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B,C.T.W.I.U. VOL. 6, NO. 4 A.RL.-C.I.O.C.L.C. AUGUST, 1993 Metro United Way Theresa Smallwood, Local 16T member from 3rd shift, will be representing our union in this years Metro United Way campaign here at Philip Morris./~any of you will take tours to vadous places that are depending on us,. to give to United Way. We are the more fortunate ones - we have jobs. Alter seeing the handicapped, the sick, and elderly, surely your hearts will be touched. Please give to United Way this year. March on Washington Saturday, Augtmt 28, 1993 there will be a March on Washington sponsored by the New Coalition of Conscience, for jobs, justice, and peace, on the 30th Anniversary of the historic 1963 March on Washington, led by Martin Luther King, Jr. It will be at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C. Info - 407-547-4331. LABOR DAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1993 / Philip Morris, USA, BCTW Local 16T, Machinists| 681, Firemen and Oilers 320, Pipefitters and A/t Tile E'VOLIII'ION OF I.ABOII,.. c 522, and Sheet Metal Workers 110 gave a total 5520,222 in the 1992 Campaign. We ranked 9th UNION5 place in the top 25 campaigns in 1992 in Louisville. TO IIIIII CHILD LAI~01~ 1993 Kentu. cky State Fair The Kentucky State Fair will be held August 19-29 this year. Be sure to stop by the Marlboro Tent. Inside the tent will be the Smokers Rights Booth. Make sure you sign the petition to AX THE TAX on cigarettes. Hext to the Smokers Rights Booth, free cigarettes will be available. Tell your family and friends about it. Different bands will be in the tent to entertain as they have in the past, so you can sit down and enjoy the music. Anyone who would like to volunteer to work at the Smokers Rights Booth, see Janet Martin or Leroy Lawless on 3rd shift or see Buddy Hitt on ] st shift. Volunteers will enjoy tree admission and parking. Thank you, Janet Martin Want To Have Fun? Want to get back at your union rep? Now's the time. The Health & Welfare Committee will have a Dunking Booth in front of the factory building. Come one and all, throw those balls, (3 for $1.00) at your Executive board, Chief shop steward and union reps. Everyone welcome! Watch the bulletin board for a date. Lottie Barrow What's Next Stop For Runaway Zenith Plant? Do runaway plants ever stop moving? Starting in the mid-1970's, Zenith Electronics Corp. cut the workforce at its television plant in Springfield, Mo., by more than 3,500 as it moved production to h'~atamoros, Mexico, in search of lower pay rates. In the last year alone, Zenith fired 1,500 of those 3,.500 in Springfield in preparation for shutting down that plant, its last in the LI.S. t4eanwhile in h'tata moros, where some Zenith workers had begun making more than $1 an hour, Zenith laid off more than 1,000 as it moved jobs to other plants in Mexico where pay rates are 64 cents to 84 cents an hour. -Union Label Letter TCAL0140847

From t~e Des/{ ot~ the Pzesldent By J. WAYNE PLIRVIS, President, Local ]6T Dear Brothers and SLsters, In the last few monhhs several of our members have raised questions about TQI. Questions like, what is TEIJ? Are TEll and FOCUS the same thing? What is my role in TEll? Where does the union stand as far as TQI is concerned? These are legitimate questions and our members deserve answers. So here goes nothing, i don't know. Yes. I'm not sure. Undecided. Still confused? So am l. The problem is that after almost two years of hearing about TQI there are still more questions than answers. First of all TQI (which by the way is the same as FOCUS is an employee involvement program, although the Company prefers to use the term process instead of p,cgram, it is, however, very different from LWT which was dropped approximately one year ago. In TQI there is no union/management steering committee and teams do not meet weekly to brainstorm for ideas to work on. Instead, ideas come from CORE Teams made up of members of management. The goal is to achieve standardization on the way things are done in the plant. This is done by asking employees questions about the way they do their jobs and using the answers to reach a consensus upon which the standards would be set. The employee's role would be to provide the answers to questions about their jobs put to them by their supervisor. Each shift would be asked the same questions and the CORE team would examine all of the answers and try to reach a consensus. The local's position is to move cautiously when it comes to TQU/FOCUS. Your leadership also has questions that need to be answered. Such as: What types of questions are going to be put to our members? Why can't union members ask those questions instead of the supervisor? What safeguards do we have that TEll will not circumvent the negotiating procecure? In order for the union to fulfill its obligation