Monday, May 31, 2010

Millwrights Only

Union Brothers and Sisters.
I sell lots of Union Decals and Stickers at the link Millwrights Store at www.unionmillwright.com
I also sell books for all the trades at the store.
Audel and the IPT books.. This are listed at wholesale prices.
If you local needs a lot of books. E-mail me and I will see what I can do for better priceing.
If you want a free set of Starrett Pocket charts? (Tap & drill and Metric) These are very handy for your tool box or at home
Please email me at mwron@unionmillwright.com with your name and mailing address and I will mail you a set. If you want more please ask?
Also add a note reminding me about the pocket charts.
Proud to be Union
Millwright Ron
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free email accounts at www.unionmillwright.com
Your name at unionmillwright.com

To everyone who enjoys their lives and freedom:

To everyone who enjoys their lives and freedom:
Today, may we, in a moment of silent prayer, pay respect to our fallen military comrades, and those who served our country in Honorable fashion...............
Millwright Ron
www.unionmillwright.com

Sunday, May 30, 2010

WEEKENDS

WEEKENDS
Brought To You By The
Union Labor Movement

Millwright Ron
www.unionmillwright.com

Thursday, May 27, 2010

Memorial Day

Memorial Day


The "Memorial" in Memorial Day has been ignored by too many of us who are beneficiaries of those who have given the ultimate sacrifice. Often we do not observe the day as it should be, a day where we actively remember our ancestors, our family members, our loved ones, our neighbors, and our friends who have given the ultimate sacrifice.
Millwright Ron
Vietnam Veteran
www.unionmillwright.com

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

We Got It Wrong

We Got It Wrong


I think that by now most Americans recognize that we got it wrong in not acknowledging the courage, the valor, and the commitment of the men and women of our armed forces who fought an unpopular war. I also think they are now resolved never to let that happen again.
That's important. Because as hard and as all-consuming as war is, we cannot forget its aftermath. The broken bodies, the broken minds, and the broken families that require the continued attention of a grateful nation.
Millwright Ron
Vietnam Veteran
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Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Memorial Day

Memorial Day

Many Americans mistakenly believe that Veterans Day is the day America sets aside to honor American military personnel who died in battle or as a result of wounds sustained from combat. That's not quite true. Memorial Day is the day set aside to honor America's war dead.

Millwright Ron
Vietnam Vietnam
www.unionmillwright.com

Who are the Millwrights

Who are the Millwrights and What do they Do ?

Who are the Millwrights and what do they do?
Installs machinery and equipment according to

layout plans, blueprints, and other drawings in industrial establishment, using hoists, lift trucks, handtools, and power tools:

Reads blueprints and schematic drawings to determine work procedures.

Dismantles machines, using hammers, wrenches, crowbars, and other handtools.

Moves machinery and equipment, using hoists, dollies, rollers, and trucks.

Assembles and installs equipment, such as shafting, conveyors, and tram rails, using handtools and power tools.

Constructs foundation for machines, using handtools and building materials, such as wood, cement, and steel.

Aligns machines and equipment, using hoists, jacks, handtools, squares, rules, micrometers, and plumb bobs.

Assembles machines, and bolts, welds, rivets, or otherwise fastens them to foundation or other structures, using handtools and power tools.

May operate engine lathe to grind, file, and turn machine parts to dimensional specifications.

May repair and lubricate machines and equipment.

May install robot and modify its program, using teach pendant.

May perform installation and maintenance work as part of team of skilled trades workers.


