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| INTERNET SITES TO KEEP YOU INFORMED CorpWatch.com This is a site that watches America's Oligarchy, the CEOs and their cadre of those who would have only a rich class, them, and a very poor working class. http://www.corpwatch.org/ More sites will be added in the near future to give you a wide base of informative sources. |
| UPDATE REMINDER I need updated names and addresses for all shop committee representatives. Any newly elected shop shop committee personnel have to fill out single voucher and W4 forms for steward compensation. |
| DUES REMINDER Anyone on sick leave or unemployed for more than half of a month must contact Local Lodge 78 by phone or their shop chairman with the dates they were off. If off for more than one half of a month the dues will be $2.00 per month. Upon returning to work Lodge 78 and/or the shop chairman must again be notified of the current work status. Checks must be made payable to "District 10 C.A.S. In the note blank please provide the name of the shop and the month being paid for. It is the responsibility of the MEMBER to remain current with dues payments. |
| RETIREMENT CARDS If you retire from the workforce at age 55 or older, you are eligible for a Retirement card. You have to fill out a form and send in a one time, ten dollar ($10.00) fee to the Lodge 78 office. Contact your shop committee person or the Lodge 78 office if you need help with this.If you go back into the workforce full time you must contact the Lodge 78 office to update your status. EXEMPT CARDS You can get an Exempt card if you are 55 years of age or older and have thirty (30) years of uninterupted membership in the IAMAW union. Send a request for the Exempt form to the Lodge 78 office. Again, you may contact your shop committee person or the Lodge 78 office if you need help with this. Fraternally, Tom Brown, Treasurer, Lodge 78 |
| A VIEW FROM THE RANKS!! With the Senate and Congressional races past and the shift of power presumably to the Democrats it is time for us to make VERY CLEAR what the voters mandate is! We voted to return our government to it's original system of CHECKS and BALANCES. The Senate and Congress write, debate and pass laws that are administered by the President and qualified as legal by our Supreme Courts. We don't want anything remotely like the one man-one party rule we have had for the last six years. Ours is a system of input by the voters through their choices at the polls. The middle of the road is not always the best choice but a decision based on fair, intelligent and respectful compromise is. We have too many problems to allow our elected officials to be influenced by powerful lobbys representing wealthy goups and individuals. The wealthiest among us don't earn their money by competing head to head with a factory worker in Ningbo, China or Mumbai, India or Bangkok, Thailand. The working class is under siege by the rich and powerful, trite as it may sound. Wall street has fretted for decades about the cost of labor but didn't raise an eyebrow about the obscenely high compensation of top level managers even after they gutted previously strong and wealthy companies at the expense of the rank and file jobs. There are many in the MBA set that feel we should not have ANY minimum wage at all. All the while they turn a blind eye to illegal immigration because they know it puts DOWNWARD pressure on ALL wages. DO NOT stop after the ballot box; contact the people you elected and make sure your vote continues to SPEAK LOUDLY! AND REMEMBER TO ORGANIZE!!!! |
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