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 eligible candidates are as follows and will appear on the ballot in the upcoming election on Tuesday April 6, 2021 from 6am -7pm at the Main Gate.

Le 12 mars 2021 - Si vous avez suivi une formation de prise de rendez-vous pour les centres de vaccination et que vous faites partie de l’unité de négociation, vous N’AVEZ PAS à effectuer de travail non rémunéré avant le début de votre quart de travail, ce qui inclut le démarrage du système. Vous ne serez pas discipliné si vous refusez. Si vous acceptez de commencer plus tôt, vous SEREZ rémunéré en heures supplémentaires. 

Veuillez déclarer l’intégralité de votre temps de travail afin d’être correctement et dûment rémunéré. 

Les membres de l’unité de négociation ne doivent jamais travailler gratuitement !

Solidarité, 

Donna Hokiro, Présidente par intérim
Section locale 1944 du Syndicat des Métallos

March 12, 2021 - If you have been trained to take appointments for the vaccination clinics and are inside the bargaining unit, you DO NOT have to do unpaid work, including system start-up, prior to the start of your shift. No discipline will be forthcoming if you refuse. If you agree to start early, you WILL be paid overtime.

Please report all of your time so that you are properly and duly compensated. 

Bargaining Unit members should never work for free!

In Solidarity,

Donna Hokiro, Acting President
USW Local 1944

Members of the Local 8-957 bargaining committee met virtually with members of Congress this week to urge them to lend their support to our union’s effort to save the Morgantown facility. 

Over two days, we met with more than a dozen legislators and their congressional staff in both the House and Senate to highlight the importance of keeping one of the country’s last remaining manufacturing sites of generic pharmaceuticals operating on American soil.

We stressed that Viatris’ plan to shutter this facility is a matter of national security that imperils our nation’s medical supply chain and that doing so would rip the heart out of our community.

Many of the congresspeople and their staff expressed concern over our situation. We will keep you posted as we remain in contact with our elected officials.

THE FIGHT ISN’T OVER

We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again—the fight for our jobs doesn’t stop at the bargaining table, and we were proud to use this opportunity speak up on behalf of our jobs.

As we prepare to enter effects bargaining, know that we will do our best to ensure fair treatment for everyone throughout this difficult process.

Our campaign can only be successful if we are united, and that’s why it’s so important for us all to stay informed and up to date as this process continues.

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Sam Phillips and Trey Maestas fought tirelessly to save TIMET’s titanium sponge plant, both to protect the jobs of about 420 co-workers and safeguard America’s future.

The decades-old facility in Henderson, Nev., was the nation’s last remaining producer of the coral-like material essential for manufacturing warplanes, munitions, satellites, civilian jetliners, ships and even joints for artificial hips.

Important

The plant’s closing last year—despite the best efforts of Phillips and Maestas of United Steelworkers (USW) Local 4856—left the nation completely dependent on foreign imports of titanium sponge and further decimated manufacturing supply chains crucial to the nation’s security.

America can only be truly free if it rebuilds these and other vital lifelines.

President Joe Biden last week signed an executive order requiring an immediate, 100-day federal review of supply chain vulnerabilities in industries like computer chips and pharmaceuticals.

That’s a welcome start. But it will take a much broader and long-term rebuilding commitment to overcome the damThis is textage that decades of neglect and offshoring inflicted on the country’s manufacturing base.

Over the past year

Widespread shortages of face masks and other personal protective equipment (PPE) needed to fight the COVID-19 pandemic laid bare the withered state of U.S. industry.

However, the nation cannot regain industrial strength merely by ramping up the assembly of PPE, cars, refrigerators, electronic devices and the other finished products that consumers need for emergencies and everyday life. That would leave the job half done.

The country’s security also depends on patching hollowed-out supply chains and building back the capacity to produce all of the raw materials, parts...

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