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VOLUME 67, No. 1 WINDSOR, ONTARIO JUNE, 2012

FactsOfficial Organ of C.A.W. Local 200

FORDFORD

Dan Cassady addresses the crowd at this year’s “JDRF Walk For The Cure”. Our CAW 200/Ford/Nemak teamraised in excess of $61,000 this year. Congratulations to all for a job well done.

Local 200 “Big Bike” team raises$3,700 for the Heart and Stroke Foundation

CHRIS TAYLOR

BARGAININGWe will soon be entering talks with

Ford on a new Collective BargainingAgreement and your bargaining commit-tees are prepared and ready for the chal-lenge.

The support from our members hasbeen overwhelming and that support willget us through. There can be no doubtthat this round of talks will be the tough-est in our history as we deal with anunstable economy, the recent UAWagreements, more “Free TradeAgreements”, bloated gas prices and ahigh Canadian dollar, which are justsome of the factors that we will have todeal with.

On behalf of the bargaining commit-tee and the entire executive, we wouldlike to thank all of those who took thetime to send us their amendments.

We typically set our bargaining agen-da around our circumstances and theamendments, and this year will be no dif-ferent. The amendments have beenpassed through the bargaining commit-tee, the steward body and the member-ship and the final package is being pre-pared. Through this process it was clear

and very evident to all of us that althoughthe sacrifices made in the past weretough, our future is where we must focusthe talks and our future is going to be ourpriority.

We know that over the life of the nextagreement the 5.4 2V and 3V engineswill phase out and we do appreciate the3rd shift at Essex Engine Plant, but thatshift is based on volume and we haveseen how volumes can come and go.

Our present numbers both at work andon layoff won’t change by much as westart talks with Ford.

Local 200 has seen continuous layoffssince May of 2004 and since then wehave done all the right things by agreeingto the COA, splitting our summer shut-down weeks, agreeing to a one weekshutdown for the plants with the 5.0 Lprogram, working the required shifts toget product out and so much more.

At a recent meeting with Ford execu-tives in Toronto, I was told on severaloccasions that we are “World Class” inseveral categories and that is because ofour members’ commitment to quality andproductivity. The recent launch of the3rd shift at Essex Engine was nothing

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less than amazing.The plant overbuilt by 1,100 engines

in the second week and hit a Jobs perHour of 72. This is exactly what Fordexpects from their workers and it is whatLocal 200 members always deliver whenasked and we know that Ford will recog-nize this commitment when talks open.

Our future depends on investment andthat will be our goal and our main prior-ity. We have open capacity across our siteand plenty of open floor space to accom-modate new programs and that is ourbargaining mandate.

Along with our face-to-face bargain-ing with Ford, we must have governmentsupport for our industry in the way of acomprehensive Auto Policy and Strategy.We have been lobbying all levels of gov-ernment on this initiative knowing thatwithout support for investment, infras-tructure and other incentives, we stand tomiss the boat on investment. We contin-ue to see investment in the United Stateswhere both the Federal and State govern-ments fully support the investment withincentives and Canadian investment willrequire the same support.

An Auto Strategy is imperative for thefuture of Canadian Auto manufacturingand nearly every other Auto producingnation has one including Germany,Japan, China, Korea, India, Brazil andmany others.

The United States is now looking atpolicy that will require some “stringsattached” commitments when they arelooking at investing in industry andrightly so.

Thanks to all of you who took thetime to sign the Good Jobs Pledge andgot your family and friends to sign also.It will take all of us to get the message toour politicians and we need all of you tocontinue sending that message.

We will be calling a special meetingin the near future to ask for your supportfor a strike mandate and although a strikewould not be good for anyone, we needto be prepared to secure our future.

POLITICSIt is unfortunate that every time we

write, whether it is in the Ford Facts, theCAW Local 200 President Chris Taylor addressesCAW Council in Port Elgin.

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and they need to hear that continuingwith trade agreements that hurt Canadaand Canadian workers will not be toler-ated and it must reflect in the next elec-tions!

RETIREMENTS AND STEPSOn behalf of Local 200 and its

Executive, congratulations to thosemembers who took advantage of themost recent retirement incentives. Yourcontributions to Local 200 will always beappreciated by the current and pastLeadership and we hope that you nowtake the time to enjoy life with lovedones and do the things in life that work-ing did not allow.

Our Retirees Chapter is a great way tostay connected with your Union and keepin touch with those that you worked withover the years. The meetings are held thesecond Thursday of the month at theHall.

There were a number of our memberswho also took advantage of the STEPprogram for both active and inactivemembers and we know how tough adecision this was to make. There cannotbe a tougher decision in one’s workingcareer, than to have to decide on whetherto stay and hope for a recall or take yourleave from the company, but we hopethat the landing will be some what softerbased on the STEP package and we wishyou all the best in your future endeav-ours.

NEMAKOn behalf of myself and the execu-

tive, we want to recognize Mike Olar forthe great job he did representing theNemak Unit as Plant Chair at WindsorAluminum. Mike took the job on as anew Chairperson with a new collectiveagreement and did an exceptional joband deserves the thanks of the entiremembership at Nemak.

Good luck back at Ford and we lookforward to your continued support.Congratulations to Kevin Lafram-boise on his election as new PlantChairperson replacing Mike; we lookforward to working with you.

Congratulations to the following whowere elected since December of 2011;

Guardian, Windsor Star or speakingnotes for a membership meeting we arealways on the topic of the ConservativeParty and Stephen Harper who continuesthe attack on Canadian Workers and theirfamilies.

Now we hear how they want to changeEI rules to force people into a lowerwage job or relocate up to an hour away.Nobody wants to be laid-off from theirjob and that in itself is traumatic enough,but then to have your own governmentsay that instead of looking for a compa-rable job with comparable wages, bene-fits and pensions you must accept alower paying job; potentially outside ofyour field of work and if you don’t youwill be cut-off of your EmploymentInsurance! What kind of Country arethey turning us into?

The Conservatives are still pushingfor CETA (Comprehensive EconomicTrade Agreement) and they want thatdone this year. This agreement is abso-lutely devastating for Manufacturing inCanada and Harper knows it. Yet theywill not back off, why? Because thisagreement will be a boon for Western OilSands and Mining which is all thatHarper is concerned with.

If you need proof about how impor-tant oil is to Harper, look no further thana litre of gas costing us $1.20 while oil asof today’s writing date is at $81.00 perbarrel. The last time we saw a barrel ofoil at that price, the price at the pumpwas $1.05 per litre. The reason it is stillhigh is to make sure that the oil industryand its cronies make money! Too bad hedid not put that kind of protection inplace for manufacturing!

They have now started talks withJapan and are going to start with India.

Please take the time to read the letterthat was sent to the Prime Ministerregarding Free Trade talks and theresponse that was given from MinisterEd Fast, – not Stephen Harper, and hisresponse does not answer the questionsor the concerns raised in the letter sent toHarper. They need to hear from all of us

John D’Agnolo, Charlie Yott, Tom Kerr,Kevin Bell, Jeff Walsh, Bruce Robinson,Yvon Dionne, Chris Kiriak and VitoTaranto.

Along with the in-plant elections, thefollowing were acclaimed to vacantExecutive Board positions, JohnD’Agnolo as Recording Secretary,Charlie Yott as Trustee, Tom Kerr asGuide and Tom Burke as Member atLarge.

Darby McCloskey was appointed byour National President to replace PatFreeland as Benefits Rep. at WindsorEngine/Annex and Tony Iacobini wasappointed by our National President toreplace Jeff Vilag as Health and SafetyRep. at the Annex.

CAW and CEPAs you are aware, our Union is in

talks with CEP (Communications,Energy and Paper Workers Union) on thepossibility of joining together to form anew Canadian Union that would see amembership of over 300,000 membersand it is exciting.

There is a web site link from theCAW website (New Union Project) thatkeeps all members up-to-date on talksand discussions between both groups andtheir representatives.

It is obvious that in today’s environ-ment, numbers and pooling of resourcesis a direction that we must take to com-bat the ongoing slaughter of jobs and therights of workers across Canada. Thispotential merger of two great Unions willgive us the voice that is needed to defendthe rights of workers and further thecauses of the Labour movement inCanada. I encourage all of you to take afew minutes to go to the website andlook into it for yourself.

In closing, we hope that you take timethis summer to enjoy the fruits of yourlabour and spend time to relax and enjoyfamily and friends. We will keep themembership informed as much as we canover the summer months leading intobargaining.

Your in-plant leadership works theirtails off each and every day and the lead-ership at the Hall wants to say thanks forall you do for our members day in andday out.

Financial Secretary’s ReportDAN CASSADY,Financial Secretary

It has been six months sinceour last edition of our CAW Local200 Ford Facts and as you can see,we have changed the look andmoved to a two colour publication.The reason for this is a simple one;there is a significant cost savingsassociated with our new format.

I have reported the position ofthe Local’s finances in previousarticles and at our monthlyMembership Meetings, and I havecontinually discussed the need tolook at ways to reduce costs while atthe same time still providing superi-or services and assistance for ourmembers. I cannot stress the pointenough that the Local cannot con-tinue to spend the same way aswhen we had 6,000 members work-ing in our plants (as we did a fewshort years ago), while in realitytoday we have less than 1,600 atwork! Our revamped two colourpublication style will realize a sav-ings of approximately $4,000.00 peredition and continue to keep ourmembers informed on issues thatwe believe are important to them.

While on the subject of stayinginformed, there are many otherways of keeping up-to-date as well.Probably the best method for onestop communication updates isthrough our CAW Local 200 web-site, which has Links to ourNational Union webpage, as well asour Local 200 Facebook page.

There is also a link to get infor-mation regarding the CAW/CEPmerger discussions. The merger isan exciting prospect, which I truly

believe will have the effect ofstrengthening and invigorating bothparties involved. A combination oftwo formidable unions partneringtogether will certainly be a re-ener-gizing force ready to mobilize onthe issues that advance a workingpersons agenda.

The current corporate greed cul-ture that is clearly becoming moreprevalent each and every day, aidedby Conservative government poli-cies, is changing the very threads ofour country and our society. If wetruly care about the country ourchildren will inherit from us in thefuture, we need to care enough nowto educate ourselves on what isgoing on and get involved and dosomething about it.

The most important weapon thatthe governing Conservative Partyhas in their arsenal right now is apa-thy from the general population.We need to move from apathy toaction and the first step in that pro-

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cess is for all of us to get educatedon the issues. In fact, I believe thatif you only spent 15 minutes per daygetting informed, in a short timeyou will want to get involved in oneform or another. This could amountto attending a demonstration orrally, signing a petition, calling oremailing your MP, etc. It is impor-tant that they hear our views andunderstand where we stand on theissues. The old saying "silence isgolden" does not apply here. If apa-thy continues to reign "silence issuicide"!

On the Local front, the additionand staffing of the 3rd shift of pro-duction at Essex Engine has finallycome to fruition. When we add theApril and May retirements and theJune STEP "takers", we are seeingmany of our members back workingin the plants after too long of anabsence!

The 3rd shift at Essex Enginehas also been a positive develop-ment for our Voith and Penske Units

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Roger Dzugan is presented the 2011 Dan LaSordaCommunity Service Award.

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as it creates additional staffingrequirements and increases jobsecurity for our members in thoseUnits.

Our Nemak Unit has also beenaffected as some of our membershave migrated back to Ford due tothe call backs. This creates addi-tional hiring opportunities for thoseon layoff as well.

I would like to personally thankMike Olar for his service and dedi-cation the past 18 months asChairperson for our Nemak Unit.Mike had to resign from his positionwhen he was called back to Ford inApril of this year, but the good workthat Mike did as the firstChairperson at our Nemak has set asolid foundation for our members inthat facility for years to come.

Congratulat ions to KevinLaframboise, newly elected Chair(replacing Olar), whom we are con-fident will be able to face and meetthe challenges of his new position!

A reminder to all our Ford mem-bers that bargaining this fall will bevery, very challenging to say theleast! Each Ford Plant Chair haswritten about the upcoming negotia-tions in their articles and we need tomake sure we are prepared for what-ever may come our way.

In closing I want to congratulateall our members who have takenretirements and members whomhave decided to move on in theirlives and accept a STEP package.Good luck to everyone in the nextchapter in their life, . . . may it bethe best one in your book!

Vacation time is now upon usonce again. Please take some timeand enjoy your time off the job to dowhatever it is you like to do. Youhave earned it!

In Windsor and Essex CountyIn Windsor and Essex County

Vice President’s Report

MARC RENAUD

A NEW CANADIAN UNION

In addition to the pressuresfrom employers, unions todayface a government in Canada will-ing to use whatever means it canto stop Unions from getting themessage out that average taxpay-ers are not being represented inparliament.

The Harper Government con-tinues to show that they are in thecorporations’ back pockets as itcontinues to reduce programs thatare important to Canadians.

Be reminded the ConservativeGovernment was quick to step inlast year with back-to-work andother legislation to halt disputesbetween Unions and employers.

We as union brothers and sis-ters must find ways to overcomethe attacks on working people.

I believe we must becomestronger across Canada to makethe changes we need in govern-ment. The CAW is holdingmerger talks with Communica-tions, Energy and Paper WorkersUnion (CEP) which has 125,000members in an effort to create anew Canadian Union.

