May 20 2015 - IAM Local Lodge 1943

Update
IAM LL 1943
May 20, 2015
Union Picnic at Kings Island
This year’s Local Lodge 1943 Union Picnic at Kings Island will be held Sunday, July 19th. The cost is
$25 per person for non-season pass holders and $5 per person for season pass holders. The $25 ticket includes admission to the park, all you can eat and drink lunch at the picnic grove from 2:30-4:30, and a Local
Lodge 1943 t-shirt. The $5 ticket includes everything listed above except admission to the park. Tickets
and shirts are available for cash only purchase starting Monday May 18th at the Union Hall from 7am-4pm.
T-shirt quantity and sizes are limited, so please purchase your tickets as soon as possible to ensure you get
the sizes you want. This event is open to all Local Lodge 1943 members at AK Steel, Pilot Chemical, Cummings Bridgeway, and Bowling Transportation, including Retirees.
Welding Class
If you have recently completed the second welding class, we need for you to return the coveralls to your
Union Hall.
If you have been contacted to attend the Basic Weld Class, you will need to see Derek Derifield at your
Union Hall to get signed up. We ask that you do this as soon as possible so everyone can start on time.
Verizon Wireless
Brad Bonds will be here Wednesday, May 27 from 1pm to 4pm. He will have the latest cell phones and
plans that Verizon has to offer.
Decades of Broken Promises in Trade Deals, Report Shows
A newly published report by U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) delivers a scathing assessment of the
failure of the Obama and previous administrations to enforce labor standards in foreign trade agreements.
The most recent push for fast track approval for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) has forced labor and
many Democrats to voice their disapproval of what Obama calls “higher labor standards” and “new tools
to hold countries accountable.” The report elaborates on how trade agreements since 1993 have been touted by Presidents Clinton, George W. Bush and Obama with the same kind of rhetoric.
The reality is that past agreements like NAFTA and CAFTA, along with deals with Peru, South Korea, Colombia and Panama have resulted in “widespread and persistent violation,” the Government Accountability
Office found in 2014.
Warren’s report, Broken Promises, gives examples of how administrations of both parties have made bold
claims of how free trade agendas support more and better jobs for American workers and guaranteed enforcement of environmental and labor rights. The GAO concluded that the U.S. Trade Representative and
the U.S. Labor Department “do not systematically monitor and enforce compliance with FTA labor provisions.”
Today, the emphasis on getting fast track approval and the secrecy of what is included in the TPP raises
even more concern.
“While we understand the sensitivity of delicate multilateral negotiations, we as a country must fully understand the impact to working families across America,” wrote 21 U.S. Senators in a letter to the U.S.
Trade Ambassador. The letter was in support of concerns voiced by the Labor Advisory Committee,
chaired by IAM International President Buffenbarger.
The effects on the town of Galesburg, IL as a result of free trade deals hit home in a sobering New York
Timesarticle. The town was front and center when NAFTA shipped IAM jobs at a Maytag refrigerator factory to Mexico in 2004.
TAKE ACTION: Tell your Senators to vote “no” on Fast Track for TPP. Call your Senators at 202224-3121.
Ohio State Council of Machinists Raffle
The Ohio State Council of Machinists are selling tickets for their raffle at the fall conference. Tickets are
$20.00. First Prize: Remington 870 Express 12 gauge. Second Prize: Weber Grill. Third Prize: $100.00 cash
You can purchase tickets at your Union Hall.
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Update
IAM LL 1943
May 20, 2015
IAM Safety Coordinators
Your IAM Local Lodge 1943 Safety Coordinators are in place in each of the 17 Primary Operating departments to assist you in addressing your safety suggestions, concerns or issues. Last week, on the back of the
Newsletter, we provided you with all of their contact information. Please feel free to consult them whenever
you have any questions regarding safety and health.
Your Union Safety Coordinators works in liaison with the IAM Local Lodge 1943 Safety Chairman and
President, the Department Manager and the Safety Department.
Some of the most vital functions your Union Safety Coordinators perform are listed below:
Conducts safety orientation for new employees or existing employees placed in new working environments.
Confers and communicates with departmental personnel including Operations, Maintenance, Electronic Repair, Materials Management, Planning, etc. to address safety concerns.
Investigates, reviews, and responds to employee safety and health issues and prepares/develops detailed reports of findings and recommendations.
Interfaces with the hourly work force and supervision in regards to safety and health issues, safety and health
suggestions, turn safety meetings, etc. .
Inspects department equipment and work areas for proper operations and safety requirements.
Converses with departmental operating and maintenance crews to check for unsafe working conditions and
notifies proper personnel when faulty operation is detected or reported by crew.
Inspects equipment and/or work areas to assure that prescribed repairs are accomplished, identifies problems
and makes recommendations for solutions.
Assists in the gathering and preparation of information for departmental safety meetings.
Attends departmental Union/Management safety meetings. Addresses safety items and consults with the
managers for solution and elimination of safety hazards thru the development of JSHA's and elimination of
Safety Hazards.
Makes observations of work activity and retrains on Safe Work Practice when necessary.
Recognizes and reinforces safe work procedures.
Please give the Union Safety Coordinator in your area an opportunity to resolve any Safety and Health concern you have and assist you with your endeavors.
Thank you,
Jim Gomia
IAM Local Lodge 1943
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