Author name: Linda Lynch

Welcome back, I hope everyone had a great vacation shutdown. We’ve had a few functions since our last meeting. Our Community Service Committee, as well as Amherst VFW had an amazing turnout for the fundraiser for the Lorain Police Officers fundraiser. We are sending a check to Ohio FOP for over $12,100. We are grateful for all the help we received, thank you! We also had a great turnout for Labor Fest this year, running out of 2500 hot dogs, 4000 bags of chips and tons of soda and water. Thanks to all who helped from our local! The retirees’ picnic went well and a good time was had by all who attended. Our web page is up and running. We think Linda and our web page designer did a great job. We are always open to suggestions, so if you think of something that’s missing from it, let us know. We’ve been in negotiations with Source Providers (CLI) since June 8 and we have a new tentative agreement with over 20% raises in the next 3 years. There are new guidelines on the trips we send our members on. The guidelines included on the call letters state that a member attending a conference or other UAW functions must be an active member who isn’t on medical leave. Retired members must attend retiree conferences. Also, moving forward the local would like members who go to write a paragraph and submit any pictures taken for our next meeting or to put on our web page. I will be attending UAW/Ford Sub Council during the week of  9/22/25 and if there is anything pertinent to share, I will post it online. First VP Dax McCall will be on for me and he can be reached at 440.934.3151 x 104.  Jay Kiska, Shawn Salmons, Jason Williams and Bill Barnes will also be attending. Jay will be replaced by Jason Wells, Jason Wells will be replaced by Cody Hall. Shawn will be replaced by Eddie Cole. Jason Williams will be replaced by John Bado and Bill Barnes will be replaced by Shawn Newsome.