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Vol. IiI No. 1l ; a : 2 sAueust B4, 1955
IUE-CIO LOCAL 30) REPELS RAID RY JAMCAFL
on Friday igaat orets 1955" a pepresentative election; sponsored.
by the NeLeReB. was held at: KaPLe The. unit involved. consisted of. the
following: vee phelly
all development iachiniats;. tool Git at. haunts who service the
tool rooms, tool roon mechine ‘operators, inspec ors. (final-semi com“
rh ex components) and inspectors (gauges and complex components) in the
Lants operated by the Euvicvyer for the nhomic Energy Commission at
ba Knolls site, Nishkayuna and West Milton; N.Y. and Excluding all
other employees and Supervisors as de:ined in the acte
weg | RESULTS
TUE-CIO LoCaL 301
NO Union
TAM-AL'L
Challenged
Void
The campaign is now over and the’ mem bership, of IUE-CTO Local 301
extends an invitation to all non=members to join with us in dur. con
tinued struggle for higker wages, better working conditions, higher
pensions, holidays and -laproved hospitiligation planse
REMEN EB, IW UNITY THERE » ‘IS STRENGTH, Don't He A Free Riders
All wackies Shop employees wil,” have a new eligibility
- Gate, effective sugust 22, 1955, for becoming members of
Local $01 :IUE-CIO. ‘This means that there will be no initia»
tion fees or, ré-instatement feese This is in accordance ©
with the constitution of IUH-CIO Local SOl, article XXII.
FLASH IL ©
ELECTION RESULTS
IUE=CLO VICTORIOUS IN LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY == HUGE - NEW GeLbe
PLANT. THE ELECTION TOOK PLACE AUGUST 18; 19553,
IVE=CIO woe od, 035
No Union : 439
AFL (15 aFL UNIONS) 267
(INCLUDING IAM)
UE 147
During the election campaign the UE and 15 AFL Louisville Craft
Unions cand the Company teamed up in an attempt fas whittle down the IUE-.
in the GE chaine=IUEB=CIoO
The new GE piant in Louisville is expected to employ nee;
20,000 workers when in full operation.
This marks the al GE plant to join ue ranks of IUE~CIO in less
than one year,
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. Regular Monthly Membership Meeting Tuesday, September 8th, 1953,
Urgent All Attendlls ‘
Refreshments will be servedli
NOrices Earl Ste Onge Elected i sectional Chief Shop steward
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The IAM interventionists are trying to split up our Local, They
arc trying to divide our ranks and. onen our Local to all kinds of splinter
FLOUPS »
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They will not succeed if every Shop Steward and Lea
Local 301 understands these 5 important points about I
Mike Jiminez, This was thoroughly exmosed in our Shop
Faper Friday, Jinmines hes ade these deals with IAM in
the past when he realized UE was headed for defeat, The
latest “previous deal with Inf was made at the Harvester
plent in Auburn.
IAM has nothing to offer GE workers---skilled or otherwise.
TAM is even weeker than UE}
IAM has no National Contract with GE, As a result, GE
workers In locations vhere TaN renresents then---have been
forced out on strikes of more than 100 days in order to
ebtain simple Contract conditions, Uhen they went back to
work they were beaten and had less then .vhat they were
offered whai they went out,
‘The seniority of GE workers involved with IAM would be
completely wrecked---rubilated!
IAM is not a democratic organization, It is run on
a brazen dictatorial---"from the top down" basis,
This Fact Sheet explains each of these points, Carry this
important message back inte the shop and see that every worker in your
department is acquainted with and understands these points,
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GE workers have nothing to gain from LIM, Tho exper
GE workers who once’ belonged to IAM proves this,
. The Fort Wayne case, where IAM represented the GE Toolmakers,
proves this, ,
-But for all its, talk, IAW could not do anything to win improve~
~ ments in wages, hours and working conditions, All’ IAM succeeded in doing
was in splitting the Toolmakers away from wWhity with other GE workers,
Even: though IAM has represented the Fort layne GE Toolmakers for many’
years, their top rate is still lower than our, Toolmakers rates here in
Schéh ectady,
It took Local 301 to win the first Automatic Progression plan
in GE, IAM couldn't do it,
AMA OH
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In IAM GE workers would find thenselves in an impossible fix, IAM
has no Netd onal Contract with GE, As a result, L\M would then have to take
on Boulware with no mass support to back it wp, The result would be the .
