LOCALLY REGIONALLY NATIONALLY AND GLOBALLY IT'S LABOR UNION PROUD AND SPREADING The Story of The Great Flint Sitdown Strike of 1936-1937 and other Labor Links, History, and Knowledge! COMPUTERS, WORKERS, AND WEBSITES! It's FLINT, MI, GENESEE COUNTY'S NEW... ... IMPROVED UHHUH.COM ... MORE links...NEW PAGEs...GETTIN' BETTER ALL THE TIME!!! Man, I love this stuff!!! UAW Local 651 LOUD AND PROUD!
HI, Local 651 members! Many of my Delphi Sparkler articles are now online. The web lets ONE blend pictures, nice backgrounds, sounds, and other creative things with the words. Please give em' a click! THANK YOU!! HOPE YOU ENJOY THIS SITE! IT IS MY LABOR OF LOVE! PLEASE TURN YOUR COMPUTER SPEAKERS ON AND ENJOY THE MUSIC WHILE YOU'RE READING. THANKS.
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ATTENTION UAW LOCAL 651 MEMBERS, I AM PROUD TO BE A FULL-TIME LINEWORKER AND BE YOUR TRUSTEE AT LOCAL 651. IF THIS IS YOUR FIRST TIME CLICKING THIS WEBSITE...I THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE TIME TO CHECK IT OUT! THIS SITE IS A CELEBRATION OF OUR PROUD LABOR HISTORY IN FLINT, MICHIGAN. A HISTORY THAT WE ALL SHARE! Blogs GuideGreat list of some great labor books that do an excellent job of educating us in labor history and issues. Please click to visit the page! Thanks! THE FIRST UAW CONTRACT FEBRUARY 11,1937 WHITE SHIRT DAY! PRINT THIS! 2.25.01 MY LATEST DELPHI SPARKLER ARTICLES ONLINE! SOME OF THE WEBPAGES HAVE A LABOR NEWS SEARCH, SPEED OF THE INTERNET INDICATOR, LINKS TO OTHER SPARKLER ARTICLES AND A WEATHER GRAPHIC(ON MY 651 STRIKER'S WEBPAGE FROM 1998, I HAD A WEATHER LINK ALONG WITH THE LATEST STRIKE NEWS AND SITDOWN LINKS...ONE STOP READING!)AND SOUNDS. ANYHOO, I'M PRETTY SURE SOME OF THE IDEAS ABOVE ARE A UAW FIRST FOR AN ELECTED UAW OFFICER. MAYBE SOME OF THESE IDEAS WILL CATCH ON. WHO KNOWS? TIME WILL TELL! PLEASE CLICK LINKS BELOW AND TURN YOUR COMPUTER SPEAKERS ON. COOL! THANKS! VARIOUS 1998,1999 and 2000 ARTICLES MORE 1998-2000 ARTICLES 1999 2000 2001 Flint Sitdown Diary FROM ONE WORKER'S PERSPECTIVE IN THE PLANT! United Auto YOUR WEINGARTEN RIGHTS PRINT THIS! BROTHERS AND SISTERS, PLEASE READ THIS! ALL WORKERS SHOULD KNOW AND UNDERSTAND THIS LABOR LAW! "DAWN OF A NEW ERA" by Flint Sit-downer FLOYD HOKE-MILLER Check out the first issue from 1988. THE AMATEUR COMPUTERIST JAY'S PAGE NOW THIS IS REALLY COOL(SEE WHAT I MEAN!) COOL... CLICK NOW...UAW SOLIDARITY MAGAZINE...get involved!!! educate! MEMBERS OF UAW LOCAL 651... PLEASE ATTEND YOUR UNION MEETINGS!!! CLICK SPOTLIGHTS! PLEASE GET INVOLVED WITH LOCAL 651. ATTEND YOUR MONTHLY UNION MEETINGS. Read Your Union Paper & UAW Solidarity Magazine SUPPORT YOUR UNION IN THE PLANT. LEARN ABOUT OUR UAW. YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE! DETERMINATION AND PERSISTENCE WIN OUT OVER EVERYTHING...WE WILL SUCCEED!!! TO THE WORLD: WE BUILD OUR QUALITY PRODUCTS WITH UAW PRIDE! GENERAL MOTORS,FORD,DAIMLER-CHRYSLER...EVERYONE... BRING YOUR SPECIFIC PRODUCT NEEDS TO DELPHI/DELCO FLINT EAST! WE WANT TO BUILD IT FOR YOU! The latest at YAHOO! Delphi Auto News and General Motors News THIS IS NOT THE OFFICIAL UAW LOCAL 651 OR INTERNATIONAL UAW WEBSITE. CLICK THE FOLLOWING FOR REGION 1C LOCALS and OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST: UAW LOCAL 651 HOMEPAGE UAW LOCAL 598 UAW LOCAL 599 UAW LOCAL 659 INTERNATIONAL UAW HOME UAW REGION NEWS ALL REGIONS WORKER TO WORKER "BALLOT BOX - BREAD BOX!!"CHECK OUT WHO IS ON THE SIDE OF WORKING FAMILIES: MICHIGAN GOVERNMENT TV COMCAST CABLE CHANNEL 17-PROGRAMMING HOURS: MONDAY-FRIDAY, 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. MICHIGAN LEGISLATURE Bill Search & Status BILL SEARCH THOMAS SEARCH - BILLS, Legislation, status - U.S.CONGRESS CONVERT: (ADOBE PDF File to HTML here...this is cool if you want to print something and it is in ADOBE pdf format! ) "WITNESSES AND WARRIORS"PUBLICATION (accompanied the art exhibition. First exhibition:June 11 to July 2, 1999 at The Greater Flint Arts Council. Greater FLINT Arts Gallery 816 Saginaw Street, downtown Flint...The book "WITNESSES AND WARRIORS" THE FLINT SITDOWN STRIKE OF 1936-1937...for info call 810-238-ARTS...THIS BOOK and EXHIBIT PAYS HOMAGE TO THE COURAGEOUS MEN AND WOMEN OF FLINT THAT TOOK A STAND FOR DIGNITY AND RESPECT FOR THE WORKERS IN THE PLANTS...AND empowered THIS WONDERFUL UNION THE GREAT UAW to obtain the first UAW contract from GM. THE UNITED AUTOMOBILE WORKERS...THE UNION THAT NEEDS ALL WORKERS TO GET INVOLVED NOW! THE EXHIBIT WILL TRAVEL THE WHOLE UNITED STATES AND WORLD AFTER JULY 2...SEE IT NOW AND PURCHASE THE BOOK THAT CONTAINS ALL THE ART AND STORIES BEHIND THIS GREAT EVENT THAT CHANGED LABOR HISTORY IN THE WORLD. THE BOOK IS ONLY TWENTY DOLLARS! I WANT TO THANK UAW REGION 1-C, THE FOUNDATION FOR MOTT COMMUNITY COLLEGE AND MOTT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOR THEIR SIGNIFICANT SUPPORT OF THIS PROJECT...THANK YOU FLINT SITDOWNERS AND WOMENS AUXILIARY FOR WHAT YOU DID FOR US...you risked your lives...and won dignity and respect for workers everywhere! SOLIDARITY LINKS: THE FIRST UAW CONTRACT FEBRUARY 11,1937 WHITE SHIRT DAY! WALTER REUTHER LIBRARY/ WAYNE STATE - story and photos. THE GREAT FLINT SITDOWN - THE MOST IMPORTANT STRIKE IN HISTORY! HISTORY Link at S.F.S.U. - Sitdown story and photos. THE BATTLE OF THE OVERPASS - REUTHER LIBRARY. THE BATTLE OF THE OVERPASS. UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN-FLINT LABOR HISTORY PROJECT COLLECTION LOCAL UNION PAPERS ONLINE: UAW LOCAL 659 THE Searchlight" UAW LOCAL 598 "The Eyeopener" REGION 1 C REVIEW ONLINE AND IN SOLIDARITY MAG SOLIDARITY MAGAZINE: UAW SOLIDARITY MAGAZINE EACH UAW MEMBER RECEIVES ONE EACH MONTH. PLEASE READ IT. Click here for a Petition to put my hero Walter Reuther on a postage stamp!!! Thanks, UAW...for bargaining Dignity and Respect in 1999!!! PARLIAMENTARY RULES(PRINTABLE CHART) UNION DENSITY CHART: MAN,WE GOT WORK TO DO! CHECK OUT THIS CHART! SONGS FROM THE FLINT SITDOWN A LABOR QUIZ THE STORY OF THE SEARCHLIGHT-THE VOICE OF THE CHEVROLET WORKER! PAGE 2 PAGE 3 PAGE 4 2.25.01 NEWEST SITDOWN LINKS... 1.30.1937 RELIEF 2.13.1937 1936-1937 YOUNG WALTER REUTHER 11.30.1934 FORD WORKERS. MI Historical Markers(scroll page for sitdown related items) Music A TEACHER'S Most EXCELLENT SITE Reuther Library at WAYNE STATE "BREAD UPON THE WATERS/chapter 22 and chapter 23" Voices of Flint History of Sitdowns Red Beret Exhibit of Women's Emergency Brigade Janesville, Wisconsin Sitdown FLINT SITDOWN CIO JOHN L. LEWIS UMWA WEBSITE Walter Reuther Labor Library online exhibits and North American Labor Archives MORE REUTHER: TIME Magazine 100: BUILDERS AND TITANS AUDIO HERE - REUTHER SPEAKS! ENGLAND lot of links! HISTORY OF THE CANADIAN AUTO WORKERS UNION - The C.A.W. TEACHERS,PROFS: Curriculum of United States History Labor History Index WEBQUEST FLINT PUBLIC LIBRARY GENESEE DISTRICT LIBRARIES MEL - MICHIGAN ELECTRONIC LIBRARY LAPEER LIBRARY and PERIODICALS LABOR QUOTES ANALYSIS OF SUPREME COURT DECISIONS LIBRARY OF CONGRESS: AMERICAN MEMORIES ALL COLLECTION SEARCH ART OF THE LABOR MOVEMENT great searches: ALL THE WEB GOOGLE SEARCH FOR LIBRARIES ON THE WEB FIRST GOV NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION (NARA) WORKERS THOMAS NPR - NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO website help: DRAAC LABOR CARTOONS: SOLIDARITY.COM MORE AT YAHOO: Labor Page Labor News Full Coverage Downsizing and Layoffs GLOBAL SOLIDARITY LINKS: UNIONS,FEDERATIONS and ASSOCIATIONS ON INTERNET XPDNC Comprehensive Labor Resource MEGA LABOR LINKS MGBGS Labor Links AFL-CIO Partners and Links 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 Local 651 sparkler articles, linksMORE SPARKLER ARTICLES, links...CONTINUED...CLIK HERE...when u get there, click the Time Warp(s) at the top of the page...and the others, too!!! I'M UAW... LOUD & EXTREMELY PROUD to SERVE THE MEMBERSHIP OF UAW LOCAL 651!!! click the links beneath the above pictures and underlined words and sentences!(below,too!) ...for Flint Sitdown Strike of 1936 and 1937 links, empowering websites, local Flint mi union hall sites, Flint labor history...and other fun stuff! Almost all homepages and websites were web tv created with a little html and javascript added for some flash...I am low TECH AS HECK (but it's gettin' better)... AND I'm DARN PROUD OF IT!!!!!!!!! 12.01.00 Flint Sit-downer Stay-In Strike Diary McLaren Nurses AFSCME Local 875 WHAT IT MEANS TO BE UNION REMEMBERING FLINT PROUD HISTORY VIVA LA CAUSA Remote Trustee Radical Shoprat PROUD SHOPWORKER Solidarity WALTER REUTHER NEWS LINKS: TOTAL NEWS NEWS INDEX US NEWSWIRE NANDOTIMES NEWSLINX NANDO TIMES WASHINGTON POST MSNBC QUICK NEWS CNN LA TIMES TIME 5.8.00 Web Tutorial Draac Table HTML All One Search Postal News Fox News (Election 2000) Washington Times (Election 2000) Weather.com Intellicast C-Span Microsoft FrontPage Upside National Labor Relations Board Dept. Of Labor City of Detroit The Flint Journal 4.30.00 UNOFFICIAL GM FAIRFAX EMPLOYEES WEBSITE UAW LOCAL 31 TMMK HOTLINE REMEMBERING FLINT BUY WHAT WE BUILD AFL-CIO PAYWATCH PROGRAMMERS GUILD WASHTECH AGSE GSOC MEGA UNION LINKS!! UNITE UNIONIST UNION PRIVILEGE IUE LOCAL 755 LABOURNET NAFTA STUFF: REPORT 3.10.00 Latest links: GREATER FLINT MI ACLU(AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION) NALC BRANCH 256 U.A.W. United Autoworkers Website FLINT JOURNAL BUSINESS ONLINE UNIONS.ORG NBC25.NET WNEM TV GENESEE COUNTY PARKS GENESEE COUNTY FAIR CITY OF FLINT AFL-CIO Executive Pay Watch YAHOO labor union news VARIOUS UAW LOCALS ON WEB: UAW Local 594( with a page for hearing impaired members) UAW Local 602 1999 282 292 325 571 598 599 6000 651 897 898 909 913 969 2166 FACTS LABOR 2865 LINKS 2000 Election LINKS: Webwhiteblue Wash Times C-SPAN A labor professor told me that the World Wide Web will play a significant role in the future of today's labor movement! More UAW History 101... THE GREAT UAW...the first UAW contract was written which recognized the UAW as the sole bargaining voice for autoworkers IN FLINT,MICHIGAN