U.S.W. Local 105
880 Devils Glen Road
Bettendorf, lA 52722
Phone # (563) 355-1 1 81
Fax # (563) 359-3529
Steelworkersl 05@mchsi.com
Website: http://www.uswl 05.org
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#13 lssue #7 Mailed
lssue Date February 15,2013 Volume
Office
Name
President
Jeff Hartford
Vice. Pres.
Brad Greve
Guide
Bob "Bart" Bartholomew
Rec Sec
Pat Stock
Griev
Chair
UNITED STEELWORKERS
Brad Greve
Fin Sec
UNITYAND STRENGTH FOR, WOR,KER,S
Mike Nicholas
candidates who are labor friendly. Help protect your
job and your future.
Meetings & Events
Februarv 2013
2118 6:00 pm
2119 6:20am
We have received check off cards from
Delegates @ Q-C Fed
Regular Business Mtgs
Rindler lll, David
Voelcker, Matt
Hartz, Scott
Shaffer, Lee
Folkers, Brian
Kelly, Royal
Goodall, Doug
Comins, Brandon
Smith, Robert
Rogers, Brandon
3:20pm
6:20pm
11:20pm
noon
2121 12 noon
12
Local 105-2 (Sivyer Steel)
3 p.m.
Local 105 Retirees Potluck
All meetines @ USW Local
105 Union
Unless designated otherwise
Hall
"Babbitrite Putty"
We have received notice from Alcoa Davenport
I
Works Director, Rob Woodall that "Babbitrite Putty"
used primarily on milling machines
contains
asbestos. The plant has taken immediate steps to
stop usage in operations, remove it from stores, and
safely manage unused Babbitrite as well.
[$
lf you
have a personal supply (as putty or dried) at work or
at home you should immediately contact Al Kirchoff
at 459-1469 and he will arrange to have it removed.
The company will not pursue any discipline of any
nature to have the Babbitrite returned to the plant. lf
an employee isn't comfortable with that scenario
they are to contact the union hall.
RED, WHITE & BLUE BANQUET
Tickets are available for this years Scott County
Democrats Red, White, and Blue Banquet. The
Banquet is this Saturday, February 16. Please call
Mike Nicholas at 563-271-1841 for tickets or more
information.
Medicare Part B Reimbursement
The Drive is On!
The PAF (Political Action Fund) drive is now
We recently had a 1991 Alcoa retiree stop at the hall
and informed us that the Medicare Part B premium went
up $6 per month beginning in 2013. He happens to be in
the retiree group that receives full reimbursement for
Medicare Part B premiums, but in the past Alcoa has
underway. Enroll before March 30 by completing a
checkoff card available from your committeeperson
with a minimum of a $1 per week contribution and
you will receive a PAC T-shirt and be eligible for a
automatically increased
the
reimbursement
drawing where five $2000 winners will be drawnl
For more details contact Jeff Hartford at 563 355-
pension.
1181.
reimbursement for the current Medicare Part
Contributions
deductions witl
the
following civic minded members:
7:20am
2120
every 3 weeks
you make through payroll
go toward electing political
on
his
His current pension check did not reflect the
B cost.
While he was here, we called Alcoa 123 (1-888-252-
ruFm.l-u-strtm
6212) and after eventually getting thru to "healthcare" we
asked for "representative" to talk to a live person. She
informed us that the increase in reimbursement is no
longer automatic and that she would send him a form and
represents thousands of federal workers in his district,
said government employees have suffered enough.
'We need to replace the sequester. Allowing the
sequester to go into effect would be absolutely
reckless economic policy," Van Hollen told reporters.
he would have to submit proof that his Medicare Part B
premium increased before they
will
increase
his
reimbursement to compensate for it.
I'll let you form your own opinion on whether or not this
might be considered as preying on the elderly.
Both parties say they want to avoid the
105 Gontest Gontinues
This week's and last week's number for direcl
deposit users to add to the cents of their deposit
amount is 64. lf the sum equals 105, you win a free
T-shirt.
With Deepest Sympathy:
The Family of:
Elenna Schroeder (Lillian Hagen's Grandmother)
Thaddeus Johnson Sr. - Cassandra Dixon's Father)
Union leaders denounce sequestration at DC
rally: 'They want to see us bleed'
By Kevin Bogardus - 02112113
http://theh ill.com/business-a-lobbvinoi282563-union-
leaders-denounce-seouestration-at-dc-rallv-thev-wantto-see-us-bleed
Union members took to the streets of Washington
on Tuesday to denounce the automatic spending cuts
from sequestration that are set to force furloughs
across the federal government.
