PRESIDENT’S REPORT
Just a reminder that the Local Union office is open Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., and our Benefit Representatives are in the office until 3:00 p.m. each day. We urge our members and retirees to keep the Local Union updated on any address and/or telephone number change.
The sixth annual Feeding Hope and Letter Carriers Food Drive which benefits the Regional Food Bank is this Saturday, May 10. Plastic bags will be distributed by letter carriers throughout this week across much of the metro area, as well as Lawton, Ardmore, Chickasha, Weatherford, Elk City, Sayre, Cordell, and Pauls Valley. Fill your bag with non-perishable food items and leave it at your mailbox by 8:00 a.m. Saturday morning. The bags will be collected on the regular mail routes. In 2007, a total of $275,000 and 406,281 pounds of food was collected, which provided 2.2 million meals for Oklahomans. If your area post office is participating in this year’s drive, please leave a bag for your letter carrier.
Our Retiree Chapter meeting is next Tuesday, May 13, at 7:00 p.m. at the Local Union Hall. We hope our new retirees will attend.
The USS New York was launched on March 1, 2008, with a bow crafted from 7.5 tons of steel recovered from the wreckage of the World Trade Center. The modern LPD 21 ship was built by union members at the Northrop Grumman Shipyards in Pascagoula, Mississippi and Avondale in New Orleans. Workers at the yards are represented by unions affiliated with the AFL-CIO’s Metal Trades Department.
Happy Mother’s Day to our mothers and grandmothers!
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SHOP CHAIRMAN’S REPORT
Good luck to our Skilled Trades member reporting to the SPO in Jackson, Mississippi on Monday.
As of Tuesday, May 6, our manpower numbers were:
Active Plant, 53
85% Members, 134
55 members awaiting transfer
Active Members on Pre-Retirement Leave, 1,059
As many of you may know, our brothers and sisters at UAW Local 31 (Fairfax), went on strike at 9:00 a.m. Monday, May 5. We wish them well and hope that negotiations on their local agreement reach a speedy and satisfactory con-clusion.
Production will resume Monday at the assembly plant in Wentzville, MO, which has been idle since March 10 by a parts shortage created by the UAW strike against American Axle.
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FROM JUDY CALHOUN . . .
The 9th Annual National Women’s Health Week will kick off on Mother’s Day, Sunday, May 11, and will be celebrated until May 17. National Women’s Health Week empowers women across the country to get healthy by taking action. The nationwide initiative, coordinated by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office on Women’s Health (OWH), encourages women to make their health a top priority and take simple steps for a longer, healthier and happier life. Women are often the caregivers for their spouses, children and parents, and forget to focus on their own health. But research shows that when women take care of themselves, the health of their family improves.
Too many women in this country are getting paid less than they should. If our leaders really want to stimulate the economy, they should boost women’s paychecks by making sure they can earn an equal wage for equal work. One sure solution to this injustice is to organize and join a UNION.
The Chief Executive Officer of WalMart Stores, Inc., Lee Scott, received compensation valued at $29.7 million in 2007, up 27% in a year, when company profits rose only 12% according to regulatory filing by the retailer. Only in America!!!
U.S. House lawmakers urged a shift in ethanol policy in the face of rising food prices and concerns that a recent 36 billion gallon ethanol mandate by 2022 may have been too aggressive. Congress, in a 2007 law, raised the ethanol-use mandate.
The demographics of Tuesday’s Democratic primary in North Carolina and Indiana were familiar. Obama won the vote of nine out of 10 blacks and a big majority of young people, city dwellers and higher educated voters. Clinton won big among seniors, white women, Catholics, and blue-collar workers. The contests in both states turned on anxiety over the economy. In surveys of voters as they left polling places, two of three called it the most important issue. Just one in five said the Iraq war.
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UNION SPORTSMENS ALLIANCE OFFERS ESCAPE TO THE WILD
Source: Label Letter, Union Label & Service Trades Department, AFL-CIO
Escape to the Wild, a television program on the VERSUS Network, is produced by Union Sportsmens Alliance (USA) and its parent organization, Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership (TRCP) – working with sponsoring unions and employers to preserve and expand the availability of public spaces for hunting, fishing, hiking and camping for union members and their families. In 2008, TRCP will again select lucky union members to share an Escape to the Wild in half a dozen adventures to be featured on the air. To apply, go to the website: www.unionsportsmens.org.
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DO BUY
Get ready for Spring by stockpiling your union-made garden supplies and quality tools for those spring projects. Look for the following brand names at your hardware store. Since many of these companies produce in the U.S. and elsewhere, check for a "Made-in-the-USA" label.