on February 11, 1937. This day is forever remembered as White Shirt Day. THE Great Flint SITDOWN STRIKE...A STRIKE WHERE THE AUTOWORKERS OF FLINT TOOKOVER THE AUTOPLANTS TO GAIN DIGNITY AND RESPECT FROM GENERAL MOTORS!! Click here to see and read this historic document! WE WILL ALWAYS BE IN DEBT TO THE COURAGEOUS UNION MEN AND WOMEN OF THAT ERA! "EVERYONE SAYS "UHHUH" AT LEAST ONCE A DAY!" "GUESS WHAT UHHUH IS IN FRENCH GERMAN ITALIAN PORTUGUESE AND SPANISH ... THAT'S RIGHT! IT'S UHHUH!" PRESENTING WWW.UHHUH.COM ... A TRULY GLOBAL WORD FOR THE GLOBAL VILLAGE THAT MARSHALL McLUHAN PREDICTED !!! CREATED BY A UAW AUTOWORKER AT DELPHI EAST FLINT,MICHIGAN. A PROUD UAW MEMBER AND TRUSTEE SERVING THE MEMBERSHIP AT LOCAL 651 , A LABOR UNION BORN ON JANUARY 16, 1939!!! PAGE 2...OR KEEP SCROLLING... UAWSOLIDARITY MAG INTERESTING WEB LINKS PUT YOUR UNION ON THE WEB TRADE UNIONS SITES AROUND THE WORLD FAIR TRADE TAKE PRIDE ALL IN ONE SEARCH COMMON CAUSE UNION LABEL DELPHI AUTOMOTIVE AC DELCO GENERAL MOTORS Y2K Tips and Help Microsoft BERKELEY Mercury Center Y2k Safety MICHIGAN COLLEGES: CMU CHIPPEWAS CMU LIFE BAKER BUSINESS COLLEGE MOTT COMMUNITY COLLEGE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN - FLINT ANN ARBOR Y2K Cams and Stuff Greenwich 2000 Dick Clark Everything 2000 Times Square 2000 Earthcam FLINT weather E-cards FOR-MAR Nature Preserve MTA THE BEATLES ABOUT.com GUITAR GUITAR PLAYER GUITAR WORLD COMPUTER MAGAZINES Wired Maximum PC Winmag YAHOO MAG BYTE FAMILY PC HOME PC BOARDWATCH RED HERRING E MEDIA PROFESSIONAL COMPUTER TELEPHONY COMPUTER GRAPHICS WORLD DESKTOP PUBLISHERS JOURNAL SMART COMPUTING PC COMPUTING PC WORLD 3D DESIGN COMPUTER LIFE .NET MAC ADDICT MAC USER MACWORLD TV ONLINE MAG COMPUTER SHOPPER EQUIP NEWSPAPERS NEWSLINK Kentucky Connect STAR TRIBUNE CANOE HOW AND WHY How stuff works BOOKS audible WIRELESS web2pcs ALL NET DEVICES POKEMON Pokemon Anpanman Bad Badtz-Maru Barbapapa Bu-ru Chibi Maruko Chan Chococat Dear Daniel Doraemon Genki-kun Jiggly Puff Jiji Kuma and Tama Mewtwo Momo Pochacco Ryo-Ohki Togepi Totoro HISTORY Spirit of American Innovation Time Line KARAOKE MACHINES 1 4 5 HUGE baseball links ROTTEN TOMATOES live concerts (the cats are jammin' on this site)! The Beatles Deep Purple, The Highway Star MTV pbs VH1 Billboard STATE OF MICHIGAN HOMEPAGE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR Billy Graham WIRELESS SITE SEARCH INTERNET NEWS INTERNET SURVEYS Tai Chi Cringely the Screen Savers INTERNET TONIGHT THE SURFER Smoking gun MATT DRUDGE Man, if you want to make a website...check out Draac! Truly 1-stop learning!!! UHHUH! SPEED OF INTERNET CNET DOT COM GUY The Star The National Post Brandon Sun Daily Gleaner Globe and Mail Toronto Star TV CTV News Global TV 12-24-99 BAG OF LINKS ADAPT Z WE MEDIA Porter CLASSIC CAR ROLLING STONE FEED mag SONIC NET LIQUID AUDIO SCRABBLE NME INTERSCOPE NEWEST LINKS... The United Way United Negro College Fund My Events Daily Drill Canoe News Rausco Oingo Internet Tonight Blue Flame Cafe The Standard Streambox Bora Net Oxygen Encyclopedia Britannica Montel Sitcoms Online Genserv Eyada Age net NBA Talk Seattle Times The Free Site The world of enviromental and transportation acronyms and abbreviations (this thing is huge!) Essential TWST Across Media www.loc.gov Unions.org(free e-mail) American Postal Workers Union Learning about Unions Thomas Register Hoaxkill Hot Files Cool Nerds Free skills GovBot WORLD time OSHA search PAGE 3 10.21.01, New, Labor Book Bibliography!) or scroll on... O.K....if you came back to my website...THANKS!!! IMAGINE A PERSON, A PERSON WHO FOR ALL OF THESE YEARS WAS CONTENT TO DO MY FAIR DAY'S WORK, CASH HIS PAYCHECK, AND LET EVERYONE ELSE sacrifice their own time and effort serving the UAW!! All of the benefits and wages that I had were won through the struggles of someone else!!! It was all there for me!! Then the strike happened last summer(click here now...LISTEN WHILE YOU ARE READING THE FOLLOWING THOUGHTS!!! DON'T CLICK ANOTHER LINK OR AUDIO WILL STOP) ... and suddenly I realized how important it is to be in a union. How important it is to have a friend, spokesperson and lawyer for my and other's dignity and respect!!! Especially nowadays, with nafta and the global economy that takes good-paying American jobs and shifts them to third-world countries where the workers have no rights...unsafe working conditions...pennies for wages and no benefits...fake or company unions...just like the early 1900's in this country!!! It's like big business in this country is in a time machine to the past!!! During our struggle in the Summer of '98, I read up on our union history in this country; and our UAW history in Flint Michigan!!! Anywhere labor history is taught, there is a chapter on the great Flint Sitdown!!! That's how important it is ...people...people no different than you and me took a stand and created something magnificent...A VOICE FOR THE WORKERS! VISIT www.FLINTSITDOWN.com, In Plant Diary - Journal during 1936 1937 written by a UAW Flint sit-down striker. ...A voice that (little did they know) would change the world!!! It would make their community, state, country and world a better place!!! Whew!!! Stop!! Just think about that for a moment. The point I am trying to make is that things just don't happen! Individuals make them happen. One person is important!!! It is never too late to get involved! Through my walkin' the road last summer, hangin' out with some of the sitdowners, who were kind enough to share their stories of the past, and reading about the Flint Sitdown through the books at the Flint Public Library and the websites on the world wide web, I became emotionally connected to this history. Now, when I drive down Saginaw Street, in front of old Fisher One...which was torn down, I try to visualize what happened in the old building...out on the street...as the workers marched out of the plant...wildly cheering ...knowing that their courage, conviction and determination was triumphant over mistreatment and greed!!! Yeah, all I know is this. I got involved late in life. That's why I hope some of our younger members will get involved now. Don't be like me! Don't wait!! Go to your union meetings. Run for a union position. Give something back to the UAW...your local...write for your union paper ...make a positive difference...read up on it's history. we are the union...we, together, as one, can take it to an even higher level!! I WILL ALWAYS STAND UP FOR THIS UNION. We wouldn't have anything if it wasn't for it. Yeah, I know, I got a big mouth... Sorry, I can't change! See ya in the plant!! If this is your first time clickin' my website...hey, man...come on back! BREAK TIME AGAIN....GEE WHIZ...I JUST KEPT ON GOING ON AND ON...MAYBE, YOU LIKE MUSIC...AND WANT TO SEE WHO'S PLAYING around the area.......HERE'S A COUPLE OF PLACES I FOUND ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB... THE CLIO AMPHITHEATER PINE KNOB MUSIC THEATRE LINKS LINKS LINKS LINKS LINKS LINKS LINKS LINKS LINKS LINKS LINKS LINKS LINKS links links links linkslinks links links links links links links links links links links links links links links link NEWS..UhHuH...nOw CLICK free ... the latest us world news entertainment sports tech financial health from Topix.net news feed.. flint genesee county mi detroit ... the vehicle city to the motor city ... free COOL... CLICK NOW...UAW MAGAZINE...get involved!!! solidarity!!! educate! new TV links i found OPRAH DONNY AND MARIE SALLY JR TV ONLINE MAG TV Single Dad Hall of Fame WHAT'S ON TV Classic TV THE X FILES COURT TV TV PARTY ULTIMATE TV THE FIFTIES the net on your tv Virtual library on the internet web movies : Movie Reelviews you've got mail austin powers amg movie guide movie e-zine Empire Hollywood Land MR.ShowBiz free homepages free web sites free email ... angelfire expage geocities delphi hotmail infospace tripod unions xoom Tutorial on html javascript web tv and other neat stuff at DRAAC.com SEARCH ENGINES : how do they work all the web FAVORITE OF MINE! alta vista america online ask jeeves bytesearch cyber411 debriefing ditto picture search dogpile excite google FAVORITE OF MINE! go to highway 61 hotbot infind infoseek itools looksmart lycos metacrawler mamma metafind mining co netfind netscape oingo oneseek profusion savvysearch search simplesearch snap webcrawler yahoo GOLF GOLF GOLF : augusta golf.com the golf channel the masters JACK NICKLAUS TIGER WOODS FINANCIAL : DAILY STOCKS CNNfn ENGLAND Morningstar Marketwatch Nightly Business Report COOL TECH MAGAZINES: BUSINESS 2.0 WIRED Music: Jimi Hendrix ROLLING STONES (Still touring!) MARVIN GAYE TNN & CMT VIBE THE BOX MUCH MUSIC CONCERT HOTWIRE WALL OF SOUND TV AND local movie links on the web...CHECK 'EM OUT... MLIVE "FIND A MOVIE!!!!! TV GUIDE Yahoo! movies LOCAL movies movies... COURTLAND CENTER CINEMAS SHOWCASE CINEMAS EAST MOVIE SCHEDULE CINEMA 10 MOVIE SCHEDULE NCG Trillium WEATHER WEATHER WEATHER! THE WEATHER REPORT? I FOUND THAT, TOO! SUNCAST REPORT MOONCAST REPORT LOCAL NEWSPAPERS AND TV... NEWSPAPERS FLINT NEWS AT MLIVE!!! TRI COUNTY TIMES LAPEER COUNTY PRESS WNEM TV5 ABC 12 NBC 25 MY EXCERPTS FROM VARIOUS 1998 AND 1999 SPARKLER PAPERS: "IN MEMORY OF TWO FALLEN UAW WARRIORS" 9.27.99 Dear Mr.D___ and Mr.M____ I first saw both of you in the pictures at the art exhibition at the Greater Flint Arts Council, the exhibit that honors the remaining Flint Sit-Downers, and in the book "Witnesses and Warriors". This exhibit will travel around the United States and the world...educating the public on the importance, and truly pivotal moment in Labor History that, The Great Flint Sit-Down Strike of 1936-1937 truly was!!! Mr. D___, as I viewed you at your wake that was held in your honor at UAW Local 599, from your obituary I learned, around 1926, while working at the Buick Foundry, The Union talk began. You were threatened and beaten many times. You were positioned as captain of the "Flying Squadron" which was a protest group. When there was activity at one of the plants, as captain you were called in to provide strategy and leadership. You were also President of the Flint Chapter of the NAACP for a term. Years later, during the 1936-1937 Sit-Down, you were chief cook at Local 599 and still in leadership as a member of the "Flying Squadron." After the UAW was recognized as The One and Only bargaining agent for the autoworkers, you officially became the First Black UAW Member because you were the first Black to sign the original card as an organizer of the beginning protest. Mr. M___, I first met and talked to you at Genesys Hospital. When you took over Fisher 1, Sitting Down, you realized you could be attacked or killed. The whole town was out to get you and the other UAW Sit-Downers!! But you didn't care. Something had to be done for the worker's dignity and respect. Inside, day after day, night after night, you patrolled the plant's gates, windows and interior(44 days in all). You were ready to act to protect the other Sit-Downers from any harm that could come their way. While Mr.