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Omaha Steve

(99,054 posts)
Wed May 27, 2015, 06:59 AM May 2015

Union says wage offers by Howard Industries are too low

Source: Miami Herald

BY JEFF AMY AP

JACKSON, MISS.
A union at Howard Industries, one of Mississippi's largest industrial employers, is protesting what it sees as low wage offers in contract negotiations.

Local 1317 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers planned a news conference Wednesday in Laurel to criticize the wage increases offered by the maker of electrical transformers. Union members have already voted down three contract offers during negotiations, most recently in April.

Howard's vice president of human resources and its labor relations lawyer did not respond to phone calls and emails seeking comment Tuesday. The privately-held company is based in Laurel.

Clarence Larkins, the local union's business manager, said Howard is offering 2,000 union represented workers at its Laurel plant only a 30-cent-an-hour raise over four years. Larkins said workers make $12.74 an hour on average in Laurel, so an extra 30 cents works out to a 2.4 percent increase over time.

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Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/business/article22406175.html



Larkins said workers make $12.74 an hour on average in Laurel, so an extra 30 cents works out to a 2.4 percent increase over four years.

I keep hearing union workers are overpaid!

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Union says wage offers by Howard Industries are too low (Original Post) Omaha Steve May 2015 OP
How .................. turbinetree May 2015 #1
So a 7 cent raise a year? That's bullshit and they should tell the company to cstanleytech May 2015 #2

turbinetree

(24,631 posts)
1. How ..................
Wed May 27, 2015, 10:18 AM
May 2015

convenient this oligarchy is a privately held fund hedge fund and ...................... they can't share to lets say give 10% over 4 years.

Stand United Brothers and Sisters





cstanleytech

(26,080 posts)
2. So a 7 cent raise a year? That's bullshit and they should tell the company to
Wed May 27, 2015, 12:48 PM
May 2015

shove it up their ass sideways.

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