Negotiations Update 2/29/12

Your Negotiating Committee met again today with the company. After several passes on Non-Economic proposals we have reached tentative agreement on a majority of issues. We plan on meeting again tomorrow to exchange Economic proposals and discuss remaining Non-Economic issues. We will continue to update the membership on our progress.

Negotiations Update 2/28/12

Your Committee met with the Company today for our first pass of Non-Economic proposals. Progress was made in many areas. We are still working some unresolved issues. We are scheduled to meet again tomorrow.

Strike sanction vote

The strike sanction vote for CMT/GCR, InDyne and S C Jones will be held Tuesday March 6, 2012 from Noon til 6pm at the union hall 271 Taylor Ave Cape Canaveral FL.

In solidarity,
Your Negotiating Committee

ISC Negotiations

Your Negotiations Committee met today to finalize our Non-Economic Proposals. We are tentatively scheduled to meet with the company tomorrow Tuesday February 28, 2012.

In solidarity,
Your Negotiations Committee

ISC Negotiations Informational Meeting

Notice for IAM Local Lodge 2061 Dues Paying Members

URS, Sierra Lobo, Yang and IHA

Pre-Negotiations Informational Meeting to be held February 9, 2012 at 4:30 p.m. at the Holiday Inn Express Hotel located at 301 Tucker Lane, Cocoa, Florida (I-95 & Highway 520)

* IAM Constitution required Strike Sanction Vote will be taken after the meeting

* 2nd and 3rd shift meeting time is 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. February 9, 2012 at the IAM Union hall located at 271 Taylor Avenue, Cape Canaveral

Brevard Awake The State

"Join us as we Awake The State on the opening day of the Florida legislative session and fight back against Gov. Scott and his extremist allies in the Legislature. If you've had enough of the extreme attacks on our middle class, our public schools, health care, our land and water, voting rights, and our civil rights, it's time to Awake The State!"

Tue, Jan 10, 2012

4:00 PM - 6:30 PM

Event Location

Brevard County School District Building

2700 Judge Fran Jamieson Way

Melbourne, FL 32940

http://www.awakethestate.com/

Regular Membership Meeting January 3rd 2012

Regular meeting starts 4:30PM, at the district hall.

Merry Christmas

Wishing you and your family a Merry Christmas from Local Lodge 2061.

Homeless and Living in Cars by CBS 60 Minutes

USA Pension Plan Participants

In October, you should have received a packet from the USA Retirement Plan Administrator. The documents contain information critical to determining your pension plan benefit. You must review the personal information to determine the accuracy of the statement. All information must be accurate, as any mistakes will delay processing of your claim. In particular, you must review the page titled “Your Hours History”. We are aware of inaccuracies in the process of determining credited hours, which can affect your benefit. To receive a full year credit for each year, you must have achieved one thousand, eight hundred (1,800) hours worked. Overtime, vacation and sick leave are included in this calculation. If you detect errors in your personal information, or have reason to believe your work history accrual totals are inaccurate, you must respond no later than December 1, 2011. Included in the packet is a form for this purpose titled, “How to Correct Data”. Should you have any question, please contact us.

Mike Saltsman 321 794-3925

Lynn Beattie 321 289-5954

Lew Jamieson 321 446-7092

Open Your Hearts

In the coming weeks, we will be asking our members to “Open Up

Your Hearts” and donate one (1) hour’s pay to provide presents to

the children or our laid off members this upcoming Christmas.

In the past years, we have given generously to Brevard County

charities benefitting underprivileged children. We believe it is our

calling this year to help our laid off IAM members. Please give

generously to the children of our brothers and sisters.

Your Stewards or the Committee Members below will be accepting

your donations.

You may also donate to the “IAM Toy Drive” at any Kennedy

Space Center Credit Union.

For the flyer click here

Stewards please print a copy of the flyer and post it for the members in your shop(s) (please print it from home).

Job Fair November 8th, 9th, & 10th.