The new union project com-mittee is holding talks to see ifthere is a common direction inwhich to start. The plan is to bringit to the ConstitutionalConvention. If it is deemed feasi-ble in August for the CAW, then itwill go to the CEP Convent ionin October 2012. To get updatesor more information g o t o

www.newunionproject.ca.

WHY WINDSOR NEEDS TORETHINK THE ECONOMY -THE INDUSTRY

Here are a few facts from theRethink The Economy Policy onhow it affects us:

• Windsor has the highest autoindustry concentration inCanada with an assemblyplant, major engine operationsand more than 50 other inde-pendent auto parts operations.

• We have vehicles assembled atWindsor mini van plant301,450 vehicles were built inWindsor in 2011 (or 826 perday), and Ford workers built410,000 engines last year.

• The industry produced vehiclesand parts worth $11 billion inWindsor in 2011 (or $31 mil-lion per day).

JOBS AND OUR

WINDSOR ECONOMY

The auto industry directlyemploys 13,300 people inWindsor; one out of every elevenjobs. Thousands more jobs arecreated to supply the industry jobsin steel, plastics and other manu-facturing and services.Manufacturing workers’ paycheques pumped $790 million intothe Windsor economy in 2011.

Brothers and sisters, as themedia hype starts and we getc lose r t o ba rga in ing inSeptember, we will have more

pressure from the uninformed totake cuts to our wages and bene-fits. We must be ready to speakout against the right wing anti-union media. Stand up for yourcommunity and your family, it’syours to protect.

3rd SHIFT ESSEX ENGINE

The 3rd shift has been runningfor a few weeks now with theplant exceeding production goalsacross all shifts on the motor line.With the influx of so many newpeople to the plant we once againproved, when given the chance,we will produce a top qualityengine. Once again thanks toeveryone for your hard work.

NEMAK

I would like to congratulateKevin Laframboise on his electionto chair of the Nemak Unit. Alsoa special thank you to Mike Olarand Chris Bozin for their dedica-tion to the membership at Nemakwhile in their union positions.

At the June plant communica-tion meeting, it was reported thatthe plant for the month of Apriland May met or exceeded produc-tion and quality levels. With theother two goals met, they alsoexceeded their expected profitmargin.

With all the recent manpowerchanges and recalls from layoff,this is exceptional work by themembership in the plant. With thelaunch of the Gen 1 on the Southline we need to continue themomentum over the upcoming


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months as we add shifts if vol-umes require.

VOITH

There continues to be manpow-er issues at WEP/Annex for thecrib on afternoon shift.

Currently, Ford has requestedonly emergency coverage whenthey need to enter the crib in eitherplant. The manpower on after-noons and workload has increasedcausing some delays in gettingstock that is required. Our goal isto run best in class, I doubt thismeets that goal.

FORD BARGAINING

We will be starting the bargain-ing meeting soon to discuss theamendments that were approvedby the Membership and StewardBody. We face tough chal-lenges ahead to achieve ourmain goal; to secure new work forthe Windsor Site. The member-ship needs to be prepared for pos-sible action when it is our turn tonegotiate an agreement this fall.

ELECTIONS

We have had a few electionsover the last few months toreplace those who retired inDecember 2011.

Congratulations to the follow-

ing on your election, John

D’Agnolo, Tom Kerr, Charlie

Yott, Vito Taranto, Chris Kirak,

Bruce Robinson, Yvon Dionne,

Jeff Walsh, Kevin Bell and Tom

Burke.

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Troy Brian, Chris Vilag, Pete Thomas and Frank Deblockaccept an Appreciation Award from the 2012 Waterfest.

Marc Renaud accepts the“Bob Probert Community ServiceAward” on behalf of Local 200.

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Nemak/WindsorAluminum Unit

ELECTIONSI would like to thank you for

your support and for the opportuni-ty to represent you as PlantChairperson.

STATE OF THE PLANTWe are currently running three

shifts for the 3.6 L block on cast line

D with production on Saturdays

becoming more common. JPH and

quality is something we can all feel

very proud about.

On June 04, 2012 the South

Line launched the Gen I block on a

one-shift operation. This is a very

important launch for all of us at

WAP and we need to do everything

possible to make this launch a suc-

cess. This is a difficult block to pro-

duce but I’m confident that this is

also an opportunity to show Nemak

we continue to be a world class

workforce able to meet any chal-

lenges that come our way.

PLANT POPULATIONI would like to welcome all of

the new hires we have here at

Nemak and encourage them to call

me anytime. We currently have 130

full-time employees with an addi-

tional 25 TPTs and 26 STRs. We

have experienced a large turnover of

employee’s due to the recent call

backs of our Ford brothers and sis-

ters along with the launch of the

south line. I would like to wish all

of them the best of luck in their

future with Ford as well as thank

KevinLaframboise

them for their

con t r ibu t ions

here at Nemak.

On behalf of the membership

and myself, I would also like to

thank brothers Mike Olar (Plant

Chair) and Chris Bozin (Midnight

Rep) for their t i re less leadership

through a very challenging transi-

tion here at Nemak. Job well done.

SUMMER SHUTDOWNOn behalf of the entire WAP

Union Office, we would like to wish

you and your families a safe and

happy vacation. For those of us

who will be working shut-down,

please remember that the nature of

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the work being performed is some-

times different than our day to day

responsibilities and to proceed with

caution.

OUR COMMUNITYMore than ever, the Conserva-

tive Government seems to be intent

on the breakdown and elimination

of the social fabric of Canada that is

in place to protect its citizens from

hardships.

It seems the circumstances of

people’s reliance on these programs

is directly related to poorly thought-

out policies of the very same gov-

ernment who now seeks to elimi-

nate this social safety net. Whether

it be health care, unemployment

insurance, Old Age Security or a

number of other issues, now more

than ever is the time to stand togeth-

er to support and participate in

change. We need to be heard, to pro-

tect the Canada we have enjoyed for

future generations. Please get

involved.

Local 200 Leadership activists during Bargaining at theAuto Conference in Port Elgin

ESSEX ENGINEPLANT Tim Little

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SSteven Harper’s Conserva-tive Government has noproblem telling Canadians

that if you're not in WesternCanada and in the oil business,you will be a Canadian that willsuffer. The only time Ontarioseems to matter to Harper is whenhe wants votes in an election.

Canada's biggest province hassupported this country for manyyears, but from the moment Mr.Harper took office, his economicpolicies have been direct attackson the province of Ontario. Inkeeping Canada's currency artifi-cially high to support his homeprovince and the tar sands, no onecan deny that it is directly respon-sible for the demise of the manu-facturing industry.

To date, a third or more of joblosses in this country can bedirectly attributed to the high cur-rency and the rest to the free tradepolicies of Harper’s Conserva-tives. They have sold off thiscountry’s natural resources to for-eign corporations, allowing themto come in and take the raw mate-rials, export them to another coun-try where they refine them, andbenefit from all the jobs that arecreated.

Everyone needs to be awarethat this government is openlydealing with corporations againstits own people; it is fast trackingFree Trade Agreements as wespeak like CETA and EuropeanUnion deal. These agreementshave no benefit for us at all. Theywould see any public service asillegal in an open market such as

tive in a global market.

We are not Mexico, China,Vi e t n a m o r I n d i a ; t h eConservatives have no problemexploiting the weakest that areoffered up for sale. Jeff Watsonneeds to explain why is it that onlythe province of Alberta is allowedto earn living wages that allCanadians should be entitled to,but we all know that won't happen.

The Conservative Party that isdestroying this country was noteven wanted by over 60% ofCanadians; it's time to get active.

THE PLANTIn the economic climate we

deal with today the decision by thecompany to launch the third shiftat Essex Engine showed us that the5.0 engine is in the company'splans going forward.

The work and the effort put inby everyone have been well docu-mented and noticed by seniormanagement. We achieved orexceeded the goals that were putbefore us to launch the shift oncost, JPH and quality. Whenlaunching a shift, there are somany obstacles that must beaddressed and the one that is mostcritical is the workforce.

I would like to thank ShaunWhitehead for the letters that wentout thanking everyone for theirpart in the success of the launch.Shaun's letter reflected the samethanks that I have received on yourbehalf from members of seniormanagement at our monthly meet-ing. This was a key launch in fill-ing vehicle orders and we couldnot afford any mistakes. Thankyou for the pride you take in build-ing our product and thank you fordoing it so well.

Cranks will start receiving theirfull compliment of rough stockwhen Thyssen Krup starts ship-

health care, transit, child care andeducation. They would forceprovinces to sell their water tomultinational corporations and thelist goes on and on.

Steven Harper openly admit-ted that the Japan Free TradeAgreement is good for Canada,but once again the auto sector willbe affected. Like the Korea dealhe bargained, where auto is a oneway trade deal into Canada, Japanis the same. Japanese cars notbuilt in Canada have a 6% tariffput on them but if the deal is donethe tariff will be gone and Ontariocan say good bye to the Honda andToyota plants while Japan bringsthe work home to it’s people andships to an open Canadian market.

The ultimate goal of hisConservative party is to put agree-ments in place so we serve corpo-rations and we make rich the hand-ful of people that own them. It isimportant now more than ever forall our members to attend our ral-lies, demonstrations and townhalls. The attitude of “what differ-ence can I make?” is a defeatistattitude when in reality it will beour collective voices and vote thatwill make the difference!

Come out to rallies, sign peti-tions. When you’re online emailyour Local MP about the issues,even if it is the inefective JeffWatson. Let's ask Jeff if he isaware of the fact that he is the fed-eral MP that is responsible for themost devastated area in this coun-try! All we seem to hear from himis the party line on being competi- . . . cont’d on next page

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ping them from Germany inAugust. This will put us back onour schedule of six days andSunday optional for a productionshift and maintenance. With vehi-cle orders going up the departmentwill be looking for every crank wecan get.

As we speak, the block depart-ment is running all shifts on aSaturday. I would like to thankeveryone for the job they havedone in launching this state of theart department. In our last month-ly meeting the block line at Essexwill be the future design for allblock lines going forward forfuture programs. This being thefirst of its kind everyone did agreat job in making it successful.When we come back from shut-down we will be running at full-rate and it will be Essex Engineand Romeo that will supply allblocks to the engine line.

The block line has seen a fewof our brothers going throughsome difficult battles with cancer.You are in our thoughts everydayand missed. Get Well.

Rods will see some work donein the department over the shut-down period, a substantial invest-ment to get as many 3.5/3.7 rodsas we possibly can. The V6engines that take the Essex rodshave seen their numbers explode;this is the engine that goes in manyof the new vehicle line-ups thatFord has introduced.

The work being done in rodshas been long overdue; thisdepartment during the retoolingand launch phase went from a one-shift operation to three-shift in oneyear period. Everyone in the depthas done all they can to keep the

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parts flowing. These new upgradesshould relieve some of the exces-sive stock handling that we haveexperienced in the past to put partsthrough the line.

Every year we hear that thecompany is taking a task out of theplant. When EEP re-opened,every job that came to the plantcame off engineering studies.Every department already had anumber tied to it before we evenran a part and as most people whowork here know and will agree,the people behind the computersneed to get out of the office andonto the floor.

Now management comes to usand tells us they need to take moreworkers out of the plant and wetell them that they only gave usjust enough to operate in the firstplace! Must be some new kind ofmath but the equation does not addup!.

The company has to look toother means of saving cost insteadof continuously cutting jobs. Weall know that at some point thiswill cost us more money in thelong run. But if this is the onlyoption, they should sit down withus and we can show them someopportunities for savings.

Many concerns have beenbrought my way by the member-ship about the upcoming round ofbargaining. In the beginning ofmy article, we can all see that wewill receive no backing from ourgovernment in keeping jobs inCanada.

Since the last contract Fordhas closed the St. ThomasAssembly and GM will closeanother plant in Oshawa andincrease it’s stake in China with61.5 billion of taxpayers’ bailoutmoney still fresh in their pockets.

I strongly believe that what wedo at the bargaining table andthrough the bargaining process

will be the only way to securework for our future. We can askfor all the money and vacationtime we want, but if there is nowork what will it matter? I strong-ly suggest to all members that theybe prepared for the fall bargaining,but also that we have a veryresponsible Bargaining Committeeunder Chris Taylor.

The summer vacation period ishere and I hope everyone takes thetime to enjoy their time off withfriends and family. I would alsolike to encourage everyone goingforward to use their vacation timebargained by the union. I under-stand that everyone was in a dif-ferent position this year, somewith no entitlement and yet thoseof us who had it many did notbook all of their time.

Our thoughts are with GaryRussell’s family and thank you tothe membership for your generos-ity in collecting $2,000.00 for hisfamily.

The JDRF Campaign, that hasbeen strongly supported by thecompany and the union, will be inits 10th year on the Windsor Site.This year we will see the site raise$61,000.00 dollars to see our totalgo over one half million dollars indonations for the past 10 years; anamazing accomplishment, con-gratulations to all.

Finally, congratulations tosome proud parents, Mike Parkand Lisa Slikeoer, whose childrenwhere recipients of the KellyEngland Bursary, which will assistwith their education. I would alsolike to acknowledge ChrisHodare’s daughter’ Victoria, whoapplied her first-aid training to ayoung man in an accident; shecalled 911 and waited for EMS.The boy required surgery and isrecovering well.

Once again please enjoy yourtime off this summer.

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Tom Kerr

LAYOFF NOTICEAt the time of this writing we

have 527 trades on roll with 116 onlayoff and 93 on Notice of Layoff.

