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TexasTowelie

(122,514 posts)
Wed Aug 30, 2017, 07:16 AM Aug 2017

Union members go on strike at south Springfield manufacturing facility

Union members at the Timken manufacturing facility in south Springfield are on strike.

More than a dozen workers began picketing outside the plant on West Battlefield Road at about 11:45 a.m. Tuesday.

They held signs reading "Fair Contract Now!" and "ULP Strike" — the latter featuring apparent shorthand for the phrase "unfair labor practices."

Steelworkers Local 662 member Taylor Young, 23, told the News-Leader that the union represents more than 300 workers at the facility. He said the union's last contract expired June 30.

Read more: http://www.news-leader.com/story/news/local/ozarks/2017/08/29/union-members-go-strike-south-springfield-manufacturing-facility/612604001/

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Union members go on strike at south Springfield manufacturing facility (Original Post) TexasTowelie Aug 2017 OP
Next chance they will avoid voting for Trump and Greitens. gordianot Aug 2017 #1
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