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and other Labor Links,
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UAW
Local 651
LOUD AND PROUD!
HI, Local 651 members!
Many of my Delphi
Sparkler articles are now online.
The web lets
ONE blend pictures,
nice backgrounds,
sounds, and other
creative things
with the words.
Please give em' a click!
THANK
YOU!!
HOPE YOU ENJOY
THIS SITE!
IT IS MY LABOR
OF LOVE!
PLEASE TURN
YOUR COMPUTER SPEAKERS ON
AND ENJOY THE MUSIC WHILE
YOU'RE READING. THANKS.
WWW.
UHHUH.com
12.20.01...I compiled an empowering list of some great labor books that do an excellent job of educating us in labor history and issues. Please click to visit the page! Thanks!
THE FIRST UAW CONTRACT Agreement FEBRUARY 11,1937 WHITE SHIRT DAY! PRINT THIS!
2.25.01 MY LATEST
DELPHI SPARKLER
ARTICLES ONLINE!
SOME OF THE WEBPAGES HAVE A LABOR NEWS SEARCH,
SPEED OF THE INTERNET
INDICATOR, LINKS
TO OTHER SPARKLER ARTICLES AND
A WEATHER GRAPHIC(ON
MY 651 STRIKER'S WEBPAGE FROM 1998, I HAD A WEATHER LINK ALONG WITH THE
LATEST STRIKE NEWS AND SITDOWN LINKS...ONE STOP READING!)AND SOUNDS. ANYHOO,
I'M PRETTY
SURE SOME OF THE IDEAS ABOVE ARE A UAW FIRST
FOR AN ELECTED UAW OFFICER. MAYBE SOME OF THESE IDEAS
WILL CATCH ON. WHO KNOWS? TIME WILL TELL!
PLEASE CLICK LINKS BELOW AND TURN YOUR COMPUTER SPEAKERS ON. COOL! THANKS!
VARIOUS 1998,1999 and 2000 ARTICLES
Flint Sitdown Diary FROM ONE WORKER'S PERSPECTIVE IN THE PLANT!
YOUR WEINGARTEN RIGHTS PRINT THIS! BROTHERS AND SISTERS, PLEASE READ THIS! ALL WORKERS SHOULD KNOW AND UNDERSTAND THIS LABOR LAW!
"DAWN OF A NEW ERA" by Flint Sit-downer FLOYD HOKE-MILLER Check out the first issue from 1988.
NOW THIS IS REALLY COOL(SEE WHAT I MEAN!)
COOL... CLICK NOW...UAW SOLIDARITY MAGAZINE...get involved!!! educate!
MEMBERS OF UAW LOCAL 651... PLEASE ATTEND YOUR UNION MEETINGS!!! 
CLICK SPOTLIGHTS!
PLEASE GET INVOLVED WITH LOCAL 651. ATTEND
YOUR MONTHLY UNION MEETINGS.
WATCH "UAW IN FOCUS"
ON COMCAST CABLE CHANNEL 17 ON MONDAYS AT 6:30 P.M.
SUPPORT YOUR UNION IN
THE PLANT. LEARN ABOUT
OUR UAW. YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE! DETERMINATION AND PERSISTENCE WIN OUT
OVER EVERYTHING...WE WILL SUCCEED!!!
TO THE WORLD: WE BUILD OUR QUALITY PRODUCTS WITH UAW PRIDE! GENERAL MOTORS,FORD,DAIMLER-CHRYSLER...EVERYONE... BRING YOUR SPECIFIC PRODUCT NEEDS TO DELPHI/DELCO FLINT EAST! WE WANT TO BUILD IT FOR YOU!
The
latest at YAHOO!
Delphi
Auto News
THIS
IS NOT THE OFFICIAL UAW LOCAL 651 OR INTERNATIONAL UAW WEBSITE.
CLICK THE FOLLOWING FOR REGION 1C LOCALS and OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST:
UAW REGION NEWS ALL REGIONS
"BALLOT BOX - BREAD BOX!!"CHECK OUT WHO IS ON THE SIDE OF WORKING FAMILIES:
MICHIGAN GOVERNMENT TV COMCAST CABLE CHANNEL 17-PROGRAMMING HOURS: MONDAY-FRIDAY, 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
MICHIGAN
LEGISLATURE Bills Legislation Search Status BILL
SEARCH
THOMAS
SEARCH - BILLS - U.S.CONGRESS
"WITNESSES
AND WARRIORS"PUBLICATION (accompanied
the art exhibition. First exhibition:June 11 to July 2, 1999 at The Greater
Flint Arts Council.
