Unions Save Jobs, Wages in New York
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Here are two examples of why it’s good to have a union.
The National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB’s) regional office in upstate New York announced it will seek an order requiring Momentive Performance Materials to undo its one-year-old “restructuring” that cut 400 workers’ pay by an average of 25 percent and restore wages and other contract provisions.
The NLRB action comes after IUE-CWA Local 81359 filed charges of contract violations against the company. Management announced Dec. 3, 2008, it was cutting the pay of the 400 workers to help cope with “the current severe economic recession.”
The company employs nearly 1,000 people at its Waterford, N.Y., plant.
