Sign our petition if you want to see good manufacturing jobs stay in the United States; if you want fair trade laws; and if you want America to keep its promise that if you work hard, you can sustain a family and one day retire with dignity.
National Grid is jeopardizing the safety of our communities by locking out 1,100 of its most experienced employees who are critical to ensuring safe and quality gas work in Massachusetts.
After almost eleven years of back and forth, we are finally seeing the genesis of the highly anticipated Walking Beam Furnaces as we successfully produced Hot Band Coils yesterday in the Hot Mill out of Furnace #4. This addition to our plant did not come without sacrifice and for this, you should be commended. Moving forward, we will continue to engage the Company to agree to an interim incentive plan as we collect data to base the future incentive plan on.
The Election Committee, being diligent in performance of office duties to the membership and to the greatest extent possible, has verified each and every candidate. In order to run for an elected position, each and every candidate has been reviewed and has met the requirements set forth under Article III, Section 3; Article VII, Section 9; and under the Landrum-Griffin Act established in the International United Steelworkers Local Election manual.
The 9/1/18 United Steelworkers Basic Labor Agreement (BLA) provides for a profit-sharing pool of 7.5% of the company’s profits, defined as Earnings Before Interest and Taxes (EBIT). The company reported an unaudited Adjusted EBIT of $(245,034,761.37). As a result, there is no profit sharing for 4th Quarter.
In response to the Company’s latest communication regarding traffic flow during temperature checks at the gates, we have submitted a list of questions and concerns. We have also requested to bargain over several topics related to this changed condition.
One thing we must keep in mind during this process is this change in condition effects all of our recently acquired facilities. Due to the broad scope of this issue, we have been coordinating this bargaining effort with our International Representatives and sister plants.
