Meet Our Standing Committees

Chaplaincy Committee

CHAPLAINCY COMMITTEE

Chaplains provide spiritual support.  Some chaplains are certified and ordained.  Which means they can perform baptisms, dedications, facilitate communion, officiate funerals and weddings.  The UAW Chaplaincy program enhances our EAP and ESSP Programs.  The chaplain serves members of all faiths and respects their views as well as those who may express no particular faith at all.   Chaplains will always protect member confidentiality.  To reach out call (810) 238-4605 EXT 111

Education/Communications Committee

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Skip Thompson, Becky Haughey, Chris Ridley, Michelle Giorgis, Deb Kirchner, Tree Riddle, Britta Rusaw

EDUCATION/COMMUNICATIONS COMMITTEE-

The duties of this Committee shall be to promote all branches of education affecting the welfare of the individual members, the Local Union, the International Union, and the labor movement. It shall be the duty of the Regional Director to see that this provision of the Constitution is carried out.

Community Service Committee

COMMUNITY SERVICE COMMITTEE

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Gina Poe, Crystal Henson, Harold Payne, Kelli Taylor, Terri Roy, Terrica Aldridge-Willis, Peggy Hargraves, Joe Kinney

The UAW Community Services program's goal is to ensure that the human services system meets the needs of UAW families during hardships. It also ensures working families get their daily social and economic needs met.  They provide leadership for community action in many ways.  

UAW Local 598 Women's Committee

WOMEN'S COMMITTEE

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Jennifer Sanders, Melissa Bowen, Tara Johnson-Claxton, Jessica Berezny

Our purpose is to educate the women of the local union of labor’s position on local, state and national laws regarding women’s issues, to build self-esteem, to provide leadership and educational training for women members so that they may become more active in the local union and seek leadership positions, inform all union members about women and family issues, encourage women members to become politically active, discuss problems of women workers in the workplace with the local union leadership, become active with other labor and women’s organizations supported by the International Union, UAW in order to promote labor’s agenda and to support the local union’s program. 

 

EAP OFFICERS

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David Yanta (2nd shift), Cheryl Dawson (1st shift), George Washington (3rd shift).

MEET OUR EAP OFFICE

The objective of this joint program, EMPLOYEE ASSISTANCE PROGRAM (EAP), is to help members and their family members develop healthier life styles and enhance the effectiveness of the workforce. Further, the purpose of this program is designed to help prevent the development of personal problems and provide access for treatment and after care for those already effected.

General Motors and the International Union acknowledge that neither local management nor the local union working alone can always provide the level of motivation required by employees experiencing personal problems. As a result, joint efforts are imperative in encouraging the employee to seek EAP services, as needed, to respond successfully to treatment, and to maintain a resolve to avoid further personal problems.

(DOC 39, Memorandum of Understanding, MOU)