advised the next regular Union Meeting will be held tonight Wednesday, February 14, 2018 at the Knights of Columbus at the following address:
49-18 Queens Blvd.
Flushing, NY 11377
The meeting will begin at 5:00 PM and nominations will be accepted for the following:
Business Manager-Financial Secretary and Vice President and any other vacancy that may be created by the resignation of an existing officer who accepts the nomination to another office. To be eligible to seek office each candidates must comply with the rules in accordance with Article XX of the Constitution and By-Laws of the International Association of Heat and Frost Insulators
and Allied Workers.
The election of officers will take place on Saturday, March 10, 2018 at the Local 12 Union Hall that is located at:
35-53 24th Street
Long Island City, NY 11356
The voting process will begin at 7:00 AM and end at 12:00 PM.
To be eligible to vote each member must be in "Good Standing" and must have their dues, paid up to date in accordance with Article XIII of the Constitution and By-Laws of the International Association of Heat and Frost Insulators and Allied Workers.
All Local 12 members are encouraged to participate in all meetings, elections,demonstrations and any and all Union functions.
Please be advised the next regular Union Meeting will be held tonight Wednesday, February 14, 2018 at the Knights of Columbus at the following address:
49-18 Queens Blvd.
Flushing, NY 11377
The meeting will begin at 5:00 PM and nominations will be accepted for the following:
Business Manager-Financial Secretary and Vice President and any other vacancy that may be created by the resignation of an existing officer who accepts the nomination to another office. To be eligible to seek office each candidates must comply with the rules in accordance with Article XX of the Constitution and By-Laws of the International Association of Heat and Frost Insulators
and Allied Workers.
The election of officers will take place on Saturday, March 10, 2018 at the Local 12 Union Hall that is located at:
35-53 24th Street
Long Island City, NY 11356
The voting process will begin at 7:00 AM and end at 12:00 PM.
To be eligible to vote each member must be in "Good Standing" and must have their dues, paid up to date in accordance with Article XIII of the Constitution and By-Laws of the International Association of Heat and Frost Insulators and Allied Workers.
All Local 12 members are encouraged to participate in all meetings, elections,demonstrations and any and all Union functions.
THOUGHT OF THE DAY
You will never CHANGE your life until you CHANGE something you do DAILY. The secret of your SUCCESS is found in your daily ROUTINE.
– John C. Maxwell
You will never CHANGE your life until you CHANGE something you do DAILY. The secret of your SUCCESS is found in your daily ROUTINE.
– John C. Maxwell
Unionization: It's Never Been Easy
Almost all current union members were hired into an already represented workplace. But while you personally may have played no role in unionizing your place of work, you can’t assume that those who did had an easy time of it. In the early decades of union organizing in the U.S., it was not unusual for employers to respond to union organizing drives with physical violence. Many of the early industrial unions got their footholds only by standing up to a court system that jailed union supporters, and to the clubs and guns of company thugs. Sometimes the bullets that maimed and killed union supporters and their families were fired by state militias or federal troops, serving as private armies for anti-union employers. Once the union comes in, one battle may be over but the war is far from won. In about one third of newly organized workplaces, using stall and delay tactics, the employer succeeds in preventing the union from ever winning a first contract.
Almost all current union members were hired into an already represented workplace. But while you personally may have played no role in unionizing your place of work, you can’t assume that those who did had an easy time of it. In the early decades of union organizing in the U.S., it was not unusual for employers to respond to union organizing drives with physical violence. Many of the early industrial unions got their footholds only by standing up to a court system that jailed union supporters, and to the clubs and guns of company thugs. Sometimes the bullets that maimed and killed union supporters and their families were fired by state militias or federal troops, serving as private armies for anti-union employers. Once the union comes in, one battle may be over but the war is far from won. In about one third of newly organized workplaces, using stall and delay tactics, the employer succeeds in preventing the union from ever winning a first contract.
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE 2017 FIRST YEAR APPRENTICES OF HEAT AND FROST INSULATORS LOCAL 12
Grievance Guide, 13th edition: This easy-to-use handbook documents patterns in a wide range of commonly grieved areas including discharge and discipline, leaves of absence, promotions, strikes and lockouts, and more. The editors give a complete picture of the precedents and guidelines that arbitrators are using to address grievance cases today.
