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UAW Mourns Death of UAW Vice President Jack Laskowski

9 August 1999

UAW Mourns Death of UAW Vice President Jack Laskowski

    DETROIT, Aug. 9 -- UAW President Stephen P. Yokich announced
today that UAW Vice President Jack Laskowski passed away on Sunday, August 8,
1999.
    "Speaking on behalf of the Officers, International Executive Board members
and the membership of the UAW, we are shocked and saddened at the untimely
death of Vice President Laskowski," President Yokich said.  "Brother
Laskowski's leadership made a tremendous contribution to our union through his
role as a UAW officer, as a member of our International Executive Board and as
the Director of many important UAW departments, including the DaimlerChrysler
Department.  He was a UAW man through and through and especially in view of
his key role as leader of the team negotiating a new contract at
DaimlerChyrsler, he will be sorely missed."
    Vice President Laskowski was at a mid-Michigan conference center to attend
a board meeting of Delta Dental of Michigan at the time of his death, which
apparently resulted from a heart attack.  He was 59 years old.
    Jack Laskowski was first elected a Vice President at the UAW's 31st
Constitutional Convention in 1995.  He was re-elected an International Vice
President of the UAW at the Union's 32nd Constitutional Convention in June of
1998.  Previously, he had been Director of UAW Region 1D from 1992 to 1995.
    In addition to serving as Director of the Union's DaimlerChrysler
Department, Vice President Laskowski had also been appointed by President
Yokich as Director of the Union's Heavy Trucks Department (Navistar, Mack,
Peterbilt, Volvo, Freightliner); the General Dynamics Department and the
Transplants, Transnational and Joint Ventures Department which includes NUMMI
(GM/Toyota) and Mitsubishi.  He has been a member of the Navistar Board of
Directors since 1995.
    Laskowski's UAW roots ran deep.  His father, Walter "Bullet" Laskowski,
took part in the UAW's first strike at Chevrolet Bay City in 1936 which
resulted in the formation of a UAW local at that plant.  Vice President
Laskowski became a member of that local, UAW Local 362 in 1958 when he went to
work at what is now the CPC Powertrain Plant in Bay City.
    He was a graduate of Saint Stanislaus High School in Bay City where he
became an all-state basketball player.
    Vice President Laskowski is survived by his wife, Sally and their
three sons, Greg, Tim and Mike.
    Funeral arrangements are incomplete at this time.