By: Tom Edmonds

Greetings to My NAETC Bothers and Sisters,

First, I’d like to apologize for not getting an article out last month. The cut off time came and went before I could get my thoughts together and typed. I will try and do better in the future.

As far as workload for the facility, I’m not sure where to begin. This seems to be an “ever-changing” subject. The only thing consistent with the workload schedule is that it is inconsistent.

The machine shop was supposed to be over capacity as of this first week of October, but that hasn’t happened. The program that we would be working on (machining) has been pushed out 6-18 months. According to management, the scheduling of these die lines is changing almost on a daily basis.

As of today, the workload should pick up in November in the machine shop and then the die room to follow. I’m not holding my breath though. It seems that whatever info is released in Washington (tariffs, federal grants, or any other concerning info) GM then reacts immediately and changes everything they planned the day before to something else.

The toolroom continues to have a substantial amount of work. Manpower to do all the work available continues to be a problem.

There have been a lot of issues with vacation pay for our SAP retirees. As we hear about them, we pass the information along to HR and are hoping it gets resolved. If you retired under the SAP, please try and research to see if you received your vacation pay. This goes for all the GM units. It sounds like this has been a company-wide problem and there may be some confusion on the percentage to be paid out depending on weeks worked.

I have received copies of all the current MOUs that are known to be in management’s possession and am currently organizing two binders to put on the first and third floors. I should have that out before this article is printed.

That is all for this month. Enjoy this fall weather!