USW 77M

USW 77M Labor Union page ran by the committee to inform you, the workers

12/17/2025

The Company and Union met for their monthly meeting and few things were pointed out and needs to be addressed to close the year out and start 2026 strong.

Business Outlook
• At full capacity for 2026 - heavy reliance on ROLLS and Kraft paper
• The business has made strategic moves and commitments
• Utah will remain down entire year - not sold out
• Delmar is a low cost high volume plant so we will be at full capacity
• Big responsibility- we will be shipping to south and west coast, supporting nation, need sustained performance for 2026
• Annual goal is 340 million pounds
• Housekeeping is a huge part and will be addressed during next communication meeting.

We would like for all of us to close the year strong and with resilience and gratitude. Thank you

We are happy to announce that Joe Harrington is our Mentor of the Month for the month of November. Thank you for all you...
12/17/2025

We are happy to announce that Joe Harrington is our Mentor of the Month for the month of November. Thank you for all you do!

Congrats to Michael Gonzalez for being our Mentor of the Month for October. Thank you for all you do, Mike!
11/05/2025

Congrats to Michael Gonzalez for being our Mentor of the Month for October. Thank you for all you do, Mike!

Congrats to Carl Cichocki for being our mentor of the month! Thank you for all you do, Carl!
10/17/2025

Congrats to Carl Cichocki for being our mentor of the month! Thank you for all you do, Carl!

10/01/2025

A message from Owens Corning HR department:

Open Enrollment is right around the corner! This is your annual opportunity to review and make changes to your benefits for the upcoming year. Open Enrollment will begin 10/20/25 and close 11/14/25. You will receive a copy of the 2026 Benefits Enrollment Booklet in the mail or in your Owens Corning email.

Below are highlights and key messages:
1. Active enrollment- all employees must log in and make their elections or waive coverage. Your elections from 2025 will not carry forward.
2. Anthem (blue cross blue shield) will be replacing Aetna. The plan structures are not changing – both HSA and PPO plans will be offered. The deductibles, out-of-pocket maximum, and copays/ coinsurance will remain the same for 2026 for all four medical plan options (see email for more detail). Anthem has the largest Network in the country. Anthem's network includes 99.4% of the same doctors and hospitals that were in Aetna's network.

Please Speak to HR if you have any questions regarding the changing provider network or concerns regarding transition of care.

3. CDPHP HMO Plan will remain an option for 2026.

4. New wellness incentive

Key Dates and Support:
Q&A Sessions:
A Shift: Oct.14 7A & 4P
B Shift: Oct. 13 7P & Oct 14 6A
C Shift: Oct. 16 7A & 4P
D Shift: Oct. 10 7A & 4P
Fixed Shift: Oct. 15 8A

Congrats to Carl Neal for being our mentor of the month! Thank you for all you do, Carl!
09/24/2025

Congrats to Carl Neal for being our mentor of the month! Thank you for all you do, Carl!

06/16/2025

Union meeting:

June 24th @ 7:30pm

Albany Labor Temple
890 Third Street
Albany NY 12206

06/14/2025

Sending on behalf of Michael Radosevic:

Team Delmar,

I want to share with you details of the recently added down days to our production schedule at Delmar. Our 2025 production schedule did include 5 days of shutdown for DM2 in June. Earlier this week the business asked us to increase the number of down days to 14.

This adjustment is part of a normal inventory control strategy. The business expected the month of June to reach high inventory levels and then start to drain as demand increased into the peak fall building season. These added days will allow enough relief in our warehouse to better manage incoming and outgoing shipments.

There will be no furloughs during this time, we plan to use these additional days to perform employee training and development, execute projects and perform maintenance activities. From a tactical perspective, we have the flexibility to spread the down days between either DM1 or DM2, these decisions will be made based on what is best for the plant, our customers, and our training needs.
We will update you soon on the schedule for running DMl and DM2. In the meantime, we sincerely appreciate your flexibility and commitment.

Thank you for your continued support as we navigate this period thoughtfully and strategically.

Michael Radosevic

Changes made to the contract -new employees receive their first week of vacation after 120 days *that was left out*
05/11/2025

Changes made to the contract

-new employees receive their first week of vacation after 120 days *that was left out*

05/10/2025

Just a friendly reminder today is the roll out of the new contract. Stop in and give us some feedbacks, questions, comments, concerns.

07:30am, 12:30pm, 4:00pm and 7:30pm
Albany Labor Temple
890 Third Street
Albany NY 12206

05/09/2025

Greetings brothers and sisters,

We are pleased to announce that the board has finalized our collective bargaining agreement and signed it.

The contract details and next steps will be rolled out Saturday May 10th at the Union Hall located at 890 3rd street, Albany.

The times are as followed 7:30am, 12:30pm, 4:00pm, 7:30 pm. We appreciate everyone's hard work and dedication as well as the solidarity you all showed during the bargaining process that was relayed back to us by our CAT team coordinators.

Sincerely,

Stephen Bestler- President
Rich Graham- Vice President
Anthony Evans- Recording Secretary
Shawn Pratt- Financial Treasurer
Brian Dinsmore- Financial Secretary
Michael Gonzalez- Business Committee Chairmen

05/07/2025

Company and the Union board made a lot of progress today. We both continue to show good faith in negotiating.

If any questions, please feel free to get a hold of Jake McIntosh and Fred Hoefer as they are the point of contact

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Albany, NY
12206

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