Many members have contacted us with questions about how the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic is impacting their operations. GLGA has compiled these resource pages with links to information, education and useful downloads to help you and your staff during this crisis. Please click on a section to be taken to the web page for those resources. Be sure to check back as we are adding new links regularly.

• Information on Essential Businesses
  • Letter Template for Questions about Status (download in Microsoft Word format)
  • Letter Templates For Essential Businesses During COVID-19 (Printing Industries of America)
  • Essential Businesses List
  • CISA Guidance V3.0  (04/17/20)

Sections:

• If an Employee Tests Positive
• Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act (economic stimulus, disaster loans and debt relief)
• Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) (paid sick leave, expanded family and medical leave)
• US Small Business Administration Disaster Loans and Other Programs
• State Links and News:
  • Illinois
  • Indiana
  • Wisconsin
• Educational Articles, Blogs, Posts and Podcasts (topics: management, human resources, financial, IT, sales and marketing, EHS)
• GLGA Impact Surveys
• Maps, Resource Pages and Toolkits
• National News
• Official Sites for Pandemic Information and Guidance
• Sample Plans, Policies, Forms and Messages (topics include emergency paid sick leave and remote working)
• Webinars

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Currents – November 26, 2019
Currents – November 12, 2019
Currents – October 22, 2019
Currents – October 8, 2019
Currents – September 24, 2019
Currents – September 10, 2019

GLGA publishes our Weekly Calendar of Events e-newsletter every Monday morning via our Constant Contact e-mail service. This digest has information with registration links for upcoming programs, events and webinars.  If you would like to be added to this mailing list, please contact Sharon Flick and specify which state version (or versions – we have one for each of our three states) you would like to receive.

Illinois Weekly Calendar – December 2, 2019
Indiana Weekly Calendar – December 2, 2019
Wisconsin Weekly Calendar – December 2, 2019

Please use these links to view and download photos from previous events. Hope you were able to attend!

2020:

20-19-20 IL Bowling and Bocce MIXer, Oak Brook, IL

02-04-20 WI Women [in] Print Networking Luncheon, Waunakee, WI

2019:

9-17-19 WI Women [in] Print Networking Luncheon, Sussex, WI

08-14-19 Wisconsin State Golf Outing, Cambridge, WI

07-17-19 Chicagoland Printers Scholarship Golf Outing, Bensenville, IL

05-22-19 Graphics Excellence Awards Celebration, Addison, IL

05-22-19 Graphics Excellence Awards Celebration, Milwaukee WI

02-13-19 IL Bowling and Bocce MIXer, Oak Brook, IL

2018:

11-28-18 IN Holiday Celebration, Fishers, IN

10-10-18 WI Sporting Clays, Waukesha, WI

10-01-18 PRINT 18 Member Reception, Chicago, IL

08-08-18 Wisconsin State Golf Outing, Cambridge, WI

07-18-18 Chicagoland Printers Scholarship Golf Outing, Bensenville, IL

05-23-18 Graphics Excellence Awards Celebration, Milwaukee, WI

05-23-18 Graphics Excellence Awards Celebration, Addison, IL

02-07-18 IL Bowling and Bocce MIXer, Oak Brook, IL

2017:

11-30-17 IN Holiday Celebration, Fishers, IN

March 24, 2020

Over the past few days the Association have been working with the governors’ offices in Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin to determine the status of printers during “Stay in Shelter” (IL), “Stay at Home“ (IN), and “Safer at Home” (WI) Executive Orders. It should be noted that the language used in all three executive orders mirrors one another.

Please note that printers are not specifically listed as an “essential business” in the executive orders. However, if your company is a vendor, supplier or provides other support to an essential business that is required for the essential business’s operation, then your business is exempt. Additionally, if your company is engaged in, “mail, post, shipping, logistics, delivery and pick-up services” you are also exempt from the executive orders. To view a list of what is essential, please click here.

The printing industry continues to be a major supply chain vendor to Critical Infrastructure Industries outlined by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and are essential for the continued function of the economy in this time of crisis. We realize each company will manage these orders in their own way and we encourage each to practice safe guidelines that have been spelled out by the United States Center for Disease Control.

As we move forward, the Association will continue providing the industry with information on proposed legislation and education on how to navigate during this extremely difficult event. As always, please contact us directly at (262) 522-2210 if you have any questions or need assistance in any way.

Joseph Lyman
President
Great Lakes Graphics Association
Phone- 262-522-2212