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FILE NAME Painters and Allied Trades PAINT DATE 1984 May DOC PAINT078 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Article from Painters and Allied Trades Journal the Cover BPAT General President Raftery Fetires Story page Raftery ; : FEATURES NEWS AND page | ; . 4 25th General Convention Procedures 6 Bill Duval Elected General President 9 Mondale Seeks Retraining Programs . Inside Inside Front Back _ DEPARTMENTS . page ee cre Cover From the General President _ 10 Local and District Council News 18 Sports and and Recreation cis . Oe: 19 FinancialReport ee Cover The General Treasurer Reports TRADE DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF RESIDENTIAL COMMERCIAL wit EQUIPMENT AUTOMBILE INDUSTRIAL SIGN @ PICTORIAL COACH 'AUTOMOBILE SHIP SCENIC PAINTING DECORATING fiPAPERHANGING ~ WALL COVERING @ DECORATIVE AND ARCHITECTURAL GLASS WORK .. we GLAZING GLAZING fiCARPET 6 LINOLEUM @ SOFT > oe, .- Any member or subordinate body publishing programs souvenirs or other documents of any description must notJournal designate them as The Official Journal of : International Brotherhood of Painters and forms stationeryadvertising Allied Trades Journal either upon the Publication itself or their ' : Contract or . ; oe a oe a S. FRANK RAFTERY General President Avenue 1750 New York Avenue N.W i , . ao ; - ROBERT PETERSDORF , Secretary ROBERT PETERSDORF :>~ General Secretary 1750 New York Avenue N.W.- Washington D.C.D.C. 20006 General Vice Presidents i1sBtERDNisAtrRiDct SNIEGOWSKI | .. 1443 Westchester Boulevard - a Westchester Ill 60153 A.MONROE 2nd District 7909 Bayberry Drive | ves _ Alexandria Va 22306 -.. Washington D.C. in March 1984 He is retiring because of ill health ; foresight Raftery great established With merged weaker locals In 1969 he our Broth- creating _ erhood's National Pension Plan for stronger <million ions sufficient Local Un- you which today has assets of 355 He reduced their numbers providing security to our 1200 to 710. Raftery also members that we never knew under encouraged the chartering of Dis- local plans The National Pension resignation is effective June 3 1984. The Board elected Seventh Councils _ trict inin large areas around. Fund Plan now covers 40,000 par- ticipants in 360 participating Local Unions and District Councils in _ both the United States and Canada - The plan covers over 8,000 8,000 partici- . pating employers and pays out ben- members - efits to a month at over 2 million . Representatives For Business and :_ time employees of Local Un- patstwenty years you can see he stood by that promise Restructuring Our Brotherhood General President Raftery's first action was to boldly restructure our ions and District Councils General President Raftery established a Lo- cal Union and District Council Pension Plan Today we have almost 239 Business Representatives and staff receiving these benefits This fund now has assets of over 15 Brotherhood and design innovative million programs and policies Before Raf- tery's election there was no clear- . | Education and training has always been foremost on the list of cut organization to efficiently ser- vice the membership He immedi- Department of EducationJurisdiction prenticeship and Training a Department of Research and Legisla- tion and a Department of Health Raftery created a de- the country in order to stabilize the administration of the Brotherhood's affairs a - Brother . Raftery provided our District Councils and Local Unions with greater financial stability by developing anAdministrative Dues check program LotR Raftery When President became General As he looked was accomplishing this he looked to the field operations to see General President Raftery's priorities He promoted education by pro- viding leadership seminars and edu- cation materials He encouraged participationin various trade union * programs such as the Brookings In- stitute The George Meany Center for Labor Studies and The Harvard . Trade Union Program as well as ..other : AFLProgram and Building Trades educational conferences Our Brotherhood's apprentice- ship and training program has brought the skills of our trades to over 30,000 apprenticesPresident since Bud Raftery becamePresident He _: negotiated Government Reimburse- . ment Contracts forGovernmet expanded ap- prenticeshp and journeyworker retraining programs inMDTA CETA We and Job union with its voice in in Congress He established a PoliticalCongresAction 3 Fund for ~ promoting federal can- d:idates anda Legislative and Edu- cational Fund to promote local can- direct factorin the establishment | Newother Grants which Directions universities didatescational and local laborlocal issues Brother Raftery alsoestablished a PAT checkprocedure for Dis- Public . ttrict Councils and Local Unions to sponsible for negotiate out of hourly wagesor to checkout of vacation funds This Department Department : was also re- C protecting our wages Raftery RobertGeneral SecretarySecretary during periods and benefits and price controls of wage in the early 1970s 1970s when Raftery served on the Stabilization Brotherhood and Industry _. Construction Committee 5G ganizations Dept the Employees Dept Label : The Union and Service Trades Dept. occupational leader Union occupational asa leaderleadleerader in safetysasfetyafety - - and health trainingThe Dept. Brother established the Healthand Safety Department to .: General President . handle legislative andDepartment regulation " butions to our Treasurer Raftery's contrconitri and less He began as sign painter f precedent > Under Rafterybeing IBPAT set a by being the first and ' only union to ever win a successful .St. Louis Local 774 at the age At18 he transfered toSt. -: appeal of a wage decision in a Ten- _ nessee ValleyAuthority case that "2 provided an additional $ million ~ in pay for 800 of our members _ Dedication to Your ., Health andSafety - what contribution to labor he would | representative years hood 31 to in Organizer most care to be remembered for he - would immediatelyrespond Health and Safety " In 1974 Bud Raftery declared roles such as Representative Organizer concerns _a Decade of Job Safety But his to assist the - efforts membership to provide safe and healthy and to establish rights standards ~ _ ,workplaces for our membership go ~~,Recently the IBPATProj- back to 1969 when prior to the . ectsuccessfully integrated its pro- - National Safety and Health Act he grams into the established the National Joint Safe- standard appren- giving ticeship curriculum And last ___ ty and Health Committee a joint ~ the year * Project receiveda prestigious| . labor and management committee researchProject grant from the National -; adenddicsaatfeedtytoof improving the health . Cancer Institute which provides a sec and safe and healthywork our members General ajob on the projected three quarters of a million - ' oursafe wee dollars a : investigation Fr President dollars investigaon for three 8THE JOURNAL 1984