____ and others were patrolling in Brotherhood and Solidarity outside of the plant in the Squadron, you were growing stronger and stronger as the days progressed. You didn't know how long this shop would be your new "home". How much tear gas and bullets would the police use? How hard it must have been to get a good night's sleep with everyone out to get you and the others...at any moment! February 11, 1937 came. Victory was yours!!! The First Contract!! Ever!! In Flint, Michigan. In my mind's eye, on that day, I can see you happily walking out of the plant with the other cheering Sit-Downers onto Saginaw Street, joining Mr. D___ and the cheering masses in a Victory Celebration. Thank you, Gentlemen! (If you are interested in purchasing the book please call the Greater Flint Arts Council at (810) 238-2787. UAW Local 651 members, in memory of these two very fine gentlemen...please attend your union meetings. Because of their efforts we don't have to meet in secrecy in candle-lit basements with covered windows anymore. Think about it!!! You can make a difference. Solidarity Forever! "64 YEARS OLD AND GOIN'STRONG" 9.13.99 I love to read, and Labor History and Computing are two of my favorites. Recently, the library had a book sale and I picked up a book named "Selected Speeches, Messages, Press Conferences, and Letters of Franklin D. Roosevelt." The following is his statement upon signing the Social Security Act of August 14th, 1935: "Today a hope of many years is in a large part fulfilled. The civilization of the past hundred years, with it's startling changes, has tended more and more to make life insecure. Young people have come to wonder what would be their lot when they came to old age. The man with a job has wondered how long the job would last. This Social Security measure gives at least some protection to thirty million of our citizens who will reap direct benefits through unemployment compensation, through old age pensions and through increased services through the protection of children and the prevention of ill health. We can never insure one hundred percent of the population against one hundred percent of the hazards and vicissitudes of life, but we have tried to frame a law which will give some measure of protection to the ordinary citizen and to his family against the loss of a job and against poverty ridden old age. This law, too, represents a corner stone in a structure which is being built but is by no means complete-a structure intended to lesson the force of possible future depressions, to act as a protection to future administrations of the Government against the necessity of going deeply into debt to furnish relief to the needy-a law to flatten out the peaks and valleys of deflation and of inflation-in other words, a law that will take care of human needs and at the same time provide for the United States an economic structure of vastly greater soundness. I congratulate all of you ladies and gentlemen, all of you in Congress, in the Executive departments and all of you who come from private life, and I thank you for your splendid efforts in behalf of this sound, needy and patriotic legislation. If the Senate and the House of Representatives in this long and arduous session had done nothing more than pass this Bill, the session would be regarded as historic for all time." FDR, how right you were! Thank You! Thank Sunday, September 12th, at 11:00a.m. at Local 651 you will be able to discuss and vote on all the issues brought up, including one to change the time of your union meeting, If you can't make it, could you please pass this on to two or more fellow 651 members. Solidarity Forever...The union makes us strong! UAW LOCAL 659 THE SEARCHLIGHT UAW LOCAL 598 LOCAL 651 OFFICERS PERSONAL WEBSITES! ...AND MORE ARTICLES "WE ARE NOW THE SURVIVORS" 8.30.99 As you look before you, on your job... crafting, creating a part that moves to the next station...or you might be fixing that machine...welding, wiring, cutting, putting life back into that metal and plastic entity. Please reflect on this. The sum of your experience is being called upon. From your mind to your very fingertips. This all important present moment instantly becomes the past. Each second of experience prepares us for the next experience. Each second we become more educated, experienced and seasoned for the job at hand. From seconds to minutes, minutes to hours, days to weeks...year after year. Suddenly...decades have elapsed!!! We are now the "older" folks to the younger workers. Remember the gentlemen with the pocket protectors? The gentlewomen that came in early to put new doilies on the tables that sat next to the lines...to get the coffee pot going...to make the day more enjoyable and tolerable for their ladyfriends? Remember? Oh, how I miss them. With their stories of the past years in this shop...the years that we were in school, or not even born yet! One thing that always got me was someone telling me of "hiring in" in the year I was born. You too??? Now I suddenly realize that some of our fellow workers and alot of the engineers and supervisors were in grade school or not even born when you and I hired in! We Are The Survivors! Imagine that. We are the ones with the responsibility to pass on the experience, wisdom, and stories to our youthful union members. Stories of how it used to be. Just like the senior folks did when we first hired in. Their tales of building parts for the war effort..."that line over there used to make bullets"...and tales of the greatness of Walter Reuther...Mr. and Mrs. AC...silver dollars at Christmas...a superintendent shaking a worker's hand, no matter how dirty it was...Our own tales...the ones of civil rights...the Vietnam war...oil embargoes...big cars...Watergate...a president resigning...the time you could sit in high school knowing that you could always work for GM...the unemployment lines winding around and around for hours...laid off...then called back...laid off...called back. Gradually, the factory weathered veterans of our past retired. WE BECAME THEM!!! WE became the ones in charge of the memories. More significantly, WE BECAME THE FIRST WORKFORCE HERE THAT NO LONGER WORKS FOR GM. Delphi management, give us the tools and training to succeed. Employee involvement is a necessity! Listen to us! We are the masters of our jobs.We have a learned strength and wisdom acquired from years and years of doing the noble work that we do...consistently and diligently, with supreme integrity! To the management and engineers that missed our glory years here, respect us! We know our jobs! Our mothers and fathers, sons and daughters, aunts and uncles, cousins and friends all have worked here. The continuation of this is important to us. In summary, the younger UAW workforce will become "us" 25 years from now...and they will tell the new hires how we successfully built this company into the new millenium, apart from GM. Retired, we will drive by Delphi and see workers going in. We will see people going in and out of Local 651. Our hearts and minds will be at peace!/ Please don't forget to attend your union meeting on Sunday, September 12 at 11:00a.m.at Local 651. You will be able to discuss and vote on a new time for your union meeting. If you can't make it, could you please pass this information on to two fellow members. Thank You. Solidarity Forever. "DO YOU BELIEVE" 8.16.99 Do you believe in yourself? Do you believe you are capable of anything? Do you believe that the sky is the limit? Do you believe that you...your effort...can make a positive difference? Do you believe that many people together, with the same positive attitude, determination and vision can accomplish anything...can create a UAW job filled secure future here at Delphi...just like a sculptor molds clay into a work of art or a mother and father create a child and successfully nurture it from infancy to adulthood thus repeating the cycle of life? No matter what they are up against. Do you believe that the journey...the struggle towards the ultimate goal...is the most important lesson? A lesson which shows what a person is made of! Their true fiber. We, the UAW members of Delphi East, have this fiber...this "industrial" strength inside of us to accomplish anything. It's been passed on from the previous generations of UAW members that met in darkened basements with candles to create a union. From our families that all worked in the shops in Flint! It is a proud heritage of character and strength that we all share. Here at Delphi, we have moved out of our teenage years together, hugged and cried together, supported each other emotionally and financially through pain, loss and divorce. We have agreed, argued, joked, laughed and sighed together. We have looked at hundreds of family pictures...seen our coworkers pregnant; and said to this child that they carried "I remember when your Mama worked beside me with you in her belly!" I have seen women work 12 hour days, 7 days a week tell me "now I'm going home to second shift." We have said "Good Morning" and "Have a good day" to each other over a period of years, sometimes not knowing each other's name. We have held the doors open for each other saying "No, you go ahead first." We have gotten coffee, pop, and snacks for each other...held baby showers, birthday, going away, and retirement parties for each other. On the lines, we have been cold and hot together and yelled "Who's got that fan on?" We've complained "Who left my job like this?" We have gained weight, greyed and went bald together. We have went through the name changes and strikes together. We know sides of each other that no one else has seen. Why not! We've spent half our lives on this earth in this shop...one-third of each day together, elbow to elbow! We are this generations "tough cookies" of Delphi East. We, together, our skins thick and toughened through all the trials and tribulations of modern day factory life, can build us into the next century. We, together, can weave a future of UAW jobs here at Flint East for our children and grandchildren and for the people of Genesee County. This factory floor and walls, this land you and I have talked, walked, and worked together on has a rich history within it. It can, will, and must employ future generations of UAW workers, some not even born yet! Here, side by side, going through the same things you and I went through all those years. Yes, Yes, Yes, We together, can do anything! You are the "Tough Cookies". I grew up with you...I know you!!! ANONYMOUS ...9.14.98 Driving down Court Street in front of Central High School after dropping off books on the history of Genesee County and Walter Reuther, I thought of the great names listed on our Local's charter- a charter signed almost 60 years ago. Mr. Reuther, R.J. Thomas, Ed Hall, Wyndham Mortimer and Mr. Addes...the UAW originals. Their names written on it, at the bottom of the yellowed sheet of paper...which I had just viewed 20 minutes earlier. The road was so bumpy, you had to maneuver around the cement patches and dips in it. My mom would drive me and my friend to band practice after school got out, down these same roads...newer and smoother 33 years ago. I thought of when as a kid, you always knew you could work in the shop one day in Flint. But no more. The bumpy road was a reminder of GM's continuing departure. I thought about the kids in this city, how the GM dream is gone for them. How the words "AC" are removed off of the water towers and trucks. How Buick City will be no more next year. How when you drive down South Saginaw Street, Fisher 1 is torn down, and I can only picture in my mind the tear gas, broken windows, and parade as the Sit-downers marched victoriously out of the factory. A classical piano was playing sadly over my radio...I cried. 2/27/00...Management's business planning process will include the necessity for providing employees with the appropriate training, methods and systems, materials, and equipment in an appropriate enviroment based on the Quality Network Beliefs and Values to perform their work. It is then incumbent upon employees to exercise diligence and properly perform their work to produce the highest quality, customer-valued products and services. It is only through personal commitment from every Delphi employee to provide the highest quality, customer-valued products and services that we will satisfy our customers and maintain job security for all. ...per 3/06/00, 3/15/00 SPARKLER Article UPDATED Quality Network Suggestion Dept. phone numbers: Plant 6,7 7-5152. Plant 43 phone 7-8635 or 7-7920. Plant 2,8 phone 7-6404. Plant 3 Maintenance,central services phone 7-6400. Human Resources and miscellaneous departments etc...phone 7-3903. Engineering Building phone 7-8246. Ask for a copy of The UAW-Delphi Suggestion Plan Employee Handbook. Always save your copy of the suggestion AND write down the suggestion number! Personally walk and talk the suggestion investigator through your idea! Make sure they understand the idea and it is written down properly. If the monetary award is not fair, launch your appeal(suggestion review)immediately by calling one of the above phone numbers! One thing that has irked me throughout the years is when the salaried investigator does not PERSONALLY talk to me about my suggestion! Make sure they personally talk to you about the suggestion you wrote! Call the above numbers if this doesn't happen! Ask to talk to the joint UAW suggestion representative. They will assist you and give you further guidance. Our ideas can help create a future for us and future UAW members here at the site! You have the power inside...the spirit, strength and wisdom...you are truly a miracle! Nothing can stop us from succeeding! Nothing! Our world...the shop floor...worked on it for years! We know this shop! New UAW members of the future will walk,talk, and work in this shop, just like we did! Our brothers and sisters of the past created a union of hearts and minds here in Flint so many years ago! Against all odds! Our generation of worker is a mighty force! We grew up in the Fifties and Sixties...with great leaders...Martin Luther King, Walter Reuther, John F. Kennedy! They had leadership and vision and no fear! We all have leadership qualities and use them daily without even thinking about it! Revisit these and other leaders of the past's words and deeds! Draw inspiration from their actions! Integrity is a force that cannot be stopped! Stay positive! We are the UAW! The greatest union in the world! We build the future here at Delphi Flint East! We will succeed! We are miracles! Solidarity Forever! GENESEE COUNTY, FLINT, CLIO, DAVISON, FENTON, FLUSHING, GRAND BLANC, HOLLY, LAPEER, LINDEN, SWARTZ CREEK ...EVERYONE CLICK... genesee county .com swartz creek .com fenton mi .com fenton .org flint mi .org flint sitdown.com grand blanc mi .com grand blanc .org WIDE TV .com OR use the easiest UHHUH .com TO GET TO THIS WEBSITE! ...WHATEVER'S EASIER FOR YOU! 1/29/00...per the Feb.7th SPARKLER article...Click: www.www.reuther.wayne.edu/autoworker.html www.worldbook.com/fun/aajourny/html/index.html P.S...GRAB A SUGGESTION FORM AND WRITE DOWN THAT GREAT IDEA OF YOURS! IF IT IS THE FIRST ONE YOU HAVE WRITTEN THIS YEAR, YOU WILL RECEIVE A FREE GIFT! MAN, YOU CAN'T BEAT THAT! Jan 1 2000! We Made It! Happy New Year 2000! This morning I got busy and started the old computer(It Worked!)I was thinking about...aw...check it out(CLICK NOW)! Nov-December 1999 ... a labor of love ... from the heart of an autoworker...a proud UAW Local 651 member in Genesee County Flint MI ...uhhuh...uhhuh...uhhuh...dot com! ON THE LINE AND ONLINE AT THE SAME TIME!! 12-24-99 I'm gonna be adding more links during the holidays...man, I'm energized! Active and retired Brothers and sisters of UAW Local 651 have a happy and safe holiday! To all...God Bless You! 12-30-99 "Weaving the Web" by Tim Berners-Lee is a great book to read(one of the presents I received from my wife).It tells how he invented the world wide web! One person, one idea! Gee whiz, dot coms are everywhere now! I am glad he kept on with his dream! Look what can be done in the following sentences because of his vision...Wanna read the Times of India? http://www.timesofindia.com/ or Go to Kentucky? http://www.kentucky.com/ or Read the China Daily? http://www.chinadaily.com/ or Visit the Great UAW Website? http://www.uaw.com/ You and I can travel the world with our fingertips...in seconds! In my opinion, the creation of the World Wide Web in our time is as significant as the invention of the motorcar, electricity, telegraph, phone...etc. was 100 or more years ago! Our generation is truly living during one of the greatest communication-inventive phases of human history. Please learn about the web. (Oh, I just found this cool site! It is called HOW THINGS WORK! I would like to share it with you! Check it out: http://www.howthingswork.com/ Please come back! Anyhoo,as I was saying... Buy your own dot com. They are only $35.00 a year! Create a website. Participate in this new adventure. See ya in Year 2000! PS...IF YOU WANT TO LEARN HOW TO CREATE A WEBSITE USING NETSCAPE COMPOSER(IT IS IN NETSCAPE COMMUNICATOR), CLICK THE FOLLOWING LINK: http://home.netscape.com/browsers/using/newusers/composer/ Also, MICROSOFT FRONTPAGE ROCKS! There are many free cybercities on the web. Tripod gives you free web space and e-mail to create a homepage. Various website editors are built into the site. There, if you want to, you can also purchase a dot-com with URL redirection... www.namesecure.com is cool if you want your own dot-com pointing to your Tripod homepage or any other homepage(website)you have created! Tripod is located at http://www.tripod.com/ Geocities(Yahoo)is another popular cybercity with free e-mail and alot web space and various website editors! http://geocities.datacellar.net/ . Angelfire has free space and alot of the bells and whistles...check it out. http://www.angelfire.com/. The one I began to learn on is The Express Page at www.expage.com! No e-mail, but you can use some HTML(you know, HyperText Markup Language)within the page, and the web page editor is easy and fun to use! Give them a click! Also, check out www.aflcio.com AFL CIO Website! Brothers and sisters of the great UAW, read the information and tutorials on the above sites and make your first homepage! Celebrate this great union we are all a part of! I would like to say a big "HELLO" and "THANK YOU" to all of our Local 651 retirees, and all UAW retirees! I hope this website does ya proud! All members: If you don't have a computer, try WEB TV on for size. It's got 6 e-mail boxes, a free personal homepage for each box holder, built-in software, you can use your TV as the monitor, and it comes with a remote control that runs your both your TV and web box. For 50 dollars more you can get a wireless keyboard. Click http://www.webtv.com/ PAGE 2 MORE FOOD FOR THOUGHT... Oh, click "create free website" button if you want to learn how to make a website...it's easy and free to use thanks to the fine people at The Express Page! Create a page celebrating The Great UAW...or click over the underlined text if you want to start now!!...Many years ago,in Flint, courageous men and women and children changed history together and...heck, if you want to know more...keep on scrolling or CLICK NOW!!! ENJOY! Oh, did you hear about that new AFL-CIO site for WORKING FAMILIES? CLICK NOW(please come back...Thanks!) .. Per my article in The Sparkler 6.21.99 AND 6.19.99 concerning parliamentary procedure...here are some www links www.arts.state.tx.us/library/roberts.htm also try www.parliamentarians.org/ 11-26-99...Old Uhhuh hopes you had a blessed and safe Thanksgiving with your family and friends and you didn't eat too much!! (Those sandwiches you're going to eat over the next few days sure do taste good, don't they? Leftover pizza in the 'fridge does, too...wonder why?...hmmm...Anyway, before I start ramblin' on 'bout that check out these new links I stumbled across... Sparkler article links 12-6-99.. www.allnetdevices.com www.wired.com Like I said...our UAW workforce can build these gadgets with pride...experience...and with quality, cost, and delivery in mind!!! We will succeed!!! SEPT. 1999... I JUST GOT BACK FROM MY FINANCIAL TRAINING AND MAN AM I FIRED UP!!! THANK YOU, MY UAW, LOCAL 651, REGION 1-C AND OUR RETIREES{YOU GIVE SO MUCH OF YOURSELVES!!