UPDATE: Honeywell union workers locked out

[Omaha Steve]

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.

FULL story at link.



Read more: http://www.wndu.com/content/news/Honeywell-union-workers-locked-out-378619091.html

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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 lockouts—where employers close the doors or gates in order to wring concessions out of workers—“represents 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 month’s 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]

1. The oligarchs want to return us to the nineteenth century.

And the worst of it, at that.

[RoccoR5955]

2. Try the ninth century

BC.
They want EVERYTHING.
Little do they know, that if they do not have any workers, they get nothing.

[Jitter65]

3. Intransigence is not a virtue. On anyone's part. nt

[yourpaljoey]

4. Those musicians are already absurdly underpaid.

[d_legendary1]

5. We're slowly going back to the days of the Haymarket Affair

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]

6. Folks do not understand that people died to give us a 40 hour week

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]

7. So is Obama going to put on his walking shoes and join them? Or was that a different Obama? nm

[silvershadow]

8. We'll, isn't this special? I imagine Hillary is "with them" in spirit, but can't say so now that

she has lurched to the right for donations from Republicans.