Saturday marks one of the biggest fundraisers of the year for breast Cancer research as thousands of people will fill Woodward Ave for the Detroit Race for the Cure. This event is amazing to see and has long been supported by our Local 245 Woman's Committee. Additionally this year, beacuse of the genrosity of the bowlers at the Local 245 1rst annual Strike A Cure Fundraiser event we were able to donate the money to Race for the Cure making our event a sponsor of the Detroit Race for the Cure. Monday June 1, 2009 is a statewide lobby day in Lansing to support American Manufacturing. Many different unions, elected officials and residents took part in the bus tour a few weeks ago that stopped in Dearborn, Hamtramack, Sterling Heights and Pontiac. This is the final stop for this tour right now and the rally will begin at noon on the steps of the Capital in Lansing. It is my hope that a Rally at the United States Capital occurs later in the year! All are welcome to attend.

Have a Happy and Safe Memorial Day! Don't forget to take time to celebrate the freedoms we have been given at the sacrifice of our troops! Remember to thank a Veteran for their past or current service! Enjoy the day!

Greetings to all! I apologize it has been a while since I updated, however it has been pretty busy the last couple of weeks. I was pleased to be invited to Divine Child High School in Dearborn to speak to the 12th grade Government and Economics class about unions. I had some pretty tough but very thoughtful questions from the group and it was a very interesting and great time! This is something that I have been wanting to start for some time, and I look forward to traveling to other schools to speak to students about the importance of labor. I also attended the Keep it made in America Rally in Dearborn. it was a good turnout as the front of City hall was full. It was also good to listen to Lansing Mayor Virg Benero, Mayor O'Reilly Bob Ficano, Rory Gamble and Steelworkers President Leo Girard. The Rev. Jesse Jackson also spoke. I will be bringing more information to the Retirees and Members about this aggressive campaign. Most notably the Rally that will occur in Lansing on the Capitol steps on June 1, 2009! Plan on attending. Cedar Point tickets are here and we will have tickets for June 29 to July 5 as well as the week after the Ford shutdown which is July 6 to July 13, 2009. We are sharing tickets this year with Local 931 and that will enable us to offer the second week! Tickets are an incredibly low $21.00!! They will be available after Wednesday! Until next time...

Local 245: A force in our community!

Congratulations to Local 245 for a tremendous showing at the 2009 American cancer Society's Relay for life in Dearborn. This past weekend about 50 of our Members, Retirees, Friends and Family came out to the Ford Performing arts center to walk in the 24 hour relay. Local 245 raised over $2,400 towards the overall total of $92,000 all this weekend. The money is donated to the American Cancer Society! In all there were 46 teams and over 500 walkers! Not only did we fight to find a cure for a disease that has touched everyone in some way...we were a visible force once again in our community! I wish to thank all of you that donated money, time or both to make our Team successful! I especially thank the community service committee...Kirk Clemens and Rick Mariles worked hard to pull this event together as well as many others! I also appreciate the support from a good majority of the elected and appointed representatives of our Local. It was truly a great weekend and I am extremely proud of our team and the good that was done at the Relay! GREAT JOB and THANK YOU to all who made it possible!!

Looking for something to do tonight??

Are you bored tonight?? Come join the community Service committee and many members and families as we walk for The American Cancer Society at the Dearborn Relay for Life! We started walking at 10 am this morning (Saturday) and will continue through the night until the completion of the event at 10 am Sunday! Please come join us if you have a few minutes or hours to spare! This is a wonderful event and the team from Local 245 is approaching $2,000 in donations thanks to everyones generosity! Please come and join us at the corner of Michigan Avenue and Greenfield in Dearborn at the Ford Community and Performing Arts Building. I look forward to seeing you there and thank all of the volunteers who have donated and walked! I especially thank the committee for organizing this event!!