} FOR THE OPPORTUNITY! AGAIN, I GOTTA THANK THE FLINT SITDOWNERS AND WOMEN'S AUXILIARY FOR WHAT YOU DID BACK IN 1936-1937! I AM MOVED!!! YOU WERE SO GOOD TO US! FOR ME, THE ETERNAL FLAME AND THE LIBRARY WAS THE MOST MEMORABLE OF ALL!!! THE LECTURES WERE TOTALLY EMPOWERING...THE INSTRUCTORS WERE SUPERB...THE INN WAS LIKE A SECOND HOME...AND OH THAT FOOD WAS GOOOOOOOD!!!! EVERYTHING I HAVE LEARNED I WILL UTILIZE DURING MY TENURE AS TRUSTEE. TO THE MEMBERSHIP OF UAW LOCAL 651...I SERVE YOU PROUDLY!!! PAGE 3 THE LATEST FROM THE GREATEST LABOR UNION ...OUR UAW THE UAW ...WHO AND WHERE WE ARE! BARGAINING 1999 WORKER NEWS SOLIDFAX PRINT MEDIA: ENGLISH SERVER VARIETY FUN TRIVIA HISTORIC PLACES: History America National Trust Nat. Park Service NPS Register WHAT THE HECK IS WEB TV? ONLY A GREAT WAY TO LEARN ABOUT THE WORLD WIDE WEB AND COMPUTING. IT AIN'T A COMPUTER, BUT YOU'LL HAVE E-MAIL! THAT'S RIGHT, YOU'LL BE ABLE TO RECEIVE AND SEND THAT NEWFANGLED ELECTRONIC MAIL TO YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS!! BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE! MAN, JUST CHECK OUT THESE LINKS BELOW! UHHUH!!! WHAT IS WEB TV? IT COSTS LESS THAN $75! www.washingtonpost.com AUTONEWS.COM NOT WEB TV BUT CLASSIC TV ...UHHUH!! HECK, I LIKE THESE TABLES! NETSCAPE COMPOSER IS COOL! LET ME PUT SOME MORE MUSIC LINKS IN HERE FOR YOU. IT WILL BE EASIER ON YOUR EYES! THE ULTIMATE BAND LIST JIMI HENDRIX. He reinvented the guitar! BILLBOARD MAGAZINE GUITAR WORLD MUSIC NEWSWIRE GUITAR PLAYER ROLLING STONE MARK FARNER 10.20.01(HECK, I WROTE THE FOLLOWING WORDS IN 1999...)"THE WEB IS FILLED WITH ADVENTURE! THE WORLD IS CHANGING. BROADBAND CABLE IS COMING SOON TO A TV NEAR YOU! TAKE THE TIME TO LEARN ABOUT THE DIGITAL FUTURE. IT IS HERE...NOW. THE COMMENT 'I DON'T NEED A COMPUTER' DOESN'T EVEN APPLY ANY MORE. IT'S WAY PAST THAT NOW. 50% OF U.S. HOUSEHOLDS HAVE AT LEAST ONE COMPUTER. THEIR SATURATION POINT WILL BE APPROACHING HOME STEREOS AND VCR'S AS THE PRICES DROP! YOU KNOW IT'S THE ONLY CONSUMER PRODUCT THAT GETS BETTER FASTER AND CHEAPER...(hmmmm....JUST LIKE CARS DID IN THEIR EARLY YEARS!)(MAN,WHEN I WROTE THIS PROCESSORS WERE AROUND 400 T0 500 MHZ. NOW THEY ARE 2 GHZ! WHEW!) TO SURF THE WEB, OR LEARN COMPUTIN', YOU ONLY NEED A BASIC MACHINE. JUST LIKE A CAR, YOU CAN GET BASIC TRANSPORTATION...OR ALL THE BELLS AND WHISTLES!!! ANYHOO, LISTED FURTHER ON DOWN THIS WEB PAGE is information on the UAW SKILL CENTER. It is PROVIDED BY YOUR GREAT UNION, OUR UAW! CLASSES THAT COVER THE COMPUTING BASES, IF YOU OR YOUR FAMILIES WANT TO START LEARNING. ISN'T THAT WHAT LIFE IS ABOUT? There are other classes, too! ISN'T OUR SKILLS CENTER A BLESSING?" THESE ARE JUST A COUPLE OF THE BENEFITS THAT OUR UNION PROVIDES FOR US! ALL I CAN SAY IS THIS....BACK IN 1937...WHEN THEY SATDOWN IN FLINT MI FOR DIGNITY AND RESPECT...AND GOT US OUR FIRST CONTRACT...LITTLE DID THEY KNOW OR COULD THEY IMAGINE WHAT A BEAUTIFUL THING THEY WERE CREATING!! MADE WITH PRIDE IN FLINT MI IN 1937...THE UAW!!!! RIGHT ON!!! THANK YOU FLINT SITDOWNERS AND WOMEN'S AUXILIARY FOR YOUR COURAGE! HOTSHEET ... a zillion links!!! UPS PACKAGE TRACKER HISTORY CHANNEL SPEECH ARCHIVES IMAGINE CREATING YOUR OWN RADIO STATION IF YOU WANNA UNDERSTAND THIS WEB THING YA GOTTA READ WIRED KIM KOMANDO WEB PAGE HOW TO USE NETSCAPE COMPOSER TO MAKE A WEB PAGE ??????????????? UAW PROUD AND LOUD... I AM PROUD TO SERVE THE MEMBERSHIP AT UAW LOCAL 651 AS THEIR TRUSTEE! "THANKS FOR TAKING ME FROM THE ROAD TO THE UNION HALL" FLASH...FLASH...FLASH...FLASH...THIS JUST IN......................... PLEASE ATTEND YOUR UNION MEETINGS! WE WANT YOU THERE, BROTHERS AND SISTERS OF THIS GREAT UNION...LET YOUR VOICES BE HEARD!!! YOU , THE MEMBERSHIP, ARE THE HIGHEST AUTHORITY!!! WE SERVE YOU!! IT IS A PRIVILEGE AND HONOR!!! A QUESTION... HOW DO I GET TO THIS CYBERPLACE...Easy to Remember!!!! IF YOU FORGET...JUST THINK "uhhuh, what was that .com that uses zipcodes to get to it? Oh, it is UHHUH.COM!" THIS WEBSITE IS A LABOR OF LOVE FOR ME. IT IS DONE IN THE SPIRIT OF MY BELIEF THAT "ONE PERSON CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!" JUST LIKE TIM BERNERS-LEE CREATED THE WORLD WIDE WEB AND GAVE IT AWAY FOR FREE... I CREATED THIS WEBSITE DURING THE FLINT UAW GM STRIKES OF 1998... A SITE DEDICATED TO THE STRIKERS OF LOCAL 651 AND 659. AN EMPOWERMENT SITE FEATURING THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED AUTO WORKERS...AND DEDICATED TO THE FLINT SITDOWNERS AND WOMEN'S AUXILIARY! REMEMBER...CLICK HERE FOR NEWS... THE News...clik hEre...cLick it THE NEWS if you missed the link above!!!!!!!! (This is the original 651 Striker's Website from the 1998 strike. Looks like I made a little progress website-wise since then!)UAW SKILL CENTER CLASS CATALOG WHO IS ELIGIBLE? ANY EMPLOYEE OF DELPHI EAST AND WEST OR DELCO ELECTRONICS...RETIREES...HOURLY EMPLOYEES...THEIR FAMILIES. CALL (810) 760-5182 TO ENROLL! CALL 7-8453 or 7-8732 TO HAVE A CATALOG MAILED TO YOU! STOP BY THE JOINT TRAINING OFFICE IN WILSON HALL #2 TO GET A CATALOG! THANK YOU UAW!!!! MORE LINKS 48420 48423 48430 WWW.flint sitdown.com WWW.fenton.org 48433 48439 WWW.grandblancmi.com WWW.grand blanc.org 48442 48446 48451 48473 WWW.swartzcreek.com WWW.uhhuh.us WWW.widetv.com SITDOWNER DIARY SPARKLER 1999 BACK TO TOP OF THE PAGE PAGE 2 PAGE 3 SPARKLER 2001 SPARKLER 2000 LEGAL DISCLAIMER: THE OPINIONS EXPRESSED ON THIS PAGE ARE OF THE WEBMASTERS AND ARE NOT THOSE OF UAW LOCAL 651 OR OF THE INTERNATIONAL UAW. BY USE OF THIS PAGE AND IT'S LINKS, USERS AGREE THAT ALL INFORMATION IS PROVIDED "AS IS" . THE LINKS PROVIDED HEREIN ARE MAINTAINED BY THEIR RESPECTIVE ORGANIZATIONS, AND THEY ARE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR CONTENT. USERS AGREE TO HOLD THE OWNERS OF THIS WEBSITE HARMLESS FOR ANY AND ALL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF USE OF THIS SERVICE AND IT'S LINKS. TRADEMARKS ARE THE PROPERTY OF THEIR RESPECTIVE OWNERS. WE MAKE NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED WITH RESPECT TO ANY DOCUMENT. WE DO NOT ASSUME ANY LEGAL LIABILITY OR RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, OR USEFULLNESS OF ANY INFORMATION, APPARATUS, PRODUCT, OR PROCESS DISCLOSED; OR REPRESENT THAT IT'S USE WOULD NOT INFRINGE PRIVATELY OWNED RIGHTS. NO PART OF THIS DOCUMENT MAY BE REPRODUCED OR TRANSMITTED IN ANY FORM OR BY ANY MEANS, ELECTRONIC OR MECHANICAL, FOR ANY PURPOSE. USE OF THIS SYSTEM FOR ANY PURPOSE OTHER THAN THAT FOR WHICH IT WAS DESIGNED IS UNAUTHORIZED AND PROHIBITED. Thanks for checking out the website! Like I said, it's UAW PROUD AND LOUD! UHHUH...YEAH!!! MAN, check out page 1 and PAGE 2 if you didn't already!
Blogs GuideGreat list of some great labor books that do an excellent job of educating us in labor history and issues. Please click to visit the page! Thanks!
THE FIRST UAW CONTRACT FEBRUARY 11,1937 WHITE SHIRT DAY! PRINT THIS!
2.25.01 MY LATEST DELPHI SPARKLER ARTICLES ONLINE! SOME OF THE WEBPAGES HAVE A LABOR NEWS SEARCH, SPEED OF THE INTERNET INDICATOR, LINKS TO OTHER SPARKLER ARTICLES AND A WEATHER GRAPHIC(ON MY 651 STRIKER'S WEBPAGE FROM 1998, I HAD A WEATHER LINK ALONG WITH THE LATEST STRIKE NEWS AND SITDOWN LINKS...ONE STOP READING!)AND SOUNDS. ANYHOO, I'M PRETTY SURE SOME OF THE IDEAS ABOVE ARE A UAW FIRST FOR AN ELECTED UAW OFFICER. MAYBE SOME OF THESE IDEAS WILL CATCH ON. WHO KNOWS? TIME WILL TELL!
PLEASE CLICK LINKS BELOW AND TURN YOUR COMPUTER SPEAKERS ON. COOL! THANKS!
VARIOUS 1998,1999 and 2000 ARTICLES
MORE 1998-2000 ARTICLES
1999
2000
2001
Flint Sitdown Diary FROM ONE WORKER'S PERSPECTIVE IN THE PLANT!
United
Auto
YOUR WEINGARTEN RIGHTS PRINT THIS! BROTHERS AND SISTERS, PLEASE READ THIS! ALL WORKERS SHOULD KNOW AND UNDERSTAND THIS LABOR LAW!
"DAWN OF A NEW ERA" by Flint Sit-downer FLOYD HOKE-MILLER Check out the first issue from 1988.
THE AMATEUR COMPUTERIST
JAY'S PAGE
NOW THIS IS REALLY COOL(SEE WHAT I MEAN!)
COOL... CLICK NOW...UAW SOLIDARITY MAGAZINE...get involved!!! educate!
MEMBERS OF UAW LOCAL 651... PLEASE ATTEND YOUR UNION MEETINGS!!! CLICK SPOTLIGHTS!
PLEASE GET INVOLVED WITH LOCAL 651. ATTEND YOUR MONTHLY UNION MEETINGS. Read Your Union Paper & UAW Solidarity Magazine SUPPORT YOUR UNION IN THE PLANT. LEARN ABOUT OUR UAW. YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE! DETERMINATION AND PERSISTENCE WIN OUT OVER EVERYTHING...WE WILL SUCCEED!!!
TO THE WORLD: WE BUILD OUR QUALITY PRODUCTS WITH UAW PRIDE! GENERAL MOTORS,FORD,DAIMLER-CHRYSLER...EVERYONE... BRING YOUR SPECIFIC PRODUCT NEEDS TO DELPHI/DELCO FLINT EAST! WE WANT TO BUILD IT FOR YOU!
The latest at YAHOO! Delphi Auto News
and General Motors News
THIS IS NOT THE OFFICIAL UAW LOCAL 651 OR INTERNATIONAL UAW WEBSITE.