RETIREMENTSTo all of the skilled trades who

have recently retired this year I wishyou a very long and HappyRetirement and to those who electedto take the S.T.E.P. program, all thebest to you in your future endeav-ours.

TSSA QACERTIFICATIONFinally after a lengthy period theWindsor Site is now TSSA QACertified. There were a few hiccupsalong the way but we are now incompliance. This is good news forthe skilled trades pertaining to jobownership.

MANPOWERWe continue to see a shortage of

skilled trade manpower across theWindsor Site. Some departmentsare still running short where wehave had trades retire or bid out andcannot replace them or have beenunable to move them to their newpositions because there are no back-fills. This is becoming more preva-lent as we see job postings not beingcleared in a timely manner.

The company, on the other hand,has a different philosophy and isalways looking to take efficiencytasks where ever possible. I canassure everyone the skilled tradeoffices are working tirelessly toaddress these shortages.

EEP CRANKDEPARTMENT

As most of us are aware we havehad some major concerns in thequality of cranks. Just recently,which is a setback to say the least,just on the issue of the undercutalone, once again the skilled tradesin the department have come upwith a solution to basically elimi-nate the concern by initiating a fewprogram changes and alterations tothe machining process.

It seems a certain level of man-agement is reluctant to engage andadhere to these solutions when it isfar easier to pick up a telephone andseek answers elsewhere. We haveone of the most highly skilled tradeworkforces right in the plant. Whynot utilize them along with theskilled trades in the tool room help-ing out with the crank gear issue? Itis again a testament to their abilityand expertise and should not gounrecognized.

Time and time again when thecompany is in distress the skilledtrade workforce across the Windsor

SKILLEDTRADES

Site has and continues to rise to thechallenge and I would personallylike to thank them.

BAGAININGIf it has been said once, it has

been said many times, but I truly dobelieve this round of bargaining willbe the most difficult set of negotia-tions we will have encountered inrecent times.

Everyone knows what has tran-spired with Ford and the U.A.W.last year, and to their CollectiveAgreement. The U.A.W. is clearlyour direct competitor, and Ford ismaking no bones about the positionthat puts the C.A.W. in. Please letme assure you that I along with theother members of the BargainingCommittee will be doing theirutmost to bring back an agreementthat is sensible and palatable for all.This site has worked tirelessly toput ourselves in position for a newprogram and we will be conveyingthat message to the Company on ourmembers’ behalf.

SUMMER SHUTDOWNFor those of you who are elect-

ing to take vacation at this time andbeyond to spend time with yourfamilies and loved ones, enjoy!Please use your full entitlement, it’swell deserved.

From the skilled trade officesacross the site, have a happy andsafe holiday.

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IN MEMORY OF . . .

HAROLD SHAWHarold was a long service janitor/caretaker at our Local

200/444 Union Hall. He retired in 1988 but continued to visit

us weekly at Turner Road until shortly before he passed away

in January of this year. Harold was a dedicated family man, a

decorated World War 2 vet, and a special person to all who

knew him.

Rest in Peace Harold!

ANNEXCharlie Yott

thIs Is my fIrst official FordFacts as the Plant Chair of the Annex.I’d like to thank everyone at the Annexfor having the confidence in me to haveme acclaimed as the Plant Chair. I willwork hard to ensure that you are all rep-resented by your office to the best of ourabilities. We will do our very best toensure you have a safe, fair and harass-ment free workplace.

CHANGES TO THEUNION OFFICE

Big changes have come aboutin the Union Office and I would like towelcome your new team. BruceRobinson, day shift committeepersonand Vice-Chair; Jeff Walsh, afternoonshift committeeperson and YvonDionne, day shift skilled trades commit-teeperson.

I am looking forward to workingwith this group and truly believe we cando good things for the future of theAnnex.

Please feel free to come to YOURUNION OFFICE anytime to discussany issues you may have and we will doour best to get you the proper answers.The door is always open.

WELCOMEI would also like to welcome

Tony Iacobini, your new CAW Health &Safety Representa-tive. He comes withyears of experience in safety as the pastH&S Rep at WAP and also a H&STrainer.

Your new Benefit Representative isDarby McCloskey. He will be a hugeasset for our members with his experi-ence as the past chairperson of WAPwith his vast knowledge of the contract.Welcome aboard all newly elected andappointed reps.

RETIREMENTSBig changes do come at a cost. I

would like to thank and congratulate

Chris Moynahan on his decision toretire. Chris served this membership formany years as a committeeperson andPlant Chair; I learned a lot from Chris. Iwish you the very best in the future myfriend.

Also congrats goes out to Ted Szpakand Jeff Vilag on their retirements.Both worked very hard to serve themembers for many years. Thanks and Iwish you both the best.

Debbie Dow, thank you for beingmy friend and for everything you did forthe membership as a committeeperson.We not only lost a lot of experience inthe Union Office but also on the plantfloor.

And congrats to all the members ofthe Annex who elected to retire. Youworked hard for many years and youwere a big part of the Annex and beinga part of Ford Plans for the future, thankyou.

On behalf of the Annex Union Office,we wish everyone who chose to retirethe very best in the future.

ANNEX 3 VALVE/COYOTEWe have a lot of work ahead of us.

We have been battling everyday when itcomes to getting the proper manpowerin to be able to be successful. This hasbeen an ongoing battle in all of theplants. We as a Union do want to becompetitive but we also want to be suc-cessful. The Company needs to see that.

Over the past 5 or 6 years the com-pany has come at us and cut jobs on aregular basis. They have in many caseseven doubled our workload, yet we con-tinue as the best workforce in the worldto continue to pound away and makethem successful, but now we are evenbattling to get jobs covered. This is notright. Ford Motor Company, if you giveus the tools to do the job (manpower), . . . cont’d on next page

we will continue to make you the WorldClass Company you want to be. Weproved that by launching Mod A & Bahead of schedule to the point that Fordno longer needs any heads fromLinamar and they are no longer making5.0 heads for EEP. Thank you to ourmembers for making this happen.

SUMMER SHUTDOWNWe will only be having a one week

shutdown this year at the Annex as wesupply the Heads and Rods for the 5.0 atEEP. Your Union Office wishes every-one a safe and happy holiday. Enjoy thetime with your families. You work veryhard and the break is well deserved.

In saying this, with the Annex andEEP only taking one week shut-down, itdoes create a lot more vacation weeksfor our members to book. I know atWEP/Annex it has been an ongoingfight to have the company bring in sum-mer vacation replacements so thateveryone can have the time off they arerequesting. We lost mandatory vaca-tions in the contract but we did not losethe right to take all our vacation. Pleasebook your vacation and if you aredenied, please call the union office sowe can work on getting you the welldeserved time off.

TRANSPORTATIONWe had a couple more retirements in

our transportation department and arecurrently trying to bring back a coupleof people. The qualifications to work inFord transportation are rigid. You musthave:• an A/Z licence with 3 years recent

accident free, verifiable experiencein a commercial vehicle.

• You must have or be able to obtain aBorder Fast Card for commercialborder crossing privileges.

• Be able to pass a test given by anoutside examiner (Ontario TruckDriving School)

• Be able to pass a drug test.• Be able to operate a commercial

vehicle with 10 or 13 speed trans-mission and all types of dieseltrucks and tractor trailers.

If you can meet these criterias,

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ANNEX. . . cont’d

please contact my office at 519-257-4166.

You will be asked to put togetherproof of your experience. We wouldlike to gather a list of all qualified mem-bers so we can ensure that our trans-portation department not only survivesbut hopefully grows.

BARGAINING YEARWith this year being a bargaining

year, we need to band together morethan ever before. The company is stillsaying we are not competitive enougheven though they are showing hugeprofits. The UAW Collective Agreementhas made them less costly than us, butwe still have many advantages.

Our workforce is World Class. Weare the benchmark for all other plants.Our quality is second to none. The timefor going back to get things we lost inthe past is not now. We need to lookforward. We need to look for new prod-uct. We have the capacity in all plantsfor more work whether it’s a new engineprogram for the other half of EEP or afuture engine program for WEP or alower volume program for the LVLAnnex.

We also have capacity when it comesto machining departments. We will belooking for our future. Stand behindyour bargaining team; we will be look-ing to do what’s best for the future ofour members in Windsor.

ANNEX COMMUNITYThe Dan LaSorda Community

Service Award for 2011 goes to RogerDzugan. Roger always goes over andabove when it comes to helping thecommunity. He was involved in JDRF,United Way, Easter Seals, Big Bike andAnnex Community Outreach.

Thank you for all you do and con-grats on your retirement. I know youwill stay active.

In closing, I would like to wishall Local 200 members a safe and happysummer.

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CAW Local 200 Leadership at CAW Council in April 2012

CLUB 200 YouthActivities Inc.

17th Annual Charity Golf ClassicIn Memory of

FRANK McANALLYare pleased to announce that

has joined with us as our lead Sponsor.We urge you to support them for all your

vehicle and service needs – Check them out!

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FOR HEALTH CAREENROLLMENT/CHANGEFORM

Employees who are adding anover-aged dependent, who is back inschool full-time must submit as partof the documents needed a “copy ofcurrent dated tuition receipt”, thatalso confirms “full-time” enrollmentin school.

The two things that are impor-tant here is the document has to be“current dated” and it has to statespecifically on it “full-time” enroll-ment. If either one of these facts aremissing, the Company will notaccept the enrollment form.

FORD HEALTH CAREPREMIUM PAYMENTS

Ford Motor Company has hiredan outside party, Morneau Shepell,to collect employee premiumswhich are due every month. And ifyou are generating a pay from Ford,that premium will automatically

BenefitsJERRY FERGUSON & DARBY McCLOSLKEY

CAW Benefit Rep. for EEP CAW Benefit Rep. for WEP & Annex

519-944-9277 519-257-2412

come off your pay cheque once amonth. Problems arise when youare not generating a cheque throughFord for whatever reason.

People who were on layoff fromFord and working at Nemak andreceiving benefits through Nemak, itwas still necessary to make arrange-ments to pay FHC their premium ona monthly basis. If you stoppedpaying FHC and returned to work atFord you had to pay for all priormonths that you did not pay beforeFord would re-activate your bene-fits.

People returning to work at Fordfrom a previous employer shouldcheck to make sure they are paid upwith FHC, If not, get it correctedASAP so there is no delay in gettingbenefits re-activated.

People on S&A for an extendedperiod of time should contact FHCto make arrangements to have themonthly premium paid.

There are also issues with the“time lag” between when your ben-

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efits should be available or re-acti-vated and when their actually turnedon.

Example: Even though youknow your benefits started on thefirst of the current month, there maybe a delay until Green Shield is actu-ally notified. If you needed a pre-scription or any other covered bene-fit and had to pay, re-submit the billto Green Shield after you confirmyour benefits have been re-activiat-ed.

fOrD health Care Centre:

1-866-376-9501

Green shield: 1-888-711-1119

STEP PROGRAMAND RETIREMENTBUY-OUTS

We just completed another roundof STEP and retirement incentivesand would like to bid farewell to allwho have chosen to take advantageof the option available to then. Wellwishes to all.

Darby McCloskey is the newlyappointed Benefit Rep for WEP andAnnex. Many thanks go to JimBechard for his assistance in thetransition and his work with theSTEP program.

To all our active and laid-offmembers, have a safe and enjoyablesummer.

A total of $25,000 was donated from our Social Justice Fund to five area Food Banks.

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docks. Those issues are currently working theirway through the system and we’ll have an updatevery soon.

We initially posted eight jobs for EEP whenFord gave us the green light that April 16 would beour 40 hour training week, one week ahead of theirofficial launch. Now, since we posted the jobs,that date of April 16 has changed numerous timesand the official date was April 30. Now that thefirst round of jobs has been cleared, the secondaround is slated to be posted around June 1, whichwill have another 6 full-time jobs and 1 temp jobalso.

There has been a lot of discussion aroundwhy the postings are held up for 30 days aboutwhen the job takes effect. We want everyone whobids on a new job to receive adequate training andbefore their old job is posted, we want the memberto feel comfortable in their new job.

We held off at EEP on job sign-offsbecause of all the movement due to the third shiftaddition. Once the third shift was launched, weexperienced a high volume of inbound inventory,much higher than what was expected. The com-pany agreed to carry additional manpower, whennecessary to help our members handle theincrease. We’ve had numerous discussions withthe company regarding increasing the total TPTsto help support our members who have LOAs andvacation time booked.

2011 NEGOTIATIONSOn December 18, 2011 we ratified our new

collective agreement by 76%. We were able tosecure changes to our job posting language, jobownership language, increase the coverage andduration of bereavement and secure a 9% wageincrease over the next three years. We made gainsin every aspect of the agreement and gave thecompany nothing in the way concessions. Weheld on to everything from the Christmas supple-ment, the medical supplement, maintaining all thepaid holidays and resisted changing the over-timepay language.

Special thanks to Chris Taylor, MarcRenaud and Paul Georges for having patience dur-ing a tough round of bargaining.

THANK YOUOn behalf of my wife Laura and myself, I

want to thank the entire membership for the cardsand all well wishes on the birth of my daughterOlivia. The support that was shown was unbe-lievable and will not be forgotten.

PENSKEPENSKEUNITUNIT By Joe

Tremblay

PLANT POPULATIONCurrently we have 40 full-time with one on

medical, five TPT’s and no one on layoff.

