LODGE NO. 873

258 Barstow Street, Horicon,

WI 53032

Phone -920-485-2631

Fax—920-485-4941

Website

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“Horicon Machinists”

LOCAL LODGE 873

EXECUTIVE BOARD

PRESIDENT

Brian Brath

VICE-PRESIDENT

Theresa Wagner

RECORDING SECRETARY

Marla Ryan

FIN.SECRETARY/

TREASURER

David Berezinski

CONDUCTOR/SENTINEL

Dale Deibert

TRUSTEES

Brian Trotter

Darrel Schepp

Shawn Gubine

MEMBERS AT LARGE

Tammy-Jo Baer

Doug Flouro

Paul Rabe

EDITORS

Marla Ryan, Nikki Schlagel

July 2014

“Justice on the job and service to the community”

International Associations of Machinists and Aerospace Workers

National Arthritis Awareness Month Arthritis affects more than 50 million Ameri-cans. There are many forms of arthritis, but the three main types are... Osteoarthritis (OA) - The most common

form of arthritis that causes pain and dis-comfort to the joints

Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) – A systemic inflammatory disease that causes pain, stiffness and swelling in the joints

Juvenile Arthritis (JA) - A range of inflammatory and autoimmune conditions that primarily effect children ages 16 and under

Getting regular physical activity and watching your weight can help reduce the amount of stress on your joints. Check with your doctor on what the best types of exercise will work best for you. Common Myths Myth: Arthritis is not as serious as other chronic diseases. Truth: Arthritis is actually a more frequent cause of activity limita-tions than heart disease, cancer or diabetes and is actually the leading cause of disability in the United States.

ATTENTION HELP NEEDED!!

The Women’s Committee is planning a ditch clean-up for July 16 at 2:30pm, corner of HWY 33 and E (meet at the BP). Water and gear will be provided. You will be entered into a drawing for a tee shirt, adult beverage (must be 21) and other Union prizes. Drawing will be at the end of the clean-up. Please let us know if you are available to help: Nikki—920-210-3976 Marla—920-210-3045 If you aren’t able to be there at 2:30 you can still participate at 3:30. Family members are welcome also.

President’s Report

Dear Sisters and Brothers, I hope everyone had a great 4th of July holiday and enjoyed the Union negotiated pay for having the day off with family and friends. The employee survey results are back and the Co. has shared them with us. We have improved in all areas and factory management has told us that it is a big positive for us and they intend to use the infor-mation to move Horicon forward with senior manage-ment in their factory plans for the future. Even be-fore the survey results were in, we’ve partnered with management to attempt to put action plans in place to make JDHW a better place for us all. Members of the Shop Committee and I have been involved in WIG’s (Wildy Important Goals) and providing input into projects based on what we hear from you. One of the examples is the special project trainers in the UV group. We are trying to set up a better training process for new members entering those dept.’s so team earnings don’t take a hit as the new members come into the teams and learn the job. This was a result of members telling us the training process needs improvement when we surveyed multiple members on each team. This process will be evolv-ing and continued to be improved on, so please help with it as much as you can, it should only help our teams and earnings in the long run. There are numerous projects going on within the 3 WIG groups. They will not be completed overnight, but I hope we are all seeing some improvements in the way things work here. Especially with schedul-ing, as we receive a lot of complaints about running out of parts, constantly changing hours and lack of notice for Saturday work. The number of complaints we were receiving has seemed to have gone down some, but some of that is probably attributed to en-tering our lower sales period of the year. I’m hoping it’s also because the scheduling processes are get-ting better. If they are not, please relay your issues to your stewards and the Shop Committee so we can talk with management about your concerns and try to correct them. Each Thursday I pull a name from our membership for the Solidarity drawing to win $10 in merchandise from your Union Hall (t-shirts, coffee mugs, hats, decks of cards are all $10 or under). All IAM mem-bers are eligible to win; the only requirement is that you must be wearing something Union related. A Union t-shirt, Union hat, Union pin or sticker etc. Since we’ve started the drawing, here are the mem-bers who have had their names drawn:

