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POWERNEWSWE WILL MANUFACTURE BENCHMARK CASTINGS WITH PRIDE, LETTING SAFETY,
QUALITY, COST, AND ON TIME DELIVERY TO OUR CUSTOMERS BE OUR GUIDE.February 7, 2019
Profit Sharing
Congratulations to Pamela (PJ) Artis and Gerald Tegenkamp.
They retired February 1. Best wishes to you both!
Dear UAW-GM Team Members,
Congratulations on another successful year. When GM delivers strong business results, we are rewarded for our efforts through the UAW-GM profit sharing program, which is based on a contractually negotiated formula between GM and the UAW. This program allows eligible employees to share in profits generated by GM’s U.S. operations. In recognition of our 2018 performance, eligible UAW team members will receive a profit sharing payout of up to $10,750. The payout is tar-geted for the February 22 paycheck.
We should be proud of what we accomplished together in 2018. To keep this strong momentum going for 2019, we must maintain our focus on the following:• Workplace and Product Safety• Flawless Launches• BIQ IV• Hours per Unit and Cost per Unit• GMS implementation and training
While we can celebrate our financial success through profit sharing, we truly build our future when we satisfy our custom-ers. When we focus on safety, quality and building to schedule every day, our customers win by getting outstanding cars, trucks and crossovers.
We know 2019 will be a year filled with challenges from changing customer demands, intense competition and the typical day-to-day issues that arise. But we also know when we work together and focus on the customer, we can overcome any challenge.
Gerald Johnson D. Scott Sandefur
Vice President Vice PresidentGMNA Manufacturing & Labor Relations GMNA Labor Relations
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Recognize a Team Member Today! Let them know you appreciate the great job they do! Send the information and photo to [email protected]. If you need a photo taken e-mail or phone (419)-784-7727.
OUT OF MEDIUM T-SHIRTSSmall, Large, XL, 2X and 3X
are still available.
Suggestion T-shirts And Mugs
There are 2019 pocket calendars, pens and baseball caps available to anyone who is interested. Just stop by the Suggestion Office to pick one up.
(One hat per person please)
Would you like to share a pho-to of your old or new GM car/truck you own/owned? E-mail a picture and story (optional)
to [email protected], or drop in any one of the suggestion boxes. It will appear in a future news-letter. Be sure to include your name.
LIFESTYLE CHALLENGE 1st Monthly Weigh-in is FEBRUARY 20th
5 a.m. – 3 p.m. in the fitness center Stop by, Weigh-in, use the % Body Fat
monitor, and talk about your achievements or ask your questions.
(3 minutes of your time)
It is NEVER TOO LATE to start any program!!!Tyler
Send In Your Photos
Pocket Calendars, Pens and Baseball Caps Available
February 7, is Send a Card to a Friend Day. It is a great chance
to get in touch with a friend. We all lead busy lives. Its easy to let a friendship or two lapse, as we try to shuffle kids to and from events. It's hard to stay in touch, when workload demands eat up countless hours. A paper card, or an Ecard, is just fine.
Send a Card to a Friend Day
*Need help evaluating a suggestion? Contact me at:
[email protected] or 419-784-7727.My hours can be adjusted to
accommodate any shift.
Do you need to submit scrap savings data for a sug-gestion? Tim Hauenstein is offering Office Hours to help with GSIP. Stop in the Plant 2 Manufacturing Of-fice on Wednesdays to get your questions answered.
Available Office Hours 3rd - 5:30 a.m. - 6:30 a.m.1st - 8:45 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.2nd - 3:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Suggestion Award Support
Red Wing 4 am - 10:30 am
Noon - 4 pm March 27May 29July 31
Sept. 25 Nov. 27
Michigan Industrial Shoe6 a.m.-4 p.m.
Feb. 14April 18June 27Aug. 15
Dec. 12
A limited number of boots are available in the GSC office in the crib for emergencies. In addition, employees may order from the catalogs in the crib office, or contact Elaine Muntz for any special needs at 419-784-7353 or 419-769-1551.
