Members and Retirees of Local 5328

The company will now and try a two week schedule starting next week. In the weekly schedule section you will find w/o March 15 and March 22. 

 With the Covid-19 virus, the Canada Life has waived the one week waiting period if you are quarantined with medical documentation.  The information and form for this illness specifically is on the Canada life web site.    We have asked the company to waive all note programs until the pandemic is no longer and we are waiting for that answer but I don’t believe they will allow it. We will see. 

 Vacation picks have started for those with 5 years of service or less. Today,  Adam Fleming has agreed to allow the senior people with 80 hours vacation to move the Christmas vacation to summer shutdown if they wish but they are in need of 16-18 people per week during the July shutdown for utility work, confined space and cycle counting. 12-14 on continuous and 4-6 on 8 hour and will all be straight days during the shutdown and for both weeks. Myself, Mike Hnatjuk or Jason Davey will be canvassing over the next week to complete it. 

 In our monthly  union/ company meeting yesterday, the company brought up a serious concern Scanning coils to a location. It’s destroying the mill and causing havoc for all workers and shipments. Please remember to scan your coils to the location you put them in.  

 Overtime this weekend was scheduled improperly and it was brought to the unions attention. When we approached the company, it was to late to start calling everyone so at this point  they have cancelled the overtime. The grievance committee will meet the company in the coming weeks to go over the “overtime awarding procedure”.  I have sent the procedure to the company and the chief Stewards for your reference. 

 Have a great and safe weekend.

Anthony Ciaramella 
President
USW Local 5328

Hello Brothers and Sisters,                                          3-22-2020

​I hope this letter finds everyone of you healthy and well.  These are definitelytrying times we all are going through, in this rapidly evolving situation with Covid-19.  Your local leadership has been in talks with the company to do the best we can to provide a safe workplace.  The following is a list of the terms that we came to agreement on today, also with the things that we are in disagreement with and will continue to try to come to a compromise. 

As previously stated, temperature testing will begin tomorrow, but the thresh hold has changed.  We asked for and was able to get the temperature thresh hold raised to 100.4 which is the CDC guideline. In the event that you have a fever you will be paid for that shift and will need to seek medical treatment.  If Dr. Johnson is on site you can go directly to the clinic.  I would ask each of you to be courteous to the EMT that is administering the test and associated paper work.  They are merely doing their job as instructed and...