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SEPTEMBER /OCTOBER 2015 CANADA AREA EDUCATIONAL — OF NOTICE 10 — NOTICE OF — NOMINATIONSP. 29839_GMP_SeptOct15.indd 1 10/28/15 12:16 PM September/October 2015 Volume 66 · Number 5 ISSN # 1065-1640 / U.S.P.S. No. 215-300 An ofcial publication of The Glass, Molders, Pottery, Plastics & Allied Workers, AFL-CIO, CLC Glass, Molders, Pottery, Plastics & Allied Workers, AFL-CIO, CLC 608 East Baltimore Pike, Media, PA. 19063 610-565-5051 · [email protected] BRUCE R. SMITH International President Copyright 2015 by Glass, Molders, Pottery, Plastics & Allied Workers, AFL-CIO, CLC. All rights reserved. No part of this periodical may be reproduced without DONALD SEAL the written consent of the Glass, Molders, Pottery, Plastics & Allied Workers. International Secretary-Treasurer PRINTED IN U.S.A. RICKEY HUNTER Vice President Published at 4801 Viewpoint Place, Cheverly, MD 20781, by the Glass, Molders, Pottery, Plastics BRENDA SCOTLAND & Allied Workers. Postage paid at Media, PA, and additional mailing ofces. All Correspondence Bruce R. Smith to HORIZONS should be sent to: 608 E. Baltimore Pike, Media, PA 19063. Vice President INTERNATIONAL PRESIDENT JERRY L. COTTON Vice President In this Issue: 608 East Baltimore Pike Media, PA 19063 President Smith Discusses Voting ......................................1 Canada Area Education Conference and Paid Education Leave ...........2–4 DAVID DOYLE Local Unions Celebrate in Solidarity .................................6–7 Executive Director-Canada Notice of Nominations..............................................10 P.O. Box 20133 Woodstock, Ontario N4S 8X8 Canada In an effort to GO GREEN CLAUDE BEAUDIN Director of Research and Education and become more environmentally GO GREEN conscious, we are offering EXECUTIVE OFFICERS HORIZONS online by visiting www.gmpiu.org BRUNO CYR RICK VITATOE Change of Address — Please use above address or email and include the following information: DONALD CARTER RICHARD BAUMCRATZ • Name • New Address • Are You a Retiree? • Social Security Number • Union Number • Your Signature EDWARD BEDOCS • Effective Date BENNETT SALLEMI LARRY HARRIS DEATH BENEFIT DUES PETE JACKS In the event you leave employment seeking permanent and total disability, YOU MUST CONTINUE KIM MCNEIL PAYING YOUR DEATH BENEFIT DUES until such time as permanent and total disability status is MATTHEW MCCARTY established. As a general rule, disability determination routinely takes from 6 to 8 months. Please inform our ofce of such status and any overpayments will be refunded. MARK SINGLETON Do not permit your DEATH BENEFIT DUES to become delinquent over 90 days. All GMP members are responsible for making payments to maintain death benet eligibility. All early retirees are responsible INTERNATIONAL for payment to age 65. If you are self-paying, indicate your local union number and forward your check to: REPRESENTATIVES Donald Seal, GMP Int’l. Secretary-Treasurer 608 E. Baltimore Pike, Media, PA 19063 DAVID HOFFMAN Persons wishing to report a death or discuss the death benet may call the Death Benet STACEY ANDERSEN Department at 610-565-5051 ext. 221. Remember to update your beneciary card as needed. The beneciary of record is solely entitled to the Death Benet. THOMAS GALLAGHER All claims must be led within ve (5) years of death. 29839_GMP_SeptOct15.indd 2 10/28/15 12:16 PM THE IMPORTANCE OF YOUR VOTE he 2016 presidential, congressional and state election cycle is fast approaching. This election cycle will likely be the costliest and nastiest in history. The stakes Tfor this election are high, particularly for working families. A handful of billion- aires, with their well-funded Political Action Committees, intend to buy this election and impose their will on Congress and State legislatures. Their goal – to eliminate the BRUCE R. SMITH voice for working families and advance an agenda that serves only the wealthiest of International President Americans. Therefore, it’s essential that we engage our members NOW in order to get DONALD SEAL ready for next year’s elections. International Secretary-Treasurer The focus of our energies needs to be to confront the outsized inuence of big corporations and Wall Street. Working together with the AFL-CIO, Working America and the entire labor movement, we can ght the ultraconservative and business RICKEY HUNTER interests who are ruining this great country. We know how to win important elections Vice President and advance progressive populist ideals. YOU are a very important part of our efforts BRENDA SCOTLAND Bruce R. Smith for 2016 - your voice and opinion matter. Vice President INTERNATIONAL PRESIDENT Your International Union wants to hear its member’s preferences prior to making JERRY L. COTTON any candidate endorsements. In the near future, we will share information with our Vice President members outlining the positions of the various candidates on issues most important 608 East Baltimore Pike to working people -- in particular, where the candidates stand on issues that are