Statement of UAW Region 2B Director Wayne Blanchard on Collins Aerospace Lockout and Refusal to Bargain in Good Faith for Troy Area Workers and Families
We have contacted the Unemployment Office, the State House and the International Union this morning over SUB pay. The International Union says they will start working on this. I find it hard to believe they weren’t aware of it. If the Stimulus package from the Government was going to replace our SUB pay, a little heads up from the IUAW or the company would have been nice. Instead, we have to inform them, WTF, after 2 weeks of this bullshit, REALLY! I will let you know what we find out. If you lose your patience, I Am Not Your Target!
UAW Local 95 member Sandy Welch is a five-year cancer survivor. She has high blood pressure, too.
That means her immune system is not 100%. But, while others in Wisconsin are told to stay home, she heads to work every day as a medical transcriptionist at a medical clinic in Janesville. “I have a compromised immune system and sometimes I think about that, but I don’t let that take over my thoughts,” she said.
Sisters and Brothers,
A short message today to recognize the courageous men and women stepping up to help all of us during these difficult days. As you all know, we have many members on the front lines of this crisis, who report to work every day and put their lives at risk to keep our communities safe and functioning. And we have members who are stepping up and volunteering to help save lives in so many ways.
“As our Nation struggles with the Covid-19 pandemic, volunteer UAW-GM members are doing a tremendous service for our country by volunteering to come to work to make ventilators in Kokomo.
WHAT IS SUB PAY? I will continue to post this until everyone fully understands it. Sub pay is a supplemental payment negotiated by the UAW to make up the difference between unemployment and your regular weekly wages. Sub pay is paid by your employer, who is General Motors. Why can’t you apply for sub before you receive unemployment? If you receive sub before you receive unemployment, you have just received wages from your employer which will cancel out your unemployment. How long do you have to file sub? You have 60 days to file sub from the week in which you are filing for. I would not suggest you do that either, but that’s what my bible says, unemployment and sub exhibit D article 5,1(a) page 35. Why does it seem different than before? We have approximately 6.6 million American’s filing for unemployment, all in the same week. Calls nationwide to unemployment agencies have increased 16,000 percent. In the past you got approval shortly after you filed, and that is not the case, with all these new claims. It is imperative that you don’t file for sub first. What are the consequences if you do? We have several members that transferred here from layoff, that are paying back the sub fund right now on a weekly basis, why? Because they received sub checks before receiving unemployment for the same week and the state cancelled them for the duration of the layoff, and they continued receiving sub. The March 20th report the day we went out, and again on March 27th 2020 we reiterated you cannot apply for sub until your unemployment check is confirmed, period! It’s called willful Misrepresentation. Even though your unemployment check validates your sub check, that doesn’t mean sub won’t get paid. However, for every sub check you cash, you need an unemployment voucher to back it up. We are trying to make sure none of you fall into that predicament. It is currently 1:30 pm April 2, 2020 we have just processed over 600 of our members who fall into this category. If you have sent an email we got it, don’t follow up with a call to confirm it, we are fixing these as fast as we can. We can only hope the sub office works with us, thanks for your patience, Continue filing for unemployment as normal.
PLEASE PAY ATTENTION
If you filed for SUB early without receiving your unemployment in your bank account, you could be in the worst position possible. However, we have reached an agreement with the SUB office to have it corrected.
YOU MUST CONTACT Jessica Lund 260-673-2596 or by email at Jessica.lund@gm.com
She needs your name and GMIN. She needs this information by 11:00am on Thursday, April 2, 2020. She will be in the office @8:30am.
PLEASE SHARE WITH OTHERS. THANK YOU.
