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Labor Celebrating IN NorTHWEST oHIo 2022 Labor Day Parade sponsored by THE UNITED LABOR COMMITTEE
Dawn Bailey Regional Director, AFSCME Ohio Council
Kevin Dalton President Toledo Federation of Teachers Local 250 Executive Secretary/Treasurer, Greater NWO AFL-CIO
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Wayne Blanchard Director, United Auto Workers
Mark Schmiehausen President, Teamsters Local
John Clemons
Shaun Enright
Executive Secretary, Northwestern Ohio Building & Construction Trades Council
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W hile Labor Day entails a day off, barbecues and parades, at its core, the holiday is a tribute to the workers who keep our country moving forward and functioning. Unions protect workers rights and have guaranteed weekends off, paid vacations, the abolition of child labor and many other enhancements to the American way of life. Toledo City Paper is honored to spotlight the groups who have supported the American worker with a salute to Labor Day.
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IBEW Local 245 thanks all of its members for all of their safe, hard work and dedication to all of our communities in Northwest Ohio and beyond.
a native of Toledo, Marcy Kaptur has distinguished herself over the course of her nearly 40-year career in politics. She is currently the longest serving woman in Congress, and the secondlongest serving woman of all time. Kaptur also has deep roots in the area’s working community, as her family operated a grocery store just south of Toledo, and her mother served on an organizing committee of a trade union at the Champion Spark Plug Factory. Serving in Congress since 1983, Kaptur is the first woman to Chair the House Appropriations Committee on Energy and Water Development, as well as a senior member of the House Veterans Affairs Committee.
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Labor Day 2022 marks the beginning of a new era of growth for the laborGreatermovement.Northwest Ohio AFL-CIO aFL-CIo
Training at the Seagate Convention Center in Toledo Ohio with over 100 Local members attending. This training is set up to educate our members and signatory contractors on preventing fall hazards on the jobsite with hands-on training. special section
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Workers Need to Organize
This Labor Day we look to the fu ture of our movement. Across the country, workers are taking action at their jobs and worksites, and or ganizing in record numbers. Workers, especially young workers, have lived under unconstrained management and are standing up for them selves. As of July, Starbucks has now had 189 successful union elec tions. Amazon warehouse workers are unionizing. Strikes and work actions are increasing. Workers are taking a stand for safety and for their fair share of corporate profits. Our local unions have educated the community of their rights through our organizing committee with our AFL-CIO Central Labor Council, putting ads out, setting up an educational website ineedaunion.org, and connecting workers with union organizers in every industry. We meet workers where they are and our work to increase union mem bership for all who want it in Northwest Ohio is far from over. When times are hard, workers need to organize. When times get bet ter, workers need to organize. For safety or livelihood, there is a reason for every worker to vote to organize their workplace.
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Jameson Andrew VanBelkum, a senior at Indiana Academy for Sci ence, Math & Humanities, Muncie, IN, who ranked 38 out of a class of 101 students. His father, Nicholas VanBelkum, is a member of UAW Local 977 and works at General Motors, Marion, IN.
Dylan Kenneth Border, a senior at Toledo Early College High School, Toledo, OH. The school does not rank stu dents. His father, Jason Carmony, is a member of UAW Local 12 and works at Stellantas-TAC, Toledo, OH.
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Ellison Tan Nou, a senior at Carmel High School, Carmel, IN. The school does not rank students. His father, Vanna Nou, is a member of UAW Local 1302 and works at Kokomo Transmission, Kokomo, IN. Jack Brice Hamilton, a senior at Canfield High School, Canfield, OH, who ranked 23 out of a class of 233 students. His mother, Cheryl Cleevely, is a member of UAW Local 14 and works at GM Powertrain, Toledo, OH. Area UAW CAP Council Labor provides a better way of life All Americans
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Sasha Johanna Franklin, a senior at Whitmer High School, Toledo, OH, who ranked 3 out of a class of 500 students. Her father, Scott Franklin, is a member of UAW Local 12 and works at Stellantis Jeep, Toledo, OH.
