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          Office Professionals of Central Michigan University

 

               

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Welcome to the home page of UAW Local 6888, representing over 300 Office Professionals at Central Michigan University.  CMU's Office Professionals first organized as an independent union in 1968.  In 1988, we joined the UAW.  The rest has been history in the making!  Click here to view a timeline of Local 6888.

Local 6888 is committed to securing economic and social justice for our members, as outlined in the principals of the International UAW. Our goal is to uphold the American standard of living according to the needs of our members and to strive for dignity in the workplace.

This site is dedicated to bringing accurate and up to the minute information to our membership. 

Worker's       Memorial Day April 28

Every year on April 28, the unions of the AFL-CIO observe Workers Memorial Day to remember those who have suffered and died on the job and to renew our efforts for safe workplaces. This year the struggle continues to create good jobs in this country that are safe and healthy and to ensure the freedom of workers to form unions and, through their unions, to speak out and bargain for respect and a better future. It's time for our country to fulfill the promise of safe jobs for all.

Four decades ago, Congress passed the Occupational Safety and Health Act, promising every worker the right to a safe job. Unions and our allies have fought hard to make that promise a reality—winning protections that have made jobs safer, saved hundreds of thousand of lives and prevented millions of workplace injuries and illnesses.

But our work is not done. Many job hazards are unregulated and uncontrolled. Some employers, like Massey Energy and BP, cut corners and violate the law, putting workers in serious danger and costing lives. Each year thousands of workers are killed and millions more injured or diseased because of their jobs.

The Obama administration has moved forward to strengthen protections with tougher enforcement on serious violators and proposed new safeguards for workplace hazards. But business groups and the Republican majority in the U.S. House of Representatives are attacking these stronger measures, falsely claiming they kill jobs. They are pushing legislation to make it difficult, if not impossible, to issue needed safeguards to protect workers and the public.

We cannot and will not let them turn back the clock and destroy the progress we have made to make jobs safer and save lives. Safety laws and regulations don't kill jobs—but unsafe jobs do kill workers.

 Pension Bill

Legislation has been proposed for a major overhaul of the Michigan Public School Employees Retirement System (MPSERS). If passed in its present form, Senate Bill 1040 will slash public school employee pensions, increase retiree health care cost, and cut health care benefits for FUTURE HIRES, CURRENT EMPLOYEES AND CURRENT RETIREES.

This legislation is being rushed through the process. Proponents have planned legislative hearing starting as soon as they return from their spring break. The bill could be signed into law as early as the end of May. Now is the time to act!

Many people have been emailing and calling with questions about how this legislation will affect their current or planned retirement. I would suggest if you have questions about this bill that you CALL YOUR STATE SENATOR and your STATE REPRESENTATIVE! They need to understand that what they are doing will impact real people, not “public school employees.” If they are forced to answer questions from their constituents perhaps they will gain a better understanding of what they are being asked to vote for. So this time I don’t want you to just call and ask them to vote NO on the bill, I want you to force the legislators and their staff to answer your specific retirement questions and concerns.

Senate Bill 1040 “fixes” the retirement system in a way that will hurt not only those who are mid-career; it will hurt some of the neediest workers and the elderly. Unfortunately it doesn’t stand alone; it’s one more in a string of laws, and proposed laws, directly aimed at weakening collective bargaining, hurting middle-class families, and hurting teachers and other education workers in the public school system.

It is time to push back –

Call your legislators – they need to hear from real people who will be affected by this.
Contribute to the PAC Fund – if we don’t like the decisions coming out of Lansing then we need to change who is making the decisions. Use the button at the top or send a check!
Sign the Protect Our Jobs collective bargaining petitions - please contact your local union or email Nikhol Atkins at AFT Michigan if you need petitions.

We can stop this kind of legislation from happening, but only if we can either convince the current legislators that it is a bad idea, or replace them with someone new in November.

Here is additional information on SB 1040 –
Section analysis of SB 1040

MPSERS changes in bullet point form
MPSPRS pension background
Press Release quoting John Olekszyk, Chairperson of the AFT Michigan Retiree Chapter

We have received a certificate of appreciation from our adopted platoon, the 223rd Engineer Battalion - Task Force Knight. You can view it by clicking on this link. Our adopted platoon also has a FaceBook page that you can visit. They post photos and updates of their activities, awards, and ceremonies. Check it out! And THANK YOU for continuing your generous donations to our soldiers!

 

"Only a fool would try to deprive the working men and women of the right to join a union of their choice." - Dwight D. Eisenhower

 

 

 

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This site was last updated on 03/27/12.   Contact Local 6888's Web Master.  

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