After a number of incidents this past summer, including dropped pipe, a guy getting hung by the neck in the rigging and a fatality with a piece of equipment falling on another, my company was told they would have to really change their rigging procedures. It was decided that we would hire Ironworkers to do the crane work, including rigging and signaling. I was made foreman in charge of coordinating the action. All rigging would be done on second shift. So I work with day shift for a few hours and then use the night shift crew as needed. After two weeks, it changed to more of a composite crew. This has been going on without any major problems since early August. I am called the Day/Night girl since I never seem to leave the place. My composite crew is made up of Ironworkers and Operating engineer, with my pipefitters receiving the material after it is flown. I also have to coordinate with my company’s Tinknockers to use the crane. On Friday night, my rigging crew was told no crane Saturday, so they weren't going to be working. They are justifiably pissed off at the late notice and lost wages. They want to be out of there as soon as possible. Naturally this is the night I have a shitload of lifts to do. Sorry for the technical terms. Anyway, I finally get the hook at 830, just as my pipefitters take their first break. The others (Ironworkers and Op.Eng) all had a break at 6 PM and want to keep working to get done ASAP. So the Ironworker foreman and I get into a shouting match. He wants to keep flying pipe while we are on break. I tell him we are a team, a composite crew, and he can't fly pipe without us. I would have loved to get a video of this 6'5" guy standing over me yelling while I stand on my tiptoes and talk him down. It must have made a funny picture. We took the break. I didn't get everything flown that needed to fly, but I actually won an argument that was really about union solidarity and doing things the right way. No one rigs pipe without pipefitters