Forge Plant Update

Brothers and Sisters,

WOW! Here we go again… new managers… new rules. They just don’t know that this is our …what… the 5^th time in 15 years we have seen the same moves. Seriously, locking the bathroom doors? I can’t help but laugh at this one. I think the person that suggested it should get an ACE award. I mean look at how much money that saves the company in water alone. My hat is off to you. How about bag check? Don’t we have guards that are capable of checking bags? What Alcoa does is hire a police officer to stand guard and watch the guards check our bags. How much did that cost? Way to save money. Another ACE award candidate. What about the Novocain Head that came up with the brilliant idea of eliminating our wash up/travel time at the end of our shift? What about Hygiene and Safety? If the employees don’t get clean up time, they can take all those contaminants home to their family. Look how much money on water they can save … another Ace award! Brothers and Sisters, we can go on and on with waste Alcoa has at Cleveland Works.

The grievance procedure is currently in overdrive with multiple issues violating our contract as well as our long standing past practices. Local 1050 have filed with the National Labor Relations board a total of seven (7) board charges. At this time we have several issues: failure to bargain and citing impasse, not providing clean up time, parking lot issues, locker room issues, eliminating and shortening lunch times, mandatory 12hrs, unclassified employees performing lay off employees work, contracting out work in reduced classifications, supervisors performing bargaining unit work, retaliation of union officials... just to name a few things going on. Thank God the company wants to work with us. Could you only imagine if they didn’t? As mentioned, we have grievances filed on these violations, and board charges. We are doing everything we can to protect this local from the blatant contract violations by the company. At this time I feel the company is trying to divide us. What they don’t understand, is that this is UAW LOCAL 1050 and we will not be divided! We will not give up! We are united!
 

In solidarity,

Mark Mohn

Forge Plant Chairman