2019 Appeal

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October 27, 2019: Appeal Of The UAW/GM Ratification Vote Results; No Member Should Be Subjected To Having To Vote For A Contract That Allegedly Violates The UAW Constitution.

All who have violated the trust of the UAW membership should be held to account!

This appeal is being shared publicly so that any member from General Motors, Ford or FCA (Stelantis) may also submit directly, or adapt for submission to regarding their own similar Detroit 3 contract.

Appeal of GM Ratification Vote Results Authored and Submitted by Leroy McKnight:

While this was published, available here and a topic of our radio show the summary of elements of which are as follows;

  1. There is not a true ratification vote process, and the UAW Public Review Board has charged the UAW International Executive Board many times to establish and/or craft into the UAW Constitution, and…
  2. Work Permits for Temporary Workers are for no longer than 3 consecutive months – in violation of the UAW Constitution, and…
  3. The UAW Constitution requires the Union to perform in the interest of the membership. The GM Collective Bargaining Agreement Appendix K requires the Union Leadership to act in the interest of the General Motors Corporation – in violation of the UAW Constitution. (Ford and Stelantis agreements have the same CBA language under a different named paragraph.)
  4. Retirees under Pittsburgh Steel v Chemical Workers may only be bargained for on permissive matters (positive to the retirees), placing the Pension Protection Act of 2006 – a law unfriendly to labor – into the agreement and allowing it to stay are in violation of the UAW Constitution Article 2, Section 4 that requires our UAW to work to repeal laws unfriendly to labor. Not affirm such laws by putting any of those in any Collective Bargaining agreement.

Unfortunately, of the membership of the Detroit 3; especially any of the several opposition caucuses; nor any of the 50ish year old elected/appointed leaders or activists virtually all of whom pushed these violations to remain and be ratified into the respective agreements (members who now currently aspire to high office) there was only one member concerned enough about the wellbeing of active and retired members to actually submit this appeal – this author:

Appeal of GM-UAW 2019 Ratification Vote

Leroy McKnight

 

Additionally, here is the 2015 appeal written by Leroy McKnight. Again, this was made available to all activists at the time, and only 5 members submitted it: (One woman UAW member (FORD – Cleveland) actually said: “Fuck You Leroy, we don’t have to submit that just because you said.”) Leroy offered – not demanded – an appeal document for the benefit of the members. As far as the “rest of them”, you decide who is “building a better union”!!!

The Summary of this 2015 Appeal is as follows:

  1. There is not a true ratification vote process, and the UAW Public Review Board has charged the UAW International Executive Board many times to establish and/or craft into the UAW Constitution, and…
  2. Some members, not in the Pension Plan, were incentivized by up to $50,000.00 to vote to put a law – unfriendly to labor – Federal Law the “2006 Pension Protection Plan” into the 2015 Collective Bargaining Agreement.
Appeal of GM-UAW 2015 Ratification Vote

 

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