It's hard to believe, 49 years old, 31 years of service, and now I rank among the retirees of General Motors. As of April 1, 2009 it will be official. I accepted the GM incentive package to retire with a monthly pension, vehicle voucher and cash, and full benefits, which was being offered to employees with 30 or more years of service. The decision was a hard one to make. With uncertain times ahead and the fact that in February, I was reduced as an electrician and offered to either take a lay off from Skilled Trades or go back to work the production line. I decided that taking a pay cut of $5.00 per hour and working in production was still better than being laid off. With the possibility of even more cut backs in contractual issues and benefits I said enough is enough. I felt that the incentive offer being given at this time is probably the best it is going to get, so I closed this chapter of my life at GM and retired. I look forward to what lies ahead. I'm currently in school looking to get into the medical field in Respiratory Therapy but I also have an appointment later this week at Michigan Institute of Aviation Technology in their Energy Industry field, possibly in wind power (green energy). I'm very excited about that and with my electrical back ground I think that may be a better fit for me then the medical field so we'll see what happens. I'll keep you posted.Sunday, March 29, 2009
Retirement!
It's hard to believe, 49 years old, 31 years of service, and now I rank among the retirees of General Motors. As of April 1, 2009 it will be official. I accepted the GM incentive package to retire with a monthly pension, vehicle voucher and cash, and full benefits, which was being offered to employees with 30 or more years of service. The decision was a hard one to make. With uncertain times ahead and the fact that in February, I was reduced as an electrician and offered to either take a lay off from Skilled Trades or go back to work the production line. I decided that taking a pay cut of $5.00 per hour and working in production was still better than being laid off. With the possibility of even more cut backs in contractual issues and benefits I said enough is enough. I felt that the incentive offer being given at this time is probably the best it is going to get, so I closed this chapter of my life at GM and retired. I look forward to what lies ahead. I'm currently in school looking to get into the medical field in Respiratory Therapy but I also have an appointment later this week at Michigan Institute of Aviation Technology in their Energy Industry field, possibly in wind power (green energy). I'm very excited about that and with my electrical back ground I think that may be a better fit for me then the medical field so we'll see what happens. I'll keep you posted.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Cesar E. Chavez Essay Contast
We are sponsoring our 2nd annual Cesar E. Chavez contest this year. It is open to all K-12 students of Oakland county schools. Awards will be given on March 31st. The information has been distributed throughout the school district. Cash prizes will be awarded to the winners. Anyone interested should contact their school counselors for more information or contact our chapter President, Lorenzo Rivera at riveradall@charter.net or Recording Sec., Oscar Sanchez at oscarsanchez789@att.net .
3rd Annual Cesar E. Chavez March
I do hope many of you can join us for our 3rd annual Cesar Chavez March event this year once again beginning at noon at the University of Michigan Center with a program honoring former Flint City Councilman Paul Vasquez after and a light lunch as well to honor our great leader Cesar. It will be a vegetarian luncheon but this is all free and for those who arrive early we will be showing a short movie covering his life and work in the Kiva Room at the University as well. Please call Art Reyes; our chair and Local 651 President at 810-742-7420 or email Pat Flores at Patricia.A.Flores@gm.com for more information. We are printing out flyers that list the map and info and can send these out as needed per request. Have a great day and best of luck!
As ever, Genesee County Hispanic Collaborative Member Marcy (Maricela) Garcia.
Anyone interested in going and wish to car pool can contact Lorenzo Rivera. He plans on meeting at the Big Boy resturant at I-75 and Baldwin Ave.
Monday, March 2, 2009
Feb 28, 2009 LCLAA meeting
Since I resigned as President of the Chapter for reasons stated in the other posting,today was the first meeting with our new President of the Oakland County Chapter. Lorenzo Rivera has stepped up to the position of President once again. During the meeting we discussed our plans for our 2nd Annual Cesar E. Chavez essay contest among other things. We also made some appointments to the Executive Board to fill some positions. Debra Styers and David Mora are Vice Presidents and we made recommendations for a 3rd V.P. and a Member at Large but those individuals haven't been contacted yet to accept or decline. Once that happens I will update the blog with the new standing E-Board.
