Rob Wise, Recording-Corresponding Secretary
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Rob Wise is a second-generation Operating Engineer. His father, Elmer Wise, paid his initiation fee to Heiny Foss in the Marin District in 1946. Rob joined Local 3 after he graduated from high school in 1968. While working summers as an Operating Engineer, he continued his education at Chico State University and earned a bachelor's degree in business management.
After college, Wise worked full time on dirt spreads until 1981, when he was hired as a dispatcher in the Santa Rosa District. In 1984, he was promoted to business representative and worked in that capacity in the Santa Rosa, Fairfield and San Francisco (Marin County) districts. He was promoted to Santa Rosa district representative before becoming financial secretary in 1992. Wise became recording-corresponding secretary in 1993 and has held the position since.
Over the years, Wise has taken several continuing-education classes, including a one-week course in leadership and strategic planning at the George Meany Center for Labor Studies, a 10-week course in human relations through the Dale Carnegie Systems and courses in employee benefit plans, negotiating and arbitration. He is also a graduate of the Harvard Trade Union Program.
Recording-Corresponding Secretary Rob Wise oversees the Facilities Department, Fringe Benefits, Maintenance, Member Services, strategic planning, the Assistance & Recovery Program and the Operating Engineers Local Union No. 3 Federal Credit Union.