JAN 2025 HOLIDAY/DDO

DRYWALL FINISHERS: Jan 17 (DDO), Jan 20 (HOLIDAY)

PAINTERS: Jan 20 (HOLIDAY)

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Here we are at the beginning of 2025, looking forward to a successful year.  I wanted to take this moment to thank you all for your dedication to your crafts in 2024.  In addition to all the work on jobsites, many of you took time out last year to participate in educational opportunities such as the Bylaws BBQ, community outreach through countless VAC’s, volunteering for labor friendly candidates to get them elected, and fellowshipping with each other at the Giants game.  2025 will be more of the same, if not with greater opportunities to participate with our local.  We have a VAC event planned for every month this year, and if you have ideas, please call me to set them up. 

 We also have opportunities to serve on Local 83’s E-Board.  Join us the second Thursday of every month to become a member of the E-Board.  The general meeting begins at  6 PM and is held at Local 83.   

PAINTERS:

As of January 1, 2025,  all journeymen must have the following certifications to be dispatched:

COMMERCIAL:

i. Fall Protection (USACE EM385), including Ladder Safety, and 

ii. Mobile Elevated Worker Platforms, and

iii. Harassment Training or 

iv. Sixteen (16) hours employer recommended painter trade and/or safety education training, if the above-required training is complete and up to date. If none or only a portion of the above training is complete, the hours to complete the required training above would count towards the minimum sixteen (16) hours.

INDUSTRIAL:

i. OSHA-10, and

 ii. Scaffold Training, and 

iii. Harassment Training or 

iv. Sixteen (16) hours employer recommended painter trade and/or safety education training, if the above-required training is complete and up to date. If none or only a portion of the above training is complete, the hours to complete the required training above would count towards the minimum sixteen (16) hours.