Greater FLINT Arts Gallery 816 Saginaw Street,
downtown Flint...The book "WITNESSES AND WARRIORS" THE FLINT SITDOWN STRIKE
OF 1936-1937...for info call 810-238-ARTS...THIS BOOK and EXHIBIT PAYS
HOMAGE TO THE COURAGEOUS MEN AND WOMEN OF FLINT THAT TOOK A STAND FOR DIGNITY
AND RESPECT FOR THE WORKERS IN THE PLANTS...AND empowered THIS WONDERFUL
UNION THE GREAT UAW to obtain the first UAW contract from GM. THE
UNITED AUTOMOBILE WORKERS...THE UNION THAT NEEDS ALL WORKERS TO GET INVOLVED
NOW! THE EXHIBIT WILL TRAVEL THE WHOLE UNITED STATES AND WORLD AFTER JULY
2...SEE IT NOW AND PURCHASE THE BOOK THAT CONTAINS ALL THE ART AND STORIES
BEHIND THIS GREAT EVENT THAT CHANGED LABOR HISTORY IN THE WORLD. THE BOOK
IS ONLY TWENTY DOLLARS! I WANT TO THANK UAW REGION 1-C, THE FOUNDATION
FOR MOTT COMMUNITY COLLEGE AND MOTT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOR THEIR SIGNIFICANT
SUPPORT OF THIS PROJECT...THANK YOU FLINT SITDOWNERS AND WOMENS Emergency Brigade
FOR WHAT YOU DID FOR US...you risked your lives...and won dignity and respect
for workers everywhere!
SOLIDARITY LINKS:
FIRST UAW United Auto Workers Labor Agreement CONTRACT FEBRUARY 11,1937 WHITE SHIRT DAY!
WALTER REUTHER LIBRARY/ WAYNE STATE - story and photos.
THE GREAT FLINT SITDOWN - THE MOST IMPORTANT STRIKE IN HISTORY!
HISTORY
Link at S.F.S.U. - Sitdown story and photos.
THE
BATTLE OF THE OVERPASS - REUTHER LIBRARY.
UNIVERSITY
OF MICHIGAN-FLINT LABOR HISTORY PROJECT COLLECTION
LOCAL
UNION PAPERS ONLINE:
UAW
LOCAL 659 THE Searchlight"
REGION
1 C REVIEW
ONLINE AND IN SOLIDARITY MAG
SOLIDARITY
MAGAZINE:
UAW
SOLIDARITY MAGAZINE
EACH UAW MEMBER RECEIVES ONE EACH MONTH. PLEASE READ IT.
Click here for a Petition to put my hero Walter Reuther on a postage stamp!!!
Thanks,
UAW...for bargaining Dignity and Respect in 1999!!!
PARLIAMENTARY
RULES(PRINTABLE CHART)
UNION
DENSITY CHART:
MAN,WE
GOT WORK TO DO! CHECK OUT THIS CHART!
THE STORY OF THE SEARCHLIGHT-THE VOICE OF THE CHEVROLET WORKER!
2.25.01 NEWEST SITDOWN LINKS...
1.30.1937
MI Historical Markers(scroll page for sitdown related items)
A TEACHER'S Most EXCELLENT SITE
Reuther Library at WAYNE STATE
"BREAD
UPON THE WATERS/chapter 22
and chapter
23"
Red Beret Exhibit of Women's Emergency Brigade
CIO
JOHN L. LEWIS UMWA WEBSITE
Walter
Reuther
Labor
Library online exhibits
and
North American
Labor
Archives
MORE REUTHER:
TIME Magazine 100: BUILDERS AND TITANS AUDIO HERE - REUTHER SPEAKS!
HISTORY OF THE CANADIAN AUTO WORKERS UNION - The C.A.W.
TEACHERS,PROFS:
Curriculum
of United States History
MEL - MICHIGAN ELECTRONIC LIBRARY
LAPEER
LIBRARY
and
ANALYSIS OF SUPREME COURT DECISIONS
LIBRARY
OF CONGRESS:
AMERICAN
MEMORIES ALL COLLECTION SEARCH
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searches:
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website
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CARTOONS:
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MORE
AT YAHOO:
Labor
Page
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News Full Coverage Downsizing
and Layoffs
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I'M
UAW...
LOUD
& EXTREMELY PROUD to SERVE THE MEMBERSHIP OF UAW LOCAL 651!!!
click the links beneath the above pictures and underlined words and sentences!(below,too!)
...for Flint Sitdown Strike of 1936 and 1937 links,
empowering websites, local Flint mi union hall sites, Flint labor history...and
other fun stuff! Almost all homepages and websites were web
tv created with a little html and javascript added for some flash...I
am low TECH
AS HECK
(but it's gettin' better)...
AND I'm DARN
PROUD OF IT!!!!!!!!!
Flint Sit-downer Stay-In Strike Diary
McLaren Nurses AFSCME Local 875
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A
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role in the future of today's labor movement!
More UAW History 101... THE GREAT UAW...the first UAW contract was written
which recognized the UAW as the sole bargaining voice for autoworkers IN
FLINT,MICHIGAN on February 11, 1937.