Retire Happy: What To Do NOW to Guarantee A Great Retirement: Everyone who works for a living thinks at some point about retirement, but few actually consider what that really means, other than escaping the daily grind. For sure, most of us worry about having enough money, and this highly readable book provides a lot of information and advice on the subject: how much we’ll need, how to make the most of what we’ve accumulated, how to accumulate more (even as we get close to retirement) and how to make it last. For that advice alone, Retire Happy is worth the price.
From the Folks Who Brought You The Weekend is a sweeping, highly readable history of U.S. labor that will be welcomed by anyone interested in learning more about the struggle of American working people to better their lives through collective action.
Sixteen Tons carries the reader down into the dark and dangerous coal mines of the early 1900s, as Italian immigrant Antonio Vacca and his sons encounter cave-ins and fires deep below the earth’s surface.
“Make up your mind that no matter what comes your way, no matter how difficult, no matter how unfair,
you will do more than simply survive.
You will thrive in spite of it.” —Joel Osteen
you will do more than simply survive.
You will thrive in spite of it.” —Joel Osteen
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"Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have."
- Rabbi Hyman Judah Schachtel,
American theologian, author and educator 1907-1990
- Rabbi Hyman Judah Schachtel,
American theologian, author and educator 1907-1990
WORK ON YOUR OWN HAPPINESS:
Know that Life Hurts, but Happiness is the Cure
Happy and unhappy people have the same pain and trauma. The difference is happy people possess a disposition which helps them bounce back very quickly. When you cultivate a happier attitude, you become less dependent on external sources of validation, and trust your thoughts, emotions and behaviors.
The following 5 facts highlight happiness as a key factor in reducing anxiety:
Know that Life Hurts, but Happiness is the Cure
Happy and unhappy people have the same pain and trauma. The difference is happy people possess a disposition which helps them bounce back very quickly. When you cultivate a happier attitude, you become less dependent on external sources of validation, and trust your thoughts, emotions and behaviors.
The following 5 facts highlight happiness as a key factor in reducing anxiety:
- Happy people are smarter and more creative
- Happy people have more stable and happy marriages
- Happy people make more money
- Happy people are healthier and live longer
- Happy people are more generous
From Blackjacks to Briefcases is the first book to document the systematic and extensive use by American corporations of professional union-busters, an ugly profession that surfaced after the Civil War and has grown bolder and more sophisticated with the passage of time. Since the 1980s, hundreds of firms—including the Detroit News, Caterpillar and Pittston Coal, to name but three—have paid out millions of dollars to hired thugs. Some have been in uniforms and carried nightsticks and guns, others have worn three-piece suits and carried attaché cases, but all had one simple mission: to break the backs of workers struggling for decency and fair treatment on the job.
There is Power in a Union: The Epic Story of Labor in America: This sympathetic, thoughtful and highly readable history of the American labor movement traces unionism from the textile mills of Lowell, Massachusetts in the 1820s to organized labor’s decline in the 1980s and struggle for survival and growth today.
The Bending Cross: A Biography of Eugene V. Debs: Eugene V. Debs was a labor activist in the late 19th and early 20th centuries who captured the heart and soul of the nation’s working people. He was brilliant, sincere, compassionate and scrupulously honest. A founder of one of the nation’s first industrial unions, the American Railway Union, he went on to help launch the Industrial Workers of the World—the Wobblies. A man of firm beliefs and dedication, he ran for President of the United States five times under the banner of the Socialist Party, in 1912 earning 6 percent of the popular vote.
Mobilizing Against Inequality: Unions, Immigrant Workers, and the Crisis of Capitalism: Are immigrant workers themselves responsible for low wages and shoddy working conditions? Should unions expend valuable time and energy organizing undocumented workers? Unions in Germany, France, the United Kingdom, and the United States have taken various approaches to confront the challenges of this significant segment of the workforce. As U.S. immigration policy is debated, readers will gain insight into how all workers benefit when wages and working conditions for immigrant workers are improved.
All Labor Has Dignity: Dr. Martin Luther King was every bit as committed to economic justice as he was to ending racial segregation. He fought throughout his life to connect the labor and civil rights movements, envisioning them as twin pillars for social reform. As we struggle with the growing inequality between the nation’s wealthy and working classes, this collection of King's speeches on labor rights and economic justice underscore his relevance for today. They help us imagine King anew: as a human rights leader whose commitment to unions and an end to poverty was a crucial part of his civil rights agenda.