As we finalize more of the plans for the essay contest I will post the information.
Just as a note, if you would like info or pictures posted on the blog just let me know and I'll do my best to comply. Thank David Mora
As we finalize more of the plans for the essay contest I will post the information.
Just as a note, if you would like info or pictures posted on the blog just let me know and I'll do my best to comply. Thank David Mora
Monday, December 22, 2008
New chapter in life
Greetings to all,
As an employee of General Motors, lay-offs looming and the current economic conditions as they are, I feel that I must return to college to further my education and career opportunities. I have decided to pursue a career in the medical field and with this decision to go back to school, I will need to focus all my attention and energies in doing the best that I can. As a result, I will not have the time to function in a leadership position for our local chapter.
So it is with sincere regret that as of January 12, 2009 I will need to resign as the President of the Oakland County Chapter of LCLAA.
I am still committed to our chapter and will help when and where I can.
As the only active Vice President of our chapter, Lorenzo Rivera will take over the responsibilities of chapter President. Please help and give him your full support, he can be contacted at riveradall@chapter.net .
It has been an honor and pleasure serving as President. I would like to thank everyone for all their support and hard work at our past meetings and events over the last 3 years. Thank you.
Respectfully
David L. Mora
UAW Local 5960
As an employee of General Motors, lay-offs looming and the current economic conditions as they are, I feel that I must return to college to further my education and career opportunities. I have decided to pursue a career in the medical field and with this decision to go back to school, I will need to focus all my attention and energies in doing the best that I can. As a result, I will not have the time to function in a leadership position for our local chapter.
So it is with sincere regret that as of January 12, 2009 I will need to resign as the President of the Oakland County Chapter of LCLAA.
I am still committed to our chapter and will help when and where I can.
As the only active Vice President of our chapter, Lorenzo Rivera will take over the responsibilities of chapter President. Please help and give him your full support, he can be contacted at riveradall@chapter.net .
It has been an honor and pleasure serving as President. I would like to thank everyone for all their support and hard work at our past meetings and events over the last 3 years. Thank you.
Respectfully
David L. Mora
UAW Local 5960
Monday, December 15, 2008
"La Amsitad" Senior citizen luncheon 2008
This years event was held on Saturday December 13, 2008. Wehad a rough start. A week before this event we were informed that another group was booked to use the center on the same day and time. So we pushed our luncheon back to a latter time on the same day. We were to begin arriving with food at 1:00pm and serve at 2:00pm. The other group didn't leave until almost 2:00pm. Once they left we quickly transformed the center for our use and I was amazed at how quickly we were able to do that and get going. Here dinner is ready and we are about to begin serving. We had good music provide by Dario Lopez. Brigitta Cantu, through her church provide gifts. After giving each senior a ticket we drew tickets for them to pick a gift. We had them hold on to their ticket and latter we drew tickets for them to pick a pointsetta plant which was donated by OHLSA. Also a big thank you to Margritta from Gleaners for donating 80 boxes of food which we gave a box to each senior who attended. I'm sorry we didn't get a group picture of all those who helped and supported this event. I won't even begin to try and name everyone because I know I'll miss someone. I just what to say thank you from the bottom of my heart to all those who helped and made this event a success. Our cameraman behind the lense was Lorenzo Rivera.
Thank you for all the support and help, here's Lisa helping getting the food ready along with Marry Lopez in the background.
Patiently waiting for dinner to be served.
Simon, Ruban and Irma. Thanks for your support and help. We couldn't do without you.
Santa was nice enough to take time out of his busy schedule to join us and help make this a special event for the Seniors.
No Don, Santa's not going to eat your food! Relax.
Ho, Ho, Ho, Merry Christmas.
Dinner is served, again I would like to thank all those who helped make this a successful event. Fun was had by all. We had plenty of food, gifts for the seniors and boxes of food for each senior to take home with them. Merry Christmas to all and have a safe holiday season.
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