NTEU Chapter 78 - Honesty, Integrity, Accountability

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In addition to providing pleasure and education for our members of Chapter 78, we plan on show casing our "Great" city of Detroit, featuring Detroit's history, sport teams and other highlights of the city. Any suggestions that you may have are welcomed please feel free to contact us. Click here to make a suggestion by e-mail.

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It's time for the annual NTEU Chapter-78 Cookout. July 29, 2010 on the patio. Everyone is invited to attend. Non-union members are also encouraged to attend. There will be a limited number of tickets for non union members. So please invite and encourage your non-member friends to attend.

We also need volunteers. Please contact Connie Reynolds at x-1441 and Dorothea Farria at x-2056 for more information.

Cookout Serving Schedule:

Midnight Shift 8:00a.m. - 9:30a.m.

Dayshift 11:00a.m. - 1:30p.m.

Afternoon Shift 3:30p.m. - 4:30p.m.

Members will receive a delicious meal and a chance to win prizes in free raffle drawings. (Non members may purchase lunch tickets in the union office for $5.00 ea. - must purchase by 7/23/10) Limited tickets available.

Luch & Learn:

Life Planning (Power of Attorney, Wills, Trusts, etc.) From 11:00 until 12:30

Not a member? You can join today! See a board member or steward for your membership form.

It's Election Time. We are looking for a few (3-5) energetic, enthusiastic, conscientious, dedicated members in good standing to volunteer to work on the election committee. The election process has been outlined in our most recent Newsletter. We are looking to have these 3-5 energetic, entrhusiastic and conscientious members selected by the end of April and start working on the electrion in May, complete the process by Semptember and conduct the actual election in Octber. A complete detailed Chapter Elections (Chapter-19) document has more information.

So if you are interested in volunteering to work on your Union Chapter's Election committte, please email us at the link above, or contact a steward, executive board member, area vice president or a committee member listed on the NTEU Chapter-78 Contact Us Page.

When? January 20, 2010.

Where? Training Room F-321.

Times:

Midnights 8:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.

Days 11:30 am to 1:00 p.m.

Afternoons 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

The NTEU Legislative committee is having our quarterly membership drive on December 2, 2009 in the cafeteria atrium. Come, stop by and see what we have to offer you and how you can help us promote the issues of your local union. You are also invited to the next meeting, Thursday, December 3, 2009 at 10:00 am &ndash 11 am in the Training Room Library – Room 321. We look forward to meeting you. Any questions please contact Karen Rainey – ext. 1824

"Among bargaining units of 501 to 750 employees, the winning entry noted its overall communication goal is to educate, unify and instill in its members pride in their work and their chapter. The judges agreed that the chapter used multiple forms of communication, including a lunch time informational picket to protest the movement of work to another facility. The winner in this category is Chapter 78 (IRS Detroit Computing Center), Debra Carter, President."

A legislative luncheon will take place on October 21st, offsite and after hours (3:00PM - 6:00PM) at the Oblivion! Officials who won the primaries and are on the ballot for the upcoming election will be present. If you would like to meet and participate please mark your calendar for this date. Stay tuned for more information. Click here to see a map for directions. Click here to see pics of the last luncheon held June 18. Click here for the most recent Meet & Greet, Oct 21, 2009

NTEU Chapter 78 Celebrates Labor Recognition Week September 21-25 with a training session, "What does the new contract say?", in Training Room F-321 on September 23, 2009. We will be going over the new contract for all three shifts. Times are as follows:

Midnights 8:30 until 9:30A.M.

Days 11:30 until 12:30P.M.

Afternoons 3:30 until 4:30PM.

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Message from NTEU President Colleen M. Kelley

Our union's annual celebration of Labor Recognition Week - that time we set aside to honor and view with pride the many contributions unions and their members make to a better life for all in our country - coincides this year with the observance of NTEU's 70th anniversary.  

For NTEU, this anniversary reflects seven decades of service to those we represent across the federal workforce; for each NTEU member, her or his commitment to NTEU and accompanying dedication to the mission of their agency is, as it always has been, reflected in effective service to the American people. By any measure, we all are an integral part of a proud past, and with an even more exciting future.

The reality is that the tradition of service and success that we - and those who came before us - helped to create is a platform from which we are able to see into the future. Our vision is one of federal employees working together to advance America and help our great nation recognize its fullest potential.

We are determined to influence the course of our country for the better through our political activism. We are committed to make government work better, delivering services more effectively and efficiently to more people, by demanding that our collective voices be heard in the workplace.

We will continue to right the wrongs, large and small, by standing together, no matter how long it takes.

This is the essential message of Labor Recognition Week 2008. So much accomplished by so many over such a long time. Yet, so much remains to be done. Together.  

Colleen M. Kelly

More info at http://www.nteu.org/lrw08.aspx

Click here for another Labor Recognition Week 2009 message (pdf) National NTEU President Colleen M. Kelly.