WEP/ANNEXWe are currently monitoring the workload

on Dock D on Shift #1 because Ford’s plan for thatDock has changed significantly over the pastmonth or two. We had high hopes when Fordannounced the addition of V10 crank productionon Shift #3. Unfortunately, the manpower num-bers that were previously discussed with Ford fellthrough. Ford has stated they have no intention ofrunning past 120 rough which in essence, elimi-nates the need for us to staff.

We are seeing over-time on Shift #3 onSaturdays for V10, but at this point that’s as far asFord is willing to bend.

Dock F is finally getting a handle on theoverbuild that takes place daily. Ford has changedsome of the shipping requirements and the meansof shipping for the V10 to Kentucky by addingthem to rail to help with floor space. We saw veryfew members from WEP take new jobs at EEP.

At the Annex, we are storing overflowengines from WEP which has created a temporaryjob. We’ve been successful in the past four monthsof convincing the company to staff that job, whenpossible, with another member to provide support.Once the next round of job bids come up, that jobat Annex, even though temporary, will be posted.

I’ve met with the company over the pastthree weeks to discuss their plan on how to handlethe increase to EEP without an addition at Annex.They’ve agreed that there may be a problem butare not too eager to act on it.

With the addition of Mod B, we are startingto see an increase of 5.0L head production atAnnex. We are currently struggling to keep bothShift #1 and Shift #3 covered without any addi-tional manpower. We will again try to sit with thecompany and discuss their plan once EEP is sched-uled to run Saturdays.

ESSEX ENGINEThere are a lot of issues at EEP regarding

the docks and all the work associated with the

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I would like to thank theRecreation Committee for re-electing me as the Chairpersonand April McLellan as Vice Chairand I also want to thank CathyMasse; she has been elected asRecording Secretary.

I look forward to working withour newly elected committee forthe next three years. Anyone cancome and participate at ourmonthly meetings. We are alwayslooking for new ideas and alwaysneed volunteers. We meet the 3rdWednesday of the month at 4:00pm in the board room. Or emailme at Pamela.strong@sympati-

co.ca

On February 24th the Jointcommittees worked together forour 3rd Annual Chili Cook-Off.This year’s winners were a blastfrom the past, the Local 200Retirees. They won our 1st yearand have reclaimed their trophyfrom the 2011 winners, the Local444 Women’s Commi t t ee .Congratulations on your comeback.

Thank you to all the commit-tees and volunteers who helped tomake this happen. Also for the 20delicious hot and spicy chili’sentered by individuals and com-mittees. Thanks Howard Knightfor the music and your time.Together we raised $1,511.25 tohelp three local charities in onenight and we had fun doing so.

On April 21st & 22nd the 13thAnnual Elszie Banks Local 200Hockey Tournament was held.The Championship was won forthe 3rd year in a row by SteveMonforton’s team, the blue team.

Elszie Banks and Tom Dawsonwould like to thank all the manysponsors including Local 200 andKen Knapp for the flash mob.Over 200 people showed up tosupport the tournament.

The Recreation Committee hasTiger game tickets available forSeptember 23rd vs. Minnesota for$28.00 Can. There are 20 ticketsleft; first come first serve.

On Monday, August 6th theLocal 200 Golf League will beorganizing the 2nd Annual 200Reunion. This will be held at theTilbury Golf and Country Club forthe low cost of $60.00 whichincludes 18 holes, power cart,prizes and steak dinner. The dead-line is July 21st. It is limited to 72golfers.

Contact John Maurina at john-

[email protected] or 519-890- 8289, George Gyori at ggy-

[email protected] or Glen Fox [email protected]

This summer, Cedar Point tick-ets are available in the plants andalso at the hall. They are good anyday until October 31st at $39.00ages 3 to 61, 48” or taller. $20.00ages 3 to 61 and under 48” tall or62 and older.

Marineland tickets are availableon line. Go to www.marineland.caand follow the instructions. Thelocal has an access code. TheCorporate code is b3b384eb andthe access code is Local 200. Thecost is $38.95 plus tax for Adultsand Children ages 5 to 9 years is$31.95 plus tax.

On June 8th the Local entereda team for the Big Bike for Heartand Stroke in memory of Garry(Sparky) Shaw also AKA Homer.

We lost Garry to a stroke in 2009.Garry was a very generous caringman and was very involved inmany charities. We raised $3,000for this event. Thank You for allyour support.

Well summer has arrived and Iwish you all a fun-filled summerand stay safe. I hope you takeadvantage of your vacation timethat was bargained for you. Timeis so precious so why not take thetime and spend it with the familyand friends that you don’t havetime to see when you are working.If you don’t use it, you’re going tolose it. I’m just saying.

PAST SWORCTOURNAMENTS

STANDINGSreGIOnaL bOWLInG

QUaLIfIer

Women’s Singles

Lori Lindsey, 3rd score of 696

Women’s Teams, Local 200

Lori Lindsey, 1st score of 3439Judy Cartier, 5th score 3012

Men’s Singles

Mike Calamita, 6th score of 704

Men’s Teams, Local 200

Tom McKrow, 2nd score 3271Chad White 5th score 3228Dan Aqwa 7th score 3187

MOONLIGHT BOWLINGLOCAL 200 WINNERS

Anna Morello andRick Trepanier – 2ndShelly Trepanier – 4th Charlie Yott – 5th

REGIONAL GOLFTOURNAMENTLOCAL 200 WINNERSWomen’s Flight

Patty O’Brien, 1st low gross 90Heather Brunelle 2nd low gross 97Pam Strong 4th low net

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RECREATIONNEWS . . . cont’d

Men’s A flightRichard Marcus 1st low net 74

Men’s B flightMike Brown 6th low gross 89

Men’s D flightBruce Robinson 1st low net 77Bruce Robinson

PAST NATIONALTOURNAMENTSNational 10 Pin Winners

Samantha Lindsey 3rd place 663Women’s Teams, Local 200

Lori Lindsey, 1st place 3261 Judy Cartier, 2nd place 3199

Men’s Singles, Local 200

Rick Lindsey, 10th place 717Men’s Teams, Local 200

Chad White 3362

UpcomingEvents

• VOLLeYBALLSeptember, 2012

• TeXAS HOLD’eM October, 2012

• ReTiRee SWeeT peppeR TOURNAMeNTSOctober 2012

• NATiONAL GOLFTOURNAMeNTAugust 25 in Ajax, Ontario

• NATiONAL 4-peRSON SCAMBLeSeptember 2012Barrie, Ontario

Additional information for all

tournaments can be found on our Local

200 web site at

www.cawlocal200.org

Go to Standing Committees and follow

the links. You can also join SWORC on

Facebook.

SWORC

SUPPORT GROUPI would like to remind

everyone that Local 200 and Local444 have a peer support group forour members and their families.The group meets on Fridays at1:00 pm at the hall (except holi-days).

Our goal is to bring ourmembers and their familiestogether around life’s challengeswhether it’s addiction (yours or afamily member) or emotional andmental health disorders.

If you think you could ben-efit from relating personal experi-ences, listening to others’ experi-ences, providing sympatheticunderstanding and establishingsocial networks with others goingthrough similar issues, I wouldencourage you to come. The grouphas been running since December2010 and has been quite success-ful. There is no cost or commit-

SUBSTANCE ABUSEBy Mike keMp

ment to attend. If you would likeanymore information please con-tact me.

FINANCIALCOUNSELING

I had the opportunity tomeet with Brenda Bertrand fromDebt Fighter about providingCredit Counseling for our mem-bers.

Brenda has been helpingpeople with financial issues since2007. She assists people inrebuilding their lives after finan-cial crisis. Brenda is very com-passionate, understanding andsupportive. I would highly recom-mend her if you are in need ofsome Credit Counseling. Brendacan be reached at 226-348-3328.

Hope you all have a happyand safe summer! You can contactme at [email protected] 519-257-4172.

The 2012 Kelly England Bursary Award winners are:Mackenzie Bailey, Samantha Borghi, Meagan Park,

Katie Shepherd and Chris Slikboer

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Women’s Conferencethis year where our focuswill be “We are theMany-Not the Few”

Organizing the Revolutiontowards 2015.

WOMEN’S RIGHTS ARE NOT UPFOR DEBATE

“Women and men alike watched in disgust asConservative MP Stephen Woodworth's motion, sup-ported by a number of his colleagues, called intoquestion the ability of women to make choices overtheir own bodies.

M-312 proposes the creation of a ParliamentaryCommittee to examine whether the Criminal Codedefinition of "human being" should be expanded toinclude the fetus. In effect, the motion opens thedoor for the criminalization of abortion and therevival of the long concluded debate over women'sreproductive rights and autonomy over their ownbodies.” Excerpt from a letter written by Julie White,CAW Women’s Director and Ken Lewenza, CAWNational President:

“In 1988 the Supreme Court of Canada ruled thatwomen have a right to safe and accessible abortionservices in Canada. There is no “debate” to be hadon abortions in our country. This conversation in ourHouse of Commons is a waste of taxpayer moneyand a direct attack on women’s rights over their ownbody and freedom of choice. Women in Canada needto send a clear message to Stephen Harper, thatWomen’s Rights are not up for debate! The CAWstands with the Abortion Rights Coalition of Canadaand the YWCA's call to uphold women's legal rightto abortion and prevent the infringement on Women'sCharter Rights.

WINE TOUR

In the fall we will be holding our annual WineTour and will donate the proceeds to a local women’scharity. This event has been a great success and awonderful time in the past and we hope to have evenmore members attend this year! Please check the inplant boards for coming information.

In closing, the Women’s Committee would liketo wish you all a safe and happy Summer! Enjoyyour well deserved vacation with family and friends!

We have recent-ly had ourc o m m i t t e e

elections and our newWomen’s Committee isfilled with feminists and committed activists. Ournew committee consists of Heather Brunelle,Chairperson, Tracey Ramsey, Vice-Chairperson andDinelle Booker/Jessica John, Recording Secretary.The delegates of our committee are Jacqui Cardillo,Darlene Costello, Deb Shaw, Toni Koren-Valley,Dorothea Hughes, Pam Strong, Shaneen Whited,Deb Grant, Kathy Lucas, Kim Porter and DawnJoyal.

If anyone would like to become active with ourcommittee, you are welcome to attend our meetingson the First Tuesday of every month at 4:00 pm. Ifyou have any questions, please feel free to contactany member of our committee in the plant. We arealways looking for new sisters to join us.

HARPER’S ATTACK ON WOMEN

Having a majority Conservative Government hasbeen very hard on all Canadians, but even more sofor women in Canada. Women make up 52% ofCanada and yet we are still making only 71 cents toevery dollar that a man makes in Ontario! (Yes, youread that right!) Women represent the majority ofpart-time precarious workers, with less pay, fewer tono benefits and greater family obligations in the rolesof child and elder care. And senior women are evenfurther disadvantaged.

The reality in Canada is that the ConservativeGovernment is doing everything within its power tomake these gaps even wider for women. Funding hasbeen removed or cut to vital women’s programs, payequity is being attacked and recently the right to safeabortions is being opened for “debate”.

Women in Canada need to speak up and take astand politically if we are to keep the gains our ances-tors fought so hard for, and create a Canada that willbe an equitable place for our daughters to grow andlive in.

Women in our Union have been focusing on thetheme of Women, Power and Politics with the mantrathat the “Personal Really is Political”, and we willcontinue to build on that theme at our Annual

Women,s CommitteeHeATHeR BRUNeLLe

Workplace Safety &Insurance Board

Ergonomic & Placement Co-ordinators

GREG COATES

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WHO'S WHO?When making a claim for a work-

related injury, it is set up with anEligibility Adjudicator. He/she willmake the initial determination and ifit is decided that a claim is warrant-ed, he/she will send it to a ShortTerm Case Manager that will man-age the claim for up to 26 weeks;and if necessary send it to a LongTerm case Manager that will man-age it thereafter.

Previously, one adjudicatorwould have been responsible for theentire claim, so there may be somerepeated requests or questions. If itbecomes a concern, please call mefor assistance.

FORMS MUST BECOMPLETED

It is important that all forms becompleted fully, signed and remit-ted to the board whether you have alost time claim or not.

Failure to report in a timely fash-ion may result in a claim being

delayed or denied and jeopardizeyour entitlement to any health carebenefits. Your injury may be notseem bad or it's not having a signif-icant impact on your life today.However, injuries often get worse astime goes by. The bottom line is: ifyou have reported a work-relatedinjury, it's your claim. Don't ignoreit.

CONTINUITYIf you have an injury that appears

and then dissipates on its own, don'tignore it. It may or may not getworse over time. You still need tolet the medical department as wellas your family physician knowabout the problem. This createswhat is deemed to be "medical con-tinuity."

If your injury / problem worsensover time and you have not talked toyour doctor or first aid about whathappened to you, your claim couldbe denied based on lack of medicalcontinuity.

SICK AND ACCIDENTBENEFIT TOP UP

“attention all skilled trades

Workers”: If you are off work dueto a work-related injury, you may beentitled to a WSIB top up:• Must be off work more than one

week. Sick and Accident ispayable from day one.

• Must have doctor fill out Sickand Accident Form.

• Must submit Sick and Accidentform and a WSIB pay stub toJulie Ellacott at Windsor EnginePlant.

