The NECA & IBEW 697 Labor Management Cooperation Committee is a partnership of the Northwestern Indiana Chapter of the National Electrical Contractors Association and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local Union 697. It is a non-profit organization established through the collective bargaining agreement devoted to promoting the Union Electrical Construction Industry through advertising, publicity, continuing education, and a wide range of services to both Union and Management members.
We are dedicated to helping workers and employers explore creative joint approaches to become more effective, assisting them in solving mutual problems and enhancing the involvement of employees in making decisions that affect their working lives. We believe in expanding and improving working relationships between workers and managers and encouraging free collective bargaining by establishing avenues for them to communicate. The LMCC also studies ways of eliminating potential problems that reduce competitiveness as well as inhibit economic development of the electrical contracting industry in Northwestern Indiana.
The +5 Homeowners Electrical Protection Plan is a no-cost service providing peace of mind to homeowners when hiring the services of a +5 electrical contractor. The plan is called “+5” because it extends beyond a builder's one-year warranty for an additional five years. In other words, a home covered by the +5 Plan is actually protected for six years. We take the hassles and uncertainties out of finding the right contractor to wire your new home, or remodel your current home.
By prescreening contractors and their employees, we are able to ensure that only fully qualified professionals wire your home. This program mutually benefits the homeowner, the contractor, and ultimately the union electrician who gains from the enhanced work flow that +5 generates. +5 is a truly wininning combination all the way around.
The NECA & IBEW 697 Labor Management Cooperation Committee LMCC has established a special Incentives Program to promote membership participation in continuing education and other activities that are a benefit to you and the electrical industry. The concept of awarding points worth a specific monetary equivalent was adopted by our Local Union 697 Business Manager, Ray Kasmark.
Participation in various defined activities will generate incentive points which can be redeemed as cash towards purchase of articles of work clothing at two local store locations. Members who earn 15 points during the current year will have their name entered into a special drawing for annual Grand Prize, valued at $1,200. The drawing will be held at the annual local union picnic.
Required apprentice classes and activities are not eligible for Incentive Program points.
If there are any questions please call Incentives Program Facilitator, Karl Krizmanic, at 219-730-6486.
For more information about accumulating and redeeming Incentive Program points, click on the tabs on the left NAVIGATION BAR found under LMCC.
LMCC Incentives Program Eligible Activities
Code of Excellence Presentation - 1 point
Volunteer Activities
Pts
Annual Union Picnic Volunteer (Apprentice) 3
Annual Union Picnic Volunteer (JW) 1
Awards Banquet Participant (Apprentice) 2
Awards Banquet Volunteer (JW) 1
Credit Union Annual Dinner Meeting(Apprentice Participant) 2
GOTV Volunteer 2
Local Union Blood Drive/Donors 2
Local Union Blood Drive/Volunteer 2
Union Election Voter 2
Union Mtg. Attendance (for every 6 meetings, JW only) 2
Volunteer Work (Local 697 Sponsored - for each 3 hrs.)
1
Widow's Christmas Candy/Card Volunteer 2
Continuing Education Opportunities
Pts
Catagory 5/6 Class* 4
CDL Class* 3
Code of Excellence Presentation 1
Code Update Class* 15
Confined Space-OSHA 10
DC Crane Class* 8
Electrical Inspector Class Workshop 1 pts/3 hrs
Electrical Inspector - full time 12pts/yr
Electrical Inspector - part time 6 pts/ yr
EPRI Part A 5
EPRI Part B 5
Fiber Optics Class* 10
Fire Alarm Class* 6
First Aid/CPR Class* 2
Foreman's Training #1 Class* 5
Foreman's Training #2 Class* 5
Foreman's Training #3 Class* 5
High Voltage Class* 24
HVAC Class* 14
Instrumentation Advanced* 10
Motor Control Class* 10
NFPA 70E Class* 15
OSHA 10 Class 10
OSHA 30 Class* 10
Photovoltaics Class 8
Programmable Controller Class* 15
Signaling & Rigging- OSHA 10
Steward Training* 2
Tech Night 5
Welding Class* 8
Thanks to the LMCC funding from Locals 697 and 531 we are able to offer Continuing Education Classes for Electrical Inspectors and Building Commissioners in four counties - Lake, Newton, Porter and LaPorte.
Classes are available in the following subjects:
- Review of the National Electrical Code
- Review of NEC changes
- Twenty most recurring residential code infractions
- Review of UL White Book
- Standardized approaches in electrical inspectionsFuture classes will be developed to address the needs of Electrical Inspectors in the effort to enforce codes with consistency.
Continuing education class credit is available for participants who successfully complete the classes.
This continued commitment to the professional development of Electrical Inspectors and Building Department employees in the four county area is of utmost importance in order to maintain high building code standards and to insure the safety of not only building inhabitants, but that of the electrical workers themselves.
