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