UPDATE: Honeywell union workers locked out
Source: WNDU
By Jason Krug, Michelle Beck
South Bend, Ind.-- Union workers at Honeywell have been locked out after contract negotiations failed.
The company says UAW Local 9 members rejected an offer over the weekend.
For more than three weeks, the company has been in negotiations with the union.
Members had still been allowed to work as talks continued, but that changed Monday morning. Union workers tell NewsCenter 16 they had concerns over a proposed change to their healthcare program as well as the use of outside subcontractors.
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Read more: http://www.wndu.com/content/news/Honeywell-union-workers-locked-out-378619091.html
Last year we bought a Honeywell thermostat and humidifier because they are union made in the USA.
Employers Overreach with Growing Lockout Tactics: http://www.aflcio.org/Blog/Organizing-Bargaining/Employers-Overreach-with-Growing-Lockout-Tactics
The growing number of lockoutswhere employers close the doors or gates in order to wring concessions out of workersrepresents an overreach on the part of employers, writes Minnesota AFL-CIO President Shar Knutson in an op-ed piece today in the Minneapolis StarTribune.
For examples of these lockouts, Knutson points to the more than 13-month lockout of American Crystal Sugar workers, the NFL lockouts of referees and players, Cooper Tires recent lockout and this months lockout of the Minnesota Orchestra (American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada [AFM] Local 30-73), where management is seeking 30% to 50% pay cuts.
MORE at link.
raging moderate
(4,319 posts)And the worst of it, at that.
RoccoR5955
(12,471 posts)BC.
They want EVERYTHING.
Little do they know, that if they do not have any workers, they get nothing.
Jitter65
(3,089 posts)yourpaljoey
(2,166 posts)d_legendary1
(2,586 posts)All that's left is for the cops to beat down and arrest the workers for disturbing the peace and trespassing. Resisting arrest and assaulting an officer will, of course, be automatically added to the charges.
RoccoR5955
(12,471 posts)And now they look at unions in scorn. The corporations have taken advantage of this, and have also paid off the government officials, so that they can get their own way.
I'm afraid that History is going to have to repeat itself if we get these rights back.
Sometimes the only way is by force.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)silvershadow
(10,336 posts)she has lurched to the right for donations from Republicans.