Tools: Automatic Wrenches, Edgerton Forge (IBB); Batteries (Flashlight), Ray-O-Vac Heavy Duty, D, and AA, Packaged Alkaline Batteries (UAW); Clips, Screws, Nuts & Bolts, Service Supply (UAW); Cutting Tools, Ohio Metal Working Products (IBB); Garden Tools, Pitchforks, Union Tools (Sears, Agway, Razorback) (IBB); Ladders, Versa (UAW); Ladders, Wood, Attic, Step, Kentucky Ladder (Warner Corp.)(UAW); Pliers, Hooks, Klein Tools, Inc. (IBB); Shears, Scissors, Clauss Cutlery (UAW); Striking Tools, Crow Bars, Warwood (IBB); General Tools, Armstrong, Klein Tools, Snap-On Tools (IBB); Post Hole Diggers, AZL Resources (IBB); Rakes & Shovels, Ames (UAW); Wet/Dry Vacuums, Craftsman (Sears, Ridgid (Home Depot)(IBB).
Sporting Goods: Boats, Pontoon, Riviera Cruiser by LML Corp. (UAW), Weeres Pontoon Boats, Fishing Boats (IAM); Boat Covers, Charles Rice (UAW); Boat Parts, Water Pumps, Impellers, Bilge Pumps, Macerators, Pool Motors, Pool Pumps, ITT Jabsco (UAW); Boat Ropes, Dare Products (UAW); Boat Trailers, E-Z Loader (IBB); Clay Pigeons, Remington (UAW); Fishing Net, FNT (UAW); Handguns & Rifles, Colt (UAW), Remington (IAM), Winchester (IAM); Hockey Sticks, Hillerich & Bradsby (UAW); Marine Hardware, Horse Hardware, North & Judd (brand names Anchor, Wilcox-Crittenden)(UAW); Pool Lights, Pumps, Heaters, Pool Motors, Hydrotech (Purex)(UAW), ITT Jabsco (UAW); Tennis Nets, Volleyball Nets, Backstop Netting, FNT (UAW); Golf Balls, Spalding (IBB), Callaway (IBB); Golf Clubs, McGregor (IBB).
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FREE LEGAL SERVICE
A representative from the law firm of Lawter & Associates will be at the Local Union Hall Thursday, May 15, from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. to assist our members with matters not covered by the UAW/GM Legal Services Plan. In the meantime, you can contact Mike Moore at the office, 525-4131, or in case of an emergency, at his home, 843-9329.
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RETIREE PLAQUES
The following are retirees who have not picked up their retiree plaque at the Local Union Hall. Please feel free to stop by the office anytime between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
Nina R. Anderton
Ann Artrip
Leeroy Bartosh
Deidre D. Bolin
Jimmie D. Brite
Cathleen Brown
James H. Brown, Jr.
Jeanette Burchard
Douglas M. Carter
Larry D. Claypool
Juan T. Colon
Billy R. Colston
Janice L. Cooper
Tinh Dinh
Cheryl Dixon
Betty Duncan
Norma Edgmon
Joyce A. Edwards
Helene L. Esker
Charles Evans
Glenda K. Evans
Glen M. Everley
Larry Fisbeck
Gayland K. Garrett
Lyndol Garrett
Terry N. Garrett
Ronnie E. Garrison
Jady O. Gorden
Ramonia M. Gregory
Merrill Hall, Jr.
Jerry B. Harper
Melinda Harris
Gary T. Hartman
Teddie L. Heath
Etheleen Herndon
Jean R. Hess
Jerry Humphries
Leonard L. Jameson
Velma Jones
Ralph Kulbeth
Martha E. Laporte
Darrel Lawson
R.D. Light
David D. Lunsford
Richard Lusignan
Johnny O Malone
Melvin Marshall
John E. Martinez
Juan R. Martinez
Larry Massie
Ken McCook
James D. McCord
Vance McCoy
Larry E. McDaniel
Gary McKay
Ray A. Moyer
Billy R. Nelson
Thu V. Nguyen
David L. Norman
Roger G. Norman
Warren C. Oberg
James Otterbine
John Parker
Jose Parra-Rivera
Wendell T. Peck
Jack E. Peery
Betty Porter
Roger L. Prim, Jr.
Timothy Rhodes
Robert Rhone
James C. Richardson
Yousef Rizkharati
Benna Sharp
Mary L. Shaver
Joseph V. Shore
Izonia Smith
Jerry D. Smith
Terry M. Songer
Charles A. Stoker, Jr.
Linda G. Tanksley
Marvin Thurman
Willard F. Tinkle
John Traffenstedt
Alton Tucker
Leonard W. Walker
John T. Walters
Cynthia Wanner
Curnett Warner
Rickey Watkins
Glenda Williams
O.C. Willis
Paul Wilson
Robert R. Wilson
James Winters
Curtis Wood
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UAW LOCAL 1999
TEAMWORK IN THE LEADERSHIP, SOLIDARITY IN THE RANKS!
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