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LAS VEGAS – According to Jim Wurm of the Exhibitor Appointed Contractors Association (EACA), EACs have finally reached a tentative agreement with Teamster Local 631 and the newly elected leadership team in Las Vegas.
There has been “little movement” since the labor contract expired in May 2011, but several recent meetings have paved the way to accord.
The EACA notes, “The newly elected officers have acknowledged the specialized needs of the Displaymen/I&D journeyman worker classification and immediate focus on certifying and compiling a list of such qualified extra board workers. The former I&D Certification Panel will be resurrected to expedite this process.
“The current EAC community in Las Vegas employs an aggregate total of 50 percent of the Teamster work force during each trade show. The long-standing need to dispatch skilled Displayman/I&D Journeymen for EAC has been stepped over and ignored as an important component of the last 4-5 contract negotiations, where main emphasis was focus on the General Service Contractors.
“With the help of the new team in office now, the EACs will work closely with the president of Local 631 and the new dispatch software to assist in identifying displaymen and insuring that this class of worker will be dispatched to EACs and eliminating other categories of workers who aren't certified or skilled in I&D and prefer not to work in I&D.”
The EACA, along with the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and ESCA, is sponsoring the National Labor Management Conference Feb. 6-8 at the UBC Training Center in Las Vegas. All EACA members using union labor are invited to attend. Contact
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