CLICK THE FOLLOWING FOR REGION 1C LOCALS and OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST:
UAW LOCAL 651 HOMEPAGE
UAW LOCAL 598
UAW LOCAL 599
UAW LOCAL 659
INTERNATIONAL UAW HOME
UAW REGION NEWS ALL REGIONS
WORKER TO WORKER
"BALLOT BOX - BREAD BOX!!"CHECK OUT WHO IS ON THE SIDE OF WORKING FAMILIES:
MICHIGAN GOVERNMENT TV COMCAST CABLE CHANNEL 17-PROGRAMMING HOURS: MONDAY-FRIDAY, 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
MICHIGAN LEGISLATURE Bill Search & Status BILL SEARCH THOMAS SEARCH - BILLS, Legislation, status - U.S.CONGRESS
CONVERT: (ADOBE PDF File to HTML here...this is cool if you want to print something and it is in ADOBE pdf format! )
"WITNESSES AND WARRIORS"PUBLICATION (accompanied the art exhibition. First exhibition:June 11 to July 2, 1999 at The Greater Flint Arts Council. Greater FLINT Arts Gallery 816 Saginaw Street, downtown Flint...The book "WITNESSES AND WARRIORS" THE FLINT SITDOWN STRIKE OF 1936-1937...for info call 810-238-ARTS...THIS BOOK and EXHIBIT PAYS HOMAGE TO THE COURAGEOUS MEN AND WOMEN OF FLINT THAT TOOK A STAND FOR DIGNITY AND RESPECT FOR THE WORKERS IN THE PLANTS...AND empowered THIS WONDERFUL UNION THE GREAT UAW to obtain the first UAW contract from GM. THE UNITED AUTOMOBILE WORKERS...THE UNION THAT NEEDS ALL WORKERS TO GET INVOLVED NOW! THE EXHIBIT WILL TRAVEL THE WHOLE UNITED STATES AND WORLD AFTER JULY 2...SEE IT NOW AND PURCHASE THE BOOK THAT CONTAINS ALL THE ART AND STORIES BEHIND THIS GREAT EVENT THAT CHANGED LABOR HISTORY IN THE WORLD. THE BOOK IS ONLY TWENTY DOLLARS! I WANT TO THANK UAW REGION 1-C, THE FOUNDATION FOR MOTT COMMUNITY COLLEGE AND MOTT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOR THEIR SIGNIFICANT SUPPORT OF THIS PROJECT...THANK YOU FLINT SITDOWNERS AND WOMENS AUXILIARY FOR WHAT YOU DID FOR US...you risked your lives...and won dignity and respect for workers everywhere!
SOLIDARITY LINKS:
THE FIRST UAW CONTRACT FEBRUARY 11,1937 WHITE SHIRT DAY!
WALTER REUTHER LIBRARY/ WAYNE STATE - story and photos.
THE GREAT FLINT SITDOWN - THE MOST IMPORTANT STRIKE IN HISTORY!
HISTORY Link at S.F.S.U. - Sitdown story and photos. THE BATTLE OF THE OVERPASS - REUTHER LIBRARY.
THE BATTLE OF THE OVERPASS.
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN-FLINT LABOR HISTORY PROJECT COLLECTION
LOCAL UNION PAPERS ONLINE: UAW LOCAL 659 THE Searchlight"
UAW LOCAL 598 "The Eyeopener"
REGION 1 C REVIEW ONLINE AND IN SOLIDARITY MAG
SOLIDARITY MAGAZINE: UAW SOLIDARITY MAGAZINE EACH UAW MEMBER RECEIVES ONE EACH MONTH. PLEASE READ IT.
Click here for a Petition to put my hero Walter Reuther on a postage stamp!!!
Thanks, UAW...for bargaining Dignity and Respect in 1999!!! PARLIAMENTARY RULES(PRINTABLE CHART)
UNION DENSITY CHART: MAN,WE GOT WORK TO DO! CHECK OUT THIS CHART!
SONGS FROM THE FLINT SITDOWN
A LABOR QUIZ
THE STORY OF THE SEARCHLIGHT-THE VOICE OF THE CHEVROLET WORKER!
PAGE 2 PAGE 3 PAGE 4
2.25.01 NEWEST SITDOWN LINKS... 1.30.1937
RELIEF
2.13.1937
1936-1937
YOUNG WALTER REUTHER
11.30.1934
FORD WORKERS.
MI Historical Markers(scroll page for sitdown related items)
Music
A TEACHER'S Most EXCELLENT SITE
Reuther Library at WAYNE STATE
"BREAD UPON THE WATERS/chapter 22 and chapter 23"
Voices of Flint
History of Sitdowns
Red Beret Exhibit of Women's Emergency Brigade
Janesville, Wisconsin Sitdown
FLINT SITDOWN
CIO JOHN L. LEWIS UMWA WEBSITE
Walter Reuther Labor Library online exhibits
and North American Labor Archives
MORE REUTHER:
TIME Magazine 100: BUILDERS AND TITANS AUDIO HERE - REUTHER SPEAKS!
ENGLAND lot of links!
HISTORY OF THE CANADIAN AUTO WORKERS UNION - The C.A.W.
TEACHERS,PROFS: Curriculum of United States History
Labor History Index
WEBQUEST
FLINT PUBLIC LIBRARY
GENESEE DISTRICT LIBRARIES
MEL - MICHIGAN ELECTRONIC LIBRARY
LAPEER LIBRARY and
PERIODICALS
LABOR QUOTES
ANALYSIS OF SUPREME COURT DECISIONS
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS: AMERICAN MEMORIES ALL COLLECTION SEARCH
ART OF THE LABOR MOVEMENT
great searches: ALL THE WEB GOOGLE
SEARCH FOR LIBRARIES ON THE WEB
FIRST GOV
NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION (NARA)
WORKERS
THOMAS
NPR - NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO
website help: DRAAC
LABOR CARTOONS: SOLIDARITY.COM
MORE AT YAHOO: Labor Page Labor News Full Coverage Downsizing and Layoffs
GLOBAL SOLIDARITY LINKS: UNIONS,FEDERATIONS and ASSOCIATIONS ON INTERNET
XPDNC Comprehensive Labor
Resource
MEGA LABOR LINKS
MGBGS Labor Links
AFL-CIO Partners and Links
1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 Local 651 sparkler articles, linksMORE SPARKLER ARTICLES, links...CONTINUED...CLIK HERE...when u get there, click the Time Warp(s) at the top of the page...and the others, too!!!
I'M UAW... LOUD & EXTREMELY PROUD to SERVE THE MEMBERSHIP OF UAW LOCAL 651!!!
click the links beneath the above pictures and underlined words and sentences!(below,too!)
...for Flint Sitdown Strike of 1936 and 1937 links, empowering websites, local Flint mi union hall sites, Flint labor history...and other fun stuff! Almost all homepages and websites were web tv created with a little html and javascript added for some flash...I am low TECH AS HECK (but it's gettin' better)... AND I'm DARN PROUD OF IT!!!!!!!!!
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Flint Sit-downer Stay-In Strike Diary
McLaren Nurses AFSCME Local 875
WHAT IT MEANS TO BE UNION
REMEMBERING FLINT
PROUD HISTORY
VIVA LA CAUSA
Remote
Trustee
Radical
Shoprat
PROUD SHOPWORKER Solidarity
WALTER REUTHER
NEWS LINKS: TOTAL NEWS NEWS INDEX US NEWSWIRE NANDOTIMES NEWSLINX NANDO TIMES
WASHINGTON POST MSNBC QUICK NEWS CNN LA TIMES TIME
5.8.00 Web Tutorial Draac Table HTML All One Search Postal News Fox News (Election 2000) Washington Times (Election 2000) Weather.com Intellicast C-Span Microsoft FrontPage Upside National Labor Relations Board Dept. Of Labor City of Detroit The Flint Journal
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3.10.00 Latest links: GREATER FLINT MI ACLU(AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION) NALC BRANCH 256 U.A.W. United Autoworkers Website FLINT JOURNAL BUSINESS ONLINE UNIONS.ORG NBC25.NET WNEM TV GENESEE COUNTY PARKS GENESEE COUNTY FAIR CITY OF FLINT AFL-CIO Executive Pay Watch YAHOO labor union news
VARIOUS UAW LOCALS ON WEB:
UAW Local 594( with a page for hearing impaired members) UAW Local 602 1999 282 292 325 571 598 599 6000 651 897 898 909 913 969 2166 FACTS LABOR
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2000 Election LINKS: Webwhiteblue Wash Times C-SPAN A labor professor told me that the World Wide Web will play a significant role in the future of today's labor movement!
More UAW History 101... THE GREAT UAW...the first UAW contract was written which recognized the UAW as the sole bargaining voice for autoworkers IN FLINT,MICHIGAN on February 11, 1937. This day is forever remembered as White Shirt Day. THE Great Flint SITDOWN STRIKE...A STRIKE WHERE THE AUTOWORKERS OF FLINT TOOKOVER THE AUTOPLANTS TO GAIN DIGNITY AND RESPECT FROM GENERAL MOTORS!! Click here to see and read this historic document! WE WILL ALWAYS BE IN DEBT TO THE COURAGEOUS UNION MEN AND WOMEN OF THAT ERA!
"EVERYONE SAYS "UHHUH" AT LEAST ONCE A DAY!" "GUESS WHAT UHHUH IS IN FRENCH GERMAN ITALIAN PORTUGUESE AND SPANISH ... THAT'S RIGHT! IT'S UHHUH!" PRESENTING WWW.UHHUH.COM ... A TRULY GLOBAL WORD FOR THE GLOBAL VILLAGE THAT MARSHALL McLUHAN PREDICTED !!!
CREATED BY A UAW AUTOWORKER AT DELPHI EAST FLINT,MICHIGAN. A PROUD UAW MEMBER AND TRUSTEE SERVING THE MEMBERSHIP AT LOCAL 651 , A LABOR UNION BORN ON JANUARY 16, 1939!!!
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O.K....if you came back to my website...THANKS!!! IMAGINE A PERSON, A PERSON WHO FOR ALL OF THESE YEARS WAS CONTENT TO DO MY FAIR DAY'S WORK, CASH HIS PAYCHECK, AND LET EVERYONE ELSE sacrifice their own time and effort serving the UAW!! All of the benefits and wages that I had were won through the struggles of someone else!!! It was all there for me!!
Then the strike happened last summer(click here now...LISTEN WHILE YOU ARE READING THE FOLLOWING THOUGHTS!!! DON'T CLICK ANOTHER LINK OR AUDIO WILL STOP)
... and suddenly I realized how important it is to be in a union. How important it is to have a friend, spokesperson and lawyer for my and other's dignity and respect!!! Especially nowadays, with nafta and the global economy that takes good-paying American jobs and shifts them to third-world countries where the workers have no rights...unsafe working conditions...pennies for wages and no benefits...fake or company unions...just like the early 1900's in this country!!! It's like big business in this country is in a time machine to the past!!!
During our struggle in the Summer of '98, I read up on our union history in this country; and our UAW history in Flint Michigan!!! Anywhere labor history is taught, there is a chapter on the great Flint Sitdown!!! That's how important it is ...people...people no different than you and me took a stand and created something magnificent...A VOICE FOR THE WORKERS!
VISIT www.FLINTSITDOWN.com, In Plant Diary - Journal during 1936 1937 written by a UAW Flint sit-down striker. ...A voice that (little did they know) would change the world!!! It would make their community, state, country and world a better place!!! Whew!!! Stop!! Just think about that for a moment. The point I am trying to make is that things just don't happen! Individuals make them happen. One person is important!!! It is never too late to get involved! Through my walkin' the road last summer, hangin' out with some of the sitdowners, who were kind enough to share their stories of the past, and reading about the Flint Sitdown through the books at the Flint Public Library and the websites on the world wide web, I became emotionally connected to this history. Now, when I drive down Saginaw Street, in front of old Fisher One...which was torn down, I try to visualize what happened in the old building...out on the street...as the workers marched out of the plant...wildly cheering ...knowing that their courage, conviction and determination was triumphant over mistreatment and greed!!!
Yeah, all I know is this. I got involved late in life. That's why I hope some of our younger members will get involved now. Don't be like me! Don't wait!! Go to your union meetings. Run for a union position. Give something back to the UAW...your local...write for your union paper
...make a positive difference...read up on it's history. we are the union...we, together, as one, can take it to an even higher level!! I WILL ALWAYS STAND UP FOR THIS UNION. We wouldn't have anything if it wasn't for it. Yeah, I know, I got a big mouth... Sorry, I can't change! See ya in the plant!! If this is your first time clickin' my website...hey, man...come on back!