$10 per week $1290 in savings

$25 per week $3225 in savings

$50 per week $6450 in savings

$75 per week $9675 in savings

To those of you who were wearing something Union to show our solidarity, congrats on winning! On June 30, the Shop Com. and Labor Relations dept. attended a Generational Diversity Class put on by the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Services Dept. This class mainly talked about the differences between the generations, their values, how each solves problems, feedback styles and processes to effectively communicate between everyone. It was an interesting class and I plan to use some of the information to try different ways to get information out to the membership. Attention Motorcycle Riders: The Annual Ride for Guides will be on July 26th. Registration forms are at the Union Hall. Last year over 70 bikes went on this scenic ride, so please join in and help raise some funds for our Union’s charity, The Guide Dogs. If you start putting some money away this week, you’ll have the following by contract time:

In Solidarity, Brian Brath

17-Apr-14 Rita Lettau

24-Apr-14 Eric Banaszak

1-May-14 Bob Hartwig

8-May-14 Kelly Bedker

15-May-14 Kami Liepert

22-May-14 Jeff Wagner

29-May-14 Ricky Tesch

5-Jun-14 Dustin Bensley

12-Jun-14 Brian Arndt

19-Jun-14 Nina Thomas

26-Jun-14 Nathan Ebert

3-Jul-14 Dale Stone

Shop Committee Report

Benefit Presentation On July 2nd members that were hired core in the last few years were invited to a benefit presenta-tion and dinner at the Union Hall with the Shop Committee and Company leadership. The mem-bers were given an opportunity to ask questions to the shop committee, upper management, and labor relations. The shop committee and labor relations showed a presentation highlighting some of the benefits they receive after gaining seniority. I felt this went over great and encour-age anyone to call the Union hall with any ques-tions you have with benefits whether you’re a new hire or have been here several years. We are planning to have another presentation for new hires from May and the ones coming in Septem-ber/October time frame. Shutdown The Company still states that there will be limited work over shutdown. Maintenance and those that do not have vacation will be asked to work and anything beyond that will be very limited. We are starting to talk over an October shutdown and what effects that has on the factory. There are several projects and training the Company is looking at and they plan on working the core em-ployees during this time. Retirement Program All members signed up for ESPP or SRI retire-ment will complete the 2014 contractual year openings. No additional spots will be available until Oct 1 2014. There has been an agreement between the Union and Company to allow up to 30 spots for SRI or ESPP as long as they are re-tired between the window of October 1 and Janu-ary 31. This applies to the 2014-2015 and the 2015-2016 contract year. The previous agree-ment only allowed 15 spots. Ride and Drive I would like to thank the Woman’s Reach group and the volunteers for their work on the ride and drive. I have received a lot of positive comments and the members can’t wait till next year.

Survey Survey results are in and everyone should be get-ting the opportunity to see their own depart-ment’s results and how we did as a factory. I’m happy to say that the results moved in a positive direction. No matter what the results say I believe Horicon has a highly engaged and hardworking work force and nobody can take that away. EWLR Overtime tracking EWLR (Enterprise Wide Labor Reporting) will be coming soon to Horicon and there has been a few tests being run as we speak. With that the over-time spreads we are all accustom to will be going away. The new spreads will be a excel spread sheet. The shop committee and members of man-agement have been working on this and will roll it out to the stewards and supervisors when com-plete. Employment Levels as of July 1, 2014 315 Hourly 513 Incentive 828 Total Members Working 261 Supplemental Members Working 567 Core Members Working 24 Members on Leave / LTD Grievances Current grievance log includes: Step A - 0 Step B – 3 Step C – 0 Step D – 0 (Arbitration) Benefit Appeals – 0 The Shop Committee hopes everyone had a safe

and enjoyable Fourth of July.

In Solidarity,

Jeremy L. Terlisner Shop Committee Chairman

Even as a Supplemental Union member, it pays to be Union!

UNION MEETING The monthly meeting for June will be held on Thursday, July 10, 2014. The meeting will start at 12:00 noon for the night shift. The meeting for the day shift will begin at 3:30 PM. Lunch and re-freshments will be served after the meeting.

Dan Steiner’s name was drawn at the June meet-ing. His name was not in the register. This month’s drawing is worth $360.00. Plan now to attend. Remember it does not cost to attend the monthly meeting. It Pays!!!

