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Wednesday, August 4 2021
4:45pmGood evening members and retirees of USW Local 5328.
Good evening all.
The contract is officially ratified!!
94% acceptance rate.
103 voted
97 yes
6 no
Congratulations to the members of USW Local 5328!
Solidarity at its finest!
Have safe and great long weekend!
In solidarity,
Anthony Ciaramella
President
USW Local 5328
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Contract Highlights
Dear Members,
Our strike lasted 64 days and today is day 65, how fitting is that? Local 6500, you have shown everyone in the community our values and we thank you for your support. Thank you for believing in our leadership and uniting out there on the picket lines. Your conduct over the last 65 days was truly instrumental to our response from the community and our success at the bargaining table.
To the Bargaining Committee members, thank you for your hard work and leadership at the table, you did an amazing job of letting the company know our membership’s requests – very clearly – you have done a great job!
A principled approach was designed by Kevin Boyd. Our fight was an economic fight with a global company, not a local/community fight. With the help of the Chiefs in their role during the strike, the other replacements, and the key leaders here at the Hall, you worked every single day to help us achieve this new Collective agreement. Thank you!
A thank you goes out to Malcolm Mills and all the Worker Safety Representatives, very much appreciated!
Sixty-four days on strike without a court injunction is a first in the history of Local 6500, Congratulations! We brought our USW Local 6500 safety values to the picket lines to keep everyone safe during the strike. This was a huge factor in our ability to garner community support and get Vale to return to the table to work with us from July 19th until August 3rd.
To USW International, National, and District 6 offices, Thank you, this would not be possible without every single resource you have provided from the beginning of Bargaining, Proud to be a Steelworker!
Highlights:
Post-Retiree Benefits for new hires has been guaranteed into the future. These benefits are fully funded by Vale. Our current workforce will continue to receive the same BENEFITS into their retirement. For our pensioners, your benefits are crystallized and will remain unchanged. The issue was that the unfunded OPEB liabilities continued to grow exponentially into the future and were affecting Vale’s balance sheet. This was solved by an actual cash spend into the Steelworker Benefit Trust starting today that will have 30 years to grow with investments and provide the same benefits for new hires when they retire in 25 to 30 years from now.
This Trust is completely registered and has been functioning to provide employee benefits for over 30 years.
- $6000 Signing Bonus
- Nickel Price bonus was maintained in this round...
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