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Employee Free Choice Act – A Limitation on Workers Rights
Employee Free Choice Act – A Limitation on Workers Rights. NADCA strongly urges you to contact your Senator and House Representative – express your opposition to the Employee Free Choice Act, a card check legislation that would effectively eliminate workers’ rights to a private ballot when deciding to form a union.
Under this proposed legislation, a union would be able to force an employer to recognize it based merely on a collection of signed cards, called a card-check. During the card-check process, employees are asked to sign cards that indicate support of a union in front of union organizers, their fellow employees and sometimes their employer. This is a process that invites intimidation and coercion and ultimately leads to widespread disenfranchisement of workers by eliminating their right to a secret ballot. This is most certainly not a step in the right direction.
The National Labor Relations Board already has strict procedures to ensure fair private ballot elections, free of employer or union coercion. These existing procedures are no threat to unions; they lead to swift and fair elections. Most elections are held within 56 days, and labor unions prevail 55 percent of the time.
NADCA advocates and strongly advises its members to oppose any card check legislation should it come to the floor of the Senate in the 111th Congress. Secret ballots elections are the foundation of America’s democratic process and workers deserve no less.
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Die Casting Facilities are exempt from pending EPA Aluminum Area Source Rules
Die Casting Facilities are exempt from pending EPA Aluminum Area Source Rules. For many years NADCA has worked to keep die casters exempt from the EPA Area Source Rules for non-ferrous foundries. These rules attempt to control hazardous air pollutants released during the melting of aluminum and non-ferrous alloys. On January 15 of this year, proposed revisions to these rules were published.
Many die casters are concerned that with the revised rules their exemption is expiring. This is not the case. It has been confirmed through multiple knowledgeable sources die casters will remain exempt as long as they continue to melt clean sources of metal. NADCA is conducting its own investigation of these revisions as well as any further EPA rules that could concern die casters. Look in the April issue of LINKS for an article that will both identify clean sources of metal and further discuss EPA rules.
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Aluminum die casting process
The process of aluminum die casting involves the injection of molten aluminum into molds or casts by using very high pressure. Four essential steps are undertaken in aluminum die casting, first of which is spraying the mold with lubricant and closing the die cast. The lubricant is used not only to facilitate casting removal but also to contribute in controlling the temperature of the die during the casting process.
Next, high pressure is used to inject or shoot the molten aluminum into the die. The pressure is maintained once the die is completely filled and the casting has solidified. After the casting has cooled enough, the dies are then opened and ejector pins remove the shots inside. Scraps are separated from the castings, oftentimes through a special trimming device in a hydraulic press or power press. Secondary operations may be necessary in some aluminum die casting that could entail plating, painting or buffing or tapping a hole in the cast parts.
The high-pressure injection is the most critical step in Aluminum die casting process. The entire cavity of the die cast or mold has to be completely filled with the molten aluminum before any of the casting’s part solidifies. If the injection or shot is swift enough, there won’t be casting discontinuities even in thin, difficult-to-fill sections of the die cast.
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Auto supplier Contech LLC files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection
Auto supplier Contech LLC files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection
by Alex Nixon | Kalamazoo Gazette
PORTAGE, MI — Local auto supplier Contech LLC has filed for federal bankruptcy protection citing weakness in the automotive industry for its financial problems, the Portage-based company announced Friday.
Contech, which employs about 65 workers at its Portage headquarters and operates nine plants in four states, said it will reorganize its operations under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
“The move, which was made with the support of Contech’s key customers, will make it possible to relieve Contech’s strong underlying operations from significant debt obligations, sell certain non-core operations and address the unprecedented low volumes in the North American automotive industry by rationalizing its operational cost structure,” the company said in a written statement.
Contech is a metal-part casting company that supplies the parts automotive and heavy truck industries. It leases in the Trade Centre office complex in Portage. The company was acquired in 2007 by New York-based private equity firm Marathon Asset Management from Charlotte, N.C.-based SPX Corp. for $146 million.
In its statement, Contech said it’s “conducting normal business operations, and remains focused on serving its customers.”
It expects to use interim financing and cash flow from operations to continue making parts and paying employees, the company said. The company employs a total of 1,000 workers.
“This action is an integral part of our ongoing efforts to restructure Contech and meet the challenges of the automotive industry going forward,” Morris Rowlett, chairman and chief executive officer, said in the statement.
“Over the past year, we have faced the same challenges many of our competitors and colleagues in the automotive industry have faced resulting from significantly reduced production levels at our largest customers,” Rowlett said.
The company said its United Kingdom operations aren’t affected by the bankruptcy filing.
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Die Casting to Continue Contraction in 2009
Die Casting to Continue Contraction in 2009. When the U.S. sneezes, everyone catches a cold. At least in 2008 and for the foreseeable future, the U.S. economy has a significant impact on the rest of the world. However, basic conditions around the world are changing. Globalization is occurring, work time arrangements are becoming similar, consumption, lifestyle and production are all “leveling out” in every sector of the world. The term third-world country is becoming obsolete. World issues such as climate change, migration, income disparity and employee training are being discussed. Now, it is a matter of which countries have the greatest influence in the direction the world economy takes.
World economic growth from 2000 to 2008 averaged +3.8%/year. As a result of the U.S. recession, world economic growth of most economies is forecast to slow in 2009. The overall world economy will grow 3% in 2009. The slowdown is attributed to the housing and financial crisis in the U.S. and shortages in resources around the world. Estimates are that the downward trend will continue through 2009 and halfway through 2010.
The good news is that the surviving companies will be less leveraged, not be as “speculative,” have good internal checks/controls and have sound fiscal policies. These are all good attributes to deal with as suppliers or investors.
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