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Annual Holiday Party

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

Alex C Dove House

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!

United Steelworkers Constitutional Convention

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. 

Healthy Living for your Brain and Body

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.

General Session 9.15.23

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

Know Your Lemons-Breast Cancer

We learned about how to do self-breast exams and warning signs

https://www.knowyourlemons.org/

Union and Management Group Session 9.14.23

Union and Management Working Together for Safety and Health 9.14.23

 

Teamwork-coming together is beginning 

Keeping together is progress

Working together is success

 

Loretta Tyler-introducing Michael Millsap

 

Our district is 68k members strong, the largest in the union

Harley Davidson, Kimberly Clark, Hallstrom-is also on more bargaining committees in WI

We have to look out for the younger generation

Over 200 registrations for October WOS

Basics of Americans with Disabilities Act-Antonia Domingo

Basics of Americans with Disabilities Act-Antonia Domingo

 

The information provided is general in nature and does not constitute legal advice or opinion, nor does it address specific individual cases or pending grievances 

 

Agenda:

What is the ADA?

How does the ADA work?

Collective bargaining and the ADA

 

Purpose of ada

To establish a clear and comprehensive prohibition of discrimination on the basis of disability

Signed into law in 1990

Talking about Title 1 today-deals with employment

 

OSHA Overview with Don Westerhoff 9.14.23

Cleaveland Cliffs Inc OSHA Compliance update

 

The safety movement begins

Late 1800s

-industrial revolution created the start of some state labor bureaus in the 1870s and 80s and a budding labor movement calling for state factory laws

-Massachusetts passed the nations first factory inspection law in 1877 requiring guarding and fire exits

-US Bureau of Labor started in 1884 but most work was done at state level. State safety and health legislation was badly flawed

Early 1900s

Monthly Meeting Notes 9.6.23

Agenda for the Regular Monthly Meeting 9.6.23

 

Call to Order

President Czappa called the meeting to order at 7pm at the Labor Hall. 11 members were present, including all Officers.

 

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

Local 59 Contract Vote

The contract vote passed with a narrow margin. The E-board would like to thank everyone for their participation!