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UPDATE: Cequent workers accept plant closure agreement
GOSHEN -- It's hard to vote against a sure thing. United Steelworkers Local 9550, which represents about 350 members at Cequent Performance Products, voted Friday evening to accept the closure agreement offered by the company. The vote was held at...
Tags: Elections, Plant Closings, Unemployment, Mexico, Economy, Business and Finance
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Cequent closer to leaving Goshen for Mexico
GOSHEN – Hundreds of jobs may be a step closer to leaving Elkhart County. A federal judge on Wednesday ruled Cequent Towing can continue to move equipment out of its Goshen plant as it prepares to move the work to Mexico. The United Steelworkers...
Tags: Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Judges, Unions, Career and Workplace
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Battle over Cequent jobs heading to arbitration
GOSHEN – There’s new information on the battle to keep Cequent Towing in Goshen. The company wants to close the plant and move its jobs to Mexico. The United Steelworkers Union took the company to court, saying members felt they were...
Tags: Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Judges, Arbitration
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Right-to-work law gives Michigan unions new task
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Now that Michigan has become a right-to-work state, unions in this stronghold of organized labor confront a new and urgent problem: convincing members to continue paying for their services instead of taking them for free....
Tags: United Auto Workers, Government, General Motors Corp., Work Relations, Wage Contract Issues
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Caterpillar and union to continue negotiations next week
Tribune reporterContract negotiations between Caterpillar Inc. and workers in South Milwaukee are scheduled to continue next week, according to union officials. The Peoria-based earth moving equipment maker met with officials of the United Steelworkers union on Thursday...Tags: Caterpillar Inc., Health Insurance Cost, Employees, Career and Workplace
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Caterpillar, Milwaukee union to resume negotiations
Tribune staff reporterCaterpillar Inc. and the United Steelworkers Local 1343 in Milwaukee are set to return to the negotiating table on Thursday, the Peoria-based company said in a statement. ?Negotiations had stalled on May 8. Production workers at the company’s...Tags: Caterpillar Inc., Health Insurance Cost, Employees, Career and Workplace
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Caterpillar, Milwaukee workers union to resume contract talks
ReutersCHICAGO, May 20 (Reuters) - Caterpillar Inc said late on Monday that it would resume contract talks with the union representing about 800 Milwaukee workers who make specialized mining machinery. The company said the two sides would reconvene on Thursday,...Tags: Metal and Mineral, Mining, Unemployment, Manufacturing and Engineering, Employees
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Caterpillar, union suspend talks in Milwaukee
ReutersContract talks between the United Steelworkers union and Caterpillar at the company's Milwaukee mining equipment plant broke off Thursday night after just one day, with more meetings between the two sides scheduled. While apparently far apart, neither...Tags: Metal and Mineral, Mining, Employees, Wage Contract Issues, Collective Contract
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Talks suspended between Caterpillar, Milwaukee workers' union
ReutersMay 9 (Reuters) - Caterpillar Inc said Thursday that a bid by the United Steelworkers Union to re-open contract talks on behalf of workers in Milwaukee who make mining machinery had not resulted in a breakthrough and that no new meetings between the two...Tags: Metal and Mineral, Mining, Employees, Wage Contract Issues, Collective Contract
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Talks break off between Caterpillar, union in S. Milwaukee
Tribune reporterContract negotiations between Caterpillar Inc. and United Steelworkers Local 1343 broke down on Wednesday, according to union officials. Ross Winklbauer, a Steelworkers subdistrict director for southeastern Wisconsin, said Caterpillar turned down the...Tags: Caterpillar Inc., Health Insurance Cost, Employees, Unions, Career and Workplace
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Work continues in Wisconsin Caterpillar plant after contract rejected
Tribune reporterUnited Steelworkers Local 1343 on Tuesday overwhelmingly rejected a proposed six-year contract with Caterpillar Inc. that would have frozen wages, increased contributions to health care costs and offered senior union employees fewer protections....Tags: Metal and Mineral, Mining, Caterpillar Inc., Health Insurance Cost, Strikes
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Caterpillar workers to resume talks next week
Tribune reporterCaterpillar Inc. and the United Steelworkers Local 1343 are set to return to the negotiating table May 8, the Peoria-based company said in a statement. Production workers at the company's plant in South Milwaukee on Tuesday a rejected a proposed six-year...Tags: Caterpillar Inc., Health Insurance Cost, Employees, Career and Workplace
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