If there is no work, then there are no shops to send the apprentices to. No where is there a guarantee of work.
That may be true in your neck of the woods, but certainly not here in NYC. We have a lock on our Jurisdiction and are making strides to help out other Locals. If there is no work in your Jurisdiction, I would elect different officers, and change the working agreement with the contractors because something is definitely wrong. There is work out there and if your contractors aren't going for it, then the unorganised will take it. That happened to Westchester, NY. What happened...Local 3 had to take them over...because they were falling apart. So if your Local is in bad shape like that...fix your own house before you cry foul of others houses.
The fact of the matter is that local 3 does not have any guarantee for the apprentices to always work. If times get slow enough, apprentices will sit out. You made lies here that you can't backup.
We'll see Monday, I will get to the bottom of it. If I am wrong, I will be the first to say so. I did not "bastardise" anything from the Joint Industry Board website, I actually cut and pasted on page 1 of this thread. But I'll put it here once again.
The Apprentice Program of the Electrical Industry of IBEW Local Union No. 3 includes a minimum of 35 hours per week on-the-job training for four years plus the following requirements:
Mandatory attendance at related instruction for four (4) hours per week;
Classroom instruction in Electrical Theory; and
Three (3) hours per week in college courses leading to an associate degree.
You made a really ignorant and outrageous statement. I am the guy asking you to prove it.
Ignorant? Again, who the f.u.c.k. are you to call anyone ignorant and who the f.u.c.k. made you think in any world YOU get to dismiss anyone? LOL you're a legend in your own mind man, you really are. If I am mistaken about this, I can say with complete actuality that OUR Apprentices are kept working no matter how bad times have been. Including the 1970's, the 1990's, and from 2009-2013 when we had our worst run since the 1970's. During all these times our Apprentices were never, not once, unemployed. Only AJ's were.
You made a long post attacking me and deflecting from the topic.
What nonsense are you spouting now? I made it very clear from the beginning of this discourse that I was being civil. YOU initiated this with your aggressive behaviour. Once again, whether YOU believe that Local 3 keeps our Apprentices working or not is not my problem. I didn't attack you, I clearly said I was DONE with being civil to you. Then I gave you back what you spouted. What's the matter, you can call someone a liar but not take his response to that? LOL once again, piece of work...Now you go and spout this bull**** about me deflecting? That's strange, for anyone reading from the beginning, it's clear I was trying to be as clear as possible and as cordial as possible. You took this to the level of unwarranted aggression HW, not I. Now that this is done, I am done. Monday I will speak to the Apprentice Director and the Historian and see what I can find. Being a gentleman and man of my word, I will post the results here no matter what.