BREAK TIME AGAIN....GEE WHIZ...I JUST KEPT ON GOING ON AND ON...MAYBE, YOU LIKE MUSIC...AND WANT TO SEE WHO'S PLAYING around the area.......HERE'S A COUPLE OF PLACES I FOUND ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB...
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COOL... CLICK NOW...UAW MAGAZINE...get involved!!! solidarity!!! educate!
new TV links i found OPRAH DONNY AND MARIE SALLY JR TV ONLINE MAG
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web movies : Movie Reelviews you've got mail austin powers amg movie guide movie e-zine Empire Hollywood Land MR.ShowBiz
free homepages free web sites free email ... angelfire expage geocities delphi hotmail infospace tripod unions xoom
Tutorial on html javascript web tv and other neat stuff at DRAAC.com
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MY EXCERPTS FROM VARIOUS 1998 AND 1999 SPARKLER PAPERS:
"IN MEMORY OF TWO FALLEN UAW WARRIORS" 9.27.99 Dear Mr.D___ and Mr.M____ I first saw both of you in the pictures at the art exhibition at the Greater Flint Arts Council, the exhibit that honors the remaining Flint Sit-Downers, and in the book "Witnesses and Warriors". This exhibit will travel around the United States and the world...educating the public on the importance, and truly pivotal moment in Labor History that, The Great Flint Sit-Down Strike of 1936-1937 truly was!!! Mr. D___, as I viewed you at your wake that was held in your honor at UAW Local 599, from your obituary I learned, around 1926, while working at the Buick Foundry, The Union talk began. You were threatened and beaten many times. You were positioned as captain of the "Flying Squadron" which was a protest group. When there was activity at one of the plants, as captain you were called in to provide strategy and leadership. You were also President of the Flint Chapter of the NAACP for a term. Years later, during the 1936-1937 Sit-Down, you were chief cook at Local 599 and still in leadership as a member of the "Flying Squadron." After the UAW was recognized as The One and Only bargaining agent for the autoworkers, you officially became the First Black UAW Member because you were the first Black to sign the original card as an organizer of the beginning protest. Mr. M___, I first met and talked to you at Genesys Hospital. When you took over Fisher 1, Sitting Down, you realized you could be attacked or killed. The whole town was out to get you and the other UAW Sit-Downers!! But you didn't care. Something had to be done for the worker's dignity and respect. Inside, day after day, night after night, you patrolled the plant's gates, windows and interior(44 days in all). You were ready to act to protect the other Sit-Downers from any harm that could come their way. While Mr.____ and others were patrolling in Brotherhood and Solidarity outside of the plant in the Squadron, you were growing stronger and stronger as the days progressed. You didn't know how long this shop would be your new "home". How much tear gas and bullets would the police use? How hard it must have been to get a good night's sleep with everyone out to get you and the others...at any moment! February 11, 1937 came. Victory was yours!!! The First Contract!! Ever!! In Flint, Michigan. In my mind's eye, on that day, I can see you happily walking out of the plant with the other cheering Sit-Downers onto Saginaw Street, joining Mr. D___ and the cheering masses in a Victory Celebration. Thank you, Gentlemen! (If you are interested in purchasing the book please call the Greater Flint Arts Council at (810) 238-2787. UAW Local 651 members, in memory of these two very fine gentlemen...please attend your union meetings. Because of their efforts we don't have to meet in secrecy in candle-lit basements with covered windows anymore. Think about it!!! You can make a difference. Solidarity Forever!
"64 YEARS OLD AND GOIN'STRONG"
9.13.99 I love to read, and Labor History and Computing are two of my favorites. Recently, the library had a book sale and I picked up a book named "Selected Speeches, Messages, Press Conferences, and Letters of Franklin D. Roosevelt." The following is his statement upon signing the Social Security Act of August 14th, 1935: "Today a hope of many years is in a large part fulfilled. The civilization of the past hundred years, with it's startling changes, has tended more and more to make life insecure. Young people have come to wonder what would be their lot when they came to old age. The man with a job has wondered how long the job would last. This Social Security measure gives at least some protection to thirty million of our citizens who will reap direct benefits through unemployment compensation, through old age pensions and through increased services through the protection of children and the prevention of ill health. We can never insure one hundred percent of the population against one hundred percent of the hazards and vicissitudes of life, but we have tried to frame a law which will give some measure of protection to the ordinary citizen and to his family against the loss of a job and against poverty ridden old age. This law, too, represents a corner stone in a structure which is being built but is by no means complete-a structure intended to lesson the force of possible future depressions, to act as a protection to future administrations of the Government against the necessity of going deeply into debt to furnish relief to the needy-a law to flatten out the peaks and valleys of deflation and of inflation-in other words, a law that will take care of human needs and at the same time provide for the United States an economic structure of vastly greater soundness. I congratulate all of you ladies and gentlemen, all of you in Congress, in the Executive departments and all of you who come from private life, and I thank you for your splendid efforts in behalf of this sound, needy and patriotic legislation. If the Senate and the House of Representatives in this long and arduous session had done nothing more than pass this Bill, the session would be regarded as historic for all time." FDR, how right you were! Thank You! Thank Sunday, September 12th, at 11:00a.m. at Local 651 you will be able to discuss and vote on all the issues brought up, including one to change the time of your union meeting, If you can't make it, could you please pass this on to two or more fellow 651 members. Solidarity Forever...The union makes us strong!
LOCAL 651 OFFICERS PERSONAL WEBSITES!
"WE ARE NOW THE SURVIVORS"
8.30.99 As you look before you, on your job... crafting, creating a part that moves to the next station...or you might be fixing that machine...welding, wiring, cutting, putting life back into that metal and plastic entity. Please reflect on this. The sum of your experience is being called upon. From your mind to your very fingertips. This all important present moment instantly becomes the past. Each second of experience prepares us for the next experience. Each second we become more educated, experienced and seasoned for the job at hand. From seconds to minutes, minutes to hours, days to weeks...year after year. Suddenly...decades have elapsed!!! We are now the "older" folks to the younger workers. Remember the gentlemen with the pocket protectors? The gentlewomen that came in early to put new doilies on the tables that sat next to the lines...to get the coffee pot going...to make the day more enjoyable and tolerable for their ladyfriends? Remember? Oh, how I miss them. With their stories of the past years in this shop...the years that we were in school, or not even born yet! One thing that always got me was someone telling me of "hiring in" in the year I was born. You too??? Now I suddenly realize that some of our fellow workers and alot of the engineers and supervisors were in grade school or not even born when you and I hired in! We Are The Survivors! Imagine that. We are the ones with the responsibility to pass on the experience, wisdom, and stories to our youthful union members. Stories of how it used to be. Just like the senior folks did when we first hired in. Their tales of building parts for the war effort..."that line over there used to make bullets"...and tales of the greatness of Walter Reuther...Mr. and Mrs. AC...silver dollars at Christmas...a superintendent shaking a worker's hand, no matter how dirty it was...Our own tales...the ones of civil rights...the Vietnam war...oil embargoes...big cars...Watergate...a president resigning...the time you could sit in high school knowing that you could always work for GM...the unemployment lines winding around and around for hours...laid off...then called back...laid off...called back. Gradually, the factory weathered veterans of our past retired. WE BECAME THEM!!! WE became the ones in charge of the memories. More significantly, WE BECAME THE FIRST WORKFORCE HERE THAT NO LONGER WORKS FOR GM. Delphi management, give us the tools and training to succeed. Employee involvement is a necessity! Listen to us! We are the masters of our jobs.We have a learned strength and wisdom acquired from years and years of doing the noble work that we do...consistently and diligently, with supreme integrity! To the management and engineers that missed our glory years here, respect us! We know our jobs! Our mothers and fathers, sons and daughters, aunts and uncles, cousins and friends all have worked here. The continuation of this is important to us. In summary, the younger UAW workforce will become "us" 25 years from now...and they will tell the new hires how we successfully built this company into the new millenium, apart from GM. Retired, we will drive by Delphi and see workers going in. We will see people going in and out of Local 651. Our hearts and minds will be at peace!/ Please don't forget to attend your union meeting on Sunday, September 12 at 11:00a.m.at Local 651. You will be able to discuss and vote on a new time for your union meeting. If you can't make it, could you please pass this information on to two fellow members. Thank You. Solidarity Forever.
"DO YOU BELIEVE"
8.16.99 Do you believe in yourself? Do you believe you are capable of anything? Do you believe that the sky is the limit? Do you believe that you...your effort...can make a positive difference? Do you believe that many people together, with the same positive attitude, determination and vision can accomplish anything...can create a UAW job filled secure future here at Delphi...just like a sculptor molds clay into a work of art or a mother and father create a child and successfully nurture it from infancy to adulthood thus repeating the cycle of life? No matter what they are up against. Do you believe that the journey...the struggle towards the ultimate goal...is the most important lesson? A lesson which shows what a person is made of! Their true fiber. We, the UAW members of Delphi East, have this fiber...this "industrial" strength inside of us to accomplish anything. It's been passed on from the previous generations of UAW members that met in darkened basements with candles to create a union. From our families that all worked in the shops in Flint! It is a proud heritage of character and strength that we all share. Here at Delphi, we have moved out of our teenage years together, hugged and cried together, supported each other emotionally and financially through pain, loss and divorce. We have agreed, argued, joked, laughed and sighed together. We have looked at hundreds of family pictures...seen our coworkers pregnant; and said to this child that they carried "I remember when your Mama worked beside me with you in her belly!" I have seen women work 12 hour days, 7 days a week tell me "now I'm going home to second shift." We have said "Good Morning" and "Have a good day" to each other over a period of years, sometimes not knowing each other's name. We have held the doors open for each other saying "No, you go ahead first." We have gotten coffee, pop, and snacks for each other...held baby showers, birthday, going away, and retirement parties for each other. On the lines, we have been cold and hot together and yelled "Who's got that fan on?" We've complained "Who left my job like this?" We have gained weight, greyed and went bald together. We have went through the name changes and strikes together. We know sides of each other that no one else has seen. Why not! We've spent half our lives on this earth in this shop...one-third of each day together, elbow to elbow! We are this generations "tough cookies" of Delphi East. We, together, our skins thick and toughened through all the trials and tribulations of modern day factory life, can build us into the next century. We, together, can weave a future of UAW jobs here at Flint East for our children and grandchildren and for the people of Genesee County. This factory floor and walls, this land you and I have talked, walked, and worked together on has a rich history within it. It can, will, and must employ future generations of UAW workers, some not even born yet! Here, side by side, going through the same things you and I went through all those years. Yes, Yes, Yes, We together, can do anything! You are the "Tough Cookies". I grew up with you...I know you!!!
ANONYMOUS
...9.14.98 Driving down Court Street in front of Central High School after dropping off books on the history of Genesee County and Walter Reuther, I thought of the great names listed on our Local's charter- a charter signed almost 60 years ago. Mr. Reuther, R.J. Thomas, Ed Hall, Wyndham Mortimer and Mr. Addes...the UAW originals. Their names written on it, at the bottom of the yellowed sheet of paper...which I had just viewed 20 minutes earlier. The road was so bumpy, you had to maneuver around the cement patches and dips in it. My mom would drive me and my friend to band practice after school got out, down these same roads...newer and smoother 33 years ago. I thought of when as a kid, you always knew you could work in the shop one day in Flint. But no more. The bumpy road was a reminder of GM's continuing departure. I thought about the kids in this city, how the GM dream is gone for them. How the words "AC" are removed off of the water towers and trucks. How Buick City will be no more next year. How when you drive down South Saginaw Street, Fisher 1 is torn down, and I can only picture in my mind the tear gas, broken windows, and parade as the Sit-downers marched victoriously out of the factory. A classical piano was playing sadly over my radio...I cried.
