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2:49 PM Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Re “Don’t blame UAW for loss of IUE benefits,” Sept. 15: I felt compelled to respond to this letter to the editor. The IUE-CWA leadership did indeed negotiate a VEBA package, as the UAW did with General Motors. This was signed before the end of 2008, but GM chose not to implement the signed agreement.

Through this past year, the IUE-CWA members have had an extremely tough time because the UAW chose not to step up and include all the brothers and sisters that were within the splinter unions that work within the GM family. The international president of the IUE-CWA, Jim Clark, worked very long through tough months leading up to the agreement just approved for all the splinter unions within GM.

Had the UAW extended its hand in these tough economic times, then none of the members would have been subjected to the dealings that went on this past year. Without the helping hand of the IUE-CWA, the smaller union members would have been tossed aside, as the IUE was by GM.

I retired in February 2005 and I am proud to be a union member of the IUE-CWA.

— Ken Combs

Franklin

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