Millwright Ron

Proud Member Of The Union Millwright

www.millwright.com

Monday, May 17, 2010

Millwrights

If the American flag offends those that are in the U.S. Then pack up and leave its that simple!
Millwright Ron
www.unionmillwright.com

Sunday, May 16, 2010

Union Millwrights

I have a few Union Millwright STEWARD decals to hand out. If you need one for your Steward? Email me with name and mailing address to mwron@unionmillwright.com .
Unity
Millwright Ron

Friday, May 14, 2010

Thursday, May 13, 2010

Who Are The Union Millwrights



Who Are The Union Millwrights



The person who works with his hands is a laborer; the person that works with his hands and his head is an artisan; the person who works with his hands, his head and his heart is a Union Millwright

Millwright Ron
www.unionmillwright.com

Millwright Work


DZ MPS has job at Allen Steam Plant in Memphis ..its a TVA
site....starts May 17th....7am... Mr. Jeffreys is the man to talk to out
there... wages are 24.62 hr...8 hours a day... duration unknown... must
be clean shaven.... this was generated out of Local 1554 in
Tennessee

Millwright Ron
www.unionmillwright.com

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Millwright


Millwrights Have Tools Will Travel.
Millwright boomers

Millwright Ron
www.unionmillwright.com

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Millwright Work

Here is what I know, Brothers & Sisters, the scale is $30, $250 supp.
annuity, and HW, scale is a few cents under 22. Jake Marshall is from
CHATTANOOGA,
VW plant here in Chattanooga is needing people also, along with TVA work, their scale is
around 24.
VW is manning up here soon, new plant, lots of work
this summer.
Millwright Ron
www.unionmillwright.com

Millwright Work

Nashville Local for job in Ashland TN..... 7-12's
duration of job is 2 months... its at a manufacturing facility crippled
by the flood....you can call Birmingham for more info or Nashville...
Contractor is Jake Marshall... at the A O Smith Watrer Heater Plant
located 35 miles from Local 1554 in Nashville..."

Al. 205-836-6734

Nashville 615-874-8591

Millwright Ron
www.unionmillwright.com

Saturday, May 08, 2010

What The hell Is A Millwright



What The hell Is A Millwright

Millwrights install, repair, replace, and dismantle the machinery and heavy equipment used in many industries.

The wide range of facilities and the development of new technology require millwrights to continually update their skills�from blueprint reading and pouring concrete to diagnosing and solving mechanical problems.

The millwright's responsibilities begin when machinery arrives at the jobsite.

New equipment must be unloaded, inspected, and moved into position.

To lift and move light machinery, millwrights use rigging and hoisting devices, such as pulleys and cables.

With heavier equipment, they may require the assistance of hydraulic lift-truck or crane operators to position the machinery.

Because millwrights often decide which device to use for moving machinery, they must know the load-bearing properties of rope, cables, hoists, and cranes.

Millwrights consult with production managers and others to determine the optimal placement of machines in a plant.

When this placement requires building a new foundation, millwrights either prepare the foundation themselves or supervise its construction.

As a result, they must know how to read blueprints and work with a variety of building materials.

To assemble machinery, millwrights fit bearings, align gears and wheels, attach motors, and connect belts, according to the manufacturer's blueprints and drawings.

Precision leveling and alignment are important in the assembly process, so millwrights measure angles, material thickness, and small distances with tools such as squares, calipers, and micrometers.

When a high level of precision is required, devices such as lasers and ultrasonic measuring tools may be used.

Millwrights also work with hand and power tools, such as cutting torches, welding machines, and soldering guns, and with metalworking equipment, including lathes and grinding machines.

In addition to installing and dismantling machinery, many millwrights work with mechanics and maintenance workers to repair and maintain equipment.

This includes preventive maintenance, such as lubrication and fixing or replacing worn parts.

Increasingly sophisticated automation means more complicated machines for millwrights to install and maintain.

For example, millwrights may install and maintain numerical control equipment�computer-controlled machine tools that fabricate manufacturing parts.

