Our order book for June and July were down quite a bit but picked up for this month to almost our adjusted target.

We had a SLC meeting last week, the same day Premier Ford spoke about Stelco' s CEO Lourenco Goncalves. President of Stelco Paul Simon expressed to us that Lorenzo does not share the same position that Ford spoke of.

We have our Ways and Means Golf Tournament coming up on September 9th and 10th. Price for a round is $100. Please contact Mike Sejevick for registration. They are having a raffle as well with lots of prizes including Bulldog tickets and golf bags.

Our USW 8782 Facebook page is running. There is an article that speaks of grievances and the importance of them. Please refer to the page for more details.

Stelco has hired a new VP of Operations that will be announced next week and starts on September 8th. 

Our next Union Meeting will be September 8th at 4:15pm.

Rumour of the week......

"After the summer is over and the students are gone will they be laying people off?"

As of last week, at our SLC meeting there was no indication that there would be layoffs. We did discuss how short we are in some of the departments and how they would deal with the issues. We had more questions than they had answers.

Contract/ESA questions of the week...

Lately Stelco has had some issues with work refusals. If you're in the situation that you believe could be unsafe to you, or your actions to a co-worker, then you may invoke your right for a work refusal. When doing so, you should say, "I invoke my right to refuse unsafe work because..." For more clarity, please refer to section 43 of OHSA.

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