same in Schenectady as it has been-in both places where LiM tried to win a
Contract from GE, The result was STRIKES| (See that story on next page.)
ask.any IAM spokesman to show you a copy of a National Contract
with GE! They cantt,
In fact, almost no member of TAM in any GE plant has
ever seen a copy of a Local Contract. Because TAM cannot negotiate nationally,
- at never gets as much as GE workers who do have a National Contract, Often
t winds up getting less,
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DAYS IN MILINAUK
DAYS INEVENDALE
» Except for a*couple toolroom and other small units, the only places
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where IAM represents GE employees is at Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Evendale,
Ohio, The total number of people in those plants is less than 2,000, Asa
result, IAH is too weak to win anything for its members, In fact, it is too
» weak even to, prevent the company from taking away gains. that have accumulated
in the past,
at the GE X-Ray Works in Milwaukec, I\M went out on strike last '
* May 2nd to win the same gains that IUE-CIO had’ Long had. Four months later
LAM members were still on strike and the cormpany had not moved on a single
demand, The strike was a pitiable failure that left Milwaukee GE workers
disgusted with any form of Unionism,
CIO represents GE workurs at the GE Electrical Stove plant, also
in Milwaukee and CIO rates are 17¢ an hour higher than IAM rates,
at the Evendal. Ohio Yorks, TiN struck the plant in March, The
strike was not acttled until May--almost 10 weeks later. nd again the GE
workers were forced to go back to work for the same thing they had been
offered when they struck,
Those strikes were simply on Contract Renewal, What would IAM
ever do’ in Schenectady? Here it would have to start from the very beginning-—
start from scratch--and it could never hope to win what we already have,
iet alone ret_us any improvements}
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One of the most important things to GE workers right “now is
Seniority. Schenectady GE workers can only be sure of koepiig their
Seniority rights by keeni ng cur Tone Supplement, and the people who,
negotiated that Supplenont and have enforced it, That Supplement will go ;
with Local 301 in IUE-CIo,
But, in IuM it wold be a different story.
In IiM, GE workers would actually be in worse shape than. the. Steam-
fitters, Steaafitters with as much as 14 years! scurvice are now wal king
the street, while younger amployees in Local 301 are on the job. That is
because the Steanfitters are a splinter Broupes They: have their own set-up
and therefore do not enjoy the benefits of plant-wide seniority,
Can you imagine T.AM--whi.ch knows absolut ely nothing about the
conditions and problens of GE workers--trying to negotinte a Seniority
_agreenent covering 20,000 peaple? They can't even do it for plants of a
few hundred neople in Evendale and Milwaukee}$} |
Furthermore, IaM is a Craft Union--not an Industrial Union, It
was one-of the outfits that opposed organizing industrial varies like
Schenoctady GE, when they had no Union, It opposed it because InM is a
Union of smell sirilled groups and therefore it gives extreme preference to
those people and discriminates against the produc tion workers,
In a letter sent to certain GE workers on March 22, the IAM exposed
its splitting aims when it ‘stated:
Selied 2 workers want a Union. of: £"-thoir own, They want to handle
theirown- grievances, their-own negotiations, and’ run. their, own affairs... liM
is petitioning the Se for an election to be hela ‘none the skilled craft
at the Schenectady GE Works,'!
