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Page THE UAW LOCAL 5960 REPORT August 1, 2011 The Uaw 5960 Summer Picnic HORSESHOE (DOUBLES) WINNERS CLAY ARMSTRONG and CHUCK HAYWORTH WE LIKE THE PICNIC HORSESHOE 2nd (SINGLES) TAYLOR CARPENTER HAVING A GOOD TIME ALL SMILES FUN AT THE PICNIC HORSESHOE WINNER (SINGLES) CLAY ARMSTRONG (Left) THE BACK-UP SINGERS BALLOON TOSS WINNERS – KYANA AND ELI FARRELL HORSESHOE (DOUBLES) 2nd KEN CLAYTON AND MARC MULDER GREAT DAY FOR A PICNIC Photos courtesy of Denise Hufford
Page THE UAW LOCAL 5960 REPORT August 1, 2011 UAW Local 5960 14th Annual Scholarship Fund Golf Scramble Saturday, August 13, 2011 WHERE: Hadley Acres (810) 797-4820 3797 Hadley - Metamora, MI TEE TIME: 9:30 a.m. Shotgun Start COST: $260 per team – Includes 18 holes of golf with hot dog or brat at turn, prizes, and a two meat dinner First Place - $400.00 Second Place - $200.00 Other prizes for Closest-to-Pin, Longest Drive & Vegas Hole OPEN TO MEMBERS OF UAW LOCAL 5960, FAMILY MEMBERS & ASSOCIATES (Prizes based off of 36 teams) **Fill Out and Return Form Below** ** Accepting Applications through August 5, 2011 ** ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Registration Form UAW Local 5960 Golf Scramble Hadley Acres – Metamora, Michigan August 14, 2011 1. Name:_ ____________________________________ Handicap (18) Holes_______ 2. Name:_ ____________________________________ Handicap (18) Holes_______ 3. Name:_ ____________________________________ Handicap (18) Holes_______ 4. Name:_ ____________________________________ Handicap (18) Holes_______ Make check payable to: Patrick Sweeney, Local 5960 Golf Committee BOB KING Continued from front page sibility for the companies’ difficulties. I believe the public is looking to us now to see whether we have learned anything from the crisis, and whether we choose to return to business as usual or whether we are committed to a new way of doing business in the globally competitive world we live in. On behalf of the UAW, I can state that our union has learned many lessons from the crisis in the auto industry, and we have decided to adopt fundamental, radical change. We have reinvented our union. We have recognized that we can no longer take the same approaches we took twenty, ten or even five years ago. We are calling our new approach the “UAW of the 21st century.” We no longer live in the same world in which the UAW grew up 75 years ago. The 20th century UAW existed in an era of a national industrial economy and a national marketplace. The 21st century UAW recognizes that auto companies face critical challenges in a global marketplace, and it is our mission to create conditions that will enable our employers to compete and succeed in order to best represent our members. The 20th century UAW tried to find ways to achieve job security, such as job banks, that in the end did not achieve the result we were seeking. The 21st century UAW knows that the only true path to job security is by producing the best quality product, the safest product and the longest lasting product, at the best price. Simply put, our highest priority is to join with our employers to produce the best quality products at the best value for consumers. The 20th century UAW fell into a pattern with our employers where we saw each other as adversaries rather than partners. Mistrust became embedded in our relations, and as a result we signed onto ever more lengthy and complicated contracts with work rules and narrow job classifications that hindered flexibility and promoted a litigious and time-consuming grievance culture. The 21st century UAW seeks and expects a partnership with employers based on mutual respect, trust and common goals. In a global economy, flexibility, innovation and teamwork are paramount. The 20th century UAW joined with the companies in a mindset that it was the company’s job to worry about profits, and the union’s job to worry about getting the workers their share. The 21st century UAW embraces as our own the success of our employers in order to achieve the economic and social success of our members, their families and our communities. The 20th century UAW was not primarily focused on the needs of consumers, and we failed to champion forcefully or effectively enough the goals of preserving our environment for future generations through green manufacturing and green products. The 21st century UAW makes as a priority the interests of consumer safety, energy efficiency and environmental protection. The 20th century UAW reacted with hostility and resistance to the historic changes brought about by the globalization of the economy. The 21st century UAW is adopting a more nuanced and constructive approach to global trade and global development. We are committed to becoming citizens of the world and achieving trade that spreads prosperity and lessens poverty. We are also committed to saving and growing the American industrial base with good jobs in the United States. Out of the ashes of the cataclysm of 2008 and 2009, a new, more visionary and stronger UAW is being born. The 21st century UAW views management not as our adversaries or enemies, but as partners in innovation and quality. Our relationship with employers is built upon a foundation of respect, shared goals, and a common mission, and a mutual social responsibility to create good, secure, middle-class jobs here in our communities in the United States. This commitment to fundamental change is not just a tenet of my administration, but is permeating the entire culture of the UAW. Our internal educational resources are devoted to nurturing this new mindset. I can tell you that there is no group of people more committed to the success of the auto See BOB KING on page 11
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