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From: Vetter, Gene
Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2012 2:45 PM
To: @Wtfd Mfg Managers; @Wtfd Mfg Leaders; @Wtfd Technicians; @Adv Mat GES L359
Subject: CAP COM Direct Deposit Notice
Importance: High
All Cap Com Customers
Due to an error with the Cap Com file feed all deposits for Cap Com went in to one account.
Local 81359 & Momentive came to an Agreement on 1-27-2012 on the ULP for the Injury Repeater Program. Go to the Member Home page (on left menu) to read the Agreement.
Here is the Grievance Report for February 2012-- Stay Informed--this Report tells you specifically where the Local/National Dockets stand. The report can be read in the Member Resource section (on left menu), under "Chief Shop Steward Corner." Take the time to review this important document to know where "your" grievance stands.
(Posted 1/26/2012)
We have continually reminded all of you:
For now anyone that feels they were denied a position that they posted for AND HAD SENIORITY and met the Minimum Qualifications, YOU MUST file a Grievance under ART. XXVIIIÂ on Denial of Upward Mobility AND SENIORITY BEING THE CONTROLLING FACTOR .
YOU MUST CONTINUE TOÂ POST FOR THE JOBS.
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Monthly Union Meeting
WATERFORD TOWN HALL
Friday, March, 2nd 2012 @11:45
Order of Business: Monthly Agenda Sheet/Grievance Rep.
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"The American Labor Movement has consistently demonstrated its devotion to the public interest. It is, and has been, good for all America.”
CWA 1118, Capital District
Area Labor Federation, and the Solidarity Committee proudly
present a stirring documentary:
The March Against Corporate Greed
Wednesday, February 29, at 6:30 PM
Spectrum Theatre
290 Delaware Avenue, Albany
The March Against Corporate Greed (2012), a new film by Manolo Munoz – a videographer and member of the Communications Workers of America (CWA) – tells the story of a dramatic eight-day march for economic justice by union activists. In November 2011, a group of capital district CWA members, engaged in a struggle for a fair contract with the corporate giant Verizon, began a hike from Albany to New York City to call attention to the disparities in wealth and income between the 1 percent and the 99 percent. Joined by a few Working Families Party members and other CWA members along the way, they met up with 35,000 supporters of the Occupy movement at the Occupy Wall Street encampment in Zuccotti Park and, then, together with contingents from other unions, proceeded to a massive Occupy the Brooklyn Bridge demonstration.
This premiere of The March Against Corporate Greed, held in support of the Occupy campaign, provides a great opportunity to see this important new film, produced and starred in by capital district union activists. Admission is free of charge.
Reverse Citizens United--Government Of, By and For the People...
Thanks to the Supreme Court and Citizens United, the same big corporations and billionaires that destroyed our economy and caused millions of us to lose our jobs and homes, are spending obscene amounts to drown out our voices in elections and take over our government.
But together, "We the People" can set things right.
Stand with Robert Reich and join the movement for a constitutional amendment today.
The nation’s unemployment rate in January fell to 8.3 percent—down from December’s 8.5 percent—and the economy added 243,000 jobs, according to the latest figures released this morning by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. January’s jobless rate is the lowest since February 2009.
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The rights of our brothers and sisters who work at airlines and railroads are in jeopardy.
Over 75 years ago, Democrats and Republicans worked together to craft the Railway Labor Act to resolve labor disputes in the airline and railroad industries. Under the Act, the National Mediation Board administers union representation elections in the industry.
Until today.
Radical anti-union members of Congress are attempting to rewrite this important labor law and change the role of the National Mediation Board without debate or discussion. They have included drastic changes to the law in the FAA Reauthorization bill.
Make it much harder for airline and railroad workers to hold union representation elections.
Threaten airline and railroad workers’ right to a secret ballot during union representation campaigns, allowing for management intimidation and retaliation.
Allow airline and railroad management to decertify unions without an election in a merger.
And, in a shocking act of hypocrisy, it would enshrine these anti-worker changes into law. Meanwhile, the rule that promotes democracy by preventing non-voters from being counted as no votes in a union representation election would not be written into law, and could be easily changed.
