Search Results for 'moraine'
Economy |
Aug 29 |
‘The Last Truck’: HBO Looks at Plant Closing Through Workers’ Eyes
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Just two days before Christmas 2008, workers at the General Motors assembly plant in Moraine, Ohio, watched their livelihood and the lifeblood of their town dry up as their plant shut its doors for good. A new HBO documentary, “The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant,” which first airs on Labor Day, offers poignant personal testimony about the impact of the decline of American auto manufacturing on this tight-knit Ohio community.
While the layoffs of the 2,500 workers and 200 management staff was bad enough, thousands more of their friends, neighbors and family would lose their jobs as businesses that serviced the plant—suppliers, restaurants, retail stores—were forced to close for lack of business.
In the documentary, “Popeye,” a toolmaker, simply states what the decline of manufacturing means to him and to the American Dream:
My grandson will have a worse life than I had.
HBO’s press release about the documentary points out the real extent of the damage from the closing:
…the GM workers lost much more than jobs, including the pride they share in their work and the camaraderie built through the years. To the natives of Moraine and the greater Dayton area, General Motors wasn’t just a car company—it was the lifeblood of the community.
Organizing & Bargaining |
Nov 3 |
20,000 Boeing Engineers in Contract Talks and More Bargaining News
More than 20,000 engineers at Boeing have started difficult contract talks, and more news from the “Bargaining Digest Weekly.” The AFL-CIO Collective Bargaining Department delivers daily, bargaining-related news and research resources to more than 900 subscribers. Union leaders can register for this service through our website, Bargaining@Work.
NEGOTIATIONS
SPEEA-IFPTE, Boeing: Some 20,300 engineers and technical workers at Boeing, represented by the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace (SPEEA-IFPTE) Local 2001, began negotiations Oct. 29 after eight months of preliminary talks. According to SPEEA Executive Director Ray Goforth, “Early indications are that these will be very difficult negotiations. Engineers and technical workers are the life’s blood of Boeing, but the current regime at corporate headquarters treats them as mere vendors selling a service to Chicago. This disrespect has to end.”
Organizing & Bargaining |
Sep 8 |
List Honors Labor-Management Partnerships
While the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and some of its corporate members have launched a vicious anti-union campaign to stop workers from making the free choice to join a union, other employers work together with their union employees to create profitable, successful enterprises.
In observance of Labor Day, the American Rights at Work Education Fund released its fourth annual Labor Day List: Partnerships that Work. By fairly compensating employees and sharing decision making responsibility with them through unions, the employers on the list prove that embracing such a forward-thinking business model is a smart, ethical and successful strategy. Click here to see the Labor Day List.
Organizing & Bargaining |
Jun 30 |
Airline Pilots Reach Pact with Delta/Northwest and More Bargaining News
Airline pilots reach agreement with Delta and Northwest, as the two airlines work out merger details, and more news from the “Bargaining Digest Weekly.” The AFL-CIO Collective Bargaining Department delivers daily, bargaining-related news and research resources to more than 900 subscribers. Union leaders can register for this service through our website, Bargaining@Work.
Settlements
ALPA, Delta/Northwest Airlines: Delta Air Lines and Northwest Airlines pilots’ unions, both represented by the Air Line Pilots (ALPA), have reached a tentative agreement with Delta management on a joint pilot contract and a process to pave the way for seniority integration. The deal represents a major step toward combining the two pilot groups in the proposed merger of Atlanta-based Delta and Minnesota-based Northwest. While the joint contract is different from the labor agreement ratified by Delta pilots in May, it is based on that agreement, according to the Delta pilots’ union. That agreement included annual pay raises between 4 percent and 5 percent and a 3.5 percent equity stake in the combined company.
Organizing & Bargaining |
Apr 29 |
Bargaining Digest Weekly
The lockout continues against mail order clerks represented by the United Steel Workers (USW) at Medco Health Solution’s dispensing pharmacy in Las Vegas.
More than 6 million union family members use Medco’s service, about 25 percent of Medco’s total business.
Click the following link to send an e-mail to Medco CEO David Snow telling him to end the lockout and negotiate a fair deal: david_snow@medco.com. Find out more by going to www.usw.org/rx.
Organizing & Bargaining |
Apr 22 |
Bargaining Digest Weekly
General Motors announced it will put $3 billion over the next three years into a new retiree health fund established as part of last year’s deal that included payment of retiree premiums.
Details have surfaced indicating GM’s agreement with IUE-CWA could keep the plant in Moraine City, Ohio, running for six more years. Workers are considering the pros and cons of taking the buyout while weighing the prospects for a recovery at GM.
