Steward and Alternates of Local 359 ,

     After requests from so many of you and several attempts to get this accomplished , we have scheduled mandatory Steward and Alternate Steward training for April 16 , 2019 at the Hilton Gardens Inn in Troy N.Y. Training runs from 7:30am until 3:30 pm. You all need to immediately notify your area Leaders and secure coverage to attend this function. If there is a coverage issue , please notify myself immediately by text  518-935-3445 or email pres359@gmail.com  OR  Chief Todd Robbins by text at 518-859-3730 or CCS81359@gmail.com. Please do your very best to help get coverage.

Again, thank you all in advance and see you all on the 16th...... 

Dominick Patrignani
President IUE-CWA Local 81359 

Workers at Momentive Performance Materials had given their lives to the chemical plant. The strike was supposed to save what little they had left.

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Steward and Alternates of Local 359 ,

     After requests from so many of you and several attempts to get this accomplished , we have scheduled mandatory Steward and Alternate Steward training for April 16 , 2019 at the Hilton Gardens Inn in Troy N.Y. Training runs from 7:30am until 3:30 pm. You all need to immediately notify your area Leaders and secure coverage to attend this function. If there is a coverage issue , please notify myself immediately by text  518-935-3445 or email pres359@gmail.com  OR  Chief Todd Robbins by text at 518-859-3730 or CCS81359@gmail.com. Please do your very best to help get coverage.

Again, thank you all in advance and see you all on the 16th...... 

Dominick Patrignani
President IUE-CWA Local 81359 

Workers at Momentive Performance Materials had given their lives to the chemical plant. The strike was supposed to save what little they had left.

Click here for article

Overall results:
Accept – 375 (61.17%)
Reject – 238 (38.83%)
Spoiled – 0 (0%)
Total – 613

The Adjusted Tentative Agreement is passed.

William J. Stackman, III
IUE-CWA Local 81359
Secretary-Treasurer

Note: information meetings at HDHQ :Tuesday Oct.2^nd  7:15 am , 3:15 pm , 11:10 pm and

Wednesday Oct. 3^rd at 7:15am. Contact any E-Board member for details.

Also , Fridays Monthly Union meeting will still be at HQHQ at 11:45 but will be in basement….

PLEASE PARK OVER BY JERSEY BARRIERS AND LEAVE SPACE FOR VOTERS , THANKS..

LOCAL 81359

IUE-CWA 2019-2022

Contract Modified Tentative Agreement Vote on T.A. 9/29/18 recommended by entire Barg. Committee and Union Presidents    

Note: Local 359 will be voting on the T.A. presented to the membership of Local 81359. This will be a new 3 year Contract that runs in concurrence with the contract that expires June 26^th 2019 and continues to June 27^th 2022.

Voting at HDHQ Union Hall

301 Hudson River Road

Across the street from the plant

Waterford N.Y.

Dates: Thursday Oct. 4^th, 5:00 am – 5:00 pm   

& Friday Oct.5^th, 2018 5:00-am- 5:00 pm

    Sorry no Absentee Ballots..                              Dominick Patrignani

contract Voting notice 2018 on second T.A_and info meetings.docx

Can you explain this successor language that the board feels is so important?

The successor clause, listed below, addresses the condition of a sale of the business that the purchaser must honor the contract as it is until the expiration of the contract. This prevents us from being sold and having the new owners decide they are not a party to the contract and essentially making the plant non-union. 

Successor Clause

The collective bargaining agreement shall be binding upon all parties hereto and their respective successors, purchasers and assignees.

The parties agree that in the event of a sale or transfer, the new employer will agree in writing, as part of any sale and / or transfer agreement to assume the provisions of the existing collective bargaining agreement as practicable, and as permitted under applicable law.

Who is the bargaining committee chairman?

IUE-CWA Staff Representative Jerry Carney

We write to you all from our Conference Board meeting tonight to update everyone on the latest since the membership voted down the recent tentative agreement on Wednesday evening. Many thought MPM would jump right back with a better offer. Unfortunately, that was not the case. We met with IUE-CWA President Carl Kennebrew, who reached out to Momentive since they did not want to go any further, according to our Bargaining Chair. As it stands, this is the last move in this early bargaining session. If voted down again, this will take the bargaining into June of next year. We tried to focus on healthcare (this agreement gives relief in January 2019, one year ahead of current contract, and next contract), general wage increases/ signing bonuses and settling a couple of cases we've tried to get to arbitration. In short, MPM left Article V alone and all other contract provisions including successor language that we explained at the membership meetings is really needed by us with the upcoming sale pending . Also, MPM didn't push for any concessions for the very first time. Below is a summary comprised by Bill Stackman explaining the terms. All bargaining team members voted to bring back with this modification. We ask once again to re-consider your opinion on this contract and support the vote. Thank you.

Local 81359 Bargaining team 

Adjusted_TA_09282018_Final.pdf

TA_V2_FactSheet_v1-1.pdf

Brothers and Sisters,

Voting was held September 25^th and September 26^th on the 2019-2022 Collective Bargaining Tentative Agreement. The results are as follows:

Approval of Local 81359 Membership to ratify the Tentative Agreement as written:

Accept - 187 (42.7%)
Reject - 251 (57.3%)
Spoiled - 0 (0%)
Total - 438

The results above have been reported to IUE-CWA Local 81359 Secretary-Treasurer William J. Stackman and will be certified as the official result

Results on the same Tentative Agreement by the other two Locals in the Bargaining Unit –

IUE-CWA Local 81380
Accept – 46 (80.7%)
Reject – 11 (19.3%)
Spoiled - 0
Total - 57

IUE-CWA Local 84707
Accept – 32 (82.1%)
Reject – 7 (17.9%)
Spoiled - 0
Total - 39

Overall results:
Accept - 265 (49.6%)
Reject – 269 (50.4%)
Spoiled - 0 (0%)
Total - 534

The tentative agreement is defeated.

Thanks to all that participated.

Brothers and Sisters , 

 Your e-boards have been meeting with MPM off-site this week to see if we can come up with a forward contract with the help of IUE-CWA Staff Rep. Jerry Carney and CWA District 1 lawyer Sumanth Bollepalli. With everyone’s help and hard work, we can now announce that we have reached a tentative agreement that will run until June 27th , 2022 ( 3 year ). The summary will be published and sent to all members via e-mail and posted on the Union website . The Union will announce informational meetings at HDHQ at the following times and dates :

Thursday 1:45pm- 3:00pm
Thursday 3:10pm - 4:30pm


Friday      5:30am- 7am
                7:10am - 8:30am

                1:45pm-3:00pm
               3:10pm-4:30pm

              10:00pm-11:00pm
               11:10pm- 12:30am

IF ANYONE NEEDS SPECIFIC QUESTIONS ANSWERED PLEASE CONTACT AN E-BOARD MEMBER.... or email Sec-tres@local81359.com.

THIS MUST BE VOTED ON NEXT WEEK BY OUR MEMBERS ......

Voting dates and times :

    Tuesday Sept 25th , 5:00am- 12:00 noon
     Wednesday Sept 26th , 5:00am- 5:00pm

Voting results will be published on website and via email ....

  THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR PATIENCE !

09192018_1810_MPM_TentativeAgreement_FINAL.pdf