in representing the membership it must have a role in the decision making process. Being told about decisions after the fact is not enough! At the time of this wdting, representatives from international are scheduled to meet with upper level management of Philip Morris to discuss the union's role in TEll. As ! stated before, it has been almost two years since TQI was introduced to the union and there are still a lot of unanswered questions. Until these questions are answered, and the union is given its rightful role in the process, the leadership of this local cannot support TQI/ FOCUS. In Solidarity Mary Weddle, a member of Local 1 ST, and Bob Dillihay, a member of the machinist union were involved in a serious accident on June 26, 1993. Mary had no family in Louisville; her mother lives in Flodda. The accident was serious enough that ~ member of Local 16T on 3rd .¢.hift wanted to collect money to have Mary's mother flown to Louisville. The Health and Welfare Committee, Local 16T, approved the collection. Lottie Barrow and Theresa Smaiiwood collected money on 3rd shift. The word spread of what was happening on 3rd shift so Linda Radolovich collected money on 1st shift and JoePhelps collected on 2nd shift. They collected from everyone who works here at Philip Morris. The amount collected on all 3 shifts was over twelve hundred dollars. This just shows you that when members of our union need help, and another member finds out, what can be done will be done. Everyone in the factory was willing to help out. Mary's mother wasn't able to fly to Louisville due to her continuing effort to get her own life together after the tragic hurricane that hit Homestead, Florida last year. The money collected was given to Mary - she will need it. /~ sincere thanks is in order to the Health F., Welfare Committee, the and the Local 16T members. Thank to Lottie Barrow, Theresa Smallwood, Linda Radolovich, and Joe Phelps for taking their time to collect forthis worthy cause. Thanks to everyone who gave money. Everyone should be commended for coming together when help was needed. Anonymous TCAL0140848

Attention Everyone By JIM PL~kSTERSOH Financial Secretary Congress will recess in August. We must all take time out of our busy schedule to contact our Representatives in Washington. Tell them how concerned you are about the monster tax that's been proposed, that it will put you out of a job. Tell Senator Ford, Senator McConneli and Representative Hamilton that you appreciate everything they have done and ask them what you can do to help defeat the tax. Don't miss this opportunity to thank them. This will let them know they do have our support. Congressman Mazzoli needs to hear from every single person about how disappointed we are because of the stand he's taking concerning our jobs. We need everyone to bombard his office with phone calls the whole month of August. Qet your family and friends his number and have them call too. Tell him our jobs are just as important as the jobs at Naval Ordinance, that you expect him to represent you in the same manner as he would Naval Ordinance. Do not let Mr. hlazzoli escapethe month of August without hearing from you. All elected officials worry about being re-elected. Worker% Index Local Phone Numbers Senator Ford .......................................... 582-625 ] Senator McConnell ................................. 582-6304 Congressman Hamilton ........................... 288-3999 Congressman/Vtazzoli ............................. 582-5129 '~ ~iEED OOR JOBS! We've got to redouble our efforts to pass the striker replacement legislation in the Senate, because employers recently have expanded their massive, well-financed lobbying campaign to defeat the bill, The labor-haters In the business community were all over Capitol Hill on July 14 button-holing Senators urging opposition to the anti-scab bill. Orrin Hatch (R.r.IT) told an employer rally that, if the Workplace Fairness Act (S. 5.5) passes, unions "will have the power to win every strike or force whatever businesses that survive to do whatever they want them to do." Senate/~lnority Leader Bob Dole (R-KS) told the bosses that "we think we have the 41 votes" to sustain a filibuster and prevent the bill from coming to a vote. Thumbs Down To the three Democratic members of the L1.S. House of Rewesentatives who voted with House Republicans on a substitute amendment to weaken the Workplace Fairness Bill, or striker replacement. Rep. Jimmy Hayes (D- LA), Romano Mazzoli (D-KY) and h~ike Parker (D-h'tS) voted wrong and found themselves with a handful of Republicans on the losing end of a 373-58 vote. They supported an effort by Rep. Thomas J. Ridge (R-PA) to allow employers to "permanently replace" striking workers after only 10 weeeks. The full bill, now known as the Cesa r Chavez Work place Fairness Act, was passed 239-190 and now