SICK ANDACCIDENT BENEFITS

In regards to collecting Sick andAccident benefits pending the out-come of a WSIB decision or a claimdenied for loss of earnings the S/Adepartment informed us that theywere holding S/A benefits for 30days, after getting information thatother Ford facilities in Ontariowhere not holding benefits.

We contacted the other Fordplants and the National Unionregarding this matter and afterlengthy discussions the Union Hallcontacted the HR department tohave it changed back to the way itwas negotiated.

So, if you're having issues withyour WSIB claim or if the claim hasbeen denied, you can file for S/Abenefits. You must sign a waiverstating that if your benefits areallowed, S/A will be reimbursed byWSIB. To collect S/A benefits youmust have a claim number. If youreport an injury with your employerand seek medical attention, a claimnumber will be generated by theboard within 24 hours. If you'rehaving any kind of issues regardingwhat I have stated, please contactme.

I would like to extend a safe andenjoyable vacation to all Local 200Members … you deserve it.

CAW Local 200 members taking pledges at the annualEaster Seal Telethon

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WINDSORENGINE PLANT

WINDSORENGINE PLANT

John D’Agnolo

RETIREMENTSOn behalf of the leadership at

WEP, I would like to start by wish-ing the retirees a long and healthyretirement after your many years ofservice. Your dedication and hardwork has provided others andmyself the opportunity to have afuture at Ford Motor Company andwe thank you.

STATE OF THE PLANTAccording to the latest produc-

tion forecast there are no layoffweeks or down days in the schedulefor the months of June or July.There is an increase in V10's start-ing in June, which will create over-time in machining departments tosupport the engine assembly.

We continue to see the depart-ment taking far too much time tomove workers onto the new jobsthey bid on. I have SAs waiting twomonths to get to the jobs and this isunacceptable. I have brothers andsisters who bid on jobs, and not beable to go to them because theyhave no one to train them. Thirtydays later, they bid from the job thatthey never even moved to yet toanother job! All this does is upsetand frustrate our membership.These company created circum-stances also affect the morale on thefloor, which is at an all time low. Wewill continue to address this prob-lem until the company gets thingsright!

The company is writing peopleup if they don't report an injury theday of the incident. If you feel anypain on your body, no matter howminor the pain is, please make sureyou report it to first aid.

MANPOWEREvery week the departments are

fighting for manpower and onceagain the members have to do what-ever it takes to get the engines out.

In far too many cases, we areseeing the manager of the depart-ment sign-off on a req for addition-al staff, and it gets denied by the sitemanager or finance manager. Whydo we have area managers if theyare not allowed to manage? By notfilling the reqs you put a lot of pres-sure on the membership. The deptshuts down jobs, they have to stoptraining and once again you create afrustrated workforce. Our memberswant to come in and perform the jobthey bid on and go home. An unsta-ble work environment affects safety,quality and productivity.

BARGAININGAs we all know bargaining is

near and I'm looking forward to thechallenges ahead of us. I feel confi-dent with our leadership of ChrisTaylor, Mark Renaud, Dan Cassady,Tim Little, Charlie Yott and TomKerr going into bargaining.

Communication, communica-tion, communication . . . will be the

key to our success at bargaining.This group exhibits this on a dailybasis through meetings and issueswe come across from plant to plant.The bargaining committee's focus isfuture product and job security. Itwould be a disservice to the mem-bership if I didn’t tell you to be pre-pared for a possibility of a strike.

VACATIONSMay 1st, 2012 was the deadline

for vacations by seniority. As youknow the last set of bargaining welost mandatory vacation.

I want to let everyone know ifyou don't take your vacation we losejobs. The company has come to theleadership about vacation replace-ments not needed due to a decreasein vacations. Vacations are negoti-ated to enjoy life outside of worknot a lump sum pay cheque on payperiod fifty.

CAFETERIAAs you know, it took a lot of

effort to get the cafeteria back atWEP. Dave and the staff make agreat breakfast and lunch. Thehours are 6:15 am until 12 pmMonday through Friday. I want tothank Dave for supporting JDRFwhen it comes to our hotdog andhamburger days and helping outwith the chicken parmesan days.

SUMMER SHUTDOWNYour union office would like to

extend to our membership and theirfamilies best wishes for a safe andhappy vacation.

RecreationCommitteeenjoyingDetroit

Tiger Dayouting.

We are told every day thatwe have to do more with less.Health Care workers andadministrators are supposed to have ourHealth Care system function like a tri-athlete on a life support budget. Our edu-cation system is the same; and our publicservices are no different. Everything thatmakes a community healthy for peopleyoung and aging, to live in is underattack; by who?

We all know it is the 63 billionaires inCanada and the extremely wealthyaround the world. The majority live inthe U.S. These people are specialbecause they get to do less with more.They contribute less every year to the taxsystem which is a fair way to buildhealthy communities while keeping moreand more money which they can generateonly because the rules of our nation andglobal economy allow them to.

Then some of them think they are spe-cial because they donated money to acause of their choice and got their nameput on a building. Why not give themoney to the government and allow allCanadians to choose! If we really knewhow these wealthy people live at ourexpense maybe we would get upsetenough to do something about it!

Call your M.P. and M.P.P. and tellthem how you feel. Tell them what kindof country you want to live in and whatthey need to do to help build it. JeffWatson and other Conservative MPS areopposed to an auto manufacturing policyapparently because they believe we“don’t want to compete on our labourrates.”

It is interesting to know that the poor-est countries have the wealthiest politi-cians. So it appears that these greedy#@%&*s are competing on their labourrates by making sure that Canadians stan-

dard of living continues to dete-riorate so that they can continueto increase theirs just like the

poorest countries in the world.

This logic makes about as much senseas not providing a framework for healthycommunities. Instead, they provide uswith a framework for exploitation of ourresources, talents and health. Rememberthey have chosen to be hearing impairedso you must speak very loud!

It is with great excitement and antici-pation that we explore and move towardsa merger with the Communications,Energy and Paper Workers Union. Ibelieve that these discussions demon-strate the overriding concern that thesetwo unions have for workers. Mergingour proud histories and dedication toactivism will definitely provide a morepowerful democratic voice for Labour inthis country and around the world.

Congratulations to the women in ourlocal that have now retired. It does notseem that long ago (1983) when ourworkplace went through some momen-tous changes as women entered theplants. Women have always provided aperspective that men cannot. We now canreceive the benefit of that input asretirees. Welcome to the Retired WorkersChapter!

Congratulations to the retirees whoagain won the Chili Contest and thanks toall the volunteers who help to make this asuccessful event.

On March 30th the National PensionReform Committee held a Pension Forumat the Caboto Club. C.A.W. retired work-ers are part of this organization. Theissues discussed were about the impactthe delay of O.A.S. entitlement from age65 to 67 would have on different groupsin society. We had 9 speakers as follows:

Moderator - Herb John

Speakers in Order:

1. N.D.P. - Keynote - Wayne Marsten /N.D.P. Pension Critic

2. N.P.R.C. - Andy Schmidt - Co-Chairperson National Pension ReformCommittee

3. C.A.R.P. - David Flett – CanadianAssociation of Retired Persons

4. U.S.CO. - Gerry Graham - Executive,United Senior Citizens of Ontario

5. L.A.O. - Marion Overholt – StaffLawyer, Legal Aid Ontario

6. W.I.F.N. - Chief Joseph Gilbert –Walpole Island First Nation

7. U of W - Ian Clough – Student andMember of Occupy

8. W.D.L.C. - Dino Chiodo – President,Windsor District Labour Council

Conclusion and wrap-up: Gary Parent– Past President, Windsor District LabourCouncil

As the keynote speaker, WayneMarsten presented the legislative context,some history and details of the benefits ofpension plans and of course some shortcomings of the current political agenda.

Each presenter had five minutes toexplain how these proposed changes willimpact the people they represent andwork with. In conclusion, there was aquestion and answer period.

Unfortunately, there was not muchmedia presence at this standing roomonly event. The presenters all did excel-lent presentations detailing the negativeconsequences which will result if thisgets implemented. Wayne Marsten pro-vided some hope by pointing out thatthere will be another federal electionbefore this is implemented.

Please remember to check out ourwebsite at www.cawlocal200retirees.cafor Heinz dates, meetings, pictures, inter-esting links and more. Big thanks toBrother Rob McLean for being our web-master.

Have a safe and healthy summerfrom your Local 200 Retired WorkersExecutive Board.

Fighting back makes a Difference.!

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ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEETROY BRiAN, Chairperson

TTThe Environment surroundsus, and supports our life.Your CAW Local 200

Environment Committee has beenbusy educating the importance of,assisting people to “take action” andhelping to protect our surroundingenvironment through various eventsand actions throughout Essex, Kentand Lambton Counties.

Just a few of the events andactions t h a t y o u r C AW L o c a l2 0 0 Environment Committee hasbeen involved with recently:

Our Loca l 200Environment Committee recentlypassed a resolution stating:

Due to the negative health andenvironmental aspects of addingfluoride to our City of Windsorwater that we, as the CAW Local200 Environment Committee sup-port the banning of the use of thepresent hydrofluorosilicic acid,(industrial waste from the phos-phate fertilizer industry) as anadditive to our municipal drinkingwater immediately.

We are proud to state CAWLocal 200 Environment Committeemember, Roger Dzugan will be rep-resenting our Local 200Environment Committee at City ofWindsor Council meetings andother public events, on this issue.For more information on whyincluding fluoride in our drinkingwater is a civil right, a health &safety, and an environmental issuecheck out www.fluoridefree.com.

Our Environment Committeehas been involved in the “GreenestVendor award” at the LaSalleStrawberry Festival for 4 years now,where we recognize and award thevendor at the festival who demon-strates environmental leadership at

the festival. Visitors to the festivalvote for their choice of GreenestVendor based on issues such aswaste minimization, energy conser-vation, carpooling among others.Environ-mentally themed prizeswere sponsored by our CAW Local200 Union Hall for people votingfor the Greenest Vendor. Thisyear’s winner, after voting by over70 visitors to the festival, was theByerswood Girl Guides.

This year was the 25thanniversary of the Lasallestraw-berry festival and yourEnvironment Committee wasinstrumental in getting the FestivalCommittee to agree to have localstrawberries for only the 2nd time inthe festival’s history.

When our EnvironmentCommittee suggested using localstrawberries a few years ago, themain hurdle was that “it wasn’t theright time of year to use local straw-

berries”. When we suggestedchanging the date of thefestival..well… we were told “thatwasn’t an option”. So we startedlooking for local greenhouse grow-ers of strawberries in the area.That’s when we came across theEssex County Federation ofAgriculture, who directed us toBrad Raymont of Raymont Berriesin Cottam who grew berries in aunique method in raised beds andunder plastic that enables his grow-ing season to be expanded, enoughto be able to fall in line with thestrawberry festival demands.

The next concern to address was. . . .“would the strawberries be ofcomparable size and taste to theones presently being used”? So wetalked to Brad and he agreed todonate his berries for theStrawberry Eating Contest last year,so that everyone could see that theywere at least comparable and inmany cases better than the importedstrawberries that we were using.

The next hurdle was cost. We gothrough a lot of berries at the festi-val and although local berries arejust a bit more money, when you


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buy a large quantity the cost addsup. We mentioned this to theReaume Family and Taras NatyshakMPP for Essex, as they have beenhelping out with the Strawberry eat-ing contest for years, and they toowere very supportive of local straw-berries. Taras mentioned contact-ing LiUNA (LabourersInternational Union of NorthAmerica) and that they might beinterested in donating the differencein cost to get local strawberries atthe festival. We did this, and . . . .another hurdle was removed.

It took a long time and a lot ofdifferent twists but thankfully wewere able to have local strawberriesat the 25th anniversary StrawberryFestival. And, as many of you

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know, when you buy local . . . theproduce doesn’t have to be pickedwhen it is green, before it is ripe.The berries for the festival werepicked the morning of the day theywere eaten. So they taste better, theyare better for you, and they are bet-ter for the environment . . becausethey don’t have to travel long dis-tances to get here, that means thechemicals that need to be sprayedon produce to keep the bugs off ofthem as they travel here don’t needto be applied. It also means, lessemissions from the trucks that aredriving SO FAR to get them here.It’s also important to mention itbenefits the local economy as the

people who are growing, picking,and transporting the berries livehere, work here and spend theirmoney here, so our local communi-ties benefit as well.

It’s a WIN, WIN, WIN!

This year we expanded our 2ndA n n u a l Wo r k i n g w i t h t h eEnvironment Art Show, whereLocal High School artists create artusing the themes of “working” or“the environment” to include fourdifferent categories of art: Fine Art,Sculpture, Mixed Medium andPhotography. And we were able togive 1st, 2nd and 3rd place prizes

EDITORIAL COMMITTEEChris Taylor, Dan Cassady,

Marc Renaud

President

CHRIS TAYLOR

Financial Secretary

DAN CASSADY

Vice President

MARC RENAUD

Recording Secretary

JOHN D’AGNOLO

Trustees

CHARLIE YOTT

TOM KERR

DOROTHEA HUGHES

Sgt-At-Arms

DARBY McCLOSKEY

GuideTIM LITTLE

Members-at-Large

CATHY MASSE

TOM BURKE

Retiree

HERB JOHN

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for each category as well as two bestin show awards for Peers Choice(chosen by the participating studentartists themselves) as well as aJudges Choice thanks to the supportand generosity of our CAW Local200 and 444 Unions.

