Welcome to the website of Local
2356
2011 Local 2356
Picnic
Saturday October 1, 2011
Lake
Reba Park, Richmond, KY
All Local Union members and
their families are invited to attend.
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2010 Local 2356
Picnic
Saturday October 2,
2010
12:00 noon - 4:00
p.m.
Lake Reba Park, Richmond,
KY
All Local Union members and
their families are invited to attend.
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Local 2356 Union
Picnic
Saturday October 3,
2009
12:00 noon - 4:00
p.m.
Lake Reba Park, Richmond,
KY
All Local Union
members and their families are invited to
attend.
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February 26,
2009
There will be a special called Local
Union Meeting on Wednesday March 4, 2009 at 3:15 p.m. This meeting
will be held at the Best Western Hotel in Richmond, KY. We will be
discussing the recent temporary layoffs and other
topics.
All members are encouraged to
attend.
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October 29,
2008
NOTE:
This Saturday, November 1, 2008, our Local Union meeting will be
held at the Best Western Hotel in Richmond, KY. The Local Union's
lawyer will be present to answer questions regarding Worker's
Compensation.
The meeting will begin at 8:00
a.m.
All members are encouraged to
attend.
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August 15,
2008
Okonite announces
layoff
The Okonite company today announced a reduction
in their workforce at their Richmond, Kentucky plant. The
reductions will be 3 positions in the CV department and 1 position
in the Stranding department.
We already have 2 people on layoff since April do
to slow business conditions.
The company indicated that they did not know how
long the layoff would last. Business has been slow for the last few
months, and they have avoided a layoff up to now by not been
replacing union members that have retired or quit.
Okonite returns sign
The company's personnel manager returned the
Local Union's sign "Stand Up, Figt Back" this week. There was no
apology or explanation for their removal of the sign from the Local
Union's display case which was removed a few days after we signed a
new 5 year negotiated contract .
The sign had been in the case for the last 2-3
years. Our Local Union file an unfair labor practice charge against
the company concerning the sign removal.
New Contract
Books
We finally got a copy of the new contract books
of the newly negotiated contract.
After repeated attempts by the Local Union to
point out the mistakes of the draft copies, the final printed
copies unfortunately has several mistakes in it.
The company has not indicated what their plans
are to fix the copies.
Meeting Canceled
The IBEW Int'l had a desire for our Local Union,
IBEW Int'l and Okonite to sit down and try to work on a better
relationship between our Local and the Richmond/Corporate
management. This ideal first surfaced after the contract
negoitations last winter. Since that time the IBEW Int'l had tried
to work out a schedule for the meeting.
Finally the company said that they had no desire
to meet with us.
So for now there will be no meeting.
Attention all
Members:
Check your Checks
Please check your pay checks to make sure
that you have received your correct pay raise(s). There have been
reports that Okonite has not added our latest pay raise/adders to
our pay that was negotiated in the recent contract
negotiations.
Article 19 of new
contract agreement:
Cable Machine Operators,
Shielding Operator and Q C Inspector, Hvy., classifications will be
upgraded from job level 6 to job level 8.
Strand Machine Operator
classification will be upgraded from job level 10 to job level
11.
If you find that you have not
been paid correctly, please ask for a Union Steward and file a
grievance promptly.
Stand Up, Fight
Back
A little over 2 years ago,
then Kentucky Governor Ernie Fletcher, proposed that Kentucky
become a right to work state. Many of our Union brothers and
sisters from across the Commonwealth joined forces in a rally at
Frankfort to lobby the members of our state legislature to stop
Governor Fletcher's attack on working men and women and their
families. Through those efforts, the Kentucky legislature stood up
to the Governor and defeated his proposal.
The signs that was carried the
day of the rally was the like the one pictured above, "Stand Up,
Fight Back". Our Local Union officials attended that rally and
brought back one of those signs and posted it in our Union bulletin
board display case.
Three days after the recent
contract was signed with Okonite, Okonite's Personnel Director
Steve Woltering, came out and unlocked our bulletin board display
case and removed our "Stand Up, Fight Back" sign and threw it in
the trash.
Union Leave
Denied
Since the signing of the new
contract with Okonite, our Local Union has asked for a couple of
the Local Union Officials to be off on unpaid leave to attend to
some Union business. Our Union made two separate requests which was
immediately denied.
Finally, the company has
agreed to allow the Local officials off this coming Friday to take
care of business activities.
Transfers
The Unions wants to remind all
members that when they are transferred to a different job, they
should always ask for a transfer sheet. This will insure your +.45
adder. Also, if there is no transfer sheet filled out, then you
don't have anything to prove that you are entitled to the adder
pay. We know that management people go back and change your
timesheets from time to time.
If the foreman refuses to give
you a written transfer, which is clearly stated in the CBA, please
ask for a Union steward and file a grievance.
Breaks
All members are encouraged
take their designated breaks at their designated times. All members
should be provided relief from their lines for their breaks. Ask
your foreman for this relief.
Consider
this:
if just 25 Union members did not ask
for relief for their breaks daily for one year, that would add up
to $39,000 per year.
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