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The [iN is the exact opposite of Local 301.- In Local 301 the members
decide policy and prograns--our Union is run fron the bottom up--the menkers
through the Shop Stewards to the Exeeutave Board and on up 'to the Officers,
run from the top down! The officers decide policy and even carry it
out, The members have no control,-
Proof of this is the dictatorial way LAM Netional Officers can break
strikes or "fire" officers of Locals and Districts, The IAM Constitution
provides that The President has "the direction and supervision of all Districts,
Locals, Councils and Conferences.,and all of the Officers of such Ledges,
councils and conferences with full authority to suspend" any of them, The
IaH President is given a wide range of charges on which he can do his "suspend-
ing" ete,---Such as "on grounds of incompetoncy, negligence, insubordination, -
failure of duty or violations or provisions of the. Constitution". Only after
an Order of Suspension hns been issued by the International President has the
accused member the right to be heard, «nd then, after the Order of Suspension,
the suspended member "no Longer has the risht to attond mostings of any Local,
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hold, ise 0% activities of Iam" fu}
issuing lecflcts against, ny Officers of IAN,
Thus it is’obvious that IM is dictatorial and bureaucratic, In
IAM the only rights you hove are rights permitted by the Officers, nd there:
is no possibility of changing the procedures in LM, for Conventions are held
only once every four years! «nd then the Conventions are so dominated by Prom
fessional Encks that-the members never get a chance to say or do. anything,
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IAM Contract with Bendix iviation' Corp:
N,RTICLE AIX -- PRODUCTION ST/JHDARDS: The Union agrees that it will do
everything within its power to cause the emplovces covered by this agrecment,
individually ond collectively, to perform and render cfficiont work and
sorvice and that ib and its members will-wholehcartcdly cooperate with
nanagenont —"
TAM Contract with western Cartridge (
"The Union is pledeed to strive for hisher sroduction,. higher morale, and
greater efficiency and cooperation, If these ends are not attained, the.
comacny Will nob consent to 2 continurtion of the Union shop after the exe
piretion of the present arreencnt," j
Other clauses in IAM Contracts expose that outfit as nothing less
than a Company Union, It agrees to do the enforcement of production quotas;
ib agrees to order maabers back to work if they get tired of spced-ups,
rate-cuts, etc,
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One of the worst blotches on IAM's rotten record is its policy
of discriminating against women, Many Iau Contracts provide one sut of
rates for men and a second set of retes for women which runs 20¢ to 30¢
an hour under the mile rates,
Although LAM is more than 70 years old as an organizstion, 1945
was the first year that a woman ever took part in the Union's Convention,
Thet was on Oct, 30, 1945, in Rew York City.
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(why doosritt UE criticize and expose ILM for the Company
Union that it is? The answer is obvious--That would be
going against the deal Jiminez made with Tan, )
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In the past year alone IUE-CIO has organized seven new GE plants,
three of them being important vlants whore GE tricd to run-away: from
Unionism, Those seven plants are:
1. Louisville, Kentucky -This is GE's new '".ppliance Park"
which the Commany states ee, enploy 12,000 to 14,000 people
within another yeer end a half, UE campaigned in Louisville
against IVE-C1LO for nore ‘hati a your, When the election wis
held,” oe Pa got 2 G2 Votes while ue got: only ks
Anniston, wulabame = In building this now Tube plant, GE tried
to run right. into, the Gulf of Mexico, . Bub IUE~CIO followed
GE and organized it. VE tried to win support in amniston. but
was so unsuccessful it could not cven get.on the ballot,
Linton, Indiana ~ This shop-was a run-away right to the
Kentucky border, IUE-CiO syent two months inthe town and won
the shop, while UE, which had been there long before, had to ©
pull off the ballot before the election to avoid a misornble
defeat,
Pid Ledelphia ae - This was a GE Service Shop of 260 people
that had been unorgania ed for 40 years, Two months ago IUE-CIO
particips ted in an NLRB elcetion thure and succeeded in organize
ing the place by a vote of almost 2 to 1, UE had tried many
times and felled.
Montreal, Canada - There are 1,000 office workers in this new
unit which completes the job of organizing GE in Montreal.
Cambridge 2s Masse ~ This plsnt was once in, UL, but UE lost a
strike 6) thore in 1948 and then vulled out of town and left the
worker s Bigh and rye an 7H
Auburn, m, WAY. = This is . Sorvice Shop, but it yroves the fact
that LUE-CI0 belicves in and is en wrying out the idea of
organizing ol1.GE workers into one Union.
(The only thing UE ha s won in the past year are the Erie: Office
Workers, which were in UE ones pofore, )
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