goes to the O.S. Senate. (Rep. Mazz.oli rejoined the Democratic majority and voted for final passage, so he gets a hand salute.) Number of jobless or underemployed Americans, May, 1993:16.5 million Number of manuifacturing jobs lost over the past year: 300,000 Percent of new jobs created in May that were part- time o.nly: 75 percent. Proportion of eldedy U.S. women who live below or near the poverty level: 2 of 5. Number ofchildrenofretired, disabled, and deceased workers who received monthly social security payments last year: 3.4 million. Percent of high-schoolers who don't get a four-year degree: 75 percent. Percent of Americans under 30 who haven't been able to find a job lasting more than a year: 33 percent. U.S. overall trade deficit, April: $10.49 billion U.S. trade deficit with Japan, April: $5.5 billion, highest in 5 1/2 years. Change in U.S. manufacturing productivity, 1991- 92: Up 3 percent. Change in inflation-adjusted wages for average U.S. factory worker, same period: Down 0.5 percent. 3ourc~s: Employment statistics from U.S. Dept. of Labor's Bureau of Labor S~atistices; Elderl~ women in poverty and children receiving Social Security [mm U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Sen.,ic~; High ~,ch~Iers, cotIege, and jobs: EI.S. Depls. o[Educatfon and Labor. Trade de[~cla, U.S. C~.mmerce DepL; Pmducdvlty and tabor costs: U.S. Dept. of Labor. TCAL0140849

Putting Downward Pressure on U.S. Wages NAFTA won't just hurt workers like Ann Osborne who lose their jobs. It will also put intense downward pressure on the bargaining power of" millions of fJ.S. workers. I~IAFTA could red uce the earnings of" low-skilled workers by about $] ,000 a year according to a study by conservative economist Edward Lea met. By Learner's definition 70% of American workers are unskilled. A study by Skidmore College and University of P4assachusetts economists predicts the loss of 290,000 and 490,000 Li.S. jobs through the end of the decade. They said this job loss could reduce the real wages of all Americans by as much as 2.3%. Safety Committee For twelve years more low-wage border plants have taken jobs... Number of maqu!Iadora p!ants like the one in Nue,,~ Laredo. 1980 $992 ...but the Mexican worker keeps slipping further behind. Mexican minimum wage in U.S. dollars 1980 ..... ~'~'~J~-;;~-:~"':~-~-'-;;'-'-_--_~..,~ $1.26 1992 $.63 II A,,m~o Ilht,',owlir,,,,," hy l,)om,u Mt~lU, i t tAW Ammo/5 By now you should know who the safetycommittee person is on your floor. Report anything that is unsafe to your committee per.son; keep them info~med. What makes this new safety program different? l. Local ]6T safety committee persons will dictate what the objectives will be. In the past, management cecided what would be the objectives. 2. ;iyour safety committee person requests somethir, g • .o be fixed and the supervisor doesn't write a work order on it, then the committee person is allowed to wdte up their own work order. (Work orders for safety). In the past this wasn't allowed. 3. When members of Local ]6T get seriously hurt on the job, a Local ]6T Care Person will be notified by the nurse so the care Person can be with you in the First Aid Dept. In the past this was not allowed. FR~NI PRO-WOrKER CONtPRNIES. TCAL0140850

DO BUY Look for the 'VIN' The quickest way to tell where a particular car, light truck or van was assembled is to check the first chamcter of the 17 characterVehicle Identification Humber (VIM). If that first character is a 1 or 4, the vehicle was assembled in the United States. The VIM is stamped into a small plate that is affixed to every vehicle's dashboard on the ddver's side, usually near where the windshield and the dashboard meet. It often can be read most easily by peering th :ough the windshield from outside the vehicle while standing in front of the driver-door roof post. LIGHT TRUCKS & VANS CARS BUICK- Century*, LeSabre, Park Avenue, Riviera, Roadrnaster, Skylark. CADILLAC -- Allante, Brougham, DeVille/Fleetwood, Eldorado, Seville CHEVROLET -- Beretta, Caprice, Cavalier, Corsica, Corvette. CHRYSLER -- ]mperiai, LeBaron /Conv.*, Fifth Ave., Hew Yorker DODGE -- Daytona, Dynasty, Shadow*, Spirit*, Viper EAGLE -- Talcon FORD -- Escort*, Mustang, Probe, Taurus, Tempo*, Thunderbird '3EO -- Pdzm LIHCOLN -- Continental, Mark VIII, Town Car MAZDA -- 626, P4X6 MERCURY -- Cougar, Sable, Topaz* MITSflBISH! -- Eclipse, Galant* OLDSMOBILE -- Achieva, Ciera, Custom Cruiser, Cutlass Supreme, Olds 88, Olds 98 PLYMOUTH -- Acclaim*, Laser, Sundance* POh'T[AC -- Bonneville, Grand Am, Grand Prix, Sunbird SATflRH -- Saturn TOYOTA -- Corolla* CHEVROLET -- Astro, Blazer, Blazer S, C/K Pickups, Chevy Van/Sportsvan*, Lumina (APV), S-J0 Pickup, Suburban CHRYSLER -- Town & Country DODGE -- Dakota, Grand Caravan, Ram D/W Pickups* FORD -- Aerostar, Bronco, Econoline/Club Wagon, Explorer, F-Truck*, Ranger MAZDA -- Havajo, Pickups (B2300, B3000, EH000) NISSAN -- Quest GMC -- C/K Pickups*, GMC Suburban, Jimmy, Jimmy S, S- 15 Pickup, Safari, Sierra*, Sonoma/Syclone, Vanudra/ Rally*, Yukon/Typhoon JEEP -- Cherokee, Grand Cherokee, Wrangler* MERCfJRY -- Villager OLDSMOBILE -- Bravad, Silhouette (APV) PLYMOUTH -- Grand Voyager PONTIAC - Trans Sport (APV) TOYOTA -- Hilux* • Some vehicles of these models are OAW-assembled, but some are assembled in other countries. Be sure to check he sticker for the location of the assembly plant. Please DON'T BUY Imports Sold by the Big Three (1993 Models) Some cars and light trucks/vans sold by the Big Three U.S. automakers under one oftheirbrand names are imported. Included are the followin9 (countries of manul:acture are in [brackets]): Chrysler Corp.: Chrysler Concorde and Mew Yorker (LH) [Canada], LeBaron Sedan [Mexico]; Dodge Caravan [Canada], Colt/Vista [Japan], Intrepid [Canada], Ram 50 [Japan], Ram Van and Ram Wagon [Canada], Ramcharger [Mexico] and Stealt [Japan]; Eagle Vision [Canada]; Plymouth Colt/Vista [Japan] and Voyager [Canada], Ford Motor Co.: Ford CrownVictoria [Canada] and F'estiva [Korea]; Mercury Capri [Australia], Grand Marquis [Canada] and Tracer [Mexico]. General Motors: Buick Regal [Canada]; Chevrolet Camaro (new F) [Canada]; Geo Storm [Japan]; Pontiac Firebird (new F) [Canada] and LeMans [Korea]. BUY UNION Union Label Week September 5-11 LABEL & SE~CE TRADES DEPA.q~EN~. TCAL0140851

Dear Stew, What's the deal? (Have a quest;on? Write it ck~wn and drop it off at the hall or ma;I it to Dear Stew, 1827 W. Broadway, Louisviile, KY 40203.) Dear S~ew, in your last column someone wrote to complain because their Shop Steward told them he didn't haue time to "babysR~' them. You advised that person to see the Chie[. What advice do you have for Steward who has a member who is always going to the Chief lirsl instead of to the Shop Steward.~ Sign me, BYPASSED Dear Bypassed, The advice is the same - talk to the Chief. Ask him to make sure that the people coming to him have talked to you first. He will be happy to do so, he has enough p:oblems passed on to him already. Dear Slew, What's going on in shipping? I hear that they are shutting it down. Hosey Dear Hosey, The Company has decided to get out of the business of sorting cases and is in the process of hiring another company to do it for them. Our people in shipping will still be Ioadin9 the cases directly onto the trucks, but this move will reduce the number of Distribution Technicians needed. This was discussed at the shop stewards meeting at the union hail a few months ago. For some reason it took a little while for the rumor mill to get started on this one. Dear Stew, I got an oral warning [or absenteeism. I KHOW there are people with more days on their record than I have on mine. Shouldn't they get a warning Singled Out Dear Singled, Hot necessarily. Each situation should be handled on a case by case basis. People have different reasons for missing. Some miss because they are sick; some miss because their dog died; and some people don't seem to need a reason to take off. These reasons, plus the employee's past record play a big part in whether h~ANAGEMENT (not the union) decides to issue discipline. Beside what would you gain by getting someone else a warning? (Richmond, Virginia) Philip Morris LISA will close its export tobacco plant in Shockoe Bottom this year. It will affect 29 salaried employees and 77 production workers. The job outlook for the plant employees will depend partly on how many workers take the early retirement offered by Philip Mords, to as many as 500 employees in the Richmond area. Philip Morris spokesman, Jay S. Pool said, "We're going to absorb as many employees into our manufacturing processes as we can." At Mother's Cookies and the Jefferson Mall here in Louisville, they have non-smoking signs up but they both have designated smoking_ areas inside Mothers Cookies and the Jefferson Mall. Official Publication of BCTW/U Local 16T 1827 W. Broadway Louisville, KY 40203 (502) 778-3376 F.ditor: J. Wayne Purvis Managing Editor: Pat Milby EXECUTIVEBOARD President ......................................................... J. Wayne Purvis Vice President .L .................................................. Law/Stewart Recording Secretary ............................................ Rick Warden Financial Secreta~/ ........................................... Jim Masterson Sergeant At Arms ................................................... Marly Cook Trustees .................... Leo Gallagher - Joe Phelps - Buddy Hitt Local 16T News is published bi-rnonth~y. All comments, ideas, articles, and information are wektome, if you have any questions or comments concerning this publication, please write to Pat Milby, Managing Editor, Local 16T News, 1827 W. Broadway, Louisville, KY 40203 TCAL0140852