Third...ICWUC Local 130C - How do we thank these guys enough? President Doug Davis and Vice President Victor Williams, on their own time (vacation days) and at their own expense, (not the Local’s expense), picketed the plant site for two days with Ricky Lawrence during which time high officials from the German based company were touring the plant. It is our information that these officials were very unhappy with the local management and the company’s chief negotiator, and in fact, this seemed to be the turning point in our negotiations. Thanks don’t seem to be enough for these two guys. When you look up SOLIDARITY in the dictionary, you should see Doug's and Victor’s faces.
I would like to thank all of the local unions in Regions 3 and 6 that contributed to this effort. Those donations were crucial in sustaining wages for the committee members during these long talks.
The 30 new members at this plant are now members of ICWUC Local 458C and will serve to strengthen and reinforce future talks at both plants. Congratulations to both Local 458C and the new members in Orange, TX. We are proud to have hard working, brave new members in our union. Victories such as this will make all of us stronger and demonstrate what solidarity and unionism means to unorganized workers and why they too should belong to our great Council.

Reported by Art Stevens, Vice President, ICWUC Region 6.

Orange, TX Negotiating Committee Left to right: Tracy Youngblood, Tom Day and Mike Dickson

ICWUC Local 458C Executive Board
Left to right….Vice President Errol Broussard, Vice President Kurt Myers, President Ed Delone, Vice President Chris Hebert, Secretary-Treasurer Frank LeBlanc and Recorder O’Neil Darden.