Membership EligibilityMembership in Astera Credit Union is open to:
A.Persons employed within the manufacturing sector located in Allegan, Barry, Calhoun, Clinton, Eaton, Genesee, Gratiot, Ingham, Ionia, Jackson, Kalamazoo, Kent, Lake, Livingston, Mecosta, Montcalm, Muskegon, Newaygo, Ottawa, Saginaw, Shiawassee, and Washtenaw Counties in Michigan. (Manufacturing to be defined as the use of machines, tools and labor to make things for use or sale.)
B.Employees of General Motors and affiliated companies who work at General Motors Corporation facilities in Allegan, Barry Calhoun, Clinton, Eaton, Genesee, Gratiot, Ingham, Ionia, Jackson, Kalamazoo, Kent, Lake, Livingston, Mecosta, Montcalm, Muskegon, Newaygo, Ottawa, Saginaw, Shiawassee, and Washtenaw Counties in Michigan.
C.Employees of certain payroll groups once providing payroll deduction to the Co-op Credit Union, Lansing, Michigan and Auto Body Workers Credit Union, Ionia Michigan.
D.Members of record of the Co-op Credit Union, Lansing, Michigan and Auto Body Workers Credit Union, Ionia, Michigan, at the time of merger with Astera Credit Union.
E.Employees or members of employer groups or other organized groups which provide membership to the credit union. which are located in Allegan, Barry, Calhoun, Clinton, Eaton, Genesee, Gratiot, Ingham, Ionia, Jackson, Kalamazoo, Kent, Lake, Livingston, Mecosta, Montcalm, Muskegon, Newaygo, Ottawa, Saginaw, Shiawassee, and Washtenaw Counties in Michigan. Each group must provide a written request for service to the credit union. The Commissioner may permanently or temporarily revoke the power to add groups under this provision at the Commissioner's discretion.
Employer groups include:
ALL employees of General Motors
A & E Printer and Mailers, Inc.
Aardvark Mobile Home Service
Accident Fund
Adams Outdoor Advertising
Affordable Dentures - Lansing, P.C.
Alro-Universal Steel
American Red Cross - Mid Michigan Chapter
Association for Child Development
ASU Group -- The
Baldwin Community Schools
Barnes Aerospace/Barnes Group, Inc.
Bill Barr, Inc.
Block-Sloane, Inc.
Blue Water Cafe
Boy Scouts of America (Chief Okemos Council)
Bridgewater Interiors
Business Machines Company
CATA (Capital Area Trans. Authority)
Campbell Inc. Press Repair
Candlestone Golf and Resort
Canteen Service Co.
Capital Area United Way, Inc.
Capital City International Trucks, Inc.
Capitol Cadillac Corporation
Carson City Hospital
CBCInnvois
Celink Loan Services
Champion Chrysler Jeep Dodge
City of Grand Ledge
City of Ionia
Clark Construction Co.
Clark Farms
Clark Foundation Co.
Clothing Care Center
Country Club of Lansing
Crippen Auto Mall
D & K Truck Co.
Danford Floors Ltd.
Dart Container Corporation
Dart Energy
Dean Transportation, Inc.
Delta Charter Township
Delta Dental Plan of Michigan
Demmer Corp.
Democratic Party of Michigan
Denny's Auto Diagnosis
DeWitt Public Schools
East Lansing Health Care Center
Eaton, County of (Employees)
Eaton County Road Commission
Eckhart & Associates, Inc.
Efficiency Production, Inc.
El Mariachi Mexican Grill
Enprotech Mechanical Services, Inc.
Falsetta's Restaurant
Family Video
Farhat & Story, PC
Gerdau MacSteel Atmosphere Annealing, Inc.
Goodrich Shop Rite
Grace United Methodist Church
GreenPath Debt Solution
Holt Products Co.
Home Town Realty -- Century 21
ISRA Vsion Systems
John Henry Co.
Lansing Tool and Engineering
Legal Services of South Central MI
Louis Padnos Iron & Metal
Lumbertown
Lynden Oil Company
Lyle D. Hepfer & Co. CPA PC
Lyman & Sheets Agency Inc
Maner, Costerisan & Ellis CPA PC
Marshall Music Co.
Martin Luther Holt Home
Matcor Automotive (Brown Corp)
Maxco, Inc.
Medical Management Systems, Inc.
Michigan Community Action Agency
Michco
Michigan League for Human Services
Michigan Milk Producers Association
Michigan Soft Water
Midway Rotary Die Solutions
Midwest Bridge Co.
Millbrook Printing Co.
Molded Plastic Industries, Inc.
North Grand River Cooperative, Inc.
O'Briens Agency, Inc.
Paradise Motor Sales
Parker-Hannifin Corporation
Peckham, Inc.
Pennsylvania Auto Sales
Pleune Service Company
Pollack Glass Company
Pratt-Whitney Auto Air
Production Tool Supply of Lansing
Quality Dairy Company
R.E. Olds Transportation Museum (members)
RN Fink Manufacturing Co.
Roberts Sinto Corporation
Ryder Integrated Logistics, Inc.
Sawyers Chevrolet
Sohn Linen Service
Sparrow Hospital
Spartan Motors Corporation
Spartan Printing
Spartan Commercial Roofing
Stafford Media Solutions / The Daily News
Stahlin Enclosures
Stamp-Rite, Inc.
Star Truck Sales
Starr Instrument Service.
Sundance Chevrolet, Inc.
Symmetry Medical - Jet
Tendercare - Cass City
Tendercare - Midland
Tendercare - West
The Pines Health Care Center
The Polack Corporation
Thomas A. Doyle P.C.
Thomas and Company Hair Salon
Tinney Chevrolet, Buick, GMC
Tool Craft Corporation
Tri-County Office on Aging
UAW Local 724 members
UAW Local 2256 members
United Wholesale Grocery Company
Ventra Ionia, LLC
Westlunds Apple Market
Whitehills Health Care Center
Williamston Products, Inc.
Windsor Steel
Wright Plastic Products
F.Persons retired as pensioners or annuitants from the above employment.
G.Any person who receives a retirement annuity, pension, social security, or similar retirement payment from private or government sources, and lives in, or belongs to a retirement organization located in Allegan, Barry, Calhoun, Clinton, Eaton, Genesee, Gratiot, Ingham, Ionia, Jackson, Kalamazoo, Kent, Lake, Livingston, Mecosta, Montcalm, Muskegon, Newaygo, Ottawa, Saginaw, Shiawassee, and Washtenaw Counties in Michigan.
H.Employees of this credit union.
I.Any person who has a membership in the R.E. Olds Transportation Museum
J.Members and immediate families of the foregoing.
K.Any legal entity that is comprised for the most part of the same general group as the membership of the credit union outlined above.
L.A spouse of a deceased member if accepted into membership prior to remarriage.