Thanks goes out to DevonshireMall, the Greater Essex CountySchool Board, the Windsor EssexCounty School Board, DarryllCharron (for taking pictures); TimStewart (for info on our local web-site); Frank DeBlock (for coordi-nating the judges); CBC Radio,AM800, the Windsor Star, theLaSalle Post, Windsor LifeMagazine, as well as all ourEnvironment Committee memberswho helped out with all aspects ofthis great community event.

For more info on the art showcheck out these links:

Windsor Life magazine article

http://www.myvirtualpaper.com/doc/

Windsor-

Life/windsor_life_special_edition

/2012032001/#98

CaW national Contact newsletter

http://www.caw.ca/en/11216.htm

and the CaW health/safety and

environment newsletter

http://www.caw.ca/en/11218.htm

Also check out the link to the artshow on our website www.cawlo-

cal200.org ; to find out where andwhen these art works will be at aEssex County Library location nearyou.

Our committee members(Dorothea Hughes and her sisterCarolyn Fortier, Roger Dzugan,

John Gaudette and Troy Brian) puton a toothbrush demo (to demon-strate how little things add up tomake a big difference in water con-servation), received signatures forour 350ppm (parts per million ofcarbon dioxide) petition and handedout free tree saplings (thanks to sup-port from our CAW Local 200Union) to visitors to this year’sEarth Day Festival at Malden Park.

Presenters Troy Brian, RogerDzugan, Naresh Manku and ChrisVilag were honoured to be asked tocreate and present a Bottled waterVs. Tap water presentation atRoseville Elementary School as adirect result of our Clean Water as aHuman Right presentation that weput on annually at the HumanRights Forum at the University ofWindsor. One of the teachers was soimpressed with our presentation thatshe asked us to present at theirschool.

Keep your eyes and ears peeled

for news on our local right to

Know and Good neighbour cam-paign using the template created byEnvironment Hamilton and TorontoEnvironment Alliance. This cam-paign is meant to engage local resi-dents and encourage local business-es to report and ultimately cut theiremissions.

Our CAW Local 200 Environ-ment Committee along with CAWLocal 444 and the CAW WindsorRegional Environment Council recentlyhosted a forum at the Local Union Hallwith speakers from these organizations,with local environmental activists fromvarious local organizations in atten-dance. Environment Committee mem-bers Chris Hodare and John Gaudettewill be co-ordinating this initiative andhave educated themselves at a confer-ence in Toronto to replicate this empow-ering campaign here in our area.

TOGETHER WE DO

MAKE A DIFFERENCE

Second Annual Art Show and Auction workingtogether with Environment exhibits

HUMAN RIGHTSBy JOHN FERRI, Chairperson

thIs beInG my first article forthe Ford Facts, I would like tob e g i n b y t h a n k i n g J o h nEngelmann for his years of hardwork to this committee and dedi-cation to this union. Also, for yourfaith in me assuming the role ofChair of this Committee.

I would like to congratulate allthe newly acclaimed members ofthis committee: Tom Burke, TerriLynn Sweet, Naresh Manku, JohnEngelmann, Dawn Joyal, DarrinMorand, Darlene Costello, CharlieYott, Cathy Masse, Jeff Brown,Brian Paterson and RichardTracey. I look forward to the nextfew years.

The past few months theHuman Rights group played a bigpart in some good local causes,such as the 25th Annual Benefitfor the Windsor/Las Vueltas TwinCity Project and the Youth SocialJustice Forum. Our Cathy Massedid a great job in both. Thanksagain Cathy!

Again this being my first arti-cle, I would like to start with thebasics. Unions Protect our HumanRights; Unions assist with humanrights issues within the employ-ment context by:

• Guiding a member who has ahuman rights issue through theemployer’s internal complaintresolution process;

• Informally assisting members

to resolve a complaint

• Advocating with the employeron behalf of the member

• Helping a member file agrievance based on a humanrights issue

• Making a policy grievanceagainst the employer on behalfof the union’s members

Perhaps of greater importanceis that unions bring the rule of lawand the rights that go with it intothe workplace. Without a union,management could treat employ-ees arbitrarily. With a union they

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CAW Local 200 Retirees’ Chapter winners of thisyear’s Chili Cook Off.

cannot. They are constrained intheir actions by the legal contract –the collective agreement – agreedto by the union (on behalf of itsmembers) and the employer. Thatcontract, the product of negotia-tions between union and employ-er, places limits on the potentiallyarbitrary exercise of power byemployers and empowers unionmembers to defend themselvesagainst abuses in the workplace.

On behalf of the HumanRights Committee we wish you agreat summer vacation!

UNION IN POLITICSCOMMITTEE

By DARLENE COSTELLO, Chair

Can Canadians survive fouryears of the Conservatives having amajority government? They areattacking the working class, seniorsand women’s rights with the federalbudget. It will be harder and harderfor Canadians to find decent payingwork for several reasons.

Workers will have to worklonger with the raising of the age ofeligibility for OAS from 65 to 67 orlive with less income. This will alsoleave fewer jobs for the youth withmore seniors having to stay in theworkforce longer. OAS and CPPhave been shown to be manageablefor the next 75 years so why changeit? With an already high unemploy-ment rate, they will be cutting19 ,000 c iv i l s e rv i ce jobs .Companies will be able to hiremigrant workers for 15% less. Whywould companies hire Canadians ifthey can get away with paying lessand pocketing more?

The EI cuts will hurt workerseven further. People will be forcedto take jobs that pay much less thantheir usual pay. Also they may haveto travel as far as an hour away tofind employment. With the price ofgas and low wages, people will notbe able to afford this. It will alsotake a toll on workers’ family lives.

The Conservatives are attackinggood paying jobs by scrapping theFair Wage Law. The law requirescontractors who have been awardedfederal government constructionprojects to pay their workers theprevailing wage in the region aswell as over-time. Non-unionizedconstruction associations have beenpressuring the government to elimi-nate the law. Scrapping the lawmeans contractors on federal con-

struction jobs will no longer have tomeet the prevailing wage of $20-$30 an hour depending on theregion, but instead can pay as littleas the provincial minimum wage.This is $10.25 an hour in Ontario.Why does the government insist onmaking Canadians poorer? Whenpeople make a good wage theyspend money keeping the economyhealthy. They also pay more taxes,keeping our social services funded.

They are further hurting work-ers by signing more trade agree-ments; we see how NAFTA hascaused us countless jobs. Our rightto strike is threatened as the govern-ment continues to force strikingworkers back to work, such as withAir Canada, the postal workers andCP Rail. The last I checked, Canadawas a democratic country, but theConservatives continue to limitdebate in the house.

Finally, the Conservatives haveattached women’s rights with cutsto women’s services and trying to

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outlaw abortion. Why does the gov-ernment continue to be moralpolice? Women’s reproductiverights are none of the government’sbusiness. There are many reasonswhy a woman may want or need anabortion. Rather legal or not, it willnot stop a woman from getting anabortion if she really wants one. Itwill only put her health at risk. Wedon’t need our daughters and sistersdying from back alley abortions likethey did in the past.

Some people vote by looking atone or two campaign issues in anelection and not looking at the bigpicture. Next time we have an elec-tion, please remember all the dam-age this government has caused andvote out the Conservatives.

I would like to thank the com-mittee for electing me and givingme the opportunity to Chair thiscommittee. I would like to thankPaul Boyce for all his hard work anddedication over the years as Chair.

I would also like to thank all theretirees and bargaining committeefor getting many of us back to work.

O n b e h a l f o f t h e U P CCommittee we hope everyone has asafe and happy summer.

Sisters Dorothea Hughes, Tracey Ramsey, April McLellan,Jacqui Cardillo and Darlene Costello at the Navistar Rally

in Toronto supporting CAW Local 27.

CUrrentLy On rOLL, wehave 32 seniority members with only28 at work full-time and six temps.Recently we’ve been having someissues with our temp program becausemany of our temporary members start-ed as TPTs for Ford when the 3rd shiftcame on at EEP. The company waswilling to accommodate a few membersdoing both but with over half our tem-porary members not being able to workfor us on Mondays and Fridays, this hasdeveloped a lot of issues around vaca-tion coverage.

WEP/ANNEX

Well, once again more cost savingshave been demanded from Voith withthe recent P.O., and of course the onlyway they try to do this is by once againtrying to cut jobs! They do this byreducing our scope of work, our clean-ing frequencies, and by closing wash-rooms in the plant.

We continue to get hammered andwe have next to no staff left at theseplants, but I do want to thank CharlieYott and John D'Agnolo for their sup-port when garbage pick-up and officecleaning were cut from our scope.FMC was banking on people at theseplants to start taking it on themselvesand remove their own trash but this didnot happen very long.

Charlie, John and their in-plant repshave made it very clear to their mem-bers that they would not be doing anywork that belongs to Voith membersand even went as far as putting noticesup in the areas and offices that wereaffected reminding them of this. Thankyou and your membership for support-ing us.

ESSEX ENGINE PLANTThis plant was also affected with cuts

with the recent P.O. between Ford and

DarrinMorand

VOITH INDUSTRIALSERVICES UNIT

Voith as another job was eliminated.Even with the addition of the 3rd shiftat this plant, we received no extrastaffing and we were told, “to figure itout with what you have”. They try toget away with this by once again reduc-ing frequencies.

Some examples would be things likeFirst Aid, which is cleaned once every24 hours. I believe the medical centreshould be maintained and disinfectedevery shift.

Locker rooms, in my opinion,should also be cleaned every shift. Thepractice now is that showers arecleaned and disinfected twice per week.I do not believe this is sufficient, con-sidering people shower every day, onevery shift!

Many washrooms are cleaned onceevery 24 hours on the plant floorbecause the company doesn't think thatthey get used enough. Every openwashroom should be cleaned and disin-fected at least once per shift if peopleare using them on every shift.

In the end it is all members who suf-fer if they have to use germ filled facil-ities that are not disinfected every shift,because upper management does notthink it is important. I urge you all notto accept this in your workplace andmake complaints to the appropriatepeople.

SUMMERI wish everyone a safe and happy

summer; get out and enjoy your vaca-tions and free time with your familyand friends.

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GarY (DOn) ruSSell

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lawrence JaniSSe

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Ken Dufault

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OBITUARIESThe following is a list of those members

who have passed away since the lastissue of Ford Facts.

They will be missed by themembership of CAW Local 200

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It is both an Honour and Privilege to be either Electedor Appointed to represent our members and this Privilege carriessome responsibilities outside of the day-to-day issues in theplant or at the hall. Two of the other responsibilities includeattending the monthly Steward Council and MembershipMeetings at the hall.

In an effort to allow for full disclosure to our members,the entire elected and appointed leadership agree that atten-dance at these meeting be reported to our members startingJanuary 2012.

The following is a complete list of attendance of allelected and appointed representatives to date. The list is in orderby plant and the code letters represent the following:

“P” = Present “A” = Absent“E” = Excused “~” = Not in office

Attendance Record

WEP - ATTENDANCE

NAME JAN FEB MAR APRIL MAY JUNE MEETINGS

John D’Agnolo

P P

P P

E P

E P

P P

P Steward Council Membership

April McLellan

P E

P E

P P

P P

P P

V Steward Council Membership

Sean Curtis

E E

E E

E E

P P

P P


Al Hernandez

E E

E A

E P

P P

E A

A

Steward Council Membership

Vito Taranto

P P

P P

P P

P P

P P


Chris Kiriak

~ ~

~ ~

~ ~

~ P

P P


Jim Turner

V E

E E

E E

E E

E P

E Steward Council Membership

Darby McCloskey

~ ~

~ ~

~ ~

~ P

P E


Heather Brunelle

P P

P P

E P

P P

P E


John Ferri

P P

P P

P E

P P

A E

A Steward Council Membership

Dorothea Hughes

P E

P P

P P

P V

P P


PENSKE - ATTENDANCE

NAME JAN FEB MAR APRIL MAY

JUN MEETINGS

Joe Tremblay

P E

P P

E E

P E

E P


Paul Georges

E P

E P

E P

P P

P P


Joe Vivona

P P

P P

P P

~ A

P P


Dave Vizard

P P

P P

P P

P P

P P


Rob Archambault

P E

P P

E P

P P

P P


eXeCUTiVe BOARD - ATTeNDANCe

Wep - ATTeNDANCe

ANNeX - ATTeNDANCe

NeMAk UNiT - WiNDSOR ALUMiNUM - ATTeNDANCe

VOiTH iNDUSTRiAL SeRViCeS - ATTeNDANCe

peNSke - ATTeNDANCe

eep - ATTeNDANCe

VOITH INDUSTRIAL SERVICES - ATTENDANCE


JUN MEETINGS

Darrin Morand

P P

P P

P P

P E

E P


Linda Demers

A P

A A

A P

A P

A P


James Fyke

P E

P P

E A

P P

P P


Terri Rivard

P P

V A

P P

P P

A P


John Breen

P P

P P

E P

P P

P P


James McKenzie

P P

P A

P P

P P

P A


EXECUTIVE BOARD - ATTENDANCE


JUN MEETINGS

Chris Taylor

P P

E P

P P

E V

P P


Dan Cassady

P P

P P

V P

P P

P P


Marc Renaud

P P

P E

P P

P P

P P


Herb John

A A

A A

A A

A A

P P


Pam Strong

P P

P P

E E

E P

P P


ANNEX - ATTENDANCE


JUN MEETINGS

Charlie Yott

P P

E P

P P

E P

P P


Bruce Robinson

P E

P P

P P

E P

P P


Jeff Walsh

~ ~

P P

P P

P P

P P


Tony Iacobini

~ ~

~ ~

~ ~

~ P

P P

P

Steward Council Membership

Yvon Dionne

~ P

P P

E E

E P

P E


Auggie Menna

P P

P E

P P

P P

P P


Mike Kemp

E P

E P

P P

E E

P P


EEP - ATTENDANCE


JUNE MEETINGS

Tim Little

V P

P P

P P

E E

P P


Kevin Bell

~ ~

P P

P P

P P

P P


Greg Whitson

P P

P V

V P

V P

P P


Marty Favot

A P

P E

P P

P E

P E


Tom Kerr

P P

P P

P P

E P

P P


JR Chevalier

P P

E P

E P

E P

P E


Gary Boissonneault

P E

E P

P P

P P

P P


Jerry Ferguson

P P

E P

P P

P P

P P


Jacqui Cardillo

P P

P P

P E

A P

P P

V Steward Council Membership

Greg Coates

P P

P P

P P

A P

P P


Bob Fleming

P P

P A

E P

A E

P P


Troy Brian

P P

P P

E P

P P

E P


Tom Burke

~ ~

~ ~

~ ~

~ ~

E P


Cathy Masse

E P

E P

P P

P P

P E


Darlene Costello

~ P

E E

P E

P P

P P


NEMAK UNIT-WINDSOR ALUMINUM - ATTENDANCE


JUN MEETINGS

Kevin Laframboise

~ ~

~ ~

~ ~

~ ~

~ P


Steve Meloche

P P

P P

P P

P P

P P


Gary Forget

P P

E P

P P

P P

P E


Jody Porter

P E

P E

P P

P P

P P


Toni Valley

A E

P E

E P

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Workers’ Adjustment CentreWorkers’ Adjustment CentreJohn EngelmanCAW LOCAL 200

1215 WALKER ROAD, UNIT #3WINDSOR, ONTARIO, N8Y 2N9PHONE: 519-256-2936FAX: 519-256-3642

[email protected] OF OPERATION:

Monday-Friday 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

The W.A.C. is a resource centre for laidoff members to access informationand get help in the following areas:

1. Job Searches (resumes, internet)

2. Return to School (DEFINITELY SEE US FIRST)

3. Navigate Red Tape (Federal, Provincial, Municipal

4. Counselling Services (Private and Confidential)

5. Workshops ( Smart Serve, Financial)

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tthe Workers AdjustmentCentre is a joint agreementbetween Ford/CAW and the

Ontario Government. This has beena very successful model because ofthe peer helper system; laid-offworkers helping laid-off workers.The Centre has helped over 2,500people since 2007 with EI appl i -ca t ions , Resumes ,Workshops , Second Caree rTraining and more importantly aplace to socialize with co-workers;something that we also lost frombeing laid-off. The success storiescontinue to mount and we should allbe proud of these past and presentachievements.

Even though slated to closeDECEMBER 2012, we are stillavailable to help anyone who needsit. Whether it be EIassistance/Second Careeradvice, updating your resume,workshops or stopping by for cof-fee. If you haven’t been receivingjob/workshop e-mails, please replywith your name and we willg l a d l y add you to our l is t ,[email protected]

Part of the process for year endis to make sure that we take care ofYOU. It’s important that you areregistered with a Service Provider.

Employment Ontario ServicesProviders will meet with you, oneon one, to discuss what their nextsteps might be to move forward inthe adjustment process. A list ofService Providers in our area is list-ed on our website.

The Adjustment Centre has keptmany personal files of clients overthe years . EI reports , resumesand Second Career contracts andfiles will no longer be stored at theWAC. You can pick up your per-sonal files from July 1 until October1, 2012.

WE RECOMMEND IF YOUATTENDED SECOND CAREERTRAINING AND YOU DON’THAVE A COPY OF YOUR CON-TRACT YOU SHOULD PICK ITUP AS IT MIGHT BE NEEDEDOR WANTED BY YOU or ServiceCanada.

If client files are not picked upby November 1, they will be con-sidered “obsolete” and will be putinto the shredding system.

We still want to hear from you.Do you have a new job/career to tellus about?

If you are having any issues

with Employment Insurance,

returning to school, family,

individual and/or debt

counseling or looking for

work etc., please give us a call.

All information is private and

confidential. Our website is

cawfordworkers.com

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Was the training right for you?What could we have done different-ly? Did our services/peer helpershelp in dealing with your job loss?This info is confidential but wouldbe appreciated as it could benefitfuture Adjustment Centres.

Although the closing of WAC isa huge loss to CAW Local 200members, we hope that our serviceshave met and continue to meet allyour needs.

CAW Local Executives present a cheque in the amount of$10,000 at the Easter Seals Telethon in April 2012.

EmploymentEquity

SOCIAL MEDIASocial media such as Facebook, Twitter, person-

al blogs and texting have become extremely prevalentin our society. As of 2011 there were 500,000,000active Facebook users.

Another trend in recent years has been the num-ber of arbitration cases that have upheld dismissals overwork-related social media comments, with Facebookcomments leading the way. One legal opinion states"employees could not have had a serious expectation ofprivacy when publishing comments on their Facebookpages", and that "employees can be held responsible foroff-duty conduct on social networking sites, such asFacebook, as it relates to their employment".

One recent case saw a 30 year seniority AlbertaCanada Post worker fired for derogatory Facebookpostings about her supervisors and her employer. Thetermination was upheld in arbitration.

Many people have the misconception that theyhave freedom of speech when it comes to online post-ings. This is not necessarily the case. The cases inquestion have been found to violate workplace rulesbecause they have been visible to co-workers and/ormembers of the general public; in other words, simplyby being published online.

In some cases it has been pictures taken in theworkplace and uploaded to a Facebook page that wasthe problem. Sometimes it was derogatory commentsabout supervisors or the employer, which the courtshave categorized as insubordination. Sometimes it wasderogatory comments about co-workers. One case sawa worker terminated for posting confidential workplaceinformation on her personal blog. Another case upheldthe termination of a worker for posting comments on apersonal blog that showed her contempt for co-workersand management. The court ruled that this "seriouslyand irreparably damaged the employment relationship".Workers were fired for participating in an offensive andracist Facebook Group.

As well as the workplace implications, onlinepostings can be criminal offenses. According to theWindsor Police, it is a crime to publish a "defamatorylibel" - writing something that is designed to insult a

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person or likely to injure a person's reputation by expos-ing him or her to hatred, contempt or ridicule.Depending on the nature of the postings they could alsobe grounds for a charge of uttering threats, extortion bythreats, assault, or criminal harassment. If the com-ments spread hate or discrimination based on a prohib-ited ground it could be a violation of the CanadianHuman Rights Act.

One of the biggest issues with cell phones is"sexting" – texting nude pictures. Sometimes it is ayoung girl coerced into sending nude pics of herself toa boyfriend. Other times it involves a bullying scenariowhere pictures are taken of others in changing roomsand then distributed. A local police officer said that thisis happening with kids as young as grade four.

Invariably these pictures don't remain private and oftenend up being texted to other people or posted on theinternet. The issue has become so prevalent that adiversion program has been set up locally. Many youngpeople don't realize that they can be charged with pos-session and/or distribution of child pornography for par-ticipating in sexting – not something anyone wouldwant on their record.

With social media playing such a prevalent partin our lives, it is important that we know about the pos-sible consequences to our posts. It is also important toeducate our children about these issues as futureemployers regularly turn to Facebook to check outpotential employees.

In closing, I'd like to wish everyone a relaxingsummer shut-down with some well-deserved time off.

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CAW Local 200 President Chris Taylorspeaks at a rally protesting Bill C-38

Education CommitteeBy AUGGIE MENNA

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OOne of the functions of theEducation Committeeevery year is selecting the

winners of the Kelly EnglandBursary from the sons or daugh-ters of a Local 200 member whowill be attending a Canadian col-lege or university.

The five selected this yearinclude: Mackenzie Bailey, KatieS h e p h e r d , C h r i s S l i k b o e r ,Samantha Borghi and MeaganPark.

It never fails to amaze me theinvolvement and activism shownby so many of our sons and daugh-ters, and this year was no excep-tion. It was very difficult trying tonarrow down to five the winnersfrom the numerous applicationswe received. Congratulations toyou all and may this bursary helpyou further your education as wellas your support of our communi-ties and the involvement you showin them.

At the beginning of May, theEducation Conference was held inPort Elgin. Darryl Charron attend-ed on behalf of our committee andhe reported of the changes happen-ing in the Education Department.

First off, there is a new direc-tor by the name of Lisa Kelly whotakes over from Rick Rose whohas taken a position out east.

Another change is the combin-ing of the Workplace TrainingProgram (Union Awareness),Ski l led Trades Program, theHealth and Safety Fund trainingcourses, the CAW-McMaster

courses as well as all PEL coursesas in the past. I feel this is a posi-tive step combining all of this andwill complement each other nice-ly.

Some other brief highlightsinclude offering more and newcourses in Port Elgin as well aslocal one-day and three-day pro-grams and also possibly online orSkype courses. They also spokeof using social networking tospread the union’s message andnot just relying on main streamoutlets that tend to alter events totheir liking.

The full report can be foundon the CAW website underEduca t ion Depar tmen t a twww.caw.ca. You can also findhere a lot more details on pro-grams being offered in, as well asevents and news updates.

I am sure we have all heard ofthe talks concerning a mergerbetween the CAW and CEP. Iwon’t get into a lot of detail heredue to space, but it would beworthwhile to check out the web-site created at www.newunionpro-ject.ca to get information andfeedback.

On behalf of the EducationCommittee, I would like to wisheveryone a safe and enjoyablesummer and remember the onlyway to get true information is to beACTIVE and by attending yourMembership Meetings.

The following is a list of those members who retired since

the last issue of Ford Facts. We know we speak for all in

Local 200 and in the CAW in expressing sincere wishes

for a long and happy retirement to each and everyone.

Peter OstoicCyril PapineauGerald PaquetteKhalil PetersMichael PillonDaniel RankinRay RodgersLes RudowskiDenise SauerLarry ShierGreg SoleckiJames SoulliereJerome SoulliereDonna StachVera StojanovicLloyd ThompsonRandy ThompsonAllan WersteinNorman WiltshireJohn ZaccagniniSue Whitehead

George GyoriRichard HansenJames HayesBrenda HaywardRandy HinesWayne IgguldenDaniel KellyMarc KelsoGerard KennedyMersad KeskichJeff LabonteKrystyna LarsonJohn LebeznickLeo LebrunDonald LemmonMichael MarcusClarence MarketPauline McCallumDorothy MillsDean MoraleRobert O’Connor

Bradley AllenMichael BedardLaurie BelleauRaymond BeneteauLarry BezaireDan BianchiAndrea BodchonMartin BoutetteWilliam ChappusWayne ChauvinLou CostaJackie CorbinBrian CoteDiego DanelonTim DesjardinsPat DonnellyGlenn DumouchelleNick FerroJoseph GerardiBarry GirardGlenn Gregory

New Retirees

HEALTH and SAFETYTONY IACOBINI, GARY BOISSONNEAULT, JIM TURNER & JIM GRANT

The Safety Concern ResolutionProcess is a negotiated item that first-ly puts the onus on the company toaddress your concern and secondlycreates documentation to ensure thatthe concern does not fall through thecracks. PLEASE make sure you clari-fy that you have a safety concern. Wehave many instances where a supervi-sor will say that something was men-tioned but they didn’t think it was aconcern. Make sure you are clear andthere is no room for misunderstandingthat you want the safety concern cap-tured if it can't be resolved by the endof the shift.

FIRST TIME VISITSI would like to stress the impor-

tance of reporting injuries to first aidimmediately. No matter what the situ-ation, please make sure that youreport it to first aid right away.

There have been many timeswhere the thought is that it is only aminor cut or abrasion so it doesn't getreported and a few days later it getsinfected, or it may be a minor bumpon the arm or leg that is thought noth-ing of and the next day it is swollen.PLEASE report injuries right away sothe documentation is in place regard-less of how minor you may think it is.

SHUTDOWNThey will soon be starting up the

shutdown meetings and getting theball rolling to see what needs to bedone during the shutdown period.These are usually some major projectsand also a lot of unusual work hap-pening around the plant.

If you are working during the shut-down period make sure you take extraprecautions in the plant as theincrease of shut down type workequals an increase in hazards.

If you are not working shutdown,enjoy your time off as it is welldeserved. H & S . . . cont’d on next page

A N N E XBy Tony Iacobini

THANK YOUI would like to take this opportu-

nity to thank Chris Taylor for givingme the privilege to continue to repre-sent my membership as the Health &Safety Rep at the Annex. Being newto a machining facility, I am lookingforward to the new challenges andwill continue to make sure that ourmembership is represented to the bestof my ability.

WELCOMEDI would like to thank Charlie,

Bruce and the Annex union office forall of their guidance and help in mytransition. They have taken a lot oftime and showed me around dailypointing out all the different areas andexplaining extensively things I needto know. I have only been here a shorttime but they have made me part ofthe Annex family and they have mademe feel as I have been part of thisoffice for years.