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The only way to combat corporate greed is with organized labor Union jobs drive economy...Buy the fight goes on as powerful opponents wage a relentless assault on the rights we have fought so hard to gain. high school seniors from Region 2B UAW families have been awarded a $10,000.00 college scholarship by the Richard T. Gosser Scholarship Awards Program. The Gosser Scholarship Awards Program, named in honor of the late UAW Vice President and Regional Director Richard T. Gosser, was established in 1962. This year, seven (7) Scholarships will be awarded in the name of Richard T. Gosser and one (1) Scholarship each will be awarded in the name of Ruthann Gosser-Harrison, Joseph Tomasi, Jack Sizemore, Lloyd Mahaffey and Ken Lortz. With the addition of the 2021-2022 winners, over the last 60 years 392 students have received Gosser scholarships with an additional 151 students receiving runner-up scholarships. In all, $3,118,000 in scholarships have been awarded since the program began in 1962.
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Chelsie Nicole Porter, a home schooled, Defiance, OH. Her father, Wayne Porter, is a member of UAW Local 211 and works at GM Powertrain, Defiance, OH.
Collin Matthew Pertner, a senior at St. Paul High School, Norwalk, OH, who ranked 14 out of a class of 69 students. His father, Scott Pertner, is a mem ber of UAW Local 1216 and works at Ventra, Bellevue, OH. Molly Irene Brammer, a senior at Clay High School, Oregon, OH, who ranked 36 out of a class of 272 students. Her father, Thomas Brammer, is a member of UAW Local 1219 and works at Ford Lima, Lima, OH. Olivia Janelle Strohsack, a senior at Brookside High School, Shef field, OH, who ranked 7 out of a class of 117 students. Her father, Brian Strohsack, is a member of UAW Local 1005 and works at MFD Parma, Parma, OH.
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Nicholas Christiaan Smith, a senior at Noblesville High School, Nobles ville, IN, who ranked in the 95the percentile of 685 students of his class. His father, Jason Smith, is a member of UAW Local 1302 and works at Stellantis ITP, Kokomo, IN.
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LOCAL 1216 Sandusky,Ventra,OH Participation since 1983 (7th Winner) LOCAL 1219 Ford, Lima, OH Participation since 2009 (5th Winner)
LOCAL 211 GM Defiance,Powertrain,OH Participation since 1987 (29th & 30th Winners)
LOCAL 12 Stellantis Jeep, Toledo, OH Participation since beginning (39th & 40th Winners)
LOCAL 14 GM Toledo,Powertrain,OH Participation since 1989 (28th Winner)
LOCAL 977 General Motors, Marion, IN Participation since 2012 (3rd Winner)
LOCAL 1005 MFD Parma, Parma, OH Participation since 2008 (8th Winner)
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Gavin Charles Askins, a senior at Tinora High School, Defiance, OH, who ranked 11 out of a class of 95 students. His father, Charles Askins, is a member of UAW Local 211 and works at GM Powertrain, Defi ance, OH. Alexander Josef Handell, a senior at Lake Central High School, Saint John, IN, who is ranked in the top 5% of his class. His father, David Handell, is a member of UAW Local 2335 and works at Lear Corporation, Hammond, OH. selections of scholarship winners were made by a five-member Board of Judges composed of: JOE BaLdEraS Director, sofia Quintero art & cultural center VaLLIE BOWmaN-ENGLISh Judge, toledo Municipal court, toledo, ohio JaCK PuffENBErGEr Judge, lucas county clerk of courts of common pleas, toledo, ohio SaNdy SImON University of toledo-Retired, toledo public schools career coach, toledo, ohio JOhN TharP lucas county sheriff, toledo, ohio
LOCAL 1302 Kokomo Transmission, Kokomo, IN Participation since 2012 (7th & 8th Winners) LOCAL 2335 Lear Seating, Hammond, IN Participation since 2014 (1st Winner) special section
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Mission Statement: Toledo Federation of Teachers is a union of professionals that advocates for the social and eco nomic well being of our members and the children and families in our com munity. We are committed to advancing these principles through community engagement, organizing, collective bar gaining, political activism, and especially through the work of our members.
