Every day, our members are going to work, supporting their families, whether outside in the heat, in the cold, on rooftops, or in a ditch doing what we do best – put in pipe. As your elected team of officers, we are doing our best to support you by fighting every day to secure work, protect our work, and put our members to work. We are visiting job sites, helping resolve job site issues, addressing safety and health concerns on the job, reviewing job orders and dispatching members to jobs, ensuring our contract is being upheld by employers and members alike, making sure our members are being paid in accordance with the contract, fighting to protect our trade jurisdiction and resolve jurisdictional issues with other crafts, supporting our job stewards, and helping coach and mentor our apprentices. We are providing help, assistance, and direction as it relates to our Pension and Health & Welfare Plans; we are attending planning commission meetings, school board meetings, and city council meetings to ensure our interests are being heard as union working class Building Trades people. We’re working with our elected leaders to secure union work and pass public policy that helps working families and force developers to do the right thing.

Currently your team is additionally working on other items important to our Local:

• Assistant Business Manager Rudy Carrasco manages our five staff workers who perform all the Local’s operations, from payroll to accounting to paying bills to remittances to our International. Rudy is also assigned to overseeing our market recovery program and AutoCAD subsidy program used to promote and train our 393 members.
• Business Agent Al Gonzalez has been assigned the task of working with Social Movement Technologies as part of our improving our union’s communications strategy. That means coordinating with the Business Manager the launch of this newsletter, the new 393 website and updates on Facebook and Twitter.
• Business Agent Wayd La Pearle has been assigned the lead agent for our three of our biggest projects, the Apple Campus 2 project and Stanford’s two new hospital expansions — no small task! He’s helping on a daily basis to resolve the contract and jurisdictional issues that come up on the job.
• Business Agent Steve Flores, our newest business agent, while temporarily out on on a medical leave, has been assigned working on our newest plumbing service agreement modeled after our HVAC/R service agreement in an effort to continue to find means of expanding our work and increase Local 393 marketshare and opportunities for new and old members alike. Wishing Steve a quick recovery!
• Organizer Ricci Herro continues the challenging work of affecting our non-union competition either by offering the owners of non-union contractors the benefit of being part of us or the alternative of offering their skilled workers the benefits of leaving their current employment and joining the union. The main focuses, of which we continue to reap successes from, are on shops like Pappas Piping, J&J Air Conditioning, and other regional competition.