Tower Hands, Tower Climbers, Cellphone Tower Industry Connecting

Thousands of Tower Hands agree we need to work on the industry issues below, and we want to help see these issues fixed and will help in any way possible. 

• Better wages with schedule raises
• Benefits packages
• Retirement plans
• Severance packages
• Night work / maintenance widow pay rate increase or bonuses
• Buzzard vomit / Bird feces site mitigation requirements before work can be performed, no more working on these sites with more than 50% of the structure covered with ticks living on the structure
• NWSA or some other entity to vet ALL climber certifications so they are 100% accessible to the individual climber and on file till they expire.
• NWSA Reform the current program is a great idea but is frowned upon by most of the industry and basically every single Tower Hand we have talked to. In no way does it make climbers feel safer to know they or their collogues have these TTT certifications. 
• The allowed use of carabiners for class 1 and 2 rigging plans. Using shackles for light loads is much more dangerous and we will prove it, for example multiple bolt bags on shackles cause a dropping hazard and cannot be disconnected by on hand like a self-closing self-locking carabiner