A Story of Service Toledo Federation of Teachers Lo cal #250 will soon celebrate 90 years of service to Toledo. This coming year will mark the historic anniversary of the signing of its charter on February 11, 1933, establishing the Federation as one of Toledo’s great unions.
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TFT has always been committed to supporting members in the classroom and out in our community. TFT leader ship, along with the collective voice of its members, has successfully advocated for better working and learning condi tions in our schools, positively impacting the decisions that most affect the stu dents and families that the Toledo Public Schools serve.
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A History Lesson The Great Depression hit Ohio espe cially hard. The state’s unemployment rate reached 37.3 percent in 1932, accord ing to Ohio History Central. Because of this, many Ohioans were forced to default on their property tax payments, which then deprived public school dis tricts of their primary source of rev enue. A retrospect from TFT archives not upheld. Unfair, unsafe, and discrimi natory practices against students and teachers went unchecked. During the 1931-1932 school year, sala ries were cut by 10 percent. A 2012 article in the International Journal of Communi ty Currency Research notes that the To ledo Public Schools district was allowed by the Marshall Act of 1933 to pay teach ers in “Marshall Scrip,” named for an Ohio senator who proposed that teach ers be paid in this “currency” instead of American dollars. Marshall Scrip was accepted by governmental agencies for mortgages, taxes and water bills, but was discounted and sometimes refused by many stores and other businesses. For up to three years during the Depression, 66 to 75 percent of a teacher’s salary was paid in Thesescrip.and other hardships were vigor ously challenged by the collective action of TFT’s early unionists who brought changes to the school system through direct negotiation with the Board. On February 11, 1933, a small group of Tole do teachers signed the charter for Local #250, establishing the Toledo Federation of Teachers, and then began organizing and signing up other teachers as mem bers.Between 1933 and 1940, 90 percent of the teachers hired by Toledo Public Schools joined TFT as members, with 95 percent ultimately joining in 1968 and later when TFT acted as the bargaining agent for teacher protections.
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During this difficult time in American history, the TFT union helped create new programs within the community, such as a blood bank and the Toledo Teachers’ Credit Union, which still operates today under the name of Educational Commu nity Alliance Credit Union. Members reported in the TFT ar chives retrospect that, in the decades that followed, TFT continued to work for progress: The union established the first teacher intern program in the United States. It won recognition and a contract for paraprofessionals. It fought for Jewish teachers to be able to observe their religious holidays with pay, and ne gotiated a school holiday in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. TFT negotiated maternity leave benefits before federal court decisions required it. It negoti ated the first fully-paid hospitalization program for teachers, lobbied success fully for Ohio tenure law, and secured a severance pay program for teachers – the first in Ohio. Unionists partnered with charitable agencies to provide To ledoans with food and clothing, worked to gain instructional planning time dur ing the school day to increase standards of learning, and fought to re-establish a 10-month school year. TFT was the first local teachers union in the State of Ohio and the first to ne gotiate a single salary schedule for both TEaCHErS We Are the Union
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By Therese Gordon TfT Board of directors, member describes various school programs in the Toledo Public Schools district being attacked, labeled both frivolous and un necessary. TFT historians go on to tell a story both difficult yet inspiring in its outcome. When the Toledo Chamber of Commerce pressured the TPS Board of Education to cut programs to reduce the cost of operating the schools, the Board passed a series of resolutions to eliminate entire courses. Industrial Arts, Home Economics, and even Kindergar tens were dropped across the district. New materials including books, desks, and other resources students and teach ers needed in their classrooms were not purchased and supplied. In addition, the Board passed a resolu tion that required teachers to live within the school district, dismissed all women from payroll whose husbands were also employed by the district, and mandated that siblings living in the same household could not teach. Those who taught high school were paid on