Food Distribution next Saturday at the union hall of UFCW 1167 on May 23rd in Bloomington.  Starts at 9am, but if you want to volunteer, please show up at 7am for the first shift or 11am for the second shift (lunch will be provided for the volunteers).  The boxes of food will be distributed until the they are gone.  They will have some really good food!!  Please share, you never know who may be in need during these trying times.

Strattec COVID-19 Update 5/14

The company will be looking for a handful of volunteers (4-8 total as of this morning) for the week of 5/18 but the larger recall for our members was pushed out another week and won't take place until Tuesday 5/26 (Monday 5/25 is Memorial Day). With Mexico operations resuming the week of 5/18, this new date seems to be the final delay before the company starts ramping up production eventually getting back to full force. Please keep an eye on your emails/phones in case Human Resources reaches out to you regarding your return to work status.

I will continue to provide updates with new information, atleast weekly, when I recieve them. If you have any questions please feel free to reach out.

Additonally, if you speak with other members please encourage them to sign up for our text program, check the Union website weekly, or if they are unable to do either, reach out to me for updates. 

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Union Information

Tim Reiter:                Email:             [email protected]

                                    Cell (text or call):    262-510-8860

Human Resources

Dian Fellows:            Email:             [email protected]

                                    Phone:           414-247-3589

Savanna Sessler:      Email:             [email protected]

                                    Phone:           414-247-3457

Benefits

Madeline Stollfus:   Email:             [email protected]

                                   Phone:           414-247-3486

Rosanne Conard:     Email:             [email protected]

                                   Phone:           414-247-3448

Insurance Payments

Make checks payable to:                         Strattec Security Corporation

Address to:

          Attn: Madeline Stollfus

          Strattec Security Corporation

          3333 Good Hope Rd.

          Milwaukee, WI 53209

5/13/20

Hello everyone,

​Today we learned that the company want furlough an additional 60 employees.  They want an additional two from surface and 58 from underground productions.  There have been five salaried positions eliminated and there will be around 12 salaried employees furloughed.  While I thought this was coming last week, we were not sure on the numbers and was definitely not in a rush to start this process.  Like I said last week, we are again looking for volunteers.  If this is not met there will be people mandated to take the furlough.  While this is the plan every volunteer will be looked at and the numbers will be adjusted.  So, if anyone is interested please contact any eboard member.  We are turning the voluntary list in Tuesday the 19th, and should know all of the affected employees the following day.  The last day worked for these individuals will be the 23rd.  The plan as of this time is for all surface employees and half of the underground employees to come back to work July 1.Then at the end of July the other underground employees will come back.  

On other business, there has been drug paraphernalia found on multiple occasions underground.  This is definitely disturbing that someone would be so brazen to not only use drugs at work, but leave the paraphernalia around for others to find.  There are obviously numerous health and safety concerns associated with this behavior.  Don’t be surprised to see bucket checks and even K-9s at the plant site in the near future.  If anyone sees any drug use please contact someone so we can get the individual help, and remove them from the work site.  We all have plenty of things on our mind during these times.  We do not need to be wondering if our coworker is high and endangering us.  The monthly meeting is scheduled for next Thursday, but we are waiting to see if the mass gathering limit is lifited on Friday like expected.

Most of the states are starting to reopen.  The major auto manufacturers are set to open next week and Mexico is starting to open up.  There are positive signs that we are coming out of this and I hope that this will be the bottom.  I am being told that the demand for our product should come back fairly quickly.  I hope that we all are able to get through this as best we can.  Please do what you can to help out, and remember we are all in this together.  Hopefully we emerge from this stronger as a local, community, and country!

In Solidarity,

Mike Hernandez...

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