b'44 PRESIDENTS MESSAGECentralStates Insulation AssociationPresidents MessageJoe McCoy - Champaign A&K Insulation Co.HAPPY2022EVERYONE! PRESIDENTJoe McCoyIof speakers that includes Gary Auman, Jim Gribbins, hope everyone had a great time celebrating the holidays with family and friends.My family hadTom Fischer, Jeff Mullins and CLRC.Attendees will a wonderful time celebrating at home this year.get to hear discussion regarding the CSIA Safety Unfortunately, I ended up with COVID to bring in theManual, receive an update on the National Pension new year and spent the first week of 2022 in isolationFund as well as take part in providing updates for with my daughter, banished to the basement.Iteach Local/Area.Tom Fischer will be discussing was great bonding time and we got to watch a lothow to deal with manpower shortages that are of Spider-Man movies.I do hope that all of you areimpacting our trade with recruitment strategies able to steer clear of this most recent COVID spike. that work.Jeff Mullins of Taft Law will discuss This past year brought us new and different problemsever-important negotiation strategy and we will for all of us.Some of our areas were busy and dealthave a wage trend analysis from CLRC.As always, with a lack of manpower and/or material shortages.there will be a reception with Vendor Tabletops Some of our areas saw slowdowns, anticipated or not.for the Associate Members to showcase their latest Dedicated to keeping its members at the forefront in their industryWe had labor negotiations and strikes.We all hadproducts and a 50/50 raffle to help raise funds for multiple material increases.We also had vaccines,the CSIA Scholarship Program.There will be no golf vaccine mandates, no mandates, and mandatesat this event as we will be in the Music City.There again.Hopefully we were all able to use connectionswill be a cocktail reception Wednesday afternoon and tools made available through CSIA membershipto close event.Come and enjoy Nashville!The to solve those problems. registration email for this event will be sent out in the near future.Its the beginning of a new year and the plan for 2022 is to have a full slate of CSIA events.It willTo round out the year, September will bring the kick-off with our CSIA Topgolf Event in Fisher,CSIA-ESICA Fall Conference in Savannah, GA.This IN on March 1st.We tried this last year in lieu ofwill be held at the JW Marriott Savanah.Our last our canceled Spring Conference and felt it was aevent in Savannah was a great time, minus Brian big success and a lot of fun.There will be a BBQand his crutches.meal, drinks and reserved golf bays if you want to try and hit a few balls.Note that we will alsoI encourage everyone to check out the events in have a small negotiation strategy meeting open tothe CSIA website and make plans to attend.These contractor members prior to the event to discussevents are what make CSIA membership so great past and current labor negotiations.Please considerand worthwhile.Have a Happy New Year and enjoy registering for this fun event on the CSIA website. this edition of CSIAs Insulator MagazineIn May, we will have our first CSIA Spring LaborJoe McCoy Conference since 2019.The conference this year will be held in Nashville, TN at the Sheraton GrandCSIA President Nashville Downtown.We have a fantastic scheduleChampaign A&K Insulation Co.The InsulatorFebruary 2022'