Your SLC had a PSP meeting. Unfortunately, we did not receive any PSP in Q3. Our order book for December looks like it is doing as well as November and the steel prices have increased and look like they are holding.

Our Christmas Gate Collection for the Salvation Army will be on Tuesday Dec 2nd and Thursday Dec 4th from 5:00am to 8:30am. We will have " Tap Machines" for debit or credit. We will be accepting non-perishable food items, unused toys, toiletries, and of course cash. We thank you in advance for your generous donations. Remember, the gate may get backed up, so please give yourself extra time those mornings.

It's getting to that cold and flu time of year with the weather changing. Please make sure you communicate with your supervisor, if ill, that you are not coming in and when you expect to be back at work. In the past I would always leave a message on the supervisor's plant extension so I know someone would get it and that there is a record of it.

Currently the BOSC is in the middle of moving their "Designated Parking Lot". There needs to be more done to it, like grading, shrub removal, lighting etc. When they are complete, we will send out a mass text. That being said, our mass texting service is currently down and should be up and running shortly.

Stelco is still currently hiring. The last two New Hire classes had 3 welders, 3 production workers to the Blast Furnace, 2 BOSC, 1 Coke Ovens and some 4th Class Engineer trainees. In the future the New Hire classes have been scheduled monthly.

Rumour of the week...

"I heard that there was a deal with management and the union to change the rules around overtime hours worked and ESA?"

That was a pretty good one. We would never circumvent the ESA. A lot of times when your Chief Stewards have meetings, they don't necessarily agree to what was said and the rumour is that it was the Chiefs idea or signed off on it. Please continue to "Fact check" those rumours, as most of you have done, before they spiral out of control.

Contract/ESA question of the week..

Item 21 Letters of Agreement Re: Employee Absences

"...It is an employee's obligation to justify such absence which at the request of the Company, (Where sickness is claimed) will require the employee to produce a doctor's certificate. 

The new ESA states that you do not have to supply a doctor's certificate for the first 3 days of the calendar year if you are claiming sickness. For more information contact the Grievance Committee 519-587-2000 selection "3" from the directory.

Thanks,

John McElroy

President USW Local 8782