Wages and Vacation Pay

Today you are all aware that no money magically appeared in your accounts. According to KPMG (the receiver) ADP would not process any funds for the payroll. How they didn't know this prior to sending out letters to us is beyond me. KPMG has stated that they issued checks for our wages and 50% vacation pay today the 29th of May.

Employee Welcome

The Genfast Adjustment Center is having an employee welcome on Thursday May 31st, from 9am until 12 pm. Coffee and Timbits will be available. There will be information handed out regarding services available, including regions outside of Brantford.

85 Morrell St.
Brantford

Call 519 752 3333
email: genfastadjustmentcenter@bellnet.ca

What The Liberals Are All About

I'd like to welcome Brian Van Tilborg to the blog. I invited him to post directly a few weeks ago but I didn't set the permissions for him. My fault. I look forward to his informing comments and hope he'll keep us up to date on his campaign.
I have an article here from April. The original can be found in the news feeds at the side bar.
We have a Hamilton MPP , Andrea Horwath (NDP),who is calling the McGuinty government on their failure to protect the manufacturing sector. The last paragraph sums up the Liberal's concern for our job losses and our family's lost way of living.
" Last week Liberal government members jeered and heckled Horwath as she made another impassioned appeal for a job strategy for the Hamilton region."

Genfast Adjustment Center

The Genfast Adjustment Center has been opened since May 14th, and progressively, the telephones, internet and fax has come online.

85 Morrell st.
Brantford,
Phone: 519 752 3333
Fax: 519 752 3393
email: genfastadjustmentcenter@bellnet.ca
Hours 9am to 5pm

Come in have a coffee.

Pensioners Meeting

There is a pensioners meeting scheduled for Monday May 28th for 1 pm at 1031 Barton Street in the Hamilton Steelworkers Building. Pensioners will have received by mail, notification of the time date and place. However, the Steelworkers are asking for four volunteers to go down to the hall on Monday, and set up tables as well as to help separate the various groups of pensioners into the plants there pension was actually derived from.

I will be leaving at 12pm from the Genfast Adjustment Center. Those who wish to volunteer can email myself or call the action center phone number, Monday Morning. (519 752 3333)

Go Brian

Brian Van Tilborg Seeks the Brant NDP Provincial Nomination

May 22, 2007

Brian Van Tilborg, a lifelong resident of Brant Riding today announced his intention to seek the NDP nomination for Brant Riding in the forthcoming Provincial Election. A Graduate of McMaster University with a BA in Labour Studies, today stated that the crises confronting manufacturing needs particular attention. Recent announced closings of Genfast, Bluebird, and Easton Coatings are examples of a crises situation.

Genfast, a company that was best in the area a few short years ago, has moved their fastener production to Michigan and BlueBird which manufactured buses is moving to Georgia. Even management recognizes the quality of the workforce, but praise doesn’t put bread on the table. Easton Coatings may become another example of the insufficiency of legislation governing plant closings and worker entitlement. I am today calling upon the Provincial and Federal Governments for emergency action to stop the closing until such a time as the impact can be analyzed and the interests of the employees protected. “All too often employees lose all of their accumulated benefits along with their jobs. This has got to stop.” One of the first things I intend to do when elected is to introduce legislation to deal with the impact of plant closures. “Two weeks notice for a plant closure is simply not enough time”. The Brant riding has a long history in manufacturing and Brant requires a strong retention program in the manufacturing sector or we are going to see more companies close their doors and relocate.

As a former Genfast Employee, I recognize the caliber of our employees, salaried staff, engineers, IT personnel and management. “Manufacturing has been one of Ontario’s greatest strengths. Why would we allow manufacturing to leave so easily, without seriously investigating the problems that face manufacturing today? “

Rally

Brian has emailed me regarding the rally:

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Regarding the Rally!

May 23, 2007
11am at Genfast
45 Minutes in Length
12pm Rally at "To be announced" Plant in Brantford
Approx 30 minutes in Length.
Rally in Plant "to be announced" in Peel.

You can participate at each event individually. After the Genfast Rally,
we will name the plant that we are going to within Brantford. You can
ride the Coach to or take your own vehicle should you choose. You can
also go back to work, school, or whatever plans you have. Also, If I
know that you cannot attend the Genfast Rally, but wish to participate
in the rest of the rally, I will do my best to forward you the
information as to where we will be going. You can participate in the 2nd
rally and grab the bus to the 3rd should you like. I have no idea if
there are going to be enough seats available, If I receive enough
information from former Genfast employees that many of us want to go to
all the events then we will have to see if we have enough Coaches. Also
with the recent announcement of another Bankruptcy, there may be even
more "displaced" workers coming out.

If you know 100% that you are going to go to the
1) The Genfast Rally
2) The 2nd Brantford Rally
3) The Rally in Peel

Please email me,

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Brian's email is madmax@bfree.on.ca


later dave