{"id":566,"date":"2017-01-17T15:07:43","date_gmt":"2017-01-17T20:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iamaw2468.ca\/?page_id=566"},"modified":"2021-08-05T16:17:04","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T20:17:04","slug":"colin-adams","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/iamaw2468.ca\/?page_id=566","title":{"rendered":"Colin Adams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I started work at Rolls-Royce in Derby England as a Sheet metal worker and Coppersmith\u00a0apprentice at only 16. I graduated early to full tradesman at 19 on three shifts in the\u00a0Maintenance and Manufacturing area of Sinfin C site as a Coppersmith. I continued at my\u00a0studies and went on to take an advanced level welding course, which helped me in my\u00a0later career.<\/p>\n<p>I stayed with Rolls-Royce Derby for 10 years, before I accepted to take a voluntary\u00a0redundancy package. Next employer was Defabs Ltd. Where my welding skills came in very handy, in the brewing and food industry.<\/p>\n<p>GTR Engineering was a small company who I worked for. They performed small tasks with local firms around the Derby and Nottingham area.<\/p>\n<p>Rotadata Ltd was the employer I really wanted to work for. While completing my 9 years\u00a0at that wonderful company I learned the skills in instrumentation I have today.<\/p>\n<p>In early 1999 I sent out my CV for a new career, and was asked if I wanted to be a contractor in Canada. I said I would prefer a full time position and Rolls-Royce Canada approached me with an offer of employment and citizenship. I accepted and started in the summer of 1999.<\/p>\n<p>I have been employed as a specialist in Instrumentation ever since.<\/p>\n<p>I became an active member of the union LL2468 in 2005 as a grievance committee member.\u00a0Since then I have been on the negotiating committee (RRC) and am now the Financial Secretary. I am also a member of the Grievance Committee (Siemens).<\/p>\n<p>I enjoy fishing and watching NASCAR racing.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_567\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/iamaw2468.ca\/?attachment_id=567\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-567\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-567\" class=\"wp-image-567 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/iamaw2468.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/CAdams-e1484681062248-300x279.jpg\" alt=\"CAdams\" width=\"300\" height=\"279\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iamaw2468.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/CAdams-e1484681062248-300x279.jpg 300w, http:\/\/iamaw2468.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/CAdams-e1484681062248-768x713.jpg 768w, http:\/\/iamaw2468.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/CAdams-e1484681062248-1024x951.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/iamaw2468.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/CAdams-e1484681062248-150x139.jpg 150w, http:\/\/iamaw2468.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/CAdams-e1484681062248-400x371.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-567\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Colin Adams &#8211; Financial Secretary<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started work at Rolls-Royce in Derby England as a Sheet metal worker and Coppersmith\u00a0apprentice at only 16. I graduated early to full tradesman at 19 on three shifts in the\u00a0Maintenance and Manufacturing area of Sinfin C site as a Coppersmith. I continued at my\u00a0studies and went on to take an advanced level welding course, which helped me in my\u00a0later<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":567,"parent":237,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-566","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iamaw2468.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iamaw2468.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iamaw2468.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iamaw2468.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iamaw2468.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=566"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/iamaw2468.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1049,"href":"http:\/\/iamaw2468.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/566\/revisions\/1049"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iamaw2468.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iamaw2468.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iamaw2468.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}