PRESIDENT'S REPORT
In May,
Local 338's Training Chairman Chuck Conrad and I met with local
management to talk about training opportunities. In all likelihood,
On-the-Job-Trainees (OJT) may be the best solution to our looming craft
attrition problem. Long term, our OJT program can offer economic
advantages to the Company that hiring from the outside can't. Investing
in the workforce by offering production workers the opportunity to learn
and develop additional skill sets can only add value at Trentwood. Some
quantifiable advantages to training production employees to fill craft
positions include: (1) Production employees already have the culture and
understand our processes. (2) The Company knows the employee and his
work history. (3) Production employees have a vested interest in the
company and are seeking career advancement. (4) Current employees are
likely to stay with the company until retirement. Providing advancement
opportunities to qualified employees then backfilling for entry level
positions makes good business sense. Currently, we have five OJT
graduates from the 2008 - 10 classes; Machinists Richard Contabile,
Kevin Cunningham, and Brad Url. Electricians Bruce Day and Ulysses Penn.
To each of you, welcome to the Maintenance Trades at Trentwood, and
congratulations on a job well done!

Henry J.
Kaiser tours the Trentwood Hotline in 1947
A
news clipping from May 1961, featured an article about Henry J. Kaiser
on his 80th birthday.
On May 6,
Kaiser Executives from all over the world gathered in Oakland, at a
dinner honoring Founder-Chairman Henry J. Kaiser. The occasion marked
the Builder-Industrialist's 80th birthday on May 9, and his fiftieth
year in the construction business. Characteristically, Mr. Kaiser talked
of the future and not the past as he offered a challenge to what he
called his "family of thousands of sons and daughters." "The past is but
a challenge to the future. Our family of thousands of sons and daughters
grows, and bigger than the job of building factories is our God-given
role of helping build men. Let us be men who match our challenges, men
with faith in our hearts, and the will that it can be done; - men who
give to life our zest and best. For in building together to fill human
needs, ours is the infinitely greater privilege of helping to build
stronger the greatest values in life."
(Cost of
one dinner approximately $7.50.......The speech, priceless.)
Fraternally,
Dan
Wilson, President - Local 338