Leaders of the AFL-CIO, the American Federation
of Government Employees (AFGE) and the American
Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees
(AFSCME) rallied workers on Capitol Hill who will likely
see lost pay if the sequester takes effect.
J. David Cox, AFGE's president, said lawmakers
who have expressed a willingness to let sequestration
happen are out to get federal workers.
"They want to see our red. They want to see us
bleed. They just want to kill us. Death by a thousand
cuts, brothers and sisters. I'm not interested in going
that way. ... We have to end this sequestration
madness right now," Cox told the assembled crowd,
which sported signs that said, "Sink the Sequeste/'
and "Hands Off Our Medicare!"
Union leaders warned the budget cuts would hurt
public services and create job losses across the
country.
"Sequestration is nothing but a word, nothing but a
long word with a simple purpose, and that's to hide a
very bad idea that we can cut our way to prosperity,"
said AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka.
"The
American people want and need our public services."
The AFGE has bristled
agencies are making plans to furlough workers for a
few days each month to deal with the lost funding.
Labor leaders criticized the spending cuts in strident
terms on Tuesday, with one official portraying it as
class warfare.
"That top one and two percent want more power.
They want more wealth and at the expense of all of us,
And today we stand and we are making a line in the
sand and we say 'Hell no!' " said Lee Saunders,
AFSCME's president.
After the rally, union members fanned out on
Hill to lobby lawmakers on reversing
Capitol
sequestration, in part by raising taxes on the wealthy.
"We clearly want to see new revenues on the table.
... We've already banked huge numbers of cuts. lt's
time to see real revenues on the table," said Chuck
Loveless, AFSCME's federal government affairs
director. 'We plan on increasing the noise on this, and
we will see where this all goes."
Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), ranking member of
the House Budget Committee, talked with union
leaders as the rally dispersed. Van Hollen, who
at
McKeon's proposal,
which would require federal agencies and departments
to eliminate positions when their workers retire. On
Monday, the federal government's worker union
proposed an alternative that would replace
sequestration
with cuts in
government service
contracts.
The fight over furloughs is part of a broader battle
between the parties over the size and pay of the
federal workforce.
President Obama last week proposed raising pay
for federal workers by 1 percent in 2014. That raise
would come on top of a half-point pay hike, scheduled
to take effect in late March, that was delayed in the
"fiscal cliff'deal struck last month.
Republicans have blasted the pay increases as a
waste of taxpayer money and passed legislation to
stop them.
The AFGE, however, harshly criticized Obama's 1
percent pay hike and vowed to work with lawmakers
on a larger increase.
"President Obama's proposed one percent pay
adjustment 'for 2014 is simply not enough. lt is not
enough to allow federal employees to make up lost
ground from two-plus years of frozen pay," Cox said in
a statement on Saturday,
lf the sequester isn't reversed, $85 billion will be
slashed from the federal budget in 2013, with more
than $1 trillion in cuts coming over the next decade.
Under orders from the White House, federal
blunt
spending cuts from sequestration, but neither side has
put forward a specific proposal to reverse the $85
billion that will but trimmed this year.
Senate Democrats are racing to craft legislation that
would replace the across-the-board cuts with a mix of
spending reductions and tax increases by the end of
the week, but are running short on time to pass a bill.
House Republicans approved two bills last year to
reverse sequestration, but that legislation cut far more
from federal spending than the $85 billion reduction
that will be triggered in March. Republican leaders in
the House have no plans to bring those bills back up
for a vote.
Defense hawks have pushed GOP leaders to put
forward a plan to stop the cuts, fearing the impact they
will have on the military. Rep. Buck McKeon (R-Calif.),
chairman of the House Armed Services Committee,
and other lawmakers have proposed shielding the
Defense Department from sequestration by paring
back the federal workforce.
Quad City Federation of Labor
Upcoming Free Educational Courses
Title: Skills for Emerging and Advanced
Mobilizing
Leaders:
for Justice at Work and in
Communities
Date: February 20th
Time: 9-3pm (Free lunch provided)
Location: 140'l W. 3'd St. Davenport, lA
431 Hall
our
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UFCW
Title: Workers Compensation: What You
Should
Know in lllinois and lowa
Date: March 6th
Time: 5:30
provided)
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7:00pm (Food and drinks will be
Location: Plumbers and Pipefitters Local 25 Hall
Please contact your AFL-ClO Community Services
Liaison, Joshua Schipp,
to RSVP for the
classes
listed above. Classes are usually capped at around
50 students, so make sure to RSVP todayl Email
quadcitvfed@netexpress.net or call 309 738-6536.
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