I would also like to thank JimTurner who has been a huge help withtons of information for me and alwaysthere if I have a question. Lookingforward to working with all of thesegreat reps.

SAFETY CONCERNSThere are many issues that come

up daily; if they are safety concerns,then there is a process that needs to befollowed.

WE MUST let the supervisorknow of the concern and if they can-not get it addressed by the end of theshift, then they need to document theconcern either on paper or put theconcern in the system electronically.

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WINDSOR ALUMINUMIn closing, I would like to thank

the Union office from W.A.P. Darby,Johnny, Mark and Austin for all oftheir help during our time at the plant.You were all a great help to me andalways put safety first no matter what.I would like to wish you all the best inyour future endeavours.

AUGGIE MENNAA special thank you to my right-

hand man and good friend AuggieMenna. You were always there tobounce things off of and also helpedkeep me in line and focused many atime. I will forever be grateful foryour help and assistance in regards tosafety and how you made the trainingdepartment run so smoothly no matterwhat was thrown your way. I am alsovery grateful that you are here at theAnnex and I can still rely on you asmy alternate and right-hand man. Ithas been an honour to have you as apartner but moreso, having the privi-lege to consider you a great friend.

Remember SAFETY is your NUM-BER ONE priority; you owe it toyourself, more importantly you owe itto your family.

Essex EnginePlant

By Gary Boissonneault

AIR QUALITYAir sampling was completed on

May 23rd to collect aerosol data forthe Metal Working Fluids used here atEEP. This is accomplished by takingreadings using a portable aerosol pho-tometer-TSI Model 8520 Dust Trak.This instrument is a real-time, direct-reading instrument that samples theworkplace air and instantaneously

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Health & Safety. . . cont’d from previous page

we obeying stop signs? Are we usingour horns to warn others of our pres-ence? Are we exercising due care andcontrol of our vehicle and load at alltimes?

As the plant evolves we continueto try to anticipate concerns regardingblind corners, high pedestrian andtraffic flow areas, crosswalks, stopsigns, etc. If you have any of theseconcerns in your work area, You CanHelp. Just contact your Leader or MAand have them submit a SafetyConcern Resolution Form on yourbehalf. This will then be forwarded tothe Pedestrian Review Committee forreview and resolution at one of theirregularly scheduled meetings. We'reall in this together.

AWWWWWW. . . SUMMERWhat a great time of year. It's time

to get outside to work and play withfamily and friends. Safety isn't some-thing we just do at work. Please keepsafety first in all you do, at home aswell as here at work.

HEALTH & SAFETY CONCERNSIn the event that an employee rais-

es a Health & Safety Concern with hisor her Manufacture Advisor (M.A.) orTeam Leader (T.L.): The M.A. or T.L.SHALL:

1. Investigate in the presence of theemployee and establish with theemployee if there is a Health &Safety Concern and the reasonsfor it.

2. When required, correct the causeof the concern. Where concernsinvolve imminent DANGER cor-rections are made immediately.Where concerns involve non-imminent danger establish a rea-sonable time frame.

3. If non-imminent danger concernscannot be corrected and complet-ed within the employee’s shift,the M.A. or T.L. shall complete a“Safety Concern ResolutionForm” and give a copy to theemployee. Also, copies will beforwarded to those individualslisted at the bottom of the form.

4. The M.A. or T.L. shall be respon-sible for tracking the issue untilthe problem is corrected. Thisform is located on the WindsorSite Homepage under the SafetyDepartment. Please use theSafety Concern Resolution FormLink to gain access. Follow thesingle point lesson on the shareddrive for opening and closing aSafety Resolution Form.

5. The activities which will affect thecorrective action will then beissued a copy of the form and takenecessary action to correct theconcern. After implementing thecorrective action the affectedactivity will then complete theform in the comments area andsend the form back to the depart-ment who will provide copies tothe Employee, Supervisor,Safety Office, C.A.W. SafetyRepresentative and the activityresponsible for the correctiveaction.

measures the concentration of the air-borne mist, dust, fume and smoke bymeasuring the amount of light scat-tered by the aerosol. MWFs aerosolrefers to the mist and other compo-nents in the mist generated duringgrinding and machining operations.

The aim of this "Oil MistMapping" is to generate a MWFaerosol concentration map. The mapprovides information regarding thesource of MWF mist so that correc-tive actions can be taken if necessary. The hygienist takes readings at everycolumn in the plant by completing agrid pattern and records all of thisdata. The results showed the plantwell within the guide lines. Theresults of aerosol measurements wereless than 0.5 mg/m 3.

The highest concentration was atColumn OC 8 --- 0.189 mg/m 3 (mil-ligrams of contaminant per cubicmeter of air). This is located behindthe Crank Coolant Filtration Systemlocated in the Cylinder HeadAssembly area; still well within theMinistry guide lines. It is good toknow that we have great air qualityhere at EEP.

A big Thank You goes out toeveryone involved, in particular, theTrades & Labour Gang people for alltheir efforts behind the scenes; for thecleaning and repairing of the plantchillers and air handling units.

BE AWAREAs we go about our day it is easy

to get caught up in what we're doingand not notice what is going onaround us. We teach our kids from anearly age to “Look both Ways” beforecrossing a street.

When we are in the plant, are welooking both ways before we cross anaisle? Are we stopping and standingin a safe place when talking on ourphone or radio? Are we watching fortraffic? When driving in the plant are

WindsorEngine Plant

By Jim Turner

Your J.H.S.C. has been continual-ly working on issues that are on ourdeck. All have responsibility assign-ments, corrective actions and targetdates.

Having said that, I strongly urgethe membership to use the SafetyConcern Follow-up/Resolution Form.No one knows and understands theSafety Concerns on the job better thanthe workers themselves. We needthese concerns brought forward pro-actively so that we can all worktogether and resolve a concern beforeit could become an injury. H & S . . . cont’d on next page

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6. During the process, if the employeedoes not agree with the correctiveactions, the Union Committeepersonshould be made available to takepart in the discussion.

ALL SAFETY RESOLUTIONFORMS will be discussed the follow-ing day at our Safety Pic morningmeeting.

Please take the time to use thisprocess. This will help us all under-stand and address any and all hazardsthat are in our workplace before aninjury occurs no matter how big orsmall it may be.

I would like to remind people thatare participating in the Bike to WorkChallenge to use extra caution whenriding amongst car and truck traffic inand out of the parking lot and on thestreets as well; also, motor vehicleoperators should be aware of theincrease of bikes in traffic.

Summer weather and vacationshut-down is here again. For those ofyou that are working we have someoff-standard jobs going on at this timeand we need to use extra cautionwhen addressing these tasks.

Take your time and think the jobthrough before starting something thatcould cause an injury. Let us allrespect HEAT STRESS and what itcan do to your body. It is very impor-tant to stay cool by hydrating yourselfwith plenty of water as well takeadvantage of air-conditioning whenyou can.

For those of you who are on vaca-tion, have a Safe and Enjoyable time.

In closing, I would like to congrat-ulate Mr. Anthony Iacobini with hisappointment to the Health & Safetyposition at the Annex Plant. Anthonyhas many years of experience in theHealth & Safety field, both as a train-er and a Health & Safety Rep atNemak W.A.P., welcome aboard.

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SILENCEIS

SUICIDE!

LET THEM KNOWWHAT’S ON YOUR

MIND!

Federal MPs and Provincial MPPsSTEPHEN HARPER – Constituency Offices: 1600 - 90th Ave.,SW, Suite A-20, Calgary, Alberta,T2V 5A8(403) 253-7990................... Fax (403) 253-8203House of Commons, Ottawa, Ont. K1A 0A6(613) 992-4211.................... Fax (613) 941-6900E-mail: [email protected]

JEFF WATSON – Constituency Offices: 186,Talbot SDt. S., Essex, Ontario N8M 1B6(519) 776-4700................... Fax (519) 776-1383House of Commons, Ottawa, Ont. K1A 0A6(613) 992-1812.................... Fax (613) 995-0033E-mail: [email protected]

JOE COMARTIN – Constituency Offices: 1304 B Lauzon Road, Windsor, Ontario N8S 3N1(519) 988-1826................... Fax (519) 988-0152House of Commons, Ottawa, Ont. K1A 0A6(613) 947-3445.................... Fax (613) 947-3448E-mail: [email protected]

BRIAN MASSE – Constituency Offices: 1398 Ouellette Ave., Windsor, ON N8X 5E8(519) 255-1631................... Fax (519) 255-7913House of Commons, Ottawa, Ont. K1A 0A6(613) 996-1541.....................Fax (613) 992-5397E-mail: [email protected]

DAVE VAN KESTEREN – Constituency Offices: 8 King St. West (Main Office), Chatham, ONN7M 1C6(519) 358-7555................... Fax (519) 358-1428House of Commons, Ottawa, Ont. K1A 0A6(613) 992-2612.................... Fax (613) 992-1852E-mail: [email protected]

HON. DALTON MCGUINTY - Premier of OntarioLegislative Building, Queen's ParkToronto, Ontario, Canada, M7A 1A1(416) 325-1941....................Fax (416) 325-3745Email: [email protected]

DWIGHT DUNCAN - Constituency Office:Unit 211 – 2825 Lauzon Parkway,Windsor, Ont. N8T 3H5(519) 251-5199....................Fax (519) 251-5299E-mail: [email protected]

TARAS NATYSHAK - Constituency Office:316 Talbot Street NorthEssex, Ontario N8M 1A2(519) 776-6420 ...................Fax (519) 776-5763Toll Free [email protected]

THERESA PIRUZZA - Constituency Office:1368 Ouellette Avenue, 1st Floor, Windsor, Ontario N8X 1J9(519) 977-7191....................Fax (519) [email protected]

RICK NICHOLLS - Chatham-Kent-Essex111 Heritage Rd, Suite 100Chatham, ON N7M 5W7(519) 351-0510........................... Fax (351) [email protected]

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Prime Minister Harper:

I am a proud Auto Worker in Windsor, Ontario and Iam in complete shock that you have agreed to opennegotiations with Japan on another so called “FreeTrade Agreement”.

It is not bad enough that your agreements and othershave cost the manufacturing sector some 450,000 jobsalready and you want to jeopardize even more manu-facturing jobs with another agreement.

Mr. Harper, enough is enough.

Your government was part of a combined effort withthe provincial Liberals to help us land new investmentat Essex Engine Plant and now you want to jeopardizethat plant along with others with an agreement that willonly weaken our sector more.

You actually had the audacity to allow major AutoExecutives from Mitsubishi and Toyota into the talkswith you, . . . that is shameful, sir and as a Canadian, Ihold you accountable to the Canadian people for theseactions and talks. You have the outright obligation to

Dear Mr. Taylor:

The Office of the Prime Minister has forwarded tome your email of March 26, 2012, regardingCanada’s recent launch of negotiations with Japantoward an economic partnership agreement (EPA), orfree trade agreement.

The Government of Canada is committed to creatingjobs, growth and long-term prosperity for Canadiansand Canadian businesses by expanding trade and eco-nomic opportunities abroad.

Trade accounts for one out of every five jobs inCanada and is equivalent to 60 percent of our econom-ic activity. In keeping with our ambitious pro-tradeplan, Canada announced the launch of Canada-JapanEPA negotiations on March 25, 2012. This initiativewill deepen trade and investment ties between our coun-tries and stands to generate billions of dollars in addi-tional trade and commerce. With a gross domesticproduct of $5.8 trillion in 2011, Japan is the world’sthird largest national economy and one of Canada’smost important economic and commercial partners. In2011, Canada-Japan merchandise trade was valued atmore than $23 billion.

I have noted your concerns related to the Canadian

openly discuss these talks with all stakeholders includ-ing the Canadian Auto Workers Union. You also mustcome clean with your statement that says “you pledge

to do what you can to protect sectors that might be in

danger.”

As Prime Minister of Canada, you should not beallowed to openly discuss any Trade Agreement thatyou know will affect any sector as all sectors employCanadians and you should not negotiate the terms of anagreement that will negatively impact any Canadian.

M r. H a r p e r , F a i r Tr a d e Agreements are a winwin for all, – Free Trade Agreements will only put thou-sands of more Canadians out of work and give Japanmore of our share of wealth and work.

I await your quick response on our concerns as I ama president of a CAW Local Union with more than 790people on layoff.

CHRIS TAYLOR, President

CAW Local 200

FROM: eD fast, Minister of International Trade & Minister for Asia-Pacific Gateway

Automotive Industry.

Let me assure you that Canada will only agree to ahigh-quality agreement with Japan that promotes over-all Canadian economic interests.

Securing preferential access to strategic marketssuch as Japan remains important for a wide array ofCanadian exporters. Canada is seeking an outcomewith Japan that will provide Canadian producers anadvantage over their key competitors, including in theautomotive sector. It is important that the approachCanada takes is tailored to our specific interests in theJapanese market. As we move forward with this initia-tive, I can assure you the Government of Canada willcontinue to consult closely with a full range ofCanadian stakeholders, including members of the auto-motive industry.

Thank you for taking the time to share your views.Please be assured that Canada will only sign an agree-ment that is in the best interests of Canadians.

Sincerely,

The Honourable Ed Fast, P.C. Q.C.

Minister of International Trade and

Minister for the Asia-Pacific Gateway

JAPANESE TRADE TALKS

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