Local 2244
UAW Local 2244 President
UAW President Ron Gettelfinger and
UAW Local 2244 President Sergio U. Santos.
Sergio U. Santos
UAW Local Office: 510-657-0800
Plant: 510 770 4297
santospresident@local2244uaw.com
Bargaining Chairman
Javier S. Contreras
UAW Local Office: 510 657 0800
Plant: 510 498 5695
contreraschairman@local2244uaw.com
| Chairman/President Report Wednesday, March 3, 2010 |
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 Wednesday, March 3, 2010 CHAIRMAN / PRESIDENT REPORT Brothers & Sisters, BARGAINING UPDATE Your local union leadership along with the UAW International requested a response from the company in a letter dated February of 2010 regarding the Union’s proposals. The company informed your leadership and the UAW International that they are willing to make some changes to the proposed Retention Package. The company also notified the union that Tetsuro Hitoshi, Vice President & Executive Advisor of Human Resources, Legal, Indirect, Purchasing, and Corporate Planning, would be his last day at NUMMI and the rest of the Company’s bargaining team would remain the same and Ron Holland will assume the role of lead negotiator. On February 16, 2010 the Company submitted a letter with a revised proposal on all Retention Package changes that reflect the Company’s current positions on the remaining open issues in the proposed Shutdown Agreement, General Releases, the Retention Package, and the Temporary Workforce Agreement. The Company also stated it is still gathering the information requested from the union and anticipates that it will provide us with the requested information under separate cover. Your Bargaining committee will meet with our legal department on Wednesday, 3/3/2010 regarding the current imperative proposal issues. They will also meet with the company Thursday, 3/4/10 regarding negotiations. REPORT ON CONSUMER OUTREACH TOYOTA & LEXUS DEALERSHIP CAMPAIGN First it was 8 dealerships, then 16, then 24. Last weekend it was 45 dealerships from Sacramento to San Diego. Our members are the real heroes of this effort to save NUMMI. And when we succeed, when we keep the plant open so we can support our families as they have been used to living, when our children and grandchildren have a good place to work… we will want to tell them the story of how this happened. We aren't sitting back and feeling sorry for ourselves. We aren't giving up because the company keeps telling their supervisors to tell us "its too late, the game is over." We are going to keep moving on. And now, we have friends all over California fighting with us. But this weekend, we have more. We now have people holding banners in front of Toyota from Seattle to South Florida, from Phoenix, Arizona to Portland, Maine. Their message is a bit different. Their banners say, "Toyota is Killing American Jobs." TREASURER LOCKYER'S BLUE RIBBON COMMISSION LEAVING TO JAPAN California State Treasurer Bill Lockyer will publicly release the special report prepared by his Blue Ribbon Commission detailing the economic, social and environmental impact of Toyotas announced closing of it's award-winning production facility in Fremont, and examining alternatives to the closure. UC Berkeley Professor Harley Shaiken will present the findings of the Commissions, which he heads. Other Commission Members are: Harley Shaiken, Professor, University of California Berkeley Bob Wasserman, Mayor, Fremont, California Rev. Bruce Reyes-Chow, Moderator, Presbyterian Church USA Victor Uno, Chairman, Port of Oakland, CA Commission Nina Moore, Chamber of Commerce, Fremont, California Richard Holober, Executive Director, Consumer Federation of CA Art Pulanski, Chief Officer, California Federation of Labor Carl Pope, President, Sierra Club of America Bruce Kern, Executive Director, East Bay Economic Development Alliance Danny Glover, Actor Some members of Treasurer Lockyer's Blue Ribbon Commission will leave for Japan at the end of this week to explain in person their special report. They will hold a press conference in Tokyo on Monday, March 8, then travel to Nagoya to meet with company officials. Our plant is too important to us, our families, the economic health of our communities and the entire state of California to give up now. For that reason, these smart and high powered people are giving up a week of their time to travel across the Pacific Ocean and tell Toyota that keeping the plant open is a necessity for California and the only way to restore faith with the consumers of California. In Solidarity,
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