May,13th 2024
Updated Monthly
The Local 697 Business office is located at 7200 Mississippi St., Suite 200, Merrillville, Indiana.

May,13th 2024
Work Outlook : Work remains steady in our area Bp is on schedule for all Major TARs this year. Mostly consisting of the DDU, SRU,12PS,and Coker. We can start to expect some manpower increases this May for the DDU and some of these projects. Along the Lakefront Cleveland Cliffs and USS continue to do scheduled maintenance and small shutdowns. Cargill is expected to have a 10-15 day outage in June. Mostly right now maintenance work continues at Cargill. Huhtamaki has plans for a second state-of-the-art production line this summer. That job is working 5-10s with possibly going to 6-10s at the end of May. There is a high possibility of starting a second shift once this line gets rolling. I can start to expect some calls to be coming in for that project very soon. On the commercial side of things, both Franciscan and Community Hospitals have plans for 2 Cancer Centers to start construction this year. School work will be coming up once school is let out at the end of May, and we can start to expect some calls to come in for all these projects.           

Book I – 34  Book II – 82

.....Sign-in 7:30- 4:00pm M,T,W,Th,Fri,
Re-sign on the 10th through 16th of each month.Jobs are updated daily on our  Website:      IBEW697.org  If you are registered on the Out of Work list, you can "bid" on jobs on the website, leave a voice message, or you may still call in between 7:30 and 9 am . Please!  watch the double booking!

  Book I – 34  Book II – 82

Sign-in 7:30 - 4:00 M,T,W,Th,Fri, 

Re-sign is from the 10-16th of each month begining January 2020.

Jobs updated daily on our Website: IBEW697.org

Note: If you are registered on the Out of Work list, you can bid on jobs on the website, leave a voice message or you may still call in between 7:30 and 9 am. Please! watch the double booking!