In 1990, former UAW President Owen Bieber and then-Secretary-Treasurer Bill Casstevens appointed Jones to the International staff. He was assigned to the union’s Accounting Department. A year later, Jones was named chief accountant of the UAW.
A UAW Local 1895 member, Jones was hired at Ford Motor Co.’s Glass plant in Broken Arrow, Okla., in 1975. He became a member of UAW Local 249 when he transferred to the Kansas City Ford Assembly Plant when the glass plant closed.
Jones is a lifetime member of the NAACP and various other civic and political organizations. Jones and his wife, Cindy, live in O’Fallon, Mo., where they are members of the First Baptist Church. They have two daughters and three granddaughters.
The USA Supreme Court seems to be a poor mood these days and workers need protection more than ever. As workers face a workplace that can be compromised in it's safety, fairness and compensation programs that cast them into poverty; it is again time for the rise of the labor union.
I never thought the day would return where labor faced such issues. It's not all happiness and joy in American labor. It is time that returns. It is definitely the time for unions to organize and return quality of life to Americans.
The teacher unions are finally finding their will to stand strong. Michigan is the next big teacher union push to better compensation packages for teachers.
June 13, 2018
Detroit — Delegates of the United Auto Workers (click here) elected Gary Jones, director of the union's Region 5 in the west and southwest United States, its new president Wednesday at its 2018 Constitutional Convention.
Jones succeeds Dennis Williams, who will retire Thursday following a single term as the union's president. Under Williams, the union posted slow but steady gains in membership, rising profit sharing payouts from prosperous automakers, and what Williams has called "fiscally balanced ... finances three years in a row."
The leadership change comes as the union seeks to rebound from a devastating defeat in organizing Nissan workers in Canton, Miss., a failed organizing attempt of line workers at Volkswagen AG’s Chattanooga plant, and a continuing federal probe into the use of joint UAW-Big Three training funds financed by Detroit’s automakers....
An article in "Mother Jones" reminds of the appalling circumstances some teachers and students face in the year 2018. Any union has to be aware of the importance of safety in the workplace that includes safety from sexual assault and sexual harassment. Teachers are all part of an important issue surrounding women and men sexually harassed in their work environment, including their students.
Unions and empowerment of their members in educational seminars to protect themselves and their students from humiliating events that take dignity away from them. The issue of sexual assault also carries with it lifelong scars if professional interventions aren't in place.
UAW President Gary Jones needs to take a good like at what exactly unions are protecting at their member factories. The UAW is not exempt in promoting fairness and gender equality in the work place.
Perhaps if Lulabel Seitz was empowered by teachers and administrators long before her speech at graduation none of this would even be an issue.
Unions are vitally important when they hold educational seminars that will empower their members and the peoples' lives their members touch.
Lulabel Seitz had freedom of speach removed from her when she began to address sexual harassment and assault on her campus.
June 6, 2018
By Hannah Beausang
...In the days following the graduation of 304 students, (click here) the event has proved polarizing. Top school administrators said all student speakers were made aware their microphones would be cut if they deviated from the speeches they submitted. Seitz, who’s headed to Stanford University this fall to study applied mathematics and economics, voiced outrage by what she called censorship.
“When they cut my mic, I was appalled at them,” Seitz said.
She said she was sexually assaulted on campus by a person she knew and she wanted to air her frustration over what she viewed as a lack of action taken by the administration.
“I thought this is a public school with freedom of speech,” she said this week in a phone interview. “This is for my class that stood up and said ‘let her speak.’ Even if the administration doesn’t give me a mic, I still want to speak.”
Students were required to audition for their speeches, and during two meetings with Seitz, Assistant Principal Deborah Richardson said she told the teen that “the expectation is that the speech you submitted is the speech you will give.”
Petaluma High School Principal David Stirrat said the school prior to graduation received an undisclosed number of emails expressing concern Seitz might go off script....
The USA Supreme Court seems to be a poor mood these days and workers need protection more than ever. As workers face a workplace that can be compromised in it's safety, fairness and compensation programs that cast them into poverty; it is again time for the rise of the labor union.
I never thought the day would return where labor faced such issues. It's not all happiness and joy in American labor. It is time that returns. It is definitely the time for unions to organize and return quality of life to Americans.
The teacher unions are finally finding their will to stand strong. Michigan is the next big teacher union push to better compensation packages for teachers.
June 13, 2018
Detroit — Delegates of the United Auto Workers (click here) elected Gary Jones, director of the union's Region 5 in the west and southwest United States, its new president Wednesday at its 2018 Constitutional Convention.
Jones succeeds Dennis Williams, who will retire Thursday following a single term as the union's president. Under Williams, the union posted slow but steady gains in membership, rising profit sharing payouts from prosperous automakers, and what Williams has called "fiscally balanced ... finances three years in a row."
The leadership change comes as the union seeks to rebound from a devastating defeat in organizing Nissan workers in Canton, Miss., a failed organizing attempt of line workers at Volkswagen AG’s Chattanooga plant, and a continuing federal probe into the use of joint UAW-Big Three training funds financed by Detroit’s automakers....
An article in "Mother Jones" reminds of the appalling circumstances some teachers and students face in the year 2018. Any union has to be aware of the importance of safety in the workplace that includes safety from sexual assault and sexual harassment. Teachers are all part of an important issue surrounding women and men sexually harassed in their work environment, including their students.
Unions and empowerment of their members in educational seminars to protect themselves and their students from humiliating events that take dignity away from them. The issue of sexual assault also carries with it lifelong scars if professional interventions aren't in place.
UAW President Gary Jones needs to take a good like at what exactly unions are protecting at their member factories. The UAW is not exempt in promoting fairness and gender equality in the work place.
Perhaps if Lulabel Seitz was empowered by teachers and administrators long before her speech at graduation none of this would even be an issue.
Unions are vitally important when they hold educational seminars that will empower their members and the peoples' lives their members touch.
June 6, 2018
By Hannah Beausang
...In the days following the graduation of 304 students, (click here) the event has proved polarizing. Top school administrators said all student speakers were made aware their microphones would be cut if they deviated from the speeches they submitted. Seitz, who’s headed to Stanford University this fall to study applied mathematics and economics, voiced outrage by what she called censorship.
“When they cut my mic, I was appalled at them,” Seitz said.
She said she was sexually assaulted on campus by a person she knew and she wanted to air her frustration over what she viewed as a lack of action taken by the administration.
“I thought this is a public school with freedom of speech,” she said this week in a phone interview. “This is for my class that stood up and said ‘let her speak.’ Even if the administration doesn’t give me a mic, I still want to speak.”
Students were required to audition for their speeches, and during two meetings with Seitz, Assistant Principal Deborah Richardson said she told the teen that “the expectation is that the speech you submitted is the speech you will give.”
Petaluma High School Principal David Stirrat said the school prior to graduation received an undisclosed number of emails expressing concern Seitz might go off script....