2019 Shoe Mobile Schedule
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Since the advent of the first "smartphones" in 2005, cell phones have become a major fea-ture of modern life. We all have cell phones now. We rarely go any-where without them
and we are constantly talking, texting, surfing or gam-ing on them (some more than others). The emergence of the cell phone over the last 15 years has brought with it a new safety hazard - distracted driving.According the CDC, distracted driving caused an aver-age of 9 deaths and 1,000 injuries per day in 2018. The phrase "distracted driving" technically includes any ac-tivity that takes attention away from driving - but it has become synonymous with cell phone usage.Texting is the Most Dangerous Type of Distracted Driving The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has determined that texting while driving is the most dangerous type of distracted driving. This is mostly be-cause texting combines all 3 types of driving distrac-tions at once: visual, manual and cognitive.Texting and Driving Accident Statistics for 2017-19The danger posed by distracting driving - particularly texting/emailing - is widely recognized. The 2017 study published by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety found that 87% of drivers view texting and driving as the most significant hazard on the road. In fact, drivers are more concerned about texting / distracted driving than they are about drunk driving.•Using a cell phone while driving caused an estimated 1.5 million car accidents in the U.S. in 2017 according to the National Safety Council.•The U.S. Department of Transportation reported that cell phone use while driving kills 3-000 to 6,000 people every year.•Texting while driving is a contributing cause in 25% of all car accidents - resulting in almost 400,000 physical injuries.•Texting while driving causes 5 times as many acci-dents than drunk driving.•A single text results in an average distraction of 5 sec-onds, during which time a car going 55 mph will travel the length of a football field.•As of January 2019, three states -- Arizona, Montana, and Missouri -- insanely do not have laws against tex-ting while driving. Texting Doubles the Risk of an Accident A study published by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety in January 2018 attempted to quantify the ac-tual risk increase caused by texting while driving. The study also looked at correlations between texting and particular types of auto accidents. Some of the key findings of this study were:
•Talking on a cellphone (as opposed to texting) does not significantly increase the chances of getting in an accident.•Texting (or similar phone activity) doubles your chanc-es of getting in an accident of any type.•Texting triples yours odds of a "road departure crash" (e.g., driving off the road and hitting a tree or sign).•Texting increases your chances of rear-ending some-one by a multiple of 7.Texting and driving causes about 3,500 auto accident deaths each year.•In 2015, texting and driving caused almost 400,000 auto accident injuries. Drunk driving resulted in just un-der 300,000.Teen Drivers & Texting Drivers of all age groups text and drive. However, teens are the most notorious and most dangerous offenders when it comes to texting and driving. Even without cell phones, teenage drivers are more likely to cause an accident compared to more experienced drivers. In fact, auto accidents are the leading cause of accidental deaths among teenagers. The crash rate for teen driv-ers is twice as high compared to drivers over the age of 20. But a teenager without a smartphone is becoming exceedingly rare. According to a recent e-marketer re-port 95% percent of individuals between the ages of 14-19 have cell phones and 87% of them are smart-phones.Many teens simply can't help themselves when it comes to texting and driving. Studies have shown that despite being very well aware of the dangers of texting and driving, teens regularly do it anyway.•Almost 95% of teenage drivers admitted that texting and driving is very dangerous - but more than 1/3 of those same teens admitted that they do it all the time anyway.•Cell phone usage while driving is highest among teen-age drivers.The consequences of texting and driving by teenage drivers are significantly greater compared to any other age group. A teen driver sending a text has become one of the most dangerous things out on the road.•A teen driver on a cell phone is 4 times more likely to cause an accident than an adult on their cell phone.•Teenagers on cell phones account for 9% of all fatal accidents - despite only accounting for a small per-centage of miles driven.State Laws on Cell Phones & Driving In recent years, the emergence of texting and cell phone use while driving has prompted most states to enact new laws. Texting while driving has been com-pletely banned in all but 3 of the 50 states. Another 16 states also prohibit talking on a cell phone without a hands-free device. Most states impose further restric-tions on even hands-free cell phone use by younger drivers. Use the this link for a table of all state laws on texting and cell phone use while driving. By Miller & Zois, LLC
2019 Texting and Driving Statistics
Communication Manager Kevin Nadrowski (313) 498-5464
UAW Communication Coordinator Tonya Huss
(419) [email protected]
As the new year gets un-derway, it’s a good time for a reminder of what GM’s policies do and don’t allow, as well as some best prac-tices for keeping your per-sonal information safe and
the company’s networks secure. GM’s legal, policy and IT teams offer the following advice:
• Personal information on GM devices: Company-is-sued laptops, smart phones and other devices are in-tended for company use. Limited personal use is ac-ceptable if it does not violate GM policies, abuse company time and resources, or put GM information at risk. It is best to store personal photos, videos and oth-er documents—or run personal applications and other software—on your private devices. Please consider re-moving your personal materials and saving them to your private devices.• GM network access: Avoid public Wi-Fi if possible when using GM-issued equipment; regardless of the connection type, always use the company’s virtual pri-vate network (VPN), which encrypts/scrambles data traffic to prevent digital eavesdropping. • Phishing: Beware of unsolicited external emails ask-ing you to open attachments, click on links, or for you to reply with personal or GM information. If any suspi-cious emails show up, use the “Report Phishing” but-ton on your Outlook toolbar. • Company passwords: Passwords are required to be at least 15 characters in length and include a mix of uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers and special characters. They should be hard for anyone to guess. GM passwords, or easily guessed derivatives, should never be used for personal accounts. It only takes one breach to create serious issues for the company.
Do’s and Don’ts for GM-Issued Devices Support
Justin HughesGray Brain Cancer Bracelets are still Available for $10
To support Justin Hughes. See:
GMS team Plant 1 Eng. OfficeTonya Huss Sugg. Office
Denise Voltz Training Center
National Pizza Day
This Saturday, Febru-ary 9 is National Pizza Day. Why, this is an absolutely great day. The vast majority of people, in America and around the world, love pizza and eat it on
a regular basis. It is very versatile, with a huge assort-ment of things you can put on it, including meats, veg-etables and fruits. And, don't forget the fish.. Ancho-vies! With all this variety, there is is a pizza for just about everybody.
Here is some interesting trivia on the ever popular pizza: • Pepperoni is the most popular, preferred by 36% of the people. • Over 3 Billion pizzas are sold n the U.S. each year. • More pizzas are sold on Super Bowl Sunday, than any other day of the year. • Halloween is the second most popular day for eating pizzas. • Over 17% of restaurants are pizzerias, or serve piz-za. • The first pizza was sold in Naples Italy in 1738. • Pizzas most likely evolved as a variation of flatbreads. • Americans consume over 23 pounds of pizza per year.
It is very easy to enjoy National Pizza Day. Have some pizza today. To enjoy this day to the fullest, you need to make homemade pizza and have pizza for breakfast, lunch, dinner and as a snack. By Holiday Insights
