Main Office Number - 512-476-8388|info@tcga.org kelley@tcga.org About kelley@tcga.org This author has not yet filled in any details. So far kelley@tcga.org has created 128 blog entries. ETS Litigation Consolidated into Sixth Circuit As we reported earlier, lawsuits challenging the OSHA Covid Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) have been filed all over the country. The ETS is currently being stayed due to a ruling from the 5th Circuit Court (New Orleans). Earlier this week, the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation assigned all the ETS litigation to the 6th Circuit [...] By kelley@tcga.org|November 17th, 2021|Uncategorized|0 Comments Read More Trust Issues Safety Alert for Lockout/Tagout TCGA member gins have experienced several significant accidents in the past few days. In response, the trust has issued a safety alert in English and Spanish. Please click the links to access these alerts. It is critical that we continue to emphasize lockout/tagout to our workers, and to be sure they are implementing it while [...] By kelley@tcga.org|November 17th, 2021|Uncategorized|0 Comments Read More Emphasize Safety as You Start Ginning The Ginners’ Trust wants to remind everyone to encourage safety as the season starts. We have already seen three severe, reportable accidents in West Texas gins as the season gets started: An employee struck by a loader carrying a module to the feeder resulting in head injury; An employee caught in the battery condenser resulting [...] By kelley@tcga.org|November 16th, 2021|Uncategorized|0 Comments Read More 5th Circuit Extends Stay for Covid Rule On Friday night, a three-judge panel extended the stay of the Covid Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS). The next step will be for the courts to consolidate all the different suits that have been filed all over the country, and decide which court will hear all of the consolidated cases. If the cases are consolidated into [...] By kelley@tcga.org|November 15th, 2021|Uncategorized|0 Comments Read More Safety Alert From Texas Cotton Ginners’ Trust Texas Cotton Ginners' Trust has issued a new safety alert, and has asked us to pass it along to you all. Please review the information below. In addition, if you would like to have the Pdf version of these alerts, please click here. OFF-SEASON WORK : OUTSIDE THE NORMAL Repair and re-build and [...] By kelley@tcga.org|August 23rd, 2021|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Safety Alert From Texas Cotton Ginners’ Trust Read More Can’t Make the Summer Meeting? Join by Zoom from your Office. We are expecting a good crowd in Austin for the Summer meeting, taking place in just a few days! If you are unable to travel to Austin in person, you can still attend the general sessions on Monday and Tuesday from your office via Zoom. We look forward to seeing you, whether in person on [...] By kelley@tcga.org|June 25th, 2021|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Can’t Make the Summer Meeting? Join by Zoom from your Office. Read More El Campo District Meeting on Monday June 21 – Also Available on Zoom TCGA has begun our District Meeting process. We will have our District Meetings in person this year on the usual pre-Covid schedule. In addition, to accommodate anyone who might not be able to make their normal meeting, we will make a few of the District Meetings available by Zoom as well. The El Campo meeting [...] By kelley@tcga.org|June 18th, 2021|Uncategorized|Comments Off on El Campo District Meeting on Monday June 21 – Also Available on Zoom Read More USDA Publishes Updated Module Feeder Camera Specifications USDA has just published an updated paper with the specifications and pricing for gins that would like to install their own camera system for detecting plastic contamination in the module feeder. This paper is available on the NCGA web site, and on the TCGA Cotton Contamination Resource Page. Click here to view the updated paper, [...] By kelley@tcga.org|May 4th, 2021|Uncategorized|Comments Off on USDA Publishes Updated Module Feeder Camera Specifications Read More Ginners Receiving Fraudulent Unemployment Claims Two of our gin members have received notices from the Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) of an employee that has filed for unemployment benefits. In both cases, the employee was still working for the company and did not actually file the claim. This week, we received a notice from the TWC that there are a lot [...] By kelley@tcga.org|March 24th, 2021|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Ginners Receiving Fraudulent Unemployment Claims Read More TCGA Mail System Repaired – Please Read Below TCGA discovered today that an improper setting in our email system was causing all of our emails to be blocked in the PCCA and Telmark systems. It was likely causing other systems to block our emails as well. We believe the problem is now repaired. If you have missed the Newsletters and Blog Posts, these [...] By kelley@tcga.org|March 17th, 2021|Uncategorized|Comments Off on TCGA Mail System Repaired – Please Read Below Read More 1 2 Next @ 2016 Texas Cotton Ginners' Association | All Rights Reserved | 211 West Bagdad Avenue, Round Rock, Texas 78664-5803