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ONE WEEK LEFT TO REGISTER FOR 2010 UMCA TRAP SHOOT
Time is running out to register for the Annual UMCA Trap Shoot. This is an event that is always well attended and very enjoyable for all who come. Our Trap Shoot is being held earlier in the year, on September 16, 2010 at the Great Salt Lake Gun Club. The tournament will begin at 4:00pm and there will be a BBQ dinner following the tournament. Registration is $40.00 per person which covers the cost of a tournament t-shirt as well as attendance at the BBQ dinner. Each shooter is responsible for providing their own gun and shells to use in the tournament and practice rounds will be available prior to the start of the event. The main event will be 2 rounds of 25 targets from the 16 yard. We will also have a raffle fundraiser in memory of Jack D. Lynch for two separate prizes, both of which were generously donated by the Lynch Family. The first prize will be a King Kooker and the second prize is a Marlin 22 LR with a 10 round self feeding clip and black stock. Register today before it is too late! You may register by downloading the electronic registration form here, filling the form out and pressing the submit button. The form may also be submitted via email to Chelsie@umca.com or Sarah@umca.com, via fax to 801-531-7725, or via mail to 669 South 200 East, Salt Lake City, UT 84111. The registration form is due to the UMCA Office no later than one week from today, September 8, 2010.
UMCA-LOCAL 140 JOURNEYMAN & APPRENTICE TRAINING CENTER PREPARING FOR GRAND OPENING
The new “Career Center for Plumbers, Pipefitters, Welders, & HVAC&R” is preparing for a Grand Opening to be held October 7-9, 2010. Plans call for a three day celebration where community leaders, construction buyers, facilities managers, developers, general contractors, state legislators, and many more will be invited to tour the new Career Center to see the state of the art training program. Guests will be able to see firsthand the investment Labor-Management make in order to provide the most skilled, most productive, and highest quality trades people in the plumbing & mechanical trades. The UMCA & Local 140 have hired Dave Bocks & Associates to help market the new training center and have already seen some real progress with an editorial in the Enterprise Newspaper, and a recent ad in Utah CEO magazine. One of the goals will be to educate the community on the expertise and benefit for hiring a UMCA contractor member who employs Local 140 members and why they should “Never Settle for Second Best”! The landing page for the new website is http://www.ucctrades.com/. We hope that you will take advantage of this three day open house and not only attend the event, but bring some of your best customers out to see the investment that YOU make in training your employees to be the best. Please call the UMCA office for more information and watch your mailbox for the special invitation. The New Career Center is our future and something everyone should be very proud of!
PROJECT MANAGER TRAINING RETURNING TO UTAH
The UMCA has joined together with John Koontz to provide you with a final educational offering for the year. On October 12-13, the UMCA will be hosting a two day Project Manager Training. Project Manager Training courses have not been offered through the UMCA for the past 9 years. This training will have an emphasis on leadership skills that your Project Managers can take directly to the jobsite. John Koontz will be covering topics from how to run an effective turnover meeting, to strategies and guidelines for improving material handling, to the benefits of job cost control method over cost documentation. Don’t miss out on this great opportunity. Attendance at this training costs $250 per person, which includes the two-day course as well as breakfast and lunch both days. The last day to register is October 5, 2010. You may register by downloading the electronic registration form here, filling the form out and pressing the submit button. The form may also be submitted via email to sarah@umca.com, via fax to 801-531-7725, or via mail to 669 South 200 East, Salt Lake City, UT 84111.
UMCA HOLIDAY PARTY REGISTRATION NOW OPEN
Be sure to save the date for the UMCA’s Holiday Party. The party will take place on Monday, December 6, 2010 with a social hour beginning at 6:30pm. Dinner will be served at 7:30pm. We have been able to secure the Utah Museum of Fine Arts as the host of our Holiday festivities. As in the past, the first couple from each company will be given complimentary attendance. Every person after the initial complimentary couple will be $50 per person. To register to attend this event, please download the registration form here, complete the form, and click the submit form button and follow prompts to submit. You may also fax in the registration form to 801-531-7725 or you can mail it to 669 South 200 East, Salt Lake City, UT 84111. We are looking forward to seeing you there. If you have any questions please call the UMCA at (801) 364-7768 or e-mail Sarah at sarah@umca.com.
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FASB UPDATE
The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) last week extended until September 20, the public comment period for the first of its revised accounting standards that threaten construction employers that contribute to multiemployer defined benefit plans. The first of these proposed standards, Exposure Draft 450, Disclosure of Certain Loss Contingencies, addresses a variety of loss contingencies that accountants are to inquire into when auditing private and publicly held companies under standard GAAP audit procedures. The range of potential losses includes lawsuits of various types, potential product liability claims, and environmental claims and, at least on the face of the FASB proposal, any remote possibility of employer withdrawal liability relating to multiemployer defined benefit plans. This aspect of the proposal is attracting widespread opposition from the union-signatory sector of the construction industry.
The next step in FASB's initiative will be yet another exposure draft that will require further detailed speculative disclosure of multiemployer defined benefit plan participation, that taken together with the first exposure draft, would raise serious impediments to the union sector's surety and commercial credit capacity just as market growth and other economic imperatives will require yet greater capacity from the industry. MCAA's comments will also assert that the negative adverse consequences of FASB's initiatives run counter to established national pension policy pursued in numerous funding laws enacted since 2004, all aimed at shoring up the nation's multiemployer defined benefit pension system.