In this expanded edition of Strike! you can read about the General Tire Co. strike as well as other labor-management conflicts that have occurred over the past 140 years. Here you’ll learn much about workers’ struggle to win a degree of justice, from the workers’ point of view.
No Contract, No Peace: A Legal Guide to Contract Campaigns, Strikes and Lockouts: This book is a must-have for any union or activist considering aggressive action to combat management’s growing economic war against workers. No Contract, No Peace! updates information contained in the first edition, entitled Strikes, Picketing and Inside Campaigns, to include reference to recent union activities and NLRB decisions that have affected the labor relations environment. Schwartz’s familiarity with labor and employment law combines with his activist spirit to provide innovative yet practical tips for mounting and maintaining meaningful campaigns designed to build union and workers’ power.
Parliamentary Procedure and Effective Union Meetings: You couldn’t have an effective convention if no one knew how to conduct a meeting. This is a very helpful guide for how to run or participate in a union meeting—not just the formal procedures, but the realities, like how to set an agenda, how to deal with people who just love to hear themselves speak and how to boost attendance, for example.
"You are going to go through tough times that’s life. But I say, ‘Nothing happens to you. It happens for you’. See the positive in negative events and you will succeed at everything you do. Remember nothing can stop you if you never give up. Remember as a Member of Local 12 you have your fellow Local 12 Members to lean on when times are tough. Local 12 Members support each other in good times and in bad times. True Local 12 Members work through their problems together - we work together to solve the problems we have to build a better life for ourselves and our families."
-Al Wassell
Proud Member of Heat and Frost Insulators Local 12
HEAT & FROST INSULATORS LOCAL 12
15-32 127th Street - First Floor - College Point, NY 11356
UNION OFFICE: 718-784-3456
FUNDS OFFICE: 718-784-8883
AJEF: 718-784-1899
Please note due to the upcoming scheduled renovation of our building in Long Island City we have temporarily relocated to 15-32 127th Street - First Floor
College Point NY 11356
15-32 127th Street - First Floor - College Point, NY 11356
UNION OFFICE: 718-784-3456
FUNDS OFFICE: 718-784-8883
AJEF: 718-784-1899
Please note due to the upcoming scheduled renovation of our building in Long Island City we have temporarily relocated to 15-32 127th Street - First Floor
College Point NY 11356
Heat & Frost Insulators Local 12 is committed to delivering proper design, installation and maintenance of mechanical insulation and firestopping in Manhattan, the Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn, Staten Island and Long Island.
Local 12 is part of an international union of more than 25,000 members and is recognized as one of the largest, most influential union of trained Heat and Frost Insulators and Firestop Workers in the world. Local 12 ensures workers’ safety through education and continuous training in advanced application techniques while representing the insulation industry at the federal, state and local government levels. Local 12 is proud to say that its members have been part of building the buildings of New York City and its surrounding areas for over 100 years. All Heat and Frost Insulators Local 12 members are Energy Conservation Specialists.
Insulate it’s worth the energy.
Local 12 is part of an international union of more than 25,000 members and is recognized as one of the largest, most influential union of trained Heat and Frost Insulators and Firestop Workers in the world. Local 12 ensures workers’ safety through education and continuous training in advanced application techniques while representing the insulation industry at the federal, state and local government levels. Local 12 is proud to say that its members have been part of building the buildings of New York City and its surrounding areas for over 100 years. All Heat and Frost Insulators Local 12 members are Energy Conservation Specialists.
Insulate it’s worth the energy.
What is Mechanical Insulation? Mechanical insulation, also known as the “forgotten technology”, is thermal insulation used on piping, equipment, and all types of mechanical systems, including boilers, HVAC systems, and ducts. Mechanical insulation serves the following functions:
- Conserve energy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions
- Regulate the temperature of process systems
- Condensation control and mold prevention
- Personnel protection from hot or cold surfaces
"SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO ASK NOT WHAT MY UNION CAN DO FOR ME BUT WHAT I CAN DO FOR MY UNION."
- Al Wassell
Proud Member of Local 12
Proud American
- Al Wassell
Proud Member of Local 12
Proud American
“You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.” ~ Zig Ziglar
“Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.” ~ John Wooden
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This website is administered by Proud Local 12 Member Al Wassell. The opinions and subject matter on this website solely reflect the opinions and thought process of Al Wassell and do not necessarily reflect the opinions and thoughts of the Membership and Officers of Heat and Frost Insulators Local 12.
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