!! ATTENTION !!

All members are invited to attend the Auto Supply Chain Bus Tour kickoff at St. Louis Keiner Plaza on Monday May 11, 2009. The event is hosted by the UAW, United Steelworkers, and the Alliance for American Manufacturing and will kickoff a 3 day, 9 city bus tour highlighting the Buy American resolutions being endorsed around the country and the importance of American manufacturing to the economy.

Buses will be loading passengers at 5:00 p.m. Monday at UAW Local 136, 980 Horan Drive in Fenton for those wishing to ride down to the event. There will be music, food, drink, and some encouraging words from Region 5 Director Jim Wells, St. Louis County Executive Charlie Dooley, Mayor Francis Slay, and others.

Don’t go down without a fight and join us Monday May 11th at Keiner Plaza and show you care about keeping good jobs in America! Please call 636-257-6447 for more information!

- Recent Updates -

02-20-09 - Lansing Mayor Hits It Out of the Park (must see)

02-05-09 - New Employee Free Choice Act

01-18-09 - UAW strike in ‘36-’37 changed workers’ lives across USA

12-31-08 - New Employee Free Choice Act Ad

- Attention all 1760 Members! -

Nick vonSeelen will re-open the Wellness Center at his Jiu-Jitsu school Patriot Self-Defense in Eureka, discounts will be given to 1760 members.  Also house calls will also be available, to find out more details visit www.patriotself-defense.com or send Nick an e-mail nvonseelen@aol.com

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(February 20, 2009) -Lansing Mayor Hits It Out of the Park (must see)

(August 20, 2008) - Trip to Auburn Hills, Michigan!

I would like to give a special thanks to the members that took the time and made the effort to ride our Bus for Jobs and Fairness. These members don’t just talk the talk, they walk the walk and they are : John “Woody” Weis, Mike Agers, Matt Mueller and his daughter Claire, Diana Baron and her brother Bob, Larry Hinnah, Phil Catsoulis, Bryan Cookson and his daughter Brooke, Vernon Reeves, Kim Kassmann, Jackie Nicolas and her son Brad, Lisa Patterson, Phil Stanfield, Robert Colinares (who took lots of pictures), Danny Marquart, Tony Marquart, Robert Minardi, Robert Johnston, Doug Baumbach, Rich Barnhart, Phil Fangers and his wife Rochelle, and my daughter Miranda. We were lucky enough to be joined by a couple of Local 282 members – Judy Donaldson and Dave Busby. In addition, we shared our bus with eight members of Local 136 – Jeremiah and Anna Georges, Sheila, Larry, Larissa, and Devin Chandler, Teresa McCarver, and Cindy Sunkel. If you have a chance to thank any of them please do as their participation helped us make a powerful statement at Chrysler World Headquarters! Continue reading….[…]

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(August 3, 2008) - WE NEED PARTICIPATION!!

I have an extremely important favor to ask. This local and its members are in the fight of our lives against the immoral decision by Chrysler to close the van plant. In the last several years Chrysler has sold 1.6 million vans in the United States and 275,000 in Canada. Those numbers provide the obvious answer as to which country has been most supportive of the Chrysler Corporation. Unfortunately, they have decided not to repay that support with loyalty but instead turn their backs on America and view us as only consumers. This decision will lead to the economic devastation of this areas small businesses, school districts, and of course JOBS! Continue reading….[…]

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(August 2, 2008) - Pictures of Senator Obama in Union!

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(July 25, 2008) - Algae to be Refined Into Non-Polluting Biodiesel!

ALGAE – THE HOLY GRAIL OF BIOFUEL?

Can algae – the green slime that forms on the top of stagnant pools – reduce greenhouse gas emissions and be the source of a new renewable bio-fuel? The Holy Grail in the renewable energy sector has been to create a clean, green process which uses only light, water and air to create fuel.

Vertigro Energy is a joint venture between Global Green Solutions and Valcent Products. Vertigro’s algae-to-biofuel technology mass produces algae and extracts algae oil. This oil can be refined into a cost-effective, non-polluting diesel biofuel. The algae derived fuel will be an energy efficient replacement for fossil fuels and can be used in any diesel powered vehicle or machinery. In addition, 90% by weight of the algae is captured carbon dioxide, which is “sequestered” by this process, contributing significantly to the reduction of greenhouse gases.

The Vertigro technology was developed in response to a huge unsatisfied demand for vegetable oil feedstock by biodiesel refiners and marketers. Biodiesel, in 2000, was the only alternative fuel in the United States to have successfully completed the Environmental Protection Agency required Tier I and Tier II health effects testing under the Clean Air Act. A U.S. Department of Energy study has shown that the production and use of biodiesel, compared to petroleum diesel, resulted in a 78.5% reduction in carbon dioxide emissions.

