Reminders
April 10, 2012
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
New shirts are in!! We have 3 new shirts that are now available to order. Please return order forms to your shop stewards as soon as possible. The shirts will be $10 each.
All money is due at the time of placing your order. Please show your solidarity with UAW Local 1069 by purchasing a shirt.
Special thanks to the Communications Committee (Doug Williamson, Jon Troisi, Kieran Kelly, Joe Anthony, Jason Bonaquisti, Jim Rugh, Anthony Brysiak and Chris Ciampi) for their hard work with creating the shirts.
There will be a coaches meeting on Sunday, April 22, 2012 after the General Membership meeting for all those that signed up to coach in the UAW Local 1069 softball tournament.
The 3rd Annual Tom Blythe Memorial Bike Run and Silent Auction Raffle will be held on June 2, 2012 at Walt’s Red Rose Café. Proceeds will benefit John Kenny and a donation will be made to Taylor Hospital in Tom Blythe’s name. Cost is $20 for rider, $30 for rider and passenger. Please see the other side of this Chopper for more information.
April 15-30 is Shift Preference time. Don’t forget to put your slips in if interested in moving to another shift. Please see your managers, shop stewards or committeemen regarding new paper and online shift preference forms.
Just a reminder, that if you have any legal issues, we have legal services available to our membership. Please contact the hall at 610-876-6217 to set up an appointment.
Visit our new Facebook page at facebook.com/uaw1069 for pictures, events, monthly meeting reminders and all other information that has to do with our union.
The General Membership meeting will be held on
Sunday, April 22, 2012. We hope to see you there!
In Solidarity,
Christopher Owens, President
UAW Local 1069
Upcoming Events and Information
March 23, 2012
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
Tom Fricano Scholarship Forms for 2012 are now available at the hall and also on the UAW Region 9 website http://region9.uaw.org . The deadline for the application is July 16, 2012.
Don’t forget our monthly membership meeting this Sunday March 25th at 10AM at the Union Hall. We hope to see you there!
The Women’s Committee would like to invite all UAW Local 1069 members to attend our next meeting on Sunday, March 25th, following the general membership meeting.
We would love to hear your input on the upcoming events we are currently planning for this spring and summer. We have some great ideas and we know you do too, so let’s put them all together and come up with some fun events for us and our families.
At this time we have already purchased personal items to give to the women of an abuse shelter in Philadelphia for Mother’s Day. We are also looking to do more fun things with our own members and families starting with an Easter Egg Hunt on Sunday, April 1st at 2PM at the 1069 hall.
Again, your commitment and support will help our Women’s Committee “BLOOM”.
LET’S MAKE A DIFFERENCE TOGETHER!
In Solidarity,
Christopher Owens, President
UAW Local 1069
Stay United
February 24, 2012
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
I want to start off by saying thanks to our membership for standing together this week as we make our voices heard on the offload issue and the continued unfair treatment of our members. It is important that we do not keep quiet on this until we can be sure that the work will stay here and our issues are heard. Be assured that we will continue to fight this battle as one union together. The future is at stake for every member and we must Stand United.
I’m sure by now all of you have seen the Company’s response to our issues. If capacity is the only issue, then once again send our Local 1069 members down to Summit to do the work, the same way our members were sent to our Wilmington facility for years. And oh by the way, why aren’t we using Wilmington anymore? Is it because our company helped pay for the new Hanger at Summit Aviation?
Recently the company ran a list for Instrumentation. We have successfully had the company pull back the list and run it over again. Remember it is always our contention that seniority prevail. We will always fight vigilantly for these lists to be run, per our collective bargaining agreement. Thanks again for all your support!
Don’t forget that if you have any legal issues, we have legal services available to our membership. Please contact the hall at 610-876-6217 if you would like to make an appointment.
Reminder, our monthly membership meeting is this Sunday, February 26, 2012 at 10AM at the Union Hall.
UAW LOCAL 1069 STANDS UNITED!
In Solidarity,
Christopher Owens, President
UAW Local 1069
