Maytag workers in Iowa may face same fate as Hoover employees
Cantonrep.com, Canton, Ohio
My
prayers go to my brothers and sisters in Newton, Iowa, who have gone on
strike. I hope they are braced for the worst. Plans seem to be
unfolding for Maytag to do unto Newton as it did unto North Canton.
Maytag
CEO Ralph Hake praises his contract with the Hoover workers as “a model
for preservation of jobs,” but in truth, corporations stay up at night
devising plots to destroy unions.
Twenty
years ago, President Ronald Reagan, hailed as the man who “restored the
national spirit,” crushed the air traffic controllers union, then
joined with Congress as it passively watched U.S. corporations export
job after job overseas. The result was farewell to the good-paying jobs
that built the middle class and hello to the working-class poor.
He set
the stage for today’s “global economy,” blessing America with lots of
new “Ronald McDonald” jobs minus the silly “frills” of medical benefits
and pensions.
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Maytag, UAW agree to resume negotiations
Waterloo/Cedar Falls Courier
NEWTON
— Maytag Corp. and the United Auto Workers agreed Friday to resume
negotiations, but union officials said striking workers will remain on
the picket line. A joint announcement said talks will resume on Wednesday.
The two
sides last talked on June 10, the day union workers went on strike,
suspending operations at the company's flagship laundry products
plants. UAW Local 997 represents 1,525 workers in Newton. Union officials said picket lines will remain as talks resume.
“We have
no intent of pulling the picket signs at this time,” said Dennis
Williams, regional director for the UAW in Des Plaines, Ill., the union
negotiator who authorized the strike.
He said the issue of returning to work will be assessed after each negotiating session.
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