Charles Isenhart Correspondence
GENERAL MEMBER ORGANIZATIONS
A&G Electric Company
Alliant Utilities
A. Y. McDonald Manufacturing
BarnsteadfThermolyne
Carpenters, Local 678
City of Dubuque
County of Dubuque
Dubuq~e Cc;r..m,:.lr.:ty S~~.ocl Di::;tri~t
Dubuque Deputy Sheriffs' Association
Dubuque Education Association
Dubuque Greyhound Park and Casino
Dubuque Stamping and Manufacturing
Electrical Workers, Local 204
Electrical Workers, Local 704
Farmland Foods
Firmin Motors
Firefighters, Local 353
Aexsteel Industries
Aynn Printing and Graphics
Aynn Ready-Mix Company
Gannon Center for Mental Health
Glaziers, Local 581
H&W Motor Express
Hillcrest Family Services
Hodge Transit Warehouse
!MC Nitrogen Company
Ironworkers, Local 89
John Deere Dubuque Works
Klauer Manufacrurlng Company
Laborers, Local 659
McDermott Excavating
Millwrights, Local 2158
MMC Mechanical Contractors
Molo Ready-Mix Company
Morrison Brothers Company
Morse Electric Company
Myers-Cox Company
NICC Higher Education Association
Northeast Iowa Community College
Operating Engineers, Local 234
Pancratz Construction
Paulson Electric Company
Plasterers and Cement Masons, Local II
Plumbers and Pipefiners, Local 125
Portzen Construction
Proiect Concern
Register Printing Company
Sheet Metal, Local 91
SKW Biosystems
Standard Forwarding Company
Steel Warehousing, Inc,
Swiss Valley Farms
Tschiggfrie Excavating
Teamsters, Local 421
Unique Balance
United Auto Workers, Local 13
United Auto Workers, Local 94
United Auto Workers, Local 1391
United Food and Commercial Workers, Local 431
United Steelworkers, Loca11861-U
United Way Services
ASSOCIATE MEMBER ORGANIZATIONS
American Trust and Savings Bank
Dupaco Community Credit Union
East Central Intergovernmental Association
Finley Business Health
Firstar Bank
Honkamp Krueger and Company
Medical Associates Health Plans
Mercantile Bank of Dubuque
Mercy Health Center
National Electrical Contractors Association
Tri-State Independent Physicians Association
Wellmark Blue CrosslBlue Shield of Iowa
Dubuque Area labor-Management Counci I
"Working together for a better community"
500 Fischer Building, 909 Main Street, P.O. Box 14, Dubuque, IA 52004-0014
Phone: 319-582-8804 FAX: 319-582-1224 E-mail: dalmc@mwci.net
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City Council Members
City of Dubuque
50 W. 13th St.
Dubuque, IA 52001
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I regret that I am unable to attend tonight's City Council meeting to thank you for
your assistance to the Dubuque Area Labor-Management Council. I have been
asked to speak at the Iowa Apprenticeship Conference about our mock collective
bargaining exercise for high school students, and will be out of town overnight. I
have asked Joe Reed, our management chair, to speak in our behalf.
I want to communicate my personal gratefulness for the Council's support, and
the support of the City of Dubuque. I have viewed your inclusion of us in your
purchase of service budget over the years as a personal vote of confidence, and
I am thankful that you have been behind us. It has been a privilege to work with
you over the past nine years. I have learned a lot.
We are the only area labor-management committee in the state to continue at a
meaningful level of operations, without significant state support. I attribute this
not simply to the Council's financial support, but more importantly to your
personal involvement as Council members. Each one of you has been part of
one or more of our activities in the past. Mayor Duggan's involvement as the
dean of our community advisors goes above and beyond the call of mayoral duty.
City Manager Mike Van Milligen has been an important source of personal
support for me. We work in a field where compliments and praise are scarce
commodities. Mike is the first to show his appreciation when it is deserved, and
sometimes even when it's not, because he knows it's the fuel of perseverance.
His generosity with time and advice has sustained me in the increasingiy difficult
work of the Labor-Management Council, as we continue to work through growing
pains and higher expectations.
Over the life of the Labor-Management Council, Randy Peck has been the most
dependable, consistent and committed management representative to both the
Board of Directors and now our Tri-State Health CAR.E. Coalition. He contrib-
utes constructively to every discussion, and always does what he says he will.
Indeed, the whole City organization has participated actively in our work at
virtually every level. Some people try to make "government" sound like a dirty
word. If I were involved in that trial, I'd be a witness for the defense, and I'd
submit the City of Dubuque as my first piece of evidence.
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