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Contact your local Union Representative to get tickets. We look forward to seeing you there!

On October 8 we will be having a work day at the Alex Dove House to help move furniture and clean. The day will start at 9am. All are welcome to join!

The United Steelworkers Constitutional Convention was held August 8-11, 2022 in Las Vegas, Nevada. President Cindy Czappa and Vice President Nick Vitello were in attendance. 

Agenda for the Regular Monthly Meeting 2.7.24

 

Call to Order

Moment of silence for Dave Egland.

President Czappa called the regular monthly meeting to order at 7pm at the Labor Hall. 10 members were present.

 

Roll Call of Officers:

¾   President Cindy Czappa

¾   Vice President Nick Vitello

¾   Treasurer Adam Bray

¾   Trustee John Repinski

¾   Trustee Pam Janicki

¾   Trustee Don Carlson

Agenda for the Regular Monthly Meeting 1.3.24

 

Call to Order

Moment of silence for Pete Baumgart.

President Cindy Czappa called the meeting to order at 7pm at the Labor Hall. 12 members were present. All officers were present.

 

Roll Call of Officers:

¾   President Cindy Czappa

¾   Vice President Nick Vitello

¾   Treasurer Adam Bray

¾   Trustee John Repinski

¾   Trustee Pam Janicki

¾   Trustee Don Carlson

Agenda for the Regular Monthly Meeting 12.6.23

 

Call to Order

President Czappa called the monthly meeting to order at 7pm at the Labor Hall. 9 members were present, including all officers.

 

Roll Call of Officers:

   President Cindy Czappa

   Vice President Nick Vitello

   Treasurer Adam Bray

   Trustee John Repinski

   Trustee Pam Janicki

   Trustee Don Carlson

   Sergeant at Arms Mark Gustin

WOS International Conference

 

I would like to thank the body for sending me to the WOS International Conference in Pittsburgh. This was an amazing opportunity to form a true sisterhood with those in our local and sisters from other locals. I was also very impressed by the support of our union brothers who also attended. 

 

Agenda for the Regular Monthly Meeting 11.1.23

 

Call to Order

President Czappa called the meeting to order at 7pm at the Labor Hall. All officers were present. 10 members were present.

 

Roll Call of Officers:

¾   President Cindy Czappa

¾   Vice President Nick Vitello

¾   Treasurer Adam Bray

¾   Trustee John Repinski

¾   Trustee Pam Janicki

¾   Trustee Don Carlson

¾   Sergeant at Arms Mark Gustin

Agenda for the Regular Monthly Meeting 10.4.23

 

Call to Order

Vice President Nick Vitello called the meeting to order at 7pm. Ten members were present. Officers absent were President Cindy Czappa and Trustee Don Carlson.

 

*Moment of Silence for International President Thomas Conway*

 

Roll Call of Officers:

¾   President Cindy Czappa

¾   Vice President Nick Vitello

¾   Treasurer Adam Bray

Healthy Living for your Brain and Body

 

Learning objectives

-identify how certain behaviors affect us

 

Brain

-control center of the body

Over 100 billion nerve cells create a branching network

Signals traveling through he brain form memories, thoughts, and feelings

Alzheimer’s disease destroys brain cells. No treatment to slow disease, no cure

1 in 3 seniors develop Alzheimer’s. Predicting in the future it will be 1 in 2.

TW: Suicide, addiction, fatalities

Union and Management Working Together for Safety and Health

General Session 9.15.23

Panel Discussion

 

Personal injury incident 20 years ago

Electric furnace – very volatile furnace

Cooks down steel with 3-23” diodes

Need to push in scrap with a forklift

3,000+ degrees Fahrenheit

When the wall in front of door gets knocked into the furnace, a fireball came back out at him, bathing him in flames (fork truck did not have a window)

Ran off of forklift, checking body for slag