TRUSTEES
(2 to be elected)
Graham Carroll
Rob Clark
Ben Foreman
Shannon Horner
Mark Liota
Rob Newstead
Tuesday November 24th Polling Station’s
Location and Times
HEALTH & SAFETY
COMMITTEE
UNION HALL: 9:00 AM - 12:00 (NOON)
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
PORT DOVER COMMUNITY CENTER:
3:00 PM - 7:00 PM
volume 1, issue 8
lock out week 15
100th Day out
(1 to be elected)
Graham Carroll
Shannon Horner
Mark Liota
International Election
1 District
6 Director
CMC 7th Annual Retirement & Reunion Party
"42 Honourees" & A Special Guest
Kathryn Sloat
Date: Nov. 27, 2009
Place: Greens at Renton
Cocktails: 6pm Dinner: 7pm
All tickets are $30
This is the final Retirement Party organized by this committee
Tickets are available from
Paul Coutts- 519 587- 4325 Cell 519 718- 4326
Jeff Parker- 519 583- 0164 or contact Donna Wingrove ext.223
Need someone with carpenter skills to build
shelves for the storage
closets at the Hall
Contact Donna at the Hall
or ext. 223
Remembrance Day shall be observed at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month
To all the people that have made any sacrifice in any way to allow
us the rights and freedoms we now expect.
We would like you to know that it has not gone
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unnoticed.
Local 8782 would like to thank the Community and Businesses for their support through this
Lockout by U.S. Steel. Not only have our members been disadvantaged by a Nationalist American Company that is creating jobs in the U.S. to supply the Canadian market, but we know the
Community and Business’s have all been negatively affected and jobs and sales have been lost as
a result. The loss of these manufacturing jobs also has a ripple effect on other parts of the economy. One recent report estimated that 1. 9 jobs rely either directly or indirectly on each manufacturing job. This “multiplier effect” takes into account the decrease in jobs related to goods, services, and raw materials needed for manufacturing as well as the decrease in purchasing by former
manufacturing employees. That is why it is not just an issue of the Employees of U.S. Steel Lake
Erie Works but Canadians as a whole. We need to send this message to our Riding Representatives and other political parties to address the Foreign Investment Act and send a message that our
natural resources and jobs in Canada are not for sale. It burdens the tax base of the community
while putting additional strain on social programs.
So once again thanks for your support, our members will not forget. Here is a partial list of businesses and organizations that have donated so far.
In the future if you see our USW Logo in a window please give these businesses your patronage
for their support.
If we have missed anyone please accept our apologies and give us a reminder.
Thanks
Bill Ferguson President USW Local 8782
Mark Talbot Vice President USW Local 8782
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Ways and Means Committee is looking at having Santa come to
the hall for pictures for our members children . Please contact
the hall and let us know the number of children, gender, and age.
Next Picket Captains Meeting Thursday November 12th at 8am
Renew old friendships! Come on out to the United Steelworkers
Christmas Dance, hosted by the Retirees.
6:00-7:00p.m cocktails
7:00-8:00 Dinner
8:00-1:00 Dance
$25.00 per person
For Tickets Please Phone:
Cliff Dosser 905-776-3513 Garry Turner 519-587-2628 Ed Steinhoff 519-426-6632
Peter Marsh 519-587-5392
Rick Hughes 519-428-3320
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1 The Simcoe Arms
2. The Mitt and Robe
4. Audio Ave Simcoe
5. Imaginations, Port Dover
6. Koolman Ice, Port Dover
7. Porters Lumber, Port Dover
8. Capital Equipment, Jarvis
9. Lakeshore Fish Company, Port Dover
10. Young, Selkirk
11. Local 900 of the Communication of Energy
and Paperworkers, Nanticoke
12. Subway Port Dover, Jarvis
13. Harbour Pizza Port Dover
Local 8782
14. Nighs Meats of Jarvis
15. The Ontario Society of Energy
Professionals OPG
16. USW Local 5220 Edmonton
17. Local 900 of the Communications of
Energy and Paperworkers Union
18. USW Local 2724 Salary Workers
of Algoma
19. First Ontario Credit Union Simcoe
Branch
20. The Fletch Vegas Band
21. The Midnight Wild Band
22. Local 67 Plumbers and Steam Fitters
23. Hoovers Marina
In the next few weeks you will start to see this
logo
in businesses that have supported us.
Please show them your support
and thank them!
Do you have any family members under 17 years of age and in
need of Dental Services?
Check out the web site or contact the hall for information on
Hamilton and Haldimad-Norfolk area phone numbers to receive
assistance.
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Please contact the scrounge committee if you have a
contact for materials and or services we can use on the line.
Bill Degrow or Bruce Brown Leave a message at ext.223 or check us out on the web
COAT’S FOR KIDS
Do you need help obtaining winter coats for your children?
There is help available!!
Rotary International is distributing winter coats for kids at
First Baptist Church Young and Talbot St. in Simcoe
on Sat. Nov. 21st 2009 during the hours of 9am & 12pm
Eligibility: Families in need
Just show up on this morning and receive coats for your kids.
Contact John Evans 519-429-3789
Rumours:
Tom Walden, Paulo Almeida and nurse Sue
have been reported as rolling through the picket line.
Please inform them of our safety concerns
Richard Milhouse Nixon was the first US President whose name contains all the
letters from the word "criminal". William Jefferson Clinton is the 2nd.
Appeal Update
We are still hoping to collect more witness stories about
events leading up to the lockout. So if you were laid
off , then recalled (when they were going to originally
shut down the Coke Ovens) then laid off, (when they
changed their minds) then recalled (when they changed
their minds AGAIN!!!!) then locked out, we need your
story to help substantiate the appeal. Also, if you were a
straight lock out and were doing work that would have only been done to “shut the plant down” we
can use that information as well. The more stories the better so please help us to give you the best
chance to win the appeal.
If you haven’t signed a waiver to be included in the representative appeal you need to sign ASAP!!
If your name is not included in the appeal you will not be entitled to any part of a settlement!!
Oct. 30th Fish Fry
Same old stuff for: Nurses, Air Products, and Farmers.
Friday Bus: No more buses. They will be taking their
personal vehicles in and out.
BE CAREFULL THERE HAVE BEEN SOME THAT
HAVE NOT FULLY STOPPED!
ATTENTION: We have started to see our brothers
and sisters from Multiserv on the picket line as they are
coming off of E.I.
Thanks to everyone that came out. Sign
up at the Hall for Friday the 13th
AFI
Talk to them and tell them that USW can help them
and we can get them #’s
.
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