Strike steel workers during the Second Schedule of titanium
Early in the morning of September 15 members of the Organization Steel Workers of America began a strike local post 303L Titan Tire International. Salaried workers in case of Titan-Des Moines, Iowa, the plant has been on strike since May 1st.
The Natchez production sites were Fidelity Tire Manufacturing Co., owned by Condere Corp. The company bankrupt in 1997 and the end of this year, August Titan Tire owner Maurice Taylor Condere purchased the assets.
One of the most striking Steel Workers, Mitchell Rushing, describes what some workers had gone as Fidelity Tire went bankrupt. There were 500 workers, but Rushing and hundreds of others were dismissed in April 1997. Only 200 were regarded as the 4 September, the last working day of Fidelity.
Rushing said the boss had Fidelity salary deductions in the list of recent months, April 1997, but before the worker who had not yet sent the money to pay the premiums of health insurance funds or child to pay child support .
That is why some workers of the debt had medical care, and some have even been arrested late payment of the child. “When you enter the dictionary” theft “, he said, if someone you something against your will, that is theft,” said Rushing. “Nature, as I myself A thief has sold the plant to another thief. ”
Fidelity closed on 4 September, and it has not resumed since the production.
The striking workers instead of saying that all they ask is that the titanium in agreement with the same order they had with Fidelity.
A federal district judge decided that the titanium should accept previously. Taylor says that collective agreements Fidelity, but Steel Workers said that the head of titanium demand substantial changes.
Titan wants to rehire only 70 per cent of workers from 1 September 70 per cent of workers were dismissed in April 1997. The company wishes to remind workers of job classification and not as an attachment seniority. The union is fighting for the workweek not more than six days and not more than 56 hours. Some workers on strike posts regular say they prefer to work 40 hours per week and that overtime should be on a voluntary basis, rather than coercion. Titan wants jobs in the plant, the European Union, including the final quality technicians, truck drivers kitsch, and the inspector classifiers, and classified as nonunion, as well as shortening the length of a worker has led to training and qualification on a new job.
There are no negotiations during this period, titanium has full listings Natchez Democrat you ask that candidates and say that “the plant operates under contract Local 303L. From 19 September only three workers had crossed the picketing.
In this letter, there is no production of the plant. Picketers say is the assumption of their posts to strike mainly by drivers of heavy trucks shipping and workers.
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