" Union News " For members of UAW Local 5285
Official Web Site of UAW Local 5285
Will Davis, Web Host : Last Updated Jan 26 2012
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Instructions for Call in line
Call the TIPS number. 704 822 7425
When prompted, enter your Employee ID followed by the # key.
The system will prompt you for your “personal identification number” followed by the # key.
Re-Enter your full 5-digit Employee ID followed by the #.
The system will then say that your PIN number has been reset by your supervisor, and will prompt you to change your pin number.
The PIN number needs to be 4-11 digits and not equal to your ID.
You will be asked to enter your new pin number a second time, for confirmation .
It will ask you to enter one of the following
* 1 for Absence or late
* 2 to tell accrued Time off ( Not Updated at this Time
* 3 Location Closure information
# 1 will prompt for selections of
1 for Illness
2 for Late
3 for PTO ( use for 41 Time, Must submit request for pay form )
4 for Funeral ( Must submit request for pay form)
5 for FMLA ( Requires documentation )
6 for Weather
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President's Pen Brothers and Sisters,
We are now in the holiday season and we truly need to be thankful. Two years ago, we were
providing Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners for our laid-off members. Our food bank was at full capacity, providing food for over 300 of our members families.
I just want to leave you with a few things all of us need to be thankful for during this holiday season .
We need to be thankful for having a job.
We need to be thankful we are covered by a UAW Contract.
We need to be thankful we have paid holidays off to spend time with our family.
We need to be thankful we do not have any members on layoff.
We need to be thankful our members can buy their own Thanksgiving and Christmas Dinners
this holiday season.
While we are sharing time with our families this holiday season, please take time to say a
prayer for our members who have lost a loved one . There will be an empty chair at their table this year.
When we set at our table and have not lost a loved one, we are truly blessed and should be thankful.
Have a safe holiday season and may God bless all of you.
In Solidarity,
Ricky McDowell
President /Shop Chair
UAW Local 5285
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Local 5285 is Presented the PR Latta Award
At the NC AFL CIO annual banquet, UAW Local 5285 was presented with the P.R. Latta Rank-and-File Award for its successful effort, with the solidarity of other UAW locals here, to enforce its contract, win back wages and benefits for wrongfully laid-off employees and bring manufacturing jobs back to our state
From the AFL CIO web Site
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Parade Lineup ....Charlotte Labor Day Parade 2011
Ricky McDowell's Grandaughter Kyndall and daughter Kawtica
" Wild Hogs "
Eddie Plonk
Marion Davis 1968 Camaro
Kyndall and Kawtica
UAW Local 5285 Color Guard
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First Newhire Group August 5 2011
" We're Back"
Last of the recalled Employees from layoff August 1 2011
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Fighting for Made in USA
2010 Charlotte NC Labor Day Parade
Sue Myrick Protest Rally.. Aug 2 2011 in Charlotte NC
.. Handbilling against her wrong votes on outsourcing Medicare , Medicade and Social Security
Raleigh NC Rally for Smithfield Workers
PDI center Reopens
Chris Redding and Ricky McDowell at Labor Day Parade
UAW Local 5285 Honor Guard at Parade
Handing out pamplets in Tennessee Truck Show
UAW members at Raleigh NC March
Labor Day Parade
10 2 10 march on Washington DC
10 2 10 at Lincoln Memorial
10 2
UAW NC/SC Civil and Human Rights Council
It has been almost 3 years since the Council has met. As a matter of fact it was Oct 18, 2008 and was hosted by Local 3520. With massive layoffs and dwindling memberships at all the Freightliner Locals, the Council choose not to meet, but to focus on their Local’s devastation. The Locals choose to fight for their jobs and lively hoods and established the Buy American Campaign; urging trucking companies, to buy from American plants instead of their rival
But on July 30th 2011 in Mt Holly NC, the Council is mended and reconvened for the common goal of representing NC and SC in Civil and Human Rights. The Council elected its new Executive Board and was schooled by interns from local colleges on the A Phillip Randolph Institute membership drive.
The Council took a moment of silence for deceased member and Ex-Vice President Nona Byrd and vowed to continue the path that she would want the Council to travel. President McDowell also announced the joining of new Local 3066 from
Well you know there isn’t a NC/SC Council Meeting without FOOD. Mt Holly put on a spread that surpassed all other meetings. Financial Sec. Al Hill officially threw in the towel and gave
Jeff Hicks Local 3520