This day is forever remembered as White Shirt Day. THE Great Flint SITDOWN
STRIKE...A STRIKE WHERE THE AUTOWORKERS OF FLINT TOOKOVER THE AUTOPLANTS
TO GAIN
DIGNITY AND RESPECT FROM GENERAL MOTORS!! Click here to see and read this
historic document! WE WILL ALWAYS BE IN DEBT TO THE COURAGEOUS UNION
MEN AND WOMEN OF THAT ERA!
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CREATED BY A UAW AUTOWORKER AT DELPHI EAST FLINT,MICHIGAN. A PROUD UAW MEMBER AND TRUSTEE SERVING THE MEMBERSHIP AT LOCAL 651 , A LABOR UNION BORN ON JANUARY 16, 1939!!!
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PAGE 3 (NEW Article 10.21.01 - Labor Book Bibliography!) or scroll on...
O.K....if
you came back to my website...THANKS!!! IMAGINE A PERSON, A PERSON
WHO FOR ALL OF THESE YEARS WAS CONTENT TO DO MY FAIR DAY'S WORK, CASH HIS
PAYCHECK, AND LET EVERYONE ELSE sacrifice their own time and effort serving
the UAW!!
All of the benefits and wages that I had were won through the struggles
of someone else!!! It was all there for me!!
Then the strike happened last summer(click here now...LISTEN WHILE YOU ARE READING THE FOLLOWING THOUGHTS!!! DON'T CLICK ANOTHER LINK OR AUDIO WILL STOP)
... and suddenly I realized how important it is to be in a union. How important it is to have a friend, spokesperson and lawyer for my and other's dignity and respect!!! Especially nowadays, with nafta and the global economy that takes good-paying American jobs and shifts them to third-world countries where the workers have no rights...unsafe working conditions...pennies for wages and no benefits...fake or company unions...just like the early 1900's in this country!!! It's like big business in this country is in a time machine to the past!!!
During our struggle in the Summer of '98, I read up on our union history
in this country; and our UAW history in Flint Michigan!!! Anywhere labor
history is taught, there is a chapter on the great Flint Sit-down!!! That's
how important it is ...people...people no different than you and me took
a stand and created something magnificent...A
VOICE FOR THE WORKERS!
VISIT www.FLINTSITDOWN.com
...A voice that (little did they know) would change the world!!! It would
make their community, state, country and world a better place!!! Whew!!!
Stop!! Just think about that for a moment. The
point I am trying to make is that things just don't happen! Individuals
make them happen.
One person is important!!! It
is never too late to get involved!
Through my walkin' the road last summer, hangin' out with some of the sitdowners,
who were kind enough to share their stories of the past, and reading about
the Flint Sitdown through the books at the Flint
Public Library and the websites on the world
wide web, I became emotionally connected to this history. Now, when I drive
down Saginaw Street, in front of old Fisher One...which was torn down,
I try
to visualize what happened in the old building...out on the street...as
the workers marched out of the plant...wildly cheering
...knowing that their courage, conviction and determination was triumphant
over mistreatment and greed!!!
Yeah, all I know is this. I got involved late in life. That's why I hope some of our younger members will get involved now. Don't be like me! Don't wait!! Go to your union meetings. Run for a union position. Give something back to the UAW...your local...write for your union paper
...make
a positive difference...read up on it's history.
we are the union...we, together, as one, can take it to an even higher
level!! I WILL ALWAYS STAND UP FOR THIS UNION. We wouldn't have anything
if it wasn't for it. Yeah, I know, I got a big mouth... Sorry, I can't
change! See ya in the plant!! If this is your
first time clickin' my website...hey, man...come on back!
BREAK TIME AGAIN....GEE WHIZ...I JUST KEPT ON GOING ON AND ON...MAYBE, YOU LIKE MUSIC...AND WANT TO SEE WHO'S PLAYING around the area.......HERE'S A COUPLE OF PLACES I FOUND ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB...
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LOCAL NEWSPAPERS AND TV...
NEWSPAPERS FLINT NEWS AT MLIVE!!!
MY EXCERPTS FROM VARIOUS 1998 AND 1999 SPARKLER PAPERS:
"IN MEMORY OF TWO FALLEN UAW WARRIORS"
9.27.99 Dear Mr.D___ and Mr.M____ I first saw both of you in the
pictures at the art exhibition at the Greater Flint Arts Council, the exhibit
that honors the remaining Flint Sit-Downers, and in the book "Witnesses
and Warriors". This exhibit will travel around the United States and the
world...educating the public on the importance, and truly pivotal moment
in Labor History that, The Great Flint Sit-Down Strike of 1936-1937 truly
was!!! Mr. D___, as I viewed you at your wake that was held in your honor
at UAW Local 599, from your obituary
I learned, around 1926, while working at the Buick Foundry, The Union talk
began. You were threatened and beaten many times. You were positioned as
captain of the "Flying Squadron" which was a protest group. When there
was activity at one of the plants, as captain you were called in to provide
strategy and leadership. You were also President of the Flint Chapter of
the NAACP for a term. Years later, during the 1936-1937 Sit-Down, you were
chief cook at Local 599 and still in leadership as a member of the "Flying
Squadron." After the UAW was recognized as The One and Only bargaining
agent for the autoworkers, you officially became the First Black UAW Member
because you were the first Black to sign the original card as an organizer
of the beginning protest. Mr. M___, I first met and talked to you at Genesys
Hospital. When you took over Fisher 1, Sitting Down, you realized you could
be attacked or killed. The whole town was out to get you and the other
UAW Sit-Downers!! But you didn't care. Something had to be done for the
worker's dignity and respect. Inside, day after day, night after night,
you patrolled the plant's gates, windows and interior(44 days in all).