Media, PA 19063 essential to a Raising Wages agenda. Your International Ofcers believe that any endorsement must be based on the candidate’s willingness to embrace the core elements of the Raising Wages agenda, DAVID DOYLE as well as other issues of importance to our union and working families. Executive Director-Canada Most of us know why we vote the way we do. We support the people who support P.O. Box 20133 “YOU are a very the rights and interests of working people. Woodstock, Ontario N4S 8X8 We look at how elected ofcials act, regardless of party. Canada important part We want to support candidates who will ght for us AFTER the election. CLAUDE BEAUDIN of our efforts for In order to obtain our support in the upcoming elections, the candidate must Director of Research and Education 2016–your voice support a platform that: 1) Makes it easier for working people to join together and negotiate with their EXECUTIVE OFFICERS and opinion matter.” employers for better incomes, improved benets and safer workplaces. BRUNO CYR 2) Puts people back to work, so that everyone in America who wants to work can. RICK VITATOE 3) Changes the rules so that Wall Street CEOs pay their taxes and make long-term DONALD CARTER investments in businesses that create good jobs in America. RICHARD BAUMCRATZ 4) Strengthens labor standards, like the minimum wage, family leave and overtime EDWARD BEDOCS pay, all to level the playing eld for working people. BENNETT SALLEMI 5) Defends and protects the essential role of government in ensuring that all Ameri- cans, regardless of their color, gender, or place of birth, have access to a quality LARRY HARRIS education, health care, retirement security, decent housing and safe communities. PETE JACKS 6) Invests public funds in a 21st-century national transportation and communications KIM MCNEIL infrastructure to create jobs and build a foundation for our future prosperity. MATTHEW MCCARTY 7) Ensures that trade deals put people’s rights above investor prots, and create MARK SINGLETON good jobs and strengthen democracy in the U.S. and abroad. Trade should benet people, not just global CEOs and investors. INTERNATIONAL We ask that you educate yourself on the issues and where the candidates stand REPRESENTATIVES on them, from the President to Congress to the state and local races in 2016 vote DAVID HOFFMAN to support those who support working families. STACEY ANDERSEN In an effort to get the conversation started and to make sure that you – our mem- THOMAS GALLAGHER bers – have a voice in the GMP’s decision on who to support, we have placed a poll on the GMP website. Check it out. Your participation will be greatly appreciated. September/ October 2015 1 29839_GMP_SeptOct15.indd 1 10/28/15 12:16 PM THE GMP IN CANADA CANADIAN AREA EDUCATIONAL CONFERENCE & CANADIAN PAID EDUCATION LEAVE PROGRAM (PEL) 1 · Fred Greenberg, he GMP held the Canadian Area Paid Education Leave Program (PEL) GMP House Council Educational Conference on began on September 29 and continued Sunday September 28, 2015 in through October 2, 2015. The PEL pro- 2 · Danny Mallett of the T Alliston, Ontario at the Nottawasaga gram educational topics were Building Canadian Labour Congress Conference Centre. The same program Solidarity, Changing the Perception of 3 · Fred Neibauer, CPA was discussed at the Canadian Area Unions and Mentoring. presents training with Educational as was at Areas One, Two The Paid Education Leave Program Secretary-Treasurer Don Seal and Three. is a unique contractual benet where President Smith led the Conference the employer contributes $0.01 to 4 · Tony Michael of with his comments. Other speakers $0.05 per hour for all hours worked West Virginia University and presenters were; Danny Mallett of by the members of the employer. This the Canadian Labour Congress, Tony money is placed in a trust fund and Michael of West Virginia University, then administered by the GMP Interna- Fred Greenberg and Fred Neibauer. tional for the sole use of Union educa- At the conclusion of the Area Edu- tion that pays for materials, classrooms, cational Conference the Canadian housing, meals, lost time and mileage. 2 GMP Horizons 29839_GMP_SeptOct15.indd 2 10/28/15 12:16 PM 1 2 3 4 September/ October 2015 3 29839_GMP_SeptOct15.indd 3 10/28/15 12:16 PM 4 GMP Horizons 29839_GMP_SeptOct15.indd 4 10/28/15 12:16 PM FULL PAGE AD TO COME 29839_GMP_SeptOct15.indd 5 10/28/15 12:16 PM OUR LOCAL UNION MEMBERS CELEBRATING IN SOLIDARITY Organized Labor, Northeast Indiana – Annual LABOR DAY Picnic n Monday September 7, 2015 Organized in the State of Indiana. The food included 10,000 Labor in Northeast Indiana held its annual hot dogs, chili, chips, Mexican food, Ethnic food, OLabor Day Picnic at Headwaters Park in Darfour food, and plenty of beverages. Activities Fort Wayne, Indiana. The Labor Day picnic was were face painting, balloon artists, bingo, and open to the public & especially friends of Labor. other games. Children enjoyed the kiddie rides There were over 100 volunteers from differ- & water pad for entertainment.