Masonry Magazine August 1969 Page. 20
COMING
EVENTS
1969
# September
26-27.. MCAA Masonry Estimating Course, Executive International Inn, St. Louis, Mo. Contact: MCAA Executive Office.
# October
23-28..MCAA Fall Executive Board Meeting, Caribe Hilton, San Juan, Puerto Rico & St. Croix, Virgin Islands.
11.. Arizona Masonry Guild Industry Banquet, Biltmore Hotel, Phoenix Arizona. Contact: Paul Rosensteel, 2046 North 16th St., Phoenix.
CHICAGO
MCAAO
SHERMAN HOUSE
FEBRUARY 14-17
25.. Canadian Masonry Contractors Association meeting. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
# November
21..MCAA Labor Relations Seminar, Marriott Motor Hotel, Dallas, Texas.
PCA Creates Training Department
Creation of a Manpower Development and Training Department by the Portland Cement Association under direction of Howard C. Wiechman has been announced by James D. Piper, senior vice president for market development.
Most of the Association's training activities for industry-related trades will be consolidated under the new department. Previously they were directed by the Technical and Vocational Education Section of the Educational Services Department.
"The organizational change was made because activities in our cooperatively financed programs have increased beyond original expectations, both in the size of the programs and expansions beyond those initially envisioned," Mr. Piper said.
"Current proposals include development of correspondence courses, work with disadvantaged groups such as inmates of correctional institutions, development of a secondary school concrete construction curriculum, and others directed toward the particular manpower interests of PCA, its member companies, and allied industry groups."
At the present time, PCA is conducting two federally funded programs to train tradesmen and technicians for the contracting, ready-mix, and concrete products industries.
More than 1,300 trainees have been accepted into apprentice and journeyman programs conducted in cooperation with the Operative Plasterers' & Cement Masons' International Association. This is a $1.4 million program.
PCA also has joined with the National Ready Mixed Concrete Association and the American Concrete Institute in a $400,000 project financed by the U.S. Office of Education to develop a two-year post-high school curriculum for concrete technology.
All Trades Average Up 5 Percent
Hourly wage scales of union building trades workers averaged $5.59 on July 1, 1969, according to the Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The all-trades average rose by 5 percent in the second quarter of 1969, the largest increase since reporting of quarterly data began in 1948. For the year since July 1, 1968, the increase was 8.8 percent, raising the Bureau's index of union building trades scales to 167.6 (1957-59 = 100).
December
5..MCAA Labor Relations Seminar, Marriott Motor Hotel, Atlanta, Georgia.
1970
# January
26-29.. National Convention of the National Concrete Masonry Association, Shamrock Hotel, Houston, Texas.
# February
5.. Annual Convention of the Canadian Mason Contractors Association, Chateau Lacombe, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Contact: J. R. Ellis, 3500 Dufferin St. Downsview, Ontario, a/c 416 630-1204.
14-17..20th Annual MCAA Convention & Educational Trade Show, Sherman House, Chicago, Illinois.
When employer payments to insurance (health and welfare), pension, and/or vacation plans are added to the scales, the increase in the average in the second quarter was 5.6 percent and amounted to 9.9 percent on a year-to-year basis. These advances compared with increases of 4.7 percent and 6.6 percent, respectively, for the year ending July 1, 1968.
The second-quarter 1969 survey of 7 major building trades in 100 cities showed scale advances in three-fifths of the 700 bargaining units studied, reflecting the traditional spring bargaining pattern of the industry. About 2 of every 3 workers covered received a scale raise, which averaged 39 cents an hour. Newly negotiated and deferred wage increases resulted in adjustments ranging from less than 10 cents to more than $1.00 an hour. Of the adjustments reported, an eighth were for 50 cents, a tenth were for 25 cents, and approximately a tenth for 20, 30, or 40 cents. Another fifth of the adjustments exceeded 50 cents an hour.
Since July 1, 1968, the level of hourly wage scales advanced 8.8 percent or 44 cents an hour. Increases ranged from 7.7 percent for plasterers and building laborers to 9.6 percent for plumbers.
Plumbers had the highest average hourly scale among the six journeymen crafts, $6.29 an hour. For the other journeymen trades, average hourly scales varied from $5.40 for painters to $6.14 for bricklayers. Building laborers' scales averaged $4.26 an hour.
Quarterly and annual changes in union scales and the rate level on July 1, 1969, are shown below:
Change in average union scales
April 1, 1969
July 1, 1968
to
to
Rate levels
Trade
July 1, 1969
July 1, 1969
July 1, 1969
Percent Cents
Percent Cents Average
Range
Bricklayers...... 4.7 27.4
Carpenters 5.2 28.1
Electricians
Painters
Plasterers
Plumbers
9.0 50.1
$6.14
$4.40-57.16
9.1
47.8 5.84
3.80-7.20
4.6
26.5 9.3 52.0
6.10
4.30- 7.35
4.3 21.9 7.8 38.5
5,40
3.25-6.41
4.9
26.5 7.7 41.1
5.75
4.00-7.00
6.3 36.4
9.6
54.3
6.29
4.60-8.57
5.1 20.4 7.7 30.1 4.26
5.0 26.1 8.8 43.9 5.59
2.07-5.62
Building
laborers
All trades
The teenage trend has always been to grow up, leave home, and get married. This is still true though not always in that order.
masonry
August, 1969