This machinery requires special care and knowledge, so millwrights often work closely with computer or electronics experts, electricians, engineers, and manufacturers� representatives to install it


Millwright Ron

Proud Member Of The Union Millwrights
www.unionmillwright.com

Friday, May 07, 2010

Audel Millwrights Book


Audel Millwrights Book

Respected by generations of skilled workers, Audel Millwright's and Mechanic's Guide is the only trade manual to cover maintenance and troubleshooting for all the mechanical trades in a single volume. It covers the newest equipment on shop floors as well as older machinery, sometimes more than 30 years old, for which little maintenance and repair information remains available. Millwrights, mechanics, machinists, carpenters, pipe fitters, electricians, engineers, and those who supervise them will find this book invaluable. The only hardcover maintenance and repair manual to cover all the mechanical trades in one guide This updated guide covers new industrial machinery as well as 30-year-old equipment for which little information can be found Essential for those who repair machinery as well as machinists, carpenters, pipe fitters, electricians, millwrights, mechanics, engineers, mechanical technicians, industrial maintenance managers, and construction tradespeople

I have the best prices at www.unionmillwright.com
Millwright Ron

Monday, May 03, 2010

Need Union decals.


Need Union decals.
Visit The Millwrights Store at www.unionmillwright.com
(http://www.unionmillwright.com)
Thanks
Millwright Ron

http://www.unionmillwright.com/collectables6.html

www.unionmillwright.com


I will sending out this large hatpin to those that help support the Union Millwrights website at www.unionmillwright.com this month. This pin is over 1 1/8 inches in diameter.
Unity
Millwright Ron
www.unionmillwright.com

Know Your Rights


Union Millwright's

Brother's and Sister's:

"KNOW YOUR RIGHTS"



The Weingarten Doctrine: "Under the Supreme Courts 1975 Weingarten decision
- An employee has a right to Union Representation during an investigatory
interview that he/she reasonably believes may result in disciplinary action.



The employee must make a clear request for Union Representation and the
employer may grant the request, deny the request and abandon the interview,
or allow the employee to choose between continuing the interview without
Union Representation, or ending the interview. The employer may not legally
deny the request and continue to ask questions.

Millwright Ron
www.unionmillwright.com

Millwright Work


Millwright Work

Millwrights install, repair, replace, and dismantle the machinery and heavy equipment used in many industries.

The wide range of facilities and the development of new technology require millwrights to continually update their skills�from blueprint reading and pouring concrete to diagnosing and solving mechanical problems.

The millwright's responsibilities begin when machinery arrives at the jobsite.

New equipment must be unloaded, inspected, and moved into position.

To lift and move light machinery, millwrights use rigging and hoisting devices, such as pulleys and cables.

With heavier equipment, they may require the assistance of hydraulic lift-truck or crane operators to position the machinery.

Because millwrights often decide which device to use for moving machinery, they must know the load-bearing properties of rope, cables, hoists, and cranes.

Millwrights consult with production managers and others to determine the optimal placement of machines in a plant.

When this placement requires building a new foundation, millwrights either prepare the foundation themselves or supervise its construction.

As a result, they must know how to read blueprints and work with a variety of building materials.

To assemble machinery, millwrights fit bearings, align gears and wheels, attach motors, and connect belts, according to the manufacturer's blueprints and drawings.

Precision leveling and alignment are important in the assembly process, so millwrights measure angles, material thickness, and small distances with tools such as squares, calipers, and micrometers.

When a high level of precision is required, devices such as lasers and ultrasonic measuring tools may be used.

Millwrights also work with hand and power tools, such as cutting torches, welding machines, and soldering guns, and with metalworking equipment, including lathes and grinding machines.

In addition to installing and dismantling machinery, many millwrights work with mechanics and maintenance workers to repair and maintain equipment.

This includes preventive maintenance, such as lubrication and fixing or replacing worn parts.

Increasingly sophisticated automation means more complicated machines for millwrights to install and maintain.

For example, millwrights may install and maintain numerical control equipment�computer-controlled machine tools that fabricate manufacturing parts.

This machinery requires special care and knowledge, so millwrights often work closely with computer or electronics experts, electricians, engineers, and manufacturers� representatives to install it


Millwright Ron

Proud Member Of The Union Millwrights

Early Millwrights

Early Millwrights

The word "millwright" has long been used to describe the man who was marked by everything ingenious and skillful.