a different, higher salary scale than elementary teachers, despite having similar workloads and the same academic credentials. Contracts between the Board and teachers were men and women teachers. It maintained a vision of what teaching could and should be, where teachers’ earnings were enough so that they could devote all their energy during the school year to teaching instead of getting second jobs, and use their summers for professional development to plan for the upcoming school year. The unionists saw that lim ited class size and up-to-date materials would greatly benefit students and ad vocated for spaces conducive for greater learning.Theunion formed a natural and bene ficial link between Toledo Public Schools and labor groups in Toledo. The Federa tion has always been called upon to meet with labor leaders when tax levies were on the ballot. By 1968, TFT joined the American Federation of Labor and Congress of In dustrial Organizations, which consists of 56 national and international unions rep resenting more than 12 million workers and retirees. This decision continues to allow for many opportunities for a bet ter quality of life for teachers and their families. Leadership Through the decades, union leaders have inspired and strengthened the ide als of unionism with action. From the very first TFT president, visionary Ray mond Lowry, to the amazing legacy of Dal and Fran Lawrence, to the unwav ering dedication and tenacity of current president Kevin Dalton, TFT presidents have always stood shoulder-to-shoulder with TFT members who together make up the TFTunion.hasalways been more than just an institution. It has been and remains an ever-present advocate for equity and representation for all. TFT mem bers can be found participating in lo cal government and community events throughout the year. It is a respected and invaluable community resource that provides both local and national re search-based professional development for teachers and paraprofessionals, peer review of its members, and promotion of fair labor practices. TFT hosts free book giveaways to increase literacy in the community, assists students with meals and supplies, and insists upon high qual ity education, instructional integrity, and safeTFTschools.strives to be a beacon of change and hope in the lives of its members and within the community. With personal and collective stakes, each member rep resents the call to action for a purpose, to achieve something that is greater than what individuals can accomplish alone. The union motto of teamwork is clear – “Together, we can do anything.”
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The Sheet Metal Workers Local 33 Toledo District has been serving the Greater Toledo Area for just over 134 years. We are extremely proud of our heritage in this great city and have enabled tens of thousands of our members to bargain for an honest wage and benefits that has allowed them to sustain and raise their fami lies within the middle class and retire withLocaldignity.33has a state-of-the-art ap prenticeship program and training fa cility. Apprentices earn money while attending school, and unlike college, which saddles many students with an enormous amount of debt, the member owes nothing after complet ing their 5-year apprenticeship, and commonly earns twice the amount a recent college graduate makes. If becoming an apprentice with Local 33 interests you, we take applications on the 4th Tuesday of every month at the Sheet Metal Workers’ Local 33 Hall at 27430 Crossroads Parkway, Rossford, Ohio 43460, or you can go
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The Community action Program (CaP), is the worksite political-legislative arm of the local union and the vital workplace political activator. believe that the people we elect greatly impact the political climate for working families and you want your voice to be heard, then join this committee. committee work on identified key issues adopted by convention action.
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THE COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM AGENdA INClUdEs: worker rights trade New initiatives for working families Health and safety Other issues that affect working families issues are given priority based on, among other things, urgency and geography. We support candidates who support and fight for working people. The CAP commit tee assists in voter registration and ‘get-out-the-vote’ drives, dollar drives, letter writing campaigns, and publicizing the issues and positions of public officials. This is the com mittee for hands-on political experience that allows you to grow and learn and take part in the legislative process. The Toledo Area UAW CAP Council also supports numerous area charitable organi zations such as the American Red Cross the United Way and the Boys and Girls Clubs.
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