2/27/00...Management's business planning process will include the necessity for providing employees with the appropriate training, methods and systems, materials, and equipment in an appropriate enviroment based on the Quality Network Beliefs and Values to perform their work. It is then incumbent upon employees to exercise diligence and properly perform their work to produce the highest quality, customer-valued products and services. It is only through personal commitment from every Delphi employee to provide the highest quality, customer-valued products and services that we will satisfy our customers and maintain job security for all.
...per 3/06/00, 3/15/00 SPARKLER Article UPDATED Quality Network Suggestion Dept. phone numbers: Plant 6,7 7-5152. Plant 43 phone 7-8635 or 7-7920. Plant 2,8 phone 7-6404. Plant 3 Maintenance,central services phone 7-6400. Human Resources and miscellaneous departments etc...phone 7-3903. Engineering Building phone 7-8246.
Ask for a copy of The UAW-Delphi Suggestion Plan Employee Handbook. Always save your copy of the suggestion AND write down the suggestion number! Personally walk and talk the suggestion investigator through your idea! Make sure they understand the idea and it is written down properly. If the monetary award is not fair, launch your appeal(suggestion review)immediately by calling one of the above phone numbers! One thing that has irked me throughout the years is when the salaried investigator does not PERSONALLY talk to me about my suggestion! Make sure they personally talk to you about the suggestion you wrote! Call the above numbers if this doesn't happen! Ask to talk to the joint UAW suggestion representative. They will assist you and give you further guidance. Our ideas can help create a future for us and future UAW members here at the site! You have the power inside...the spirit, strength and wisdom...you are truly a miracle! Nothing can stop us from succeeding! Nothing! Our world...the shop floor...worked on it for years! We know this shop! New UAW members of the future will walk,talk, and work in this shop, just like we did! Our brothers and sisters of the past created a union of hearts and minds here in Flint so many years ago! Against all odds! Our generation of worker is a mighty force! We grew up in the Fifties and Sixties...with great leaders...Martin Luther King, Walter Reuther, John F. Kennedy! They had leadership and vision and no fear! We all have leadership qualities and use them daily without even thinking about it! Revisit these and other leaders of the past's words and deeds! Draw inspiration from their actions! Integrity is a force that cannot be stopped! Stay positive! We are the UAW! The greatest union in the world! We build the future here at Delphi Flint East! We will succeed! We are miracles! Solidarity Forever!
GENESEE COUNTY, FLINT, CLIO, DAVISON, FENTON, FLUSHING, GRAND BLANC, HOLLY, LAPEER, LINDEN, SWARTZ CREEK ...EVERYONE CLICK... genesee county .com swartz creek .com fenton mi .com fenton .org flint mi .org flint sitdown.com grand blanc mi .com grand blanc .org WIDE TV .com OR use the easiest
UHHUH .com TO GET TO THIS WEBSITE! ...WHATEVER'S EASIER FOR YOU!
1/29/00...per the Feb.7th SPARKLER article...Click:
www.www.reuther.wayne.edu/autoworker.html www.worldbook.com/fun/aajourny/html/index.html
P.S...GRAB A SUGGESTION FORM AND WRITE DOWN THAT GREAT IDEA OF YOURS! IF IT IS THE FIRST ONE YOU HAVE WRITTEN THIS YEAR, YOU WILL RECEIVE A FREE GIFT! MAN, YOU CAN'T BEAT THAT!
Jan 1 2000! We Made It! Happy New Year 2000! This morning I got busy and started the old computer(It Worked!)I was thinking about...aw...check it out(CLICK NOW)!
Nov-December 1999 ... a labor of love ... from the heart of an autoworker...a proud UAW Local 651 member in Genesee County Flint MI ...uhhuh...uhhuh...uhhuh...dot com! ON THE LINE AND ONLINE AT THE SAME TIME!!
12-24-99 I'm gonna be adding more links during the holidays...man, I'm energized! Active and retired Brothers and sisters of UAW Local 651 have a happy and safe holiday! To all...God Bless You!
12-30-99 "Weaving the Web" by Tim Berners-Lee is a great book to read(one of the presents I received from my wife).It tells how he invented the world wide web! One person, one idea! Gee whiz, dot coms are everywhere now! I am glad he kept on with his dream!
Look what can be done in the following sentences because of his vision...Wanna read the Times of India? http://www.timesofindia.com/ or Go to Kentucky? http://www.kentucky.com/ or Read the China Daily? http://www.chinadaily.com/ or Visit the Great UAW Website? http://www.uaw.com/
You and I can travel the world with our fingertips...in seconds! In my opinion, the creation of the World Wide Web in our time is as significant as the invention of the motorcar, electricity, telegraph, phone...etc. was 100 or more years ago! Our generation is truly living during one of the greatest communication-inventive phases of human history. Please learn about the web.
(Oh, I just found this cool site! It is called HOW THINGS WORK! I would like to share it with you! Check it out: http://www.howthingswork.com/ Please come back!
Anyhoo,as I was saying... Buy your own dot com. They are only $35.00 a year!
Create a website. Participate in this new adventure. See ya in Year 2000!
PS...IF YOU WANT TO LEARN HOW TO CREATE A WEBSITE USING NETSCAPE COMPOSER(IT IS IN NETSCAPE COMMUNICATOR), CLICK THE FOLLOWING LINK: http://home.netscape.com/browsers/using/newusers/composer/ Also, MICROSOFT FRONTPAGE ROCKS! There are many free cybercities on the web. Tripod gives you free web space and e-mail to create a homepage. Various website editors are built into the site. There, if you want to, you can also purchase a dot-com with URL redirection... www.namesecure.com is cool if you want your own dot-com pointing to your Tripod homepage or any other homepage(website)you have created! Tripod is located at http://www.tripod.com/ Geocities(Yahoo)is another popular cybercity with free e-mail and alot web space and various website editors! http://geocities.datacellar.net/ . Angelfire has free space and alot of the bells and whistles...check it out. http://www.angelfire.com/. The one I began to learn on is The Express Page at www.expage.com! No e-mail, but you can use some HTML(you know, HyperText Markup Language)within the page, and the web page editor is easy and fun to use! Give them a click!
Also, check out www.aflcio.com AFL CIO Website!
Brothers and sisters of the great UAW, read the information and tutorials on the above sites and make your first homepage! Celebrate this great union we are all a part of! I would like to say a big "HELLO" and "THANK YOU" to all of our Local 651 retirees, and all UAW retirees! I hope this website does ya proud!
All members: If you don't have a computer, try WEB TV on for size. It's got 6 e-mail boxes, a free personal homepage for each box holder, built-in software, you can use your TV as the monitor, and it comes with a remote control that runs your both your TV and web box. For 50 dollars more you can get a wireless keyboard. Click http://www.webtv.com/
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Oh, did you hear about that new AFL-CIO site for WORKING FAMILIES? CLICK NOW(please come back...Thanks!) ..
Per my article in The Sparkler 6.21.99 AND 6.19.99 concerning parliamentary procedure...here are some www links
www.arts.state.tx.us/library/roberts.htm also try www.parliamentarians.org/
11-26-99...Old Uhhuh hopes you had a blessed and safe Thanksgiving with your family and friends and you didn't eat too much!! (Those sandwiches you're going to eat over the next few days sure do taste good, don't they? Leftover pizza in the 'fridge does, too...wonder why?...hmmm...Anyway, before I start ramblin' on 'bout that check out these new links I stumbled across...
Sparkler article links 12-6-99..
www.allnetdevices.com www.wired.com
Like I said...our UAW workforce can build these gadgets with pride...experience...and with quality, cost, and delivery in mind!!! We will succeed!!! SEPT. 1999...
I JUST GOT BACK FROM MY FINANCIAL TRAINING AND MAN AM I FIRED UP!!! THANK YOU, MY UAW, LOCAL 651, REGION 1-C AND OUR RETIREES{YOU GIVE SO MUCH OF YOURSELVES!!} FOR THE OPPORTUNITY! AGAIN, I GOTTA THANK THE FLINT SITDOWNERS AND WOMEN'S AUXILIARY FOR WHAT YOU DID BACK IN 1936-1937! I AM MOVED!!! YOU WERE SO GOOD TO US! FOR ME, THE ETERNAL FLAME AND THE LIBRARY WAS THE MOST MEMORABLE OF ALL!!! THE LECTURES WERE TOTALLY EMPOWERING...THE INSTRUCTORS WERE SUPERB...THE INN WAS LIKE A SECOND HOME...AND OH THAT FOOD WAS GOOOOOOOD!!!! EVERYTHING I HAVE LEARNED I WILL UTILIZE DURING MY TENURE AS TRUSTEE. TO THE MEMBERSHIP OF UAW LOCAL 651...I SERVE YOU PROUDLY!!!
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10.20.01(HECK, I WROTE THE FOLLOWING WORDS IN 1999...)"THE WEB IS FILLED WITH ADVENTURE! THE WORLD IS CHANGING. BROADBAND CABLE IS COMING SOON TO A TV NEAR YOU! TAKE THE TIME TO LEARN ABOUT THE DIGITAL FUTURE. IT IS HERE...NOW. THE COMMENT 'I DON'T NEED A COMPUTER' DOESN'T EVEN APPLY ANY MORE. IT'S WAY PAST THAT NOW. 50% OF U.S. HOUSEHOLDS HAVE AT LEAST ONE COMPUTER. THEIR SATURATION POINT WILL BE APPROACHING HOME STEREOS AND VCR'S AS THE PRICES DROP! YOU KNOW IT'S THE ONLY CONSUMER PRODUCT THAT GETS BETTER FASTER AND CHEAPER...(hmmmm....JUST LIKE CARS DID IN THEIR EARLY YEARS!)(MAN,WHEN I WROTE THIS PROCESSORS WERE AROUND 400 T0 500 MHZ. NOW THEY ARE 2 GHZ! WHEW!) TO SURF THE WEB, OR LEARN COMPUTIN', YOU ONLY NEED A BASIC MACHINE. JUST LIKE A CAR, YOU CAN GET BASIC TRANSPORTATION...OR ALL THE BELLS AND WHISTLES!!! ANYHOO, LISTED FURTHER ON DOWN THIS WEB PAGE is information on the UAW SKILL CENTER. It is PROVIDED BY YOUR GREAT UNION, OUR UAW! CLASSES THAT COVER THE COMPUTING BASES, IF YOU OR YOUR FAMILIES WANT TO START LEARNING. ISN'T THAT WHAT LIFE IS ABOUT? There are other classes, too! ISN'T OUR SKILLS CENTER A BLESSING?"
THESE ARE JUST A COUPLE OF THE BENEFITS THAT OUR UNION PROVIDES FOR US! ALL I CAN SAY IS THIS....BACK IN 1937...WHEN THEY SATDOWN IN FLINT MI FOR DIGNITY AND RESPECT...AND GOT US OUR FIRST CONTRACT...LITTLE DID THEY KNOW OR COULD THEY IMAGINE WHAT A BEAUTIFUL THING THEY WERE CREATING!! MADE WITH PRIDE IN FLINT MI IN 1937...THE UAW!!!! RIGHT ON!!!
THANK YOU FLINT SITDOWNERS AND WOMEN'S AUXILIARY FOR YOUR COURAGE!
UAW PROUD AND LOUD... I AM PROUD TO SERVE THE MEMBERSHIP AT UAW LOCAL 651 AS THEIR TRUSTEE! "THANKS FOR TAKING ME FROM THE ROAD TO THE UNION HALL"
HI, Local 651 members!
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