Financial Officers Hours

For July 2014

Wed. Jul 09 - 11:00am to 5:00pm

Thur. Jul 10 – 11:00am to 9:00pm

Fri. Jul 11 - 11:00am to 5:00pm

Wed. Jul 16 – 11:00am to 5:00pm

Fri. Jul 18 - 11:00am to 5:00pm

Wed. Jul 23 - 11:00am to 5:00pm

Fri. Jul 25 - 11:00am to 5:00pm

Wed. Jul 30 - 11:00am to 5:00pm

Fri. Aug 01 - 11:00am to 5:00pm

I will also be in during the week other then Fridays. Those

times vary from day to day.

Due to a death in the family my hours or time at the office

might change for the week of July 7th through July 11th.

Thank you.

New Hires or Rehires!!!

Those hired in May, you need to get dues paid as soon as

possible. Those hired in June have till July to pay them. I

have sent letters to those that have fees owed that are be-

hind. Remember you have 30 days to pay them.

New Shirts!!!

The larger sizes with new design are in. I also got some

red colored T-shirts in sizes L, XL, 2XL. Stop in if you

signed up on my list to pick your shirts that you ordered.

A reminder that if you change your address, phone num-

ber or get married and change your name, let me know

because John Deere does not let me know. You can call

920-485-2631 ext. 23. The reason I need current addresses

is if you want your dues refund in a timely manner, I need

to know if you have moved.

David Berezinski/Secretary/Treasurer

Safety Report Hours Worked Without a Lost Time Injury thru 29 June 2014 3,040,561.94 - LAST LOST TIME INJURY *22May13* 27 Total OSHAs - there were (0) OSHA Recordable Acci-dents recorded for the given week. Our YTD OSHA Incident Rate is 2.80 Incident Rate Goal is <1.00). 38 Total First Aids - the First Aid Cases totaled (0) for the week making our YTD First Aid Incident Rate 4.35 (Incident Rate Goal is <5.25). The YTD Combined Injury Incident Rate for the week is 7.14 (Combined Incident Rate Goal is <6.25). (OSHA Recordable Incident Rate plus the First Aid incident rate.) Members of the Joint Union Safety Committee:

Thank you, Brian Higgins

Brian Higgins—350 Doug Flouro—081

Justin Johll—T03

Steve Gross—T03 Nick Schicker—078

Districts 10, 66 and W-3 will pay the thirty-five dollar ($35.00) driver registration fee for the first sev-enty-five (75) ride participants [participants must also pay for any riders] that send their registration form(s) to District No. 10. Ride participants must collect a minimum of $50.00 in pledges per bike in order to participate in the Run and be eligible for awards [check Midwest or District 10 web sites or call the District for form(s)]. Hotel and Motorcycle Rental Information Sheraton Milwaukee Brookfield Hotel, 375 Moorland Road, Brookfield, WI 53005 $79.00 per night (includes breakfast for 2); Must reserve by July 11, 2014, to receive this rate. Must mention IAMAW to receive this rate

If interested please contact District 10 at (414) 643-4334 or Marty St. Peters at (630) 548-2450 or (618) 477-3555

Deadline for registration is Friday, July 11, 2014

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Annual “All Union Picnic” a Success I would like to personally thank all of the 873 union members for their continued support in the joint effort

with the other members and delegates of the South Central Federation of Labor, for making sure that the union

picnic is successful in many ways. This picnic completed its 5th year, thanks to the many people from our

lodge who are always there making sure everything gets done. Through all of our efforts we are able to sup-

port 14 food pantries in Dodge/Jefferson Co.’s through our raffles and donations. Thanks again for your time

and effort in supporting another successful picnic.

Bryan Trotter winner of the Hot Dog Eating Contest.

Yolanda Pillsbury

Legislative News As part of our Progressive and Community Ally Development the SCFL Dodge/Jefferson Chapter will be in-

terviewing the following local candidates who will be running for Senate/Assembly District seats and the

Sheriffs race in Dodge/Jefferson Counties on July 8th.

Tom Chojnacki, 38th Assembly District (Southern Jefferson Co.)

Michele Zahn, 13th Senate District (Jefferson, Dodge, Dane Counties)

Mary Arnold 37th Assembly District (Northern Jefferson Co.)

George Ferriter, 42nd Assembly District (Dodge and Columbia Counties)

Dale Schmidt, Dodge County Sheriff

Our goal is develop relationships and support our allies who support the ideals of working families in Wiscon-

sin.

Yolanda Pillsbury

SCFL Dodge/Jefferson Pres.