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  1. I heard there will 99' seniority coming in week of 26th.
  2. You can go to page 3 and read the post "Government Control". This is the bill that wants to control growing and canning food.
  3. The timing of the election is dictated by the constitution, you can't just change the date. Our election is this May and you have to be a dues paying member in good standing at the local for one year before you can be nominated for a position in the union. This is also dictated by the constitution.
  4. I read in the paper that the new vehicle has to be "assembled" in America. That would include imports that have assembly plants here, wouldn't it? I would rather see it say "one of the Detroit 3". If it said one of the big three, that could mean GM, Ford or Toyota....
  5. I talked with Pete today, he said we will be getting people on the 23rd and 30th. Somewhere between 20 and 40 people both weeks, could be more. It depends on when plants let people go. Some are holding them, waiting for replacements. We heard from someone today who works at Wayne, he got a call this afternoon telling him to report to Saline on Monday. If you are coming, be prepared for short work week. Most of the plant is laid off, so you might get two or three days orientation/safety training and then be laid off. Someone needs to do something to get cars selling again. Maybe they will go ahead with the program that gives people vouchers for turning in old cars. Hopefully that means they are buying new cars and American new cars to boot.
  6. I hear there will be nobody coming in next week due to so many lines down.
  7. This is our fourth week, first week=50, second week=35, third week=50, this week=35. I am not sure if there is a delay for the next couple of weeks. Would make sense though. The plant is very quiet this week due to TLO's and next week they are adding the F150 lines to the TLO. It will be a graveyard in there next week. Don't know how long they are off for either. Hope this info helps
  8. Okay, maybe the site I got it from copied it from the American Policy site. This is the first time I have seen the American Policy site. I will keep it in mind from now on though, thank you
  9. Back a few years when rules were more relaxed. Union people were know to go out and sit at the bar(or wherever) and brag about getting paid while they are there. Not all of them did this of course, but enough. I knew a guy that worked for GM. He would go to work, punch in, turn around and walk out, to sit in the bar all day long and tell everyone he was doing this. Now people who have to go to work everyday and stay there in order to get paid, would be a little upset. And then you get the media saying we make $75 per hour. So they are thinking we make this money to do nothing. My brother-in-law is a doctor. He gets patients who are sitting in Gen, when they tell him they get paid good money to sit home, or sit somewhere playing cards all day just waiting for a job to come along, he really doesn't understand the whole concept. And then these people watch the media coverage on strikes, people think we are out there demanding more money. Step outside the union and look back in. We have given the wrong impression. Don't go around telling people what you make, it only upsets them and they think autos are so expensive because of our wages (that we don't earn of course). Oh and then lump all those benefits on top of it. People out there ask questions like...what make you think you are entitled to be taken care of for the rest of your life, just because you worked for a company for 30 years? Why do union people get free legal when the rest of the people have to pay out there nose for this service? (They don't know how bad our legal is) And so on, and so on... We should be educating the public on how the union has won so many things for the betterment of society. It isn't obvious to them anymore. Working conditions in every industry are better and the companies do this just to keep the union out. The public just doesn't understand where they and we have come from and how much good the union has done for everyone. We really need to find a way to educate them, but I think at this point they will just think we are trying to justify.
  10. Why aren't the union reps helping this guy out, are listening to the utility guy? What happened to "getting the facts". The union should be there giving the proper advice... Go to labor, file a complaint...Where's the representation?
  11. We have gotten 135 people in the last three weeks. Another 35 is coming in this week. I don't know the cut of seniority for this week. Last week we got 93's. You will like Saline, great place to work, nice people for the most part, even the worst job is better than assy. We are one of the plants that is called the "country club". Welcome to the "club"
  12. Those are some pretty eye opening pictures. It could happen to any of us. God Bless us all.
  13. I did not get this post from the American Policy center website. And I looked over the bill in your link, I don't see anything that it telling me any different than what I originally posted. I put this out there to inform people, there are many people who grow there own vegetables and I have friends that own small farms that this would affect. Nothing wrong with informing people. I don't like how the Government is taking over so many aspects of our life.
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