You were ready to act to protect the other Sit-Downers from any harm that
could come their way. While Mr.____ and others were patrolling in Brotherhood
and Solidarity outside of the plant in the Squadron, you were growing stronger
and stronger as the days progressed. You didn't know how long this shop
would be your new "home". How much tear gas and bullets would the police
use? How hard it must have been to get a good night's sleep with everyone
out to get you and the others...at any moment! February 11, 1937 came.
Victory was yours!!! The First Contract!! Ever!! In Flint, Michigan. In
my mind's eye, on that day, I can see you happily walking out of the plant
with the other cheering Sit-Downers onto Saginaw Street, joining Mr. D___
and the cheering masses in a Victory Celebration. Thank you, Gentlemen!
(If you are interested in purchasing the book please call the Greater Flint
Arts Council at (810) 238-2787. UAW Local 651 members, in memory of these
two very fine gentlemen...please attend your union meetings. Because of
their efforts we don't have to meet in secrecy in candle-lit basements
with covered windows anymore. Think about it!!! You can make a difference.
Solidarity Forever!
"64 YEARS OLD AND GOIN'STRONG"
9.13.99 I love to read, and Labor History and Computing are two of my favorites. Recently, the library had a book sale and I picked up a book named "Selected Speeches, Messages, Press Conferences, and Letters of Franklin D. Roosevelt." The following is his statement upon signing the Social Security Act of August 14th, 1935: Today a hope of many years is in a large part fulfilled. The civilization of the past hundred years, with it's startling changes, has tended more and more to make life insecure. Young people have come to wonder what would be their lot when they came to old age. The man with a job has wondered how long the job would last. This Social Security measure gives at least some protection to thirty million of our citizens who will reap direct benefits through unemployment compensation, through old age pensions and through increased services through the protection of children and the prevention of ill health. We can never insure one hundred percent of the population against one hundred percent of the hazards and vicissitudes of life, but we have tried to frame a law which will give some measure of protection to the ordinary citizen and to his family against the loss of a job and against poverty ridden old age. This law, too, represents a corner stone in a structure which is being built but is by no means complete-a structure intended to lesson the force of possible future depressions, to act as a protection to future administrations of the Government against the necessity of going deeply into debt to furnish relief to the needy-a law to flatten out the peaks and valleys of deflation and of inflation-in other words, a law that will take care of human needs and at the same time provide for the United States an economic structure of vastly greater soundness. I congratulate all of you ladies and gentlemen, all of you in Congress, in the Executive departments and all of you who come from private life, and I thank you for your splendid efforts in behalf of this sound, needy and patriotic legislation. If the Senate and the House of Representatives in this long and arduous session had done nothing more than pass this Bill, the session would be regarded as historic for all time. FDR, how right you were! Thank You! Thank Sunday, September 12th, at 11:00a.m. at Local 651 you will be able to discuss and vote on all the issues brought up, including one to change the time of your union meeting, If you can't make it, could you please pass this on to two or more fellow 651 members. Solidarity Forever...The union makes us strong!
UAW LOCAL 659LOCAL
651 OFFICERS PERSONAL WEBSITES!
WE ARE NOW THE SURVIVORS
8.30.99 As you look before you, on your job... crafting, creating
a part that moves to the next station...or you might be fixing that
machine...welding, wiring, cutting, putting life back into that metal and
plastic entity. Please reflect on this. The sum of your experience is being
called upon. From your mind to your very fingertips. This all important
present moment instantly becomes the past. Each second of experience prepares
us for the next experience. Each second we become more educated, experienced
and seasoned for the job at hand. From seconds to minutes, minutes to hours,
days to weeks...year after year. Suddenly...decades have elapsed!!! We
are now the "older" folks to the younger workers. Remember the gentlemen
with the pocket protectors? The gentlewomen that came in early to put new
doilies on the tables that sat next to the lines...to get the coffee pot
going...to make the day more enjoyable and tolerable for their ladyfriends?
