From the Benefits Department: The State of Missouri is currently auditing overpayments of unemployment compensation. If it has been determined that you were overpaid, the State will deduct the overpayments from any future payments. These deductions will not affect your SUB benefit pay.
The payment of any unused Vacation Entitlement will be paid in Roll 5; which means you will see the money in the EFT/Paycard payments on February 1, 2013.
Employees should receive hard copies of their W-2's in the mail on or around January 30.
In addition they will be available through iPay starting January 28. There is a possibility that some employees will receive double pay stubs. This does not mean that you were double paid.
Reminder: Now that the in-plant eyeglass store is closed, you will need to use The Eye Care Center of O’Fallon to get safety glasses. It is located at 409 South Main Street, O'Fallon MO . Their hours will be as follows: 9 AM to 5 PM Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday 9 AM to 7 PM on Wednesdays, 8am - 12 pm on Saturday.
Employees will have the opportunity to have their eye exams done at this office or drop off their prescriptions from other providers to generate their safety glass order. Employees will be able to drop off their orders and pick them up per the posted times during non-working hours. Employees wishing to schedule an appointment for an exam may call 636-272-3383. The Optometrist is Dr. Martin M. Shulman. There have been no modifications to our current program other than the provider. You will be able to get side shields from the Safety Department.
•Under the Profit Sharing Plan for Hourly-Rate Employees in the United States, eligible participants will have the opportunity to elect to contribute up to 100%, after legally required deductions and recoveries of payroll and benefit overpayments, of their 2012 Profit Sharing payout on a pre-tax basis to their Personal Savings Plan (PSP) account. Participants may elect to change their Profit Sharing contribution election on file (currently zero), either online at gmbenefits.com or by speaking to a representative at the GM Benefits & Services Center at 1-800-489-4646, any time between January 30, 2013 and February 7, 2013 at 4:00 p.m. ET. As a result of 2011 GM-UAW Negotiations, all prior contribution elections have been set to zero. No changes will be accepted after this window.
•Instructions to change your Profit Sharing contribution percentage online are as follows:
- Go to gmbenefits.com
- Click “Active Hourly”
- Click “Savings Plans”
- Click the link under PSP Offerings
- Log In using your username and password
- Click “General Motors PSP”
- Click “Contribution Amount” on the left side of the screen
- Click “Contribution Amount” in the middle of the screen
- Scroll down and look for the Profit Sharing election
- Input the desired percent of your Profit Sharing payment (must be in 1% increments)
- Click the “Change Contribution Amount” button at the bottom of the page
- Click the “Submit” button at the bottom of the page after you have reviewed your requested changes
Although December van sales were down 20% from last year, our field supplies shrank from 61 days supply to 47 for the end of the year. Chevy cargo vans dipped to 46 days from 71, cutaway supplies were flat at 45 days, and passenger vans ticked up slightly to 28 days.
From the Detroit News: The nation's unions lost 400,000 members in 2012 as the percentage of U.S. workers represented by a labor union fell to 11.3 percent, its lowest level since the 1930s - declining by 0.5 percent over the last year. Among public sector workers, 35.9 percent are in a union - down from 37.0 percent in 2011, as the public sector shed nearly 250,000 union workers. In the private sector, 6.6 percent are unionized, down from 6.9 percent in 2011.
Union membership fell in 34 states. AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said the new figures were sobering. "Working women and men urgently need a voice on the job today, but the sad truth is that it has become more difficult for them to have one, as today's figures on union membership demonstrate," Trumka said. "Union membership impacts every other economic outcome that matters to all workers — falling wages, rising health care costs, home foreclosures, the loss of manufacturing jobs and disappearing retirement benefits." "It was collective bargaining that helped bring back the auto industry. It was unions that led the effort on the ground to re-elect President Obama. The labor movement has had its ups and downs over the past 150 years, but I'm seeing a new energy in our union," he said. "Low-wage workers in the retail, restaurant and fast-food industries are using exciting new tactics to organize…. Working people realize now more than ever that they need to form unions to protect their families and their communities from powerful corporations. From my perspective, labor is on the way back in a powerful way."
Tom Brune
UAW/GM Communications Coordinator
Wentzville Assembly
636-327-2119
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