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On the week of July 8th Rob Bussey (Guard), Jeff Poppe (Trustee), Mike Jenkin (Pickle Line Chair) and I were elected to go to the District 6 Conference in St. John's Newfoundland. There was a fantastic turn out from many locals. The local food bank was looking for donations to help the thousands of families that need their help. Our Local was able to donate $878.20 and over all they collected over $88000.00. We have a more thorough report that we will be presenting at the next union meeting.

 

Last Thursday our ES&S group voted on their contract. It was rejected by 91%. Just to put things in perpective, the ES&S group currently are the only ones that don't receive any sort of profit sharing. The first year ES&S Officer makes over $5/hour less than our summer students in the main plant make. The third year ES&S Officer makes 80 cents/hour more than the students. They will be meeting with the MOL Conciliator this week to hopefully get a fair deal. They will be in legal strike or lockout position on July 27th. 

 

Last Friday your Executive along with Local 1005 and senior USW Representatives met with Cleveland Cliffs. Representing them was CEO and President Lourenco Goncalves, COO Cliff Smith and Rob Fischer Executive Vice President of Human Resources. It was a productive meeting that lasted over 3 hours. We brought forward some concerns from the last American steel company that previously owned us. We also talked about the relationship we have with our current Stelco management. I expressed that we have 10 arbitrations pending including 4 terminations and 2 Human Rights issues. Rob responded by saying that's more than all their facilities put together. We talked about upgrades,Capital Expenditures, staffing issues, business plans and contracting out. Cliffs provided us with a list of all the Presidents to all the locals under Cleveland Cliffs brand for us to contact and get their opinion of the company, which is what we will be doing this week. The Completion of the sale is projected to be in the fourth quarter 2024.

 

The NextGen Commitee had a meeting last Friday and they selected Derek Wirth for the Chair of the committee. Congrats to Derek!