Remember? Oh, how I miss them. With their stories of the past years in
this shop...the years that we were in school, or not even born yet! One
thing that always got me was someone telling me of "hiring in" in the year
I was born. You too??? Now I suddenly realize that some of our fellow workers
and alot of the engineers and supervisors were in grade school or not even
born when you and I hired in! We Are The Survivors! Imagine that. We are
the ones with the responsibility to pass on the experience, wisdom, and
stories to our youthful union members. Stories of how it used to be. Just
like the senior folks did when we first hired in. Their tales of building
parts for the war effort..."that line over there used to make bullets"...and
tales of the greatness of Walter Reuther...Mr. and Mrs. AC...silver dollars
at Christmas...a superintendent shaking a worker's hand, no matter how
dirty it was...Our own tales...the ones of civil rights...the Vietnam war...oil
embargoes...big cars...Watergate...a president resigning...the time you
could sit in high school knowing that you could always work for GM...the
unemployment lines winding around and around for hours...laid off...then
called back...laid off...called back. Gradually, the factory weathered
veterans of our past retired. WE BECAME THEM!!! WE became the ones in charge
of the memories. More significantly, WE BECAME THE FIRST WORKFORCE HERE
THAT NO LONGER WORKS FOR GM. Delphi management, give us the tools and training
to succeed. Employee involvement is a necessity! Listen to us! We are the
masters of our jobs.We have a learned strength and wisdom acquired from
years and years of doing the noble work that we do...consistently and diligently,
with supreme integrity! To the management and engineers that missed our
glory years here, respect us! We know our jobs! Our mothers and fathers,
sons and daughters, aunts and uncles, cousins and friends all have worked
here. The continuation of this is important to us. In summary, the younger
UAW workforce will become "us" 25 years from now...and they will tell the
new hires how we successfully built this company into the new millenium,
apart from GM. Retired, we will drive by Delphi and see workers going in.
We will see people going in and out of Local 651. Our hearts and minds
will be at peace!/ Please don't forget to attend your union meeting
on Sunday, September 12 at 11:00a.m.at Local 651. You will be able to discuss
and vote on a new time for your union meeting. If you can't make it, could
you please pass this information on to two fellow members. Thank You. Solidarity
Forever.
"DO YOU BELIEVE"
8.16.99 Do you believe in yourself? Do you believe you are capable
of anything? Do you believe that the sky is the limit? Do you believe that
you...your effort...can make a positive difference? Do you believe that
many people together, with the same positive attitude, determination and
vision can accomplish anything...can create a UAW job filled secure future
here at Delphi...just like a sculptor molds clay into a work of art or
a mother and father create a child and successfully nurture it from infancy
to adulthood thus repeating the cycle of life? No matter what they are
up against. Do you believe that the journey...the struggle towards the
ultimate goal...is the most important lesson? A lesson which shows what
a person is made of! Their true fiber. We, the UAW members of Delphi East,
have this fiber...this "industrial" strength inside of us to accomplish
anything. It's been passed on from the previous generations of UAW members
that met in darkened basements with candles to create a union. From our
families that all worked in the shops in Flint! It is a proud heritage
of character and strength that we all share. Here at Delphi, we have moved
out of our teenage years together, hugged and cried together, supported
each other emotionally and financially through pain, loss and divorce.
We have agreed, argued, joked, laughed and sighed together. We have looked
at hundreds of family pictures...seen our coworkers pregnant; and said
to this child that they carried "I remember when your Mama worked beside
me with you in her belly!" I have seen women work 12 hour days, 7 days
a week tell me "now I'm going home to second shift." We have said "Good
Morning" and "Have a good day" to each other over a period of years, sometimes
not knowing each other's name. We have held the doors open for each other
saying "No, you go ahead first." We have gotten coffee, pop, and snacks
for each other...held baby showers, birthday, going away, and retirement
parties for each other. On the lines, we have been cold and hot together
and yelled "Who's got that fan on?" We've complained "Who left my job like
this?" We have gained weight, greyed and went bald together. We have went
through the name changes and strikes together. We know sides of each other
that no one else has seen. Why not! We've spent half our lives on this
earth in this shop...one-third of each day together, elbow to elbow! We
are this generations "tough cookies" of Delphi East. We, together, our
skins thick and toughened through all the trials and tribulations of modern
day factory life, can build us into the next century. We, together, can
weave a future of UAW jobs here at Flint East for our children and grandchildren
and for the people of Genesee County. This factory floor and walls, this
land you and I have talked, walked, and worked together on has a rich history
within it. It can, will, and must employ future generations of UAW workers,
some not even born yet! Here, side by side, going through the same things
you and I went through all those years. Yes, Yes, Yes, We together, can
do anything! You are the "Tough Cookies". I grew up with you...I know you!!!
ANONYMOUS
...9.14.98 Driving down Court Street in front of Central High School
after dropping off books on the history of Genesee County and Walter Reuther,
I thought of the great names listed on our Local's charter- a charter signed
almost 60 years ago. Mr. Reuther, R.J. Thomas, Ed Hall, Wyndham Mortimer
and Mr. Addes...the UAW originals. Their names written on it, at the bottom
of the yellowed sheet of paper...which I had just viewed 20 minutes earlier.
