UAW LOCAL 1050 UPDATE

5/7/14

Brothers and Sisters,

            Your Bargaining Committee would like to communicate to the membership about the state of the business in Wheels. For some time now, the wheels business has been booming when it comes to volume. Apparently, the volume that our customers are requesting is to the point that every opportunity for our plant to produce more CVW Wheels is a reality. As we have communicated recently, the company called for a Bargaining Committee Meeting along with our International Union to present us with the issue of leaving potentially more business to our competitors because of capacity. The company proposed an alternative work schedule in order to keep up with the demand by essentially operating the presses and furnaces every day.

            The Bargaining Committee countered the Alternative Work Schedule presented to the Union with the “contractual” alternative of offering voluntary overtime across the lot for any and all members that are interested in training, committing and working our voluntary weekends in order to keep the Wheels Business able to meet the current demand. It is our obligation to keep work in house and assist in not allowing our competitors to gain market share at our expense called job security. This is a great problem to have and for the first time since most of us have been employed by Alcoa, we have both Businesses (Aerospace & Wheels) Booming!

            This letter is only to communicate in advance of the company seeking volunteer’s throughout the facility that would like to earn a little more money after some training to work either in H-Plant Press Room and S-Plant Heat Treat on voluntary weekends. We are looking at trying to fill as many weekends (26) that would be scheduled as voluntary.

            As of next Monday, the company will be hiring 25 more new hires as Production Trainee’s with the potential of hiring another 20 or so in June. We wanted to let you all know that the opportunity for making more money on voluntary weekends exists and contractually under the Wheel Plant and Forge Plant Overtime Agreements both give classified employees the first opportunity to work the overtime then the department, followed by the rest of the plant.

            As a summary, we would like to reiterate that this process will only be following the contract as it refers to the Overtime Agreements.  We would like to encourage all who are interested in making a little more money on voluntary weekends to participate as we would like to show the company that following the contract to resolve a business concern is the only and best way to resolve it!

In Solidarity,

UAW Local 1050

Bargaining Committee