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Negotiations are approaching and your Committee is preparing in numerous different ways to ensure that this Local gets the best agreement possible. Please take a little bit of time to fill out the questionaires that are now being distributed. Please be honest in your answers and realize that this is a key opportunity to comunicate your wishes to all members of the Negotiating Committee. The committee is currently seeking dates to meet with the Company and

Thanks to our generous members, we were able to raise $1845.00 for our members in need. We currently have 6 members who have been out over 5 month's due to a non-work injury or illness. Thank you for your generosity.
 

District 8 has a scholarship program for high school graduates who wish to enter college. Four scholarships (one from each state, Kentucky, Maryland, West Virginia, and Virginia) are awarded annually to the sons, daughters or legal wards of active, retired or deceased members of the Steelworkers Union. The Value of the the scholarship is $1000/year for up to four years ($4000.00 total).
 

June 19, 2009 -- WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Mark R. Warner released the following statement today after the International Trade Commission ruled yesterday that increased imports from China have injured domestic tire industry workers:

How would you feel if a person committed murder and their only penalty was to paint on the inside wall of their house, for a period of one year, that they would cease and desist? Doesn’t seem like much of a penalty for violating the law does it; but that is exactly what happens when employers violate workers rights during Union organizing drives.

WASHINGTON - An indictment was unsealed today charging Clark Alan Roberts, 46, and Sean Edward Howley, 38, both engineers with Wyko Tire Technology Inc., located in Greenback, Tenn., with conspiring to steal trade secrets from the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company and scheming to defraud Goodyear of confidential and proprietary information, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Division Rit

Joe Smith started the day early having set his alarm clock (MADE IN JAPAN) for 6 a.m. While his coffeepot (MADE IN CHINA) was perking, he shaved with his electric razor (MADE IN HONG KONG). He put on a dress shirt (MADE IN SRI LANKA), designer jeans (MADE IN SINGAPORE) and tennis shoes (MADE IN KOREA).

Saturday Night Live did a skit which may hit some Yokohama managers close to home. You be the judge. http://www.hulu.com/watch/3526/saturday-night-live-family-dinner

Time is ticking away to make the Employee Free Choice Act a reality, and one of the most effective means of making you voice heard is the old fashioned letter. If you believe in the benefits of Unions and everybody's right to have a free and fair choice to choose one, then pick up a pen and paper and write your elected representatives. Click here find out who are your representatives and how to contact them. A little bit of time and effort will go a long way.

Myth: “The legislation would end the rights of employees to secret ballot elections.” – Center for Union Facts