Upon reading a letter written by the U.A.W. to its members of which have been forced to endure a strike due to a plant manager complaint at General Motor's over in plant medical coverage I believe this needs to be a state law that any and all businesses with extremely large rosters of employees such as General Motor's be required to hire a paramedic with a state of the art emergency room in an accessible area of the building and with outside access for the ambulance. Laws created as strict as they are for fire hydrants and access for fire trucks need to be attached to this paramedic requirement.
U.A.W. Local #31 sent a letter to their members stating the following.
THE DECISION HAS BEEN MADE
General Motors has left us with NO alternative after all week end meetings and no progress to speak of - the choices were none.
Job selection - Management Concerns
Inter - Department Transfers
Management Placement without regards to Seniority
Shift Preference - Management Concern
Openings to be filled by shift not Seniority
Final Process/Augmentation -
These jobs to be filled by management discretion
Material Presentation/Salvage rework and UAW negotiated work
This to be done by venders Onsite and Offsite
Lack of in-plant Medical coverage - would jeopardize the health and safety of our members
General Maintenance / Construction and elimination of crafts
Engineers/Contractors will maintain/repair equipment inside facility
This limited list is some of the issues that still separate the parties from reaching an agreement.
This local union has worked very hard in the last 20 years negotiating these important issues and can NOT step backwards by giving into these management concerns.
Our seniority rights and our negotiated work and work rules that we have negotiated are very important to us and Your Shop Committee has tried every way to reach some type of understanding with Management to maintain these rights but to no avail.
Your Shop Committee appreciates your support and continued support as we get through these turbulent times.
IN Solidarity,
John Melton, Shop Chairman Jeff Manning, President