Time: 9:00a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Date: November 8, 9, and 10

District 166 Union Hall

271 Taylor Ave.

Cape Canaveral, Florida

See the flyer here: Job Fair Flyer

Brevard Workforce, Lockheed, and Spirit Aerosystems will be onsite to meet with members.

Double Health USA will also be onsite to answer questions and help you with medical insurance options.

Service watches will be dispersed to members who have not yet received them.

Regular Membership Meeting Tuesday November 1st, 2011

Regular Membership meeting starts at 4:30pm at the District Hall.

271 Taylor Avenue

Cape Canaveral, FL 32920.

Occupy Space Coast March starts at Brevard Veteran Memorial

The Occupy Wall Street Movement is coming to Brevard County

At least two events are planned for Saturday, a day when similar groups around the world are organizing marches and demonstrations in support of the Occupy Wall Street demonstration that started in Lower Manhattan a month ago.

Saturday morning, one group, Occupy Space Coast, is planning a march down State Road 520 from Merritt Square Mall to the Bank of America near the corner of SR 520 and Courtenay Parkway. The group expects to start marching at 11 a.m and stay in front of the bank until late afternoon.

A separate “Jobs not Cuts” rally is being organized for noon at Palm Bay City Hall on Malabar Road.

Come join us.

We will be on the north side of Merritt Square Mall at 10:30 a.m

"Occupy Wall Street is a leaderless resistance movement with people of many colors, genders and political persuasions. The one thing we all have in common is that We are the 99% that will no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of the 1%. We are using the revolutionary Arab Spring tactic to achieve our ends and encourage the use of nonviolence to maximize the safety of all participants".

LL 2061 Genreral Membership Meeting

The October meeting of Local Lodge 2061 will be Tuesday, October 4th. The meeting will begin at 4:30 p.m. at the IAMAW Union hall at 271 Taylor Avenue, Cape Canaveral.

USA Severance Recertification- DO NOT DELAY

All USA employees laid off July 22 must recertify for remaining eligible weeks by Friday, September 30. This recertification is for those weeks you are eligible following the initial 10 weeks. If you do not recertify by Friday, you will lose those weeks. DO NOT DELAY. Recertification directions (Salmon colored pages) are in the out-processing packet you received at the NSLD. Should you require any assistance or have any questions, contact me at 321 446-7092.

USA/IRS Letter

USA is required by federal regulations to keep all pension plan participants informed relative to the progress of plan termination. The recent letter from USA to pension plan participants regarding the filing with IRS for qualification determination of plan termination is an expected part of the process. USA is required to seek approval from the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation (PBGC is a federal government agency) and the IRS as part of the plan termination. This IRS letter was expected and hopefully indicates the process is closer to resolution.

Job Fair Monday

Human Resource representatives from the Trident Refit Facility in King's Bay, Georgia will be at the IAM&AW hall in Cape Canaveral on Monday, August 29th. The fair will begin at 12:30 p.m. The HR representatives will provide assistance in application and resume building for available jobs at the facility. There will also be representatives on hand to provide information on affordable health plans and mortgage alternatives. Brevard Workforce representatives will be present, as well.

Hate to say "We Told You So".

"Russia may fail to fulfill its obligations in delivering crews to the International Space Station after Wednesday's accident with Russia's Progress M-12M space freighter, a source in Russia's space industry said.

The space freighter fell in South Siberia's Altai Republic on Wednesday after failing to separate from the Soyuz-U carrier rocket, the first loss of the Progress freighter in the history of Russia’s space industry. A rocket engine failure is believed to have caused the accident.

"The scheduled launches of the [Soyuz] rockets are likely to be suspended because of the space freighter accident... until the reasons [of the accident] are established," the source said.

This means that members of the International Space Station's crew are likely to stay at the station longer than planned and that the new crew will not be able to replace them on schedule, he said.

After the retirement of the U.S. shuttle fleet earlier this summer, Russian Soyuz craft became the only way for astronauts to reach the ISS until at least the middle of the decade. NASA is paying its Russian counterpart Roscosmos more than $1 billion for crew transport services over the next four years."

http://en.rian.ru/russia/20110824/166122514.html

Hope our Politicians are paying close attention to the mess they created.