The FAA Reauthorization bill is an important piece of legislation that must be passed to ensure safe, efficient air travel. It is not the place to make drastic changes to rules that protect the rights of workers to join labor unions.
We must stand together to let Congress know that unrelated, controversial changes to labor law have no place in this bill.
Concession Bargaining is at a Critical Crossroads!
As We Prepare for Our 2013 Contract....what can we expect?
You see it happening all over this country. We have documented and posted articles from all over this country -- both Private and Public Unionized Employees -- being attacked on wages and benefits. If you haven't been paying attention, please read the articles at the links that follow. And sometimes, it seems we are NOT ONLY fighting Corporations or Governments, but our OWN INTERNATIONAL UNIONS as well! It's very scary, and it's coming to a time of decision for all of us, 2013 is NOT that far away. You need to educate yourselves! You will need to PREPARE for it! As a group of unionized manufacturing employees, we will need to formulate our strategy and our response, and we will have to do it sooner, than later. Again, please read the articles at these links.
COMMENTARY: The following is an article on the history and evolution of concession bargaining in the US that is perhaps appropriate this labor day 2011. It briefly traces how concession bargaining at the shop level has, since the late 1970s, evolved, transitioned recently to the public sector, and now is morphing into an attack on the ‘social wage’ (social security, medicare, etc.) at the grand ‘political’ level as the economic class war in the US intensifies and moves into every ‘nook and cranny’ of the economy. We are witnessing in Congress and the Obama administration today (political) ‘management’ decisions to cut (social) wages just as for decades corporate management cut wages and benefits at the shop or company level. Of course, it’s the same ‘corporate management’ that has been driving both. Having accomplished much of their concession bargaining goals at the shop level in recent decades, they are now-through their political managers-attempting the same at the social level.
‘Concession Bargaining At the Crossroads’ by Jack Rasmus, copyright August 7, 2011
DOESN'T IT FEEL LIKE A RECURRING NIGHTMARE? CONCESSION BARGAINING CAN NOT BECOME A WAY OF LIFE! IT IS DESTROYING THE WORKING MIDDLE CLASS! WE HAVE TO STOP PAYING FOR THE MISTAKES & FAILURES OF WALL STREET--BANKS, CORPORATIONS, AND GOVERNMENT--STATE & FEDERAL. THE 1% NEED TO SAY "NO MORE" & "ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!"
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Please Read the February Agenda Sheet in the Meeting Minutes section (menu on left). Remember, you can open all the ICONS on the agenda sheets by just clicking them.
Your Union's E-Board has been very busy...we had many meetings in January to continue to address many of the issues of concern to ALL of YOU. Please read the very detailed minutes of YOUR E-Board in the President's Corner. The Strike Docket, the Agreements, ULP's, Committees, Local Understandings/Agreements, etc. and our efforts to address the issues of the memberships are all discussed.
Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2012 2:45 PM To: @Wtfd Mfg Managers; @Wtfd Mfg Leaders; @Wtfd Technicians; @Adv Mat GES L359
Subject:CAP COM Direct Deposit Notice
Importance:High
All Cap Com Customers
Due to an error with the Cap Com file feed all deposits for Cap Com went in to one account. If employees had intended for their direct deposit to be transferred to other Cap Com accounts the employee will have to contact Cap Com directly to make this happen. The issue has been corrected for next week.
Local 81359 & Momentive came to an Agreement on 1-27-2012 on the ULP for the Injury Repeater Program. Go to the Member Home page(on left menu) to read the Agreement.
Here is the Grievance Report for February 2012-- Stay Informed--this Report tells you specifically where the Local/National Dockets stand. The report can be read in the Member Resource section (on left menu), under "Chief Shop Steward Corner." Take the time to review this important document to know where "your" grievance stands!
For now anyone that feels they were denied a position that they posted for AND HAD SENIORITY and met the Minimum Qualifications, YOU MUST file a Grievance under ART. XXVIII on Denial of Upward Mobility AND SENIORITY BEING THE CONTROLLING FACTOR .
The new December 2011 Wage Rates/Pay Scale table (with the COL), and the Latest Seniority List are posted in the Member Resources Section (on left menu), under "Pay Scales/Seniority" tab on the left menu. Take a look.....
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