Millwrights

Union Millwright:
Being A Union Millwright demands Precision and High Skills.
"We Are The Future"
Millwright Ron
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Gears Turning

Union Millwrights:
Countless processes are dependent on the successful operation of
rotating machines.
Everything you see around has somehow been influenced by rotating machinery of some kind.

Union Millwrights Keep The Gears Turning
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Millwrights

A Millwright career is filled with variety.It is a hands-on and challenging job.From Pin Setters at a Bowling Alley into the Belly Of The Beast at Nuclear Plants.Space Shuttle shaft alignment to the Study of Black Holes in space ( LIGO Project )

Union Millwrights " We Are The Future "

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Millwrights Elite Group

Millwrights are an elite group who work primarily in metal and with machinery and equipment requiring precision installation

Millwright Ron
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Millwrights What is a Millwright

Modern Millwrights work with their brains as well as with their hands, millwrights must be able to read blueprints, assemble machinery, solve mechanical problems and possess a good technical education in order to be of use in their vocation.
Technical development and industrial diversification has increased and compounded the educational skills needed for modern millwrights. Today this trade is taught through five years of classroom and on the job apprenticeship training.

Millwrights are always updating and improving their Skills

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Millwrights and Millwright History

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 watercources, 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



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Economic Policy Institute

Economic Policy Institute
How unions help all workers
by Lawrence Mishel and Matthew Walters
Unions have a substantial impact on the compensation and work lives of both unionized and non-unionized workers. This report presents current data on unions' effect on wages, fringe benefits, total compensation, pay inequality, and workplace protections.
Some of the conclusions are:
• Unions raise wages of unionized workers by roughly 20% and raise compensation, including both wages and benefits, by about 28%.
• Unions reduce wage inequality because they raise wages more for low- and middle-wage workers than for higher-wage workers, more for blue- collar than for white-collar workers, and more for workers who do not have a college degree.
• Strong unions set a pay standard that nonunion employers follow. For example, a high school graduate whose workplace is not unionized but whose industry is 25% unionized is paid 5% more than similar workers in less unionized industries.
• The impact of unions on total nonunion wages is almost as large as the impact on total union wages.
• The most sweeping advantage for unionized workers is in fringe benefits. Unionized workers are more likely than their nonunionized counterparts to receive paid leave, are approximately 18% to 28% more likely to have employer-provided health insurance, and are 23% to 54% more likely to be in employer-provided pension plans.
• Unionized workers receive more generous health benefits than nonunionized workers. They also pay 18% lower health care deductibles and a smaller share of the costs for family coverage. In retirement, unionized workers are 24% more likely to be covered by health insurance paid for by their employer.
• Unionized workers receive better pension plans. Not only are they more likely to have a guaranteed benefit in retirement, their employers contribute 28% more toward pensions.
• Unionized workers receive 26% more vacation time and 14% more total paid leave (vacations and holidays).
Unions play a pivotal role both in securing legislated labor protections and rights such as safety and health, overtime, and family/ medical leave and in enforcing those rights on the job. Because unionized workers are more informed, they are more likely to benefit from social insurance programs such as unemployment insurance and workers compensation. Unions are thus an intermediary institution that provides a necessary complement to legislated benefits and protections.
The union wage premium
It should come as no surprise that unions raise wages, since this has always been one of the main goals of unions and a major reason that workers seek collective bargaining. How much unions raise wages, for whom, and the consequences of unionization for workers, firms, and the economy have been studied by economists and other researchers for over a century (for example, the work of Alfred Marshall). This section presents evidence from the 1990s that unions raise the wages of unionized workers by roughly 20% and raise total compensation by about 28%.
The research literature generally finds that unionized workers' earnings exceed those of comparable nonunion workers by about 15%, a phenomenon known as the "union wage premium."
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wind Turbines

Hi Ron. Could you please forward the following information to B.White @ local 711 and anyone else who has information that may be able to assist me in searching for some answers. In Ontario Canada local 1410 is watching work take place while having nothing to do with it. There are several wind turbines being placed on and around Wolfe Island which being erected by union iron workers who are working along side non-union mechanical companies. As a local covering Eastern Ontario we have very little industry left and several members who have been unemployed for the last several months are watching all of this take place. As a small local, we the millwrights tend to work side by side with the iron workers on pretty much everything that happens in our area. The ironworkers who we have kept in touch with us regarding this issue say that even they would rather work with union millwrights rather than non union mechanical outfits. The fact is, the iron-workers are doing everything on site, from unloading barges to bolting up everything and finally installing the mechanical components on top of the shaft. Something doesn't sound or look right from a this member's point of view. My question to all of you is this: When it comes to wind turbine erection in the United States, what exactly is your jurisdiction when it comes to setting up wind turbines? Do we do it all in the U.S.? To everyone who receives this, your input will be used to help our local in searching for answers on how to approach this. Thanks for taking the time to read this and Ron, hope your feeling better.
Eric Kirby
Local 1410
Kingston ON
Canada