UE News Demands at KD Lamp Co in Union Talks
The first contract negotiations with KD Lamp Co begin as Local 766 United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers seeks a union shop check-off five eight hour days with overtime on Saturdays double time Sundays holidays. The slate includes 35 cent wage increase and detailed seniority protections plus benefits, leaves and a standard grievance procedure.
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K-D Lamp Co
United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers
NLRB
Local 729 Seeks Annual Wage at Norwood Heekin Plant
Norwood Heekin Can Co negotiations with Local 729 United Electrical Workers begin March 1. Demands include a guaranteed annual wage, a union shop check-off, six paid holidays, a 15 cent general wage increase, unified hiring rates for men and women, a minimum hiring rate of 80 cents, 30-day wage re-opening notice, and mutual agreement on new or changed classifications. Frank Richmond leads Local 729.
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United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers
Norwood Heekin Can Co
Esther Tice
Miss Tice
Joint Columbia Parleys Open Between Local 766 and Kings Mills Bridgeport Locals
The Columbia Recording Co. agreed to joint negotiations for a new contract with United Electrical Local 766 Bridgeport Conn and Kings Mills locals. The talks in Bridgeport will center on a 25 percent wage rise, overtime rules, a 15 day probation, shift differentials, holidays, vacation increments, and company funded health benefits. Negotiations will occur at Bridgeport headquarters with Jay Chapman and others from Cincinnati attending, led by Joseph Ciazia.
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Columbia Recording Co
Kings
Raley
Bridgeport
Jay Chapman
Columbia Recording Unit
Kings Mills
Brack Wilder
Elmer Hiles
Cincinnati
Joseph Ciazia
Mary Pierce Hospitalized for Operation in Local 765 Notice
765 Sec. Is It Mary Pierce recording secretary Local 765 United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers was confined to Good Samaritan Hospital this week for an operation and is reported in good condition.
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Mary Pierce
United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers
Good Samaritan Hospital
Bertha French
Bertha
Local 761 Dance Supports Polio Drive in January
United Electrical workers sponsor the fifth annual March of Dimes Dance to aid the infantile paralysis campaign. The event, led by president Ray Tucker, will be held Saturday in the Trophy Room at 2728 Vine Street with all proceeds donated to the polio campaign.
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United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers
Ray Tucker
Campaign Against
Vine Street
Formica Notes Frances Price Delivers 64% Pound Boy
Frances Price wife of Earl Price treated reports the birth of a 64% pound boy on Jan 5 at the Jewish Hospital both mother and child at home and doing well. Earl jokes about missing cigars.
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Frances Price
Earl Price
Earl
Jewish Hospital
American Tool Works unit files strike notice in Local 766
Waldo Stager says the American Tool Works unit of Local 766 filed a strike notice on Saturday January 18. Major contract clauses are in dispute including union security and Sunday pay. The plant’s wage level is lower than Cincinnati area peers Lodge and Shipley offers compared with better benefits and leaves. Despite difficulties, Local 766 says membership is the strongest among its units.
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American Tool Works
United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers
Waldo Stager
Stager
Cincinnati
Lodge and Shipley
American Tool
Formica Local Plans Educational Program and Union Action
Local 757 will launch an educational program within three months to explain wage-increase logic, anti-labor legislation risks, and why a closed shop is needed. The union urges wider member participation, outreach, and letters to Congress. A new contract negotiations with Formica NY plant Local 475 involve office and factory staff.
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Local 757
New York
Formica
Nathan Spero
New York UK
Cecil Scott Added to UE Cincinnati Organizing Staff
The United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers add Cecil Scott to its Cincinnati area organizing team. Scott, a former worker at Cincinnati Gilbert Machine Co and previously at Lodge and Shipley and Wright Aeronautical in Lockland, is 42, married with one child. He lives at 676 Fairbanks Avenue in Price Hill.
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Cecil Scott
The
United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers
Cincinnati
Scott
Cincinnati Gilbert Machine Co
Lodge and Shipley
Wright Aeronautical
Lockland
Fairbanks
Price Hill
Re election mix up wields union posts clarified
The SUN corrects last week’s notice: Elmer Kauffman was re elected as financial secretary of Local 757. Helen Ferguson was actually re elected to the vice presidency, not the financial secretary role.
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The
SUN
Ruth Roberts
Mabel Roberts
al Gross
Mason
Fuldner
Elmer Kauffman
Helen Ferguson
Local to Install Newly Elected Officers
Lem Markland the district president will install the new officers at the union meeting. The first and third shifts meet at 8 p.m. and the second shift at 1 p.m. on Thursday February 6 at union headquarters 3953 Spring Grove Avenue.
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Lem Markland
Union
Spring Grove Avenue
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K-D Co
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Robert Smith
Herbert Duncan
Herbert Hampton
Harry Harig
Chester Hollin
Eldon Lipscomb
Heekin
Frank Richmond
Columbia
Washington
Formica Notes
Bob
Quade
Marian
Nick Draginoff
Ray Chaney
Nettie Geier
By Mae Rist
Cecil Long
City Cio Council
Veterans’ Hospital
Dayton
Cecil
Charlies Peak
American Tool Unit
Formica Local
Reading Road
Glenway Avenue
Covington
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