The road was so bumpy, you had to maneuver around the cement patches and
dips in it. My mom would drive me and my friend to band practice after
school got out, down these same roads...newer and smoother 33 years ago.
I thought of when as a kid, you always knew you could work in the shop
one day in Flint. But no more. The bumpy road was a reminder of GM's continuing
departure. I thought about the kids in this city, how the GM dream is gone
for them. How the words "AC" are removed off of the water towers and trucks.
How Buick City will be no more next year. How when you drive down South
Saginaw Street, Fisher 1 is torn down, and I can only picture in my mind
the tear gas, broken windows, and parade as the Sit-downers marched victoriously
out of the factory. A classical piano was playing sadly over my radio...I
cried.
2/27/00..."Management's business planning process will include the necessity
for providing employees with the appropriate training, methods and systems,
materials, and equipment in an appropriate enviroment based on the Quality
Network Beliefs and Values to perform their work. It is then incumbent
upon employees to exercise diligence and properly perform their work to
produce the highest quality, customer-valued products and services. It
is only through personal commitment from every Delphi employee to provide
the highest quality, customer-valued products and services that we will
satisfy our customers and maintain job security for all."
...per 3/06/00, 3/15/00 SPARKLER Article UPDATED Quality Network Suggestion Dept. phone numbers: Plant 6,7 7-5152. Plant 43 phone 7-8635 or 7-7920. Plant 2,8 phone 7-6404. Plant 3 Maintenance,central services phone 7-6400. Human Resources and miscellaneous departments etc...phone 7-3903. Engineering Building phone 7-8246.
Ask for a copy of The UAW-Delphi Suggestion Plan Employee Handbook. Always
save your copy of the suggestion AND write down the suggestion number!
Personally walk and talk the suggestion investigator through your idea!
Make sure they understand the idea and it is written down properly. If
the monetary award is not fair, launch your appeal(suggestion review)immediately
by calling one of the above phone numbers! One thing that has irked me
throughout the years is when the salaried investigator does not PERSONALLY
talk to me about my suggestion! Make sure they personally talk to you about
the suggestion you wrote! Call the above numbers if this doesn't happen!
Ask to talk to the joint UAW suggestion representative. They will assist
you and give you further guidance. Our ideas can help create a future for
us and future UAW members here at the site! You have the power inside...the
spirit, strength and wisdom...you are truly a miracle! Nothing can stop
us from succeeding! Nothing! Our world...the shop floor...worked on it
for years! We know this shop! New UAW members of the future will walk,talk,
and work in this shop, just like we did! Our brothers and sisters
of the past created a union of hearts and minds here in Flint so many years
ago! Against all odds!
Our generation of worker is a mighty force! We grew up in the Fifties and
Sixties...with great leaders...Martin Luther King, Walter Reuther, John
F. Kennedy! They had leadership and vision and no fear! We all have leadership
qualities and use them daily without even thinking about it! Revisit these
and other leaders of the past's words and deeds! Draw inspiration from
their actions! Integrity is a force that cannot be stopped! Stay positive!
We are the UAW! The greatest union in the world! We build the future here
at Delphi Flint East! We will succeed! We are miracles! Solidarity Forever!
GENESEE
COUNTY, FLINT, CLIO, DAVISON, FENTON, FLUSHING, GRAND BLANC, HOLLY,
LAPEER, LINDEN, SWARTZ CREEK ...EVERYONE CLICK...
genesee county
.com
swartz
creek .com
fenton mi .com
fenton
.org
flint
mi .org
flint sitdown.com
grand
blanc mi .com
grand
blanc .org
WIDE
TV .com
OR
use the easiest
UHHUH .com TO GET TO THIS WEBSITE!
...WHATEVER'S
EASIER FOR YOU!
1/29/00...per the Feb.7th SPARKLER article...Click:
www.www.reuther.wayne.edu/autoworker.html www.worldbook.com/fun/aajourny/html/index.html
P.S...GRAB
A SUGGESTION FORM AND WRITE DOWN THAT GREAT IDEA OF YOURS! IF IT IS THE
FIRST ONE YOU HAVE WRITTEN THIS YEAR, YOU WILL RECEIVE A FREE GIFT! MAN,
YOU CAN'T BEAT THAT!
Jan
1 2000!
We
Made It! Happy New Year 2000! This
morning I got busy and started the old computer(It Worked!)I was thinking
about...aw...check it out(CLICK NOW)!
Nov-December
1999
...
a labor of love ... from the heart of an autoworker...a proud UAW Local
651 member in Genesee County Flint MI ...uhhuh...uhhuh...uhhuh...dot com!
ON THE LINE AND ONLINE AT THE SAME TIME!!