For several centuries in England and Scotland the millwright was recognized as a man with a knowledge of carpentry, blacksmithing and lathe work in addition to the fitter and erector.

He was the recognized representative of mechanical arts and was looked upon as the authority in all applications of winds and water, under whatever conditions they were to be used, as a motive power for the purpose of manufacture.

In other words, as the above definition would indicate,

he was the area engineer, a kind of jack of all trades who was equally comfortable at the lathe, the anvil or the carpenter's bench.

Thus, the millwright of the last several centuries was an itinerant engineer and mechanic of high reputation and recognized abilities.

He could handle the axe, the hammer and the plane with equal skill and precision.

He could turn, bore or forge with the ease and ability of one brought up in those trades.

He could set and cut in the furrows of a millstone with an accuracy equal to or superior to that of the miller himself.

In most instances, the millwright was a fair arithmetician, knew something of geometry, leveling and measurements, and often possessed a very competent knowledge of practical mathematics.

He could calculate the velocities, strength and power of machines; could draw in plans, construct buildings, conduits or watercourses, in all the forms and under all the conditions required in his professional practice.

He could build bridges, cut canals and perform a variety of work now done by civil engineers.

In the early days of North America millwrights designed and constructed the mills where flour and grist were ground by water power.

Water was directed over hand-constructed wooden mill wheels to turn big wooden gears and generate power.

Millwrights executed every type of engineering operation in the construction of these mills.

The introduction of the steam engine, and the rapidity with which it created new trades, proved a heavy blow to the distinctive position of the millwrights,

by bringing into the field a new class of competitors in the form of turners, fitters, machine makers, and mechanical engineers.

Although there was an extension of the demand for millwork, it nevertheless lowered the profession of the millwright, and leveled it to a great degree with that of the ordinary mechanic.

It was originally the custom for the millwrights to have meetings for themselves in every shop.

These meetings usually included long discussions of practical science and the principles of construction which more often than not ended in a quarrel.

One benefit of these meetings was the imparting of knowledge, as young aspirants would frequently become excited by the illustrations and chalk diagrams by which each side supported their arguments.

Millwright Ron

Proud Member Of The Union Millwrights

Who are the Millwrights and what do they do?


Who are the Millwrights and what do they do?
Installs machinery and equipment according to

layout plans, blueprints, and other drawings in industrial establishment, using hoists, lift trucks, handtools, and power tools:

Reads blueprints and schematic drawings to determine work procedures.

Dismantles machines, using hammers, wrenches, crowbars, and other handtools.

Moves machinery and equipment, using hoists, dollies, rollers, and trucks.

Assembles and installs equipment, such as shafting, conveyors, and tram rails, using handtools and power tools.

Constructs foundation for machines, using handtools and building materials, such as wood, cement, and steel.

Aligns machines and equipment, using hoists, jacks, handtools, squares, rules, micrometers, and plumb bobs.

Assembles machines, and bolts, welds, rivets, or otherwise fastens them to foundation or other structures, using handtools and power tools.

May operate engine lathe to grind, file, and turn machine parts to dimensional specifications.

May repair and lubricate machines and equipment.

May install robot and modify its program, using teach pendant.

May perform installation and maintenance work as part of team of skilled trades workers.


Millwright Ron

Proud Member Of The Union Millwrights

100 years




A hundred years from now,They will gaze upon our work, and marvel at
our skills,but will never know our names.
And that will be good enough for me.
Union Millwrights
Millwright Ron
www.unionmillwright.com

Saturday, May 01, 2010

Millwright Brothers and Sisters:





Millwright Brothers and Sisters:
I could please use your help?
The link for phone numbers,B.A.addresses and local numbers needs updating.
Would all of you please look at the phone number link. Verify the
information and email me if there are changes needed. Both U.S. and Canada.
This is somethi...ng that needs to be keep current. For all of us.
Thanks for your help.
Unity
Millwright Ron
www.unionmillwright.com