With a 70 percent “yes” vote, members of newly-affiliated UE Local 735 employed at Autoline in Butler, Indiana on July 10 ratified a three-year agreement that was the result of hard-fought negotiations. Autoline workers voted in April to affiliate their independent union with UE, as they faced attacks by the employer on conditions in the shop and harsh concessionary demands at the bargaining table.
Members of UE Local 799 have voted overwhelmingly to ratify a new two year contract that includes a wage increase, contract language improvements, and no concessions. Members of the local include the food service workers, maintenance workers, custodians, bus drivers, mechanics and dispatcher for the Delaware City Schools in Central Ohio. Wages were increased by 1.5 percent effective July 1, and there will be a wage and insurance re-opener on July 1, 2011. There were no changes to current health insurance.
Media Matters, the media research and watchdog website, has compiled a report on the growing trend of vicious, slanderous attacks on unions by Fox News, Rush Limbaugh and other conservative media.
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| Global solidarity: Top: Eight UE young activists from Pennsylvania, Vermont and New Jersey were among the 21 UE marchers in |
UE Local 1021 members approved a new four-year contract with Kraco Enterprises on March 24 by a two-to-one margin. Over the term of the agreement members will receive $1 in wage increases. They also significantly held the line against the company’s attempt to shift the cost of healthcare premiums onto the workers.
UE Local 1103 members have ratified a new three-year contract with their employer, Tramont Corp. The workers, who manufacture diesel fuel tanks for industrial use, were able to overcome the company’s push for takeways and negotiate a contract with gains.
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The United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE) express our deep sympathy to the families, friends and communities of the coal miners killed, and others still missing, as a result of the April 5 explosion at Upper Big Branch Mine in Montcoal, West Virginia.
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| Our Newest UE Members from Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital in Santa Clarita, CA, celebrate after voting overwhelmingly for UE. Pictured, from left: Sarah Santana, Mila Jachacz, Terry Holcolm, Cora Berdin, Sue Contant, Alma Amador, Brenda Latoga and Liz Guerrero. |
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| The UE Local 243 negotiating committee at Sargent Manufacturing. Seated, left to right: Chief Steward Wayne Morrison, Anna Tondalo, Vice President Chris Fiorentino, Sylvia Davis, President Ray Pompano. |
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