12-24-99
I'm gonna be adding more links during the holidays...man, I'm energized!
Active and retired Brothers and sisters of UAW Local 651 have a happy and
safe holiday! To all...God Bless You!
12-30-99
"Weaving the Web" by Tim Berners-Lee is a
great book to read(one of the presents I received from my wife).It tells
how he invented the world wide web! One person, one idea! Gee whiz, dot
coms are everywhere now! I am glad he kept on with his dream!
Look
what can be done in the following sentences because of his vision...Wanna
read the Times of India? http://www.timesofindia.com/
or
Go
to Kentucky? http://www.kentucky.com/
or
Read
the China Daily? http://www.chinadaily.com/
or
Visit
the Great UAW Website? http://www.uaw.com/
You and I can travel the world with our fingertips...in seconds! In my opinion, the creation of the World Wide Web in our time is as significant as the invention of the motorcar, electricity, telegraph, phone...etc. was 100 or more years ago! Our generation is truly living during one of the greatest communication-inventive phases of human history. Please learn about the web.
(Oh,
I just found this cool site! It is called HOW THINGS WORK! I would like
to share it with you! Check it out:
http://www.howthingswork.com/
Please come back!
Anyhoo,as I was saying... Buy your own dot com. They are only $35.00 a year!In 2006, they're around 10 dollars or less! What a Great Country!
Create a website. Participate in this new adventure. See ya in Year 2000!
PS...IF YOU WANT TO LEARN HOW TO CREATE A WEBSITE USING NETSCAPE COMPOSER(IT
IS IN NETSCAPE COMMUNICATOR), CLICK THE FOLLOWING LINK:
http://home.netscape.com/browsers/using/newusers/composer/
Also, MICROSOFT
FRONTPAGE ROCKS! There are many free cybercities
on the web. Tripod gives you free web
space and e-mail to create a homepage. Various
website editors are built into the site. There, if you want to, you can
also purchase a dot-com
with URL redirection... www.namesecure.com
is cool if you want your own dot-com pointing to your Tripod homepage or any other homepage(website)you have
created! Tripod is located at https://www.tripod.com/
Geocities(Yahoo)is another popular cybercity with free e-mail and alot
web space and various website editors! http://www.geocities.com/
.
Angelfire has free space and alot of the bells and whistles...check
it out. https://www.angelfire.com/.
The one I began to learn on is The Express
Page at www.expage.com!
No e-mail, but you can use some HTML(you know,
HyperText Markup Language)within the page,
and the web page editor is easy and fun to use! Give them a click!
Also, check out www.pagetalk.com
! Here you can learn how to add voice data to your website!
Brothers and sisters of the great UAW, read the information and tutorials on the above sites and make your first homepage! Celebrate this great union we are all a part of! I would like to say a big "HELLO" and "THANK YOU" to all of our Local 651 retirees, and all UAW retirees! I hope this website does ya proud!
All members: If you don't have a computer, try WEB TV on for size.
It's got 6 e-mail boxes, a free personal homepage for each box holder,
built-in software, you can use your TV as the monitor, and it comes with
a remote control that runs your both your TV and web box. For 50
dollars more you can get a wireless keyboard. Click http://www.webtv.com/
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT...
Oh,
did you hear about that new AFL-CIO site for WORKING FAMILIES? CLICK NOW(please
come back...Thanks!)
..
Per my article in The Sparkler
6.21.99
AND 6.19.99 concerning
parliamentary procedure...here are some www links
www.arts.state.tx.us/library/roberts.htm
also try www.parliamentarians.org/
11-26-99...Old Uhhuh hopes you had a blessed and safe Thanksgiving with your family and friends and you didn't eat too much!! (Those sandwiches you're going to eat over the next few days sure do taste good, don't they? Leftover pizza in the 'fridge does, too...wonder why?...hmmm...Anyway, before I start ramblin' on 'bout that check out these new links I stumbled across...
Sparkler article links 12-6-99..
www.allnetdevices.com www.wired.com
Like I said...our UAW workforce can build these gadgets with pride...experience...and
with quality, cost, and delivery in mind!!! We will succeed!!!
SEPT.
1999...
I JUST GOT BACK FROM MY FINANCIAL TRAINING AND MAN AM I FIRED UP!!! THANK
YOU, MY UAW, LOCAL 651, REGION 1-C AND OUR RETIREES{YOU GIVE SO MUCH OF
YOURSELVES!!} FOR THE OPPORTUNITY! AGAIN, I GOTTA THANK THE FLINT SITDOWNERS
AND WOMEN'S AUXILIARY FOR WHAT YOU DID BACK IN 1936-1937! I AM MOVED!!!
YOU WERE SO GOOD TO US! FOR ME, THE ETERNAL FLAME AND THE LIBRARY WAS THE
MOST MEMORABLE OF ALL!!! THE LECTURES WERE TOTALLY EMPOWERING...THE INSTRUCTORS
WERE SUPERB...THE INN WAS LIKE A SECOND HOME...AND OH THAT FOOD WAS GOOOOOOOD!!!!
