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Biography/History
The United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers of America, Local 1111, was chartered in 1937 for the production employees of the Allen-Bradley Company in Milwaukee. The object of the local union, as stated in its constitution, was "to protect, maintain, and advance the interests of the workers; to organize the unorganized in conformity with its jurisdiction and to promote the advancement of such workers." The local union was involved in a strike in 1939, over the hiring of two nonunion men in the punch press department. They struck again in 1967 and in 1970, over contract disputes. In 1985, the Allen-Bradley Company was purchased by Rockwell Automation. The union was involved in demonstrations in 1997 and 2002, over outsourced jobs. As positions were removed from the Milwaukee plant, the union's membership declined. The local union was dissolved in 2011.
A partial list of officers of UE Local 1111 follows:
President:
- Fred Wolter – 1937-1940
- Harley Wright – 1940-1942
- Herman Kuehne – 1942-1963
- Nick Ballas – 1964-1968
- Gene Stanislawski – 1969-1971
- Don Doberstein – 1971-1973
- Larry Wahl – 1974-1979
- Vern Bakken – 1980
- Ted Krukowski – 1981-1990
- Rocky Cannestra – 1990-1993
- Mary Larsen – 1996-1998
- Jerry Mahne – 1998-1999
- Bob Rudek – 1999-2007
- John Kaczanowski – 2008-2009
- Robert Granum – 2009-2011
- Frank Hanley – 1937, 1941
- Claude Bishop – 1938-1939
- Harley Wright – 1940
- Eilif Johnson – 1943, 1950-1956
- Peter Zinsmeister – 1944-1945, 1948
- Anthony Calabresa – 1946-1947
- Joseph Preloznik – 1949-1950
- Robert Gaulke – 1952
- Monte Cornell – 1957-1958
- Raymond Potrikus – 1958-1960
- Nick Ballas – 1961-1963
- Bob Smith – 1964
- Don Doberstein – 1966-1967, 1969
- Larry Skrobis – 1975
- Ted Krukowski – 1978-1980
- Bob Clark – 1981-1989
- Gary Layden – 1990-1993
- Sam Plumeri – 1996-1999
- Ken Lochte – 1999-2005
- Mark Muszynski – 2006-2007
- John Kaczanowski – 2008
- Robert Granum – 2009
- Kyle Cordie – 2010
- Tom Michalski – 2009, 2011
- Esther Greenemeier – 1937-1939
- Florence Michaels – 1940-1944
- Earl Hammel – 1944-1949, 1953
- Elmer Schwandes – 1948
- Bill Beyer – 1949-1950
- Barbara Tanner – 1950-1953
- Ruth Verbrugge – 1954-1961
- Ruth Saxton – 1962
- Bob Smith – 1963
- Herman Kuehne – 1964-1965
- Ford Halverson – 1937-1939
- Adam Pierce – 1943-1946
- William Mahoney – 1946-1948
- Joseph Preloznik – 1950-1953
- Earl Hammel – 1953-1958
- Orrin DeNomie – 1958-1965
- Dick Massman – 1965-1967
- Gene Stanislawski – 1967-1968
- Don Weinert – 1969-1970
- Bob Smith – 1971-1984
- Jim Lemke – 1985-1990, 1998-2005
- Roberta Mowrey – 2006-2011
- George Maier – 1946-1954
- Ralph Malinowski – 1955
- Gordon Beyer – 1957-1963
- Francis Standish – 1964
- Willie Mastopietro – 1966, 1983
- Rocky Cannestra – 1985-1989
- Rich Blaszczynski – 1990
- Tim Burzynski – 1999
- Robert Granum – 2000-2002
- Dennis Singer – 2003-2004
- James Fajkowski – 2005, 2007-2010
- Herman Kuehne – 1941
- Al Rowe – 1946-1948
- Earl Hammel – 1948-1953
- Anthony Calabresa – 1952
- Robert Gaulke – 1953-1977
- Larry Skrobis – 1978-1979
- Lyle Fassbender – 1980
- Bill Mollenhauer – 1981-1988
- Tom Michalski – 1989, 2004-2008
- Bob Rudek – 1990-1999
- Paul Skornia – 1998-2004, 2009-2010
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