Local Roundup March 2023 65 As many of us are well aware, Brother MacDonald knew his way around a machine room, and Sister Connolly was able to benefit first hand throughout her apprenticeship. She was able to work on modernization projects and work in the quoted service department, along with adjusting countless other jobs. Sister Connolly became a mechanic in 2018, and is currently employed with Fujitec where she is working in their service department performing Category 5 tests. Sister Connolly is Local 130’s first female Executive member and was sworn in at December’s meeting. She wants to see how the inner workings of the local function, and getting on the Executive seemed like a great place to start. She hopes to make some positive changes while serving the local in her new role, and we are looking forward to working with her as we continue to fight for better wages and working conditions for our members! In Solidarity, Brother Mike Savoie Brother Mike Spafford getting sworn in at the December meeting Brother Kya Morin and Brother Clayton Meilicke getting sworn in at the January meeting Vice President Jeremy Roman getting ready to run his first meeting LOCAL 132 • Madison, Wisconsin Greetings brothers and sisters from the Badger State! This is a sentimental Constructor article for me personally as it is the first that I have the privilege of writing to represent my local, #132. I’d like to start by taking this opportunity to express the pride I have in being a member of the IUEC with all of you, and to share my gratitude to the preceding members of the IUEC who worked so hard to build and maintain the integrity of our great trade. We’ve had another mild winter here so far, which isn’t a very good thing for some our members since we have a lot of avid snowmobilers here. There’s still plenty of time for that to change though. Winter is typically a slow time of year for the building trades in the colder states but work has stayed rather busy for most of the companies here. Otis has been busy working on the large Madison Yards project, Schumacher continues to stay busy with a muilti-building University of Wisconsin job as well as the VA hospital, and Schindler is steady with construction and is expecting a pickup in mod. The fall semester of classes finished well, with all of our students receiving a passing grade. The spring semester orientation took place on January 23rd and there will be four classes running here—100, 400, 800 and yours truly will be taking 500 as a home study since we have so many students and there are scheduling conflicts. The second classroom at our hall is always open for me to work in while one of our three very knowledgeable and helpful instructors is running their regularly scheduled class. As I mentioned, we have a lot of students this semester, most of which are new to the program. Good luck and congrats to all the new members starting out. With that, I have to make a friendly reminder to all of our apprentices but especially the green ones, to remember to fill out your OJL forms online! continued on next page Retiree and now former BA Steve Ketelboeter hands over the keys to our new BA Adam Lex. Retiree and now former BA Steve Ketelboeter swears in our officers at the January meeting.
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