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Blog | 05 Apr, 2018

Giving to AWARE

The Women’s Committee has been busy here at CPG under the leadership of newly elected President Kristina Ellenwood. AWARE of Jackson County was chosen...

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RECAP: 2025 Organizing Conference

This fall, UAW members from across the country came together at the Walter and May Reuther UAW Family Education Center for the first-ever Organizing C...

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Delegates at the 2025 Local Union Officers Institute

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RECAP: 2025 Local Union Officers Institute

During the week of October 5-10, more than 170 delegates from across the regions gathered for the Local Union Officers Institute, a dynamic week of ed...

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Blog 05 Apr, 2018

Helping Puerto Rico

We all watched as the news reported the devastation from Hurricane Maria when it struck Puerto Rico. Regarded as the worst natural disaster in Puerto Rican history, it made landfall on September 20, 2017 as a high Category 4 hurricane with winds up to 175 mph.

Blog 05 Apr, 2018

Rob Finch 5th Annual Chili Cook-Off

The Fifth Annual Rob Finch Memorial Chili Cook-Off was held on November 9, 2017 in the CPG Cafeteria. Tim Fry reported a great turn-out with a record twenty-four pots of chili submitted in the competition. Sandi Killingsworth, Geoff Jeal and Creag Guernsey were the iron-intestined judges.

Blog 05 Apr, 2018

UAW & CPG Adopt-A-Highway

UAW Local 1284 and Chelsea Proving Grounds is now part of the Adopt a Highway program thanks to the keen eye of Jeff Fisher, formerly of the Durability Department and now with Emissions Rolls.

Blog 05 Apr, 2018

Video Contest: Four $5000 cash prizes for videos about the future you want!

Care about jobs and the future of your community? Angry about sweatshops and the exploitation of children? Resolute that looking for the union label is as important today as it was 40 years ago? Think our country does best when we invest in ourselves?

Blog 08 Feb, 2018

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka: We are Not Staying Still!

The labor movement isn’t content to merely survive in an era when anti-union lawmakers control both chambers of Congress – we’re moving forward, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka told delegates at the 2018 UAW Community Action Program (CAP) Conference in Washington, D.C.

Blog 08 Feb, 2018

NAACP President Derrick Johnson tells delegates "Stay laser-focused so the right does not divide progressive allies"

First, NAACP President Derrick Johnson explained that there definitely is a connection between civil rights and labor. As a matter of fact, they are natural allies. And two, just as with other progressive coalitions and allies, we must stay sharply focused on the next five years to turn the tide on the attacks from the right.