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For more information, please visit: www.valcent.net

(July 18, 2008) - Contact Your Elected Officials!

I am asking all members and their families to take a little time and contact their elected officials regarding the announced plant closing of the Chrysler South Minivan Assembly Plant and the closing of both Integram St. Louis Seating and Dakkota Integrated Systems. This is a very important component of our drive to make all policymakers aware of this situation. Please mention that Chrysler will be continuing to make minivans, almost all of which will be sold in America while they lay off the American workers that serve in the military, build our communities, and pay the politicians salary! These officials were elected to represent Missouri citizens not runaway corporations!…….Continue reading […]

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(May 22, 2008) - I Am The UAW Story:

Please take a moment to vote for the Buyers Guide story on I Am the UAW website. Just click the plus [+] sign by the story. Please Click Here to read the story and to cast your vote. Thank You!

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March 25, Tuesday - Flood, Update!

As of Tuesday March 25, 2008 our downtown union office is cleaned up and functioning though there is still a lot of work to do. This would not have been possible without the efforts of several members that pitched in to help I would like to thank Carol Straatmann, Diana Baron, Pete Knight, Robert Colinares, Robert Johnston, Tiffany Stephens, Eddie Williams, Steve and Jackie Nicolas, Derrick Moore who stopped by and even Mark Priest came by after his shift at Altivity.

We did lose the Financial Secretary’s desk, Computer Desk, Cadenaza, and our refrigerator. If anyone would like to donate a replacement for one of these items, please contact your local officials

Thanks again to everyone that came out and you proved that we are a volunteer driven, activist local that takes care of it’s own and others.

In Solidarity,

Darin Gilley
President, UAW Local 1760

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Notice to our Laid-Off Members!

For our laid off members please make sure that your address is current with the Company and your Local Union, Integram & Dakkota. If you move, make sure you update the Company and Union as soon as possible. See flyer!

E-mail Alerts!

In an effort to insure that our laid-off members have access to the latest plant and local news, we invite all interested members to visit our local website and sign up for the local e-mail alerts.

The local will send out periodic updates to members on this e-mail list. Signing up is easy!

Just follow these 5 simple steps:

1.) Log on to www.uawlocal1760.com/members
2.) On the right side bar, scroll down until you see the E-mail Alerts section
3.) Enter your e-mail address then click the SUBSCRIBE ME button
4.) Confirm your entry
5.) Wait for the e-mail confirmation and click the link provided to activate your subscription

You’re done!

Since second-shift has been eliminated, IPP Checks can only be picked up at the Human Resources office every Friday from 10:00am to 2:00pm. Due to this change our Executive Board volunteers have also changed their schedule to man the downtown Union office. See below!

The Recording Secretary and several members of the Executive Board will be at the downtown union office on Friday from 10:00am to 3:00pm to share information to members that come by on their way from picking up their IPP checks.

They will be sharing information regarding:

• Plant work schedules
• Plant issues
• Minivan talk
• Auto Industry News
• Buyers Guide/Banner updates
• Committee news
• Benefit updates
• Union Meeting date and time

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NEWSLETTER PAST & CURRENT ISSUES!

Summer 2007 4.22MB	November 2007 3.36MB		March 2008 2.17MB

Newsletter format: PDF (Portable Document Format)

Note: You must have the latest version of Adobe Acrobat Reader in order to view this files properly.

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EXECUTIVE BOARD MEMBERS!

• Darin Gilley - President

• Carol Straatmann - Vice President

• Diana Baron - Recording Secretary

• Robert Johnston - Financial Secretary

• Jason Long - Guide

• Eddie Williams - Sargeant at Arms

Trustees:

• Tiffany Stephens

• Matt Manhart

• Gary Luther

Local Chaplain:

• Bob Gentry

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BARGAINING COMMITTEE MEMBERS!

• Rick Layton - Unit Chairman

• Rich Gentry - Unit Chairman Alternate

Bargaining Committeemen:

• Loren Busenhart - First Shift Assembly

• John “Woody” Weis - Second Shift Assembly

• Dan O’ Mara - First Shift Foam

• Terry King - Second Shift Foam

• Richard Gentry - First Shift Materials

• Dean Farris - Second Shift Materials

• Ted Poley - First Shift Maintenance

• Jim Erhardt - Second Shift Maintenance

• Pete Knight - Third Shift Maintenance

Note:

To Contact any of our Executive Board and Bargaining Committee members please call the downtown union office (636) 257-6447 or call the plant union office during normal working days (636) 271-1290

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