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It is a sad day for all the hard workers at Chicago Assembly, members on LTS status received automated calls last night informing them that their services were no longer needed and they were terminated. Another slap in the face right before the Holidays and the fact that the Union gave them no advance notice and was AWOL to answer questions is not the way to promote being in a Union.

I would not believe what is happening right now at Chicago Assembly. Coby our Chairman, Carlo the President and the Bargaining Team are telling the LTS's that if they do not vote them as delegates to the Convention that Jimmy Settles will cut them loose. After all the crying about tactics by the Senators in the VW organization drive I can't wait to get a response from the V.P. of the IUAW if he is aware and agrees with these tactics? And yes there are 23 signed names on a formal letter confirming this that is notarized and on it's way to the IUAW head quarters and the NLRB. Shameful that they would lie to these new members, it reminds all of us of the last days of the Chairman in 2010!!!!!

Hey Tigerfan I am Grant not you! Now Dumbfounded we have established that you are a great detective and everybody is Grant so it is time for you to answer the issues I raised about classifications, not being in re-balance period, and I missed 1 the union dues being increased and supported by our Bargaining Team and language allowing it to be used for anything the IUAW wishes. I would love paint repair if any jobs were posted in the plant but as I have pointed out the premium jobs are being eliminated but that is Grant's fault, I'm sorry my fault.

Dumbfounded I am 1 of thousands of Grant's in the plant, we hate the path we are on. I like many people understand we blamed 1 person for our small issues compared to what we face now. Good try though, o'yea if it is a coward move to use an alias on an anonymous board please let us know your identity so all the thousands of Grant's can let you know just how brilliant you are. You blame 1 person but do not dispute any of the facts laid out by all the Grant's. LOL.

Dumbfounded, you are typical passive aggressive. You disagree with everybody that does not drink the cool aid as you have. You talk about man up, come up to pre-delivery now and talk to the drivers that are as we speak being eliminated because an agreement was cut to cut SPC jobs(outside the re-balance period) and the SPC members are going to bump us out of our jobs against the local. Turn to page 35 of our local or 105 of our local and then come up to pre-delivery and deliver your cheery message. Just for a Happy Easter Holiday the company robo called the C-Crew and told them they are making Saturday, Sunday(yes Easter), Monday mandatory 11.5.!

Decker thanks for the explanation I have 1 question as I have not been to meetings in a while, last year our activist Financial Secretary brought charges on the Chairman for $12k dollars of legal bills for the year. I stopped and got a copy of the month's report put out and nearly that much has been paid to the lawyers in the first 3 months. My question because I must have missed it in his latest letters is has he filed charges or said 1 word about this, we are on pace to spend 4x the amount when the activist filed charges.

Today the AD of the IUAW meets with the CAP elected and tells them that our local is in a crisis due to the litigation that has happen over the last 3-4 months. Tells the districts that they need to document and follow up on grievances. What we discussed in our meeting after the meeting is if we had Units or a Chairman that spent more than 20 hours in the plant things would not be in total chaos! Dumbfounded, you are entitled to your own opinions but not your own facts. In the words of the famous lookout of the Titanic "iceberg dead ahead". Look in the mirror and you will start to understand who is to blame.

Chitown I have seen a copy of the Voluntary Compliance Agreement and it is written broadly. I was not told it is a typo because the candidate that showed it to me had no clue what Board members referred to. Interesting to me is that to have a Compliance Agreement there had to be 2 things, charges and individuals charged. It is illegal for our Union funds to be used to represent an illegal act. My calls to the hall have all gone to voice mail. Lots of questions and no one with answers!

Interesting, the LLM report is upon us when the light comes on and Federal documents are signed(Indictment Papers). Reports are that a certain vote counter is on her way back to finish the vote counting 1 more time but has not worked since last May, the last election. Only question left to be answered and it is coming quickly is who will sign their sentencing papers along with the President and Financial Secretary? D-Day is quickly approaching at Chicago Assembly.

Department of Labor case #zf3267h. As the Captain of the Titanic said we have hit an iceberg abandon ship! Witness F in the case summary knows a lot of details, wonder who has been implicated?

Great points by the respondents on this thread. Decker this topic does get dicey for the IUAW on many fronts though, is it not true that Bob King's office refused a ballot count at Local 551 even though this had never occurred in the history of the local. For Bob King and Settles to claim to want to bring Democracy to the work place and then to refuse to count ballots in a local election raises questions of their ethics to say the least.(And they paid for a recount with the local but never released the results to the members). Another issue is that the GM plant about 100 miles from the VW plant pays the UAW workers less money than current workers at VW. Lastly when the company comes out in favor of a Union as VW did with the UAW as a worker I must wonder what they have in store for me. You are going to trial and the prosecutor is happy about a certain lawyer you have picked, you should pack your bags and get ready for jail or get ready for FPS, concessions, 2 tier pay ect.......

Roadhog and Dumbfounded you 2 should get a room, I will break down what the floor thinks of what is going on. Our President, Chairman, and Units 3 years ago said that we should vote away the right to strike, now they were directed to stand up and propose a Union Dues increase for every UAW member for what? Beef up the strike fund. Dumbfounded you have previous officials on the brain and never address the issues on the thread. My suggestion is for you and Roadhog to start a thread about issues that has no bearing on the membership or take a stab at defending the defenseless, raising dues on members that were told they should give up the right to strike and have not had a raise in 10 years and counting.

What does the new year hold for the IUAW-Ford. Election Chair has spilled beans to DOJ on payoff for vote rigging + recordings of a certain service rep in the room giving backing to the plan, no I am sorry 2 servicing reps. International and Regional. What does this add up to, V.P. of UAW-Chrysler is joined by his former counterpart at V.P. of UAW-Ford. The calls now are fast and furious to cover one's behind but it is 6 months to late! Is this %100 percent, nothing in life is but let's remember 2 Illinois Governors are in jail along with 2 Jackson family members, so if they could not get out of the DOJ it stands to reason this crew is in for a rough ride, along with the members they were sworn to represent, the only innocent individuals out of the whole mess. Power corrupts, absolute corrupts absolutely!

Not to be out done, for the first time in my 12 years at CAP the Chairman went into Labor on Tuesday and a District Rep got 3 days off for cursing at a member after the member yelled and cursed at the rep. Instead of holding the company accountable and putting pressure on them Coby told all the reps that we needed to be more civil and nice. The message that has been to sent to all of us reps is that we should feel as if we work for the company not the members. We have been cursed at by the Chairman on multiple occasions telling us we can be on the team or get the F out and quit, and then we watch him kiss up to the company. This is what happens when family members are set up illegally into jobs they should not have and then what is the Union going to do about it when the company will pull the family members out, just look who is at a desk in Labor down to body shop. Roadhog you may think that getting on this forum is helping you and the leadership with the membership but all it is doing is fanning the flames and confirming to the company that we have the most corrupt and toothless administration in recent memory, but you are right about 1 thing we will find out how good your lawyers are and how deep and how many officials are implicated by an Election Official trying to save their own skin, but the gutting of our credibility will be the price to pay. And just icing on the cake for the company President Carlo Bishop's cousin, the Chairman of HVC gets fired 2 days ago, like the title says "A New Low at Chicago Assembly!"

Has it been confirmed when the vote for the increase in dues will occur with the membership?