The Availability List or Out of Work List is maintained as a service for all active workers in Local 16.

When you are sure of your next availability it is your responsibility to call Local 16's offices to put your name on the Out of Work List also referred to as the Availability List. This may be done any weekday between 9 AM and 6  PM by calling 415-441-6400 and speaking to the office staff or after hours by leaving a message. Once your name is on the list, it will remain there for seven days or until you are referred to a job and that job begins. Every day the list is scanned and all names that have been on the list for 7 days or who are referred to a job beginning that day are removed. This list is maintained as a service to the technicians referred by Local 16 and to Local 16's signatory employers. Your name is not removed from the list when you have a call back, only for new job starts.

For Example: If you call in your availability on a Tuesday, and do not receive work for 7 days, your name will go off of the list at 12:01 AM the following Tuesday. If you receive a call for work beginning the Friday after you called in, then your name will remain on the list until 12:01 Friday morning at which time it will go off the list. In this event, you should call in and put your name back on the list as soon as you know when you will be available again. If the job you began on Friday has a Tuesday call back for the load out, your name will not be removed from the list as a result of the call back as it is not a new call for work for you.