EVERYTHING I HAVE LEARNED I WILL UTILIZE DURING MY TENURE AS TRUSTEE. TO
THE MEMBERSHIP OF UAW LOCAL 651...I SERVE YOU PROUDLY!!!
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| THE UAW ...WHO AND WHERE WE ARE! | BARGAINING 1999 |
| WORKER NEWS | SOLIDFAX |
HISTORIC
PLACES:
History
America
National
Trust
Nat.
Park Service
NPS
Register
| WHAT IS WEB TV? IT COSTS LESS THAN $75! | www.washingtonpost.com |
| AUTONEWS.COM | NOT WEB TV BUT CLASSIC TV ...UHHUH!! |
| THE ULTIMATE BAND LIST | JIMI HENDRIX |
| BILLBOARD MAGAZINE | GUITAR WORLD |
| MUSIC NEWSWIRE | GUITAR PLAYER |
| ROLLING STONE | MARK FARNER |
10.20.01(HECK, I WROTE THE FOLLOWING WORDS IN 1999...)"THE WEB IS FILLED WITH ADVENTURE! THE WORLD IS CHANGING. BROADBAND CABLE IS COMING SOON TO A TV NEAR YOU! TAKE THE TIME TO LEARN ABOUT THE DIGITAL FUTURE. IT IS HERE...NOW. THE COMMENT 'I DON'T NEED A COMPUTER' DOESN'T EVEN APPLY ANY MORE. IT'S WAY PAST THAT NOW. 50% OF U.S. HOUSEHOLDS HAVE AT LEAST ONE COMPUTER. THEIR SATURATION POINT WILL BE APPROACHING HOME STEREOS AND VCR'S AS THE PRICES DROP! YOU KNOW IT'S THE ONLY CONSUMER PRODUCT THAT GETS BETTER FASTER AND CHEAPER...(hmmmm....JUST LIKE CARS DID IN THEIR EARLY YEARS!)(MAN,WHEN I WROTE THIS PROCESSORS WERE AROUND 400 T0 500 MHZ. NOW THEY ARE 2 GHZ! WHEW!) TO SURF THE WEB, OR LEARN COMPUTIN', YOU ONLY NEED A BASIC MACHINE. JUST LIKE A CAR, YOU CAN GET BASIC TRANSPORTATION...OR ALL THE BELLS AND WHISTLES!!! ANYHOO, LISTED FURTHER ON DOWN THIS WEB PAGE is information on the UAW SKILL CENTER. It is PROVIDED BY YOUR GREAT UNION, OUR UAW! CLASSES THAT COVER THE COMPUTING BASES, IF YOU OR YOUR FAMILIES WANT TO START LEARNING. ISN'T THAT WHAT LIFE IS ABOUT? There are other classes, too! ISN'T OUR SKILLS CENTER A BLESSING?"
THESE ARE JUST A COUPLE OF THE BENEFITS THAT OUR UNION PROVIDES FOR US! ALL I CAN SAY IS THIS....BACK IN 1937...WHEN THEY SATDOWN IN FLINT MI FOR DIGNITY AND RESPECT...AND GOT US OUR FIRST CONTRACT...LITTLE DID THEY KNOW OR COULD THEY IMAGINE WHAT A BEAUTIFUL THING THEY WERE CREATING!! MADE WITH PRIDE IN FLINT MI IN 1937...THE UAW!!!! RIGHT ON!!!
THANK YOU FLINT SITDOWNERS AND WOMEN'S Emergency Brigade FOR YOUR COURAGE!
UAW
PROUD AND LOUD...
I AM PROUD TO
SERVE THE MEMBERSHIP AT
UAW
LOCAL 651 AS THEIR TRUSTEE, Vice-President & President! "THANKS FOR TAKING ME
FROM THE ROAD TO THE UNION HALL"
REMEMBER...CLICK HERE FOR NEWS... THE News...clik
hEre...cLick it THE NEWS if you missed the link above!!!!!!!! (This is
the original 651 Striker's Website from the 1998 strike. Looks like I made
a little progress website-wise since then!)UAW
SKILL CENTER CLASS CATALOG| 48420 |
| 48423 |
| 48430 |
| WWW.flint sitdown.com |
| WWW.fenton.org |
| 48433 |
| 48439 |
| www.grandblancmi.com |
| www.grandblanc.org |
| 48442 |
| 48446 |
| 48451 |
| 48473 |
| www.swartz creek.com |
| WWW. widetv.com |
| SIT-dOWNER DIARY |
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Thanks for checking out
the website! Like I said, it's UAW PROUD AND LOUD! UHHUH...YEAH!!! MAN,
check out Flint Sit-Down History Links and